By Carlee Mallard, on April 18th, 2011% Ironic to hold an event to raise money for disaster relief only to have the most epic outbreak of devastating tornados rip through downtown Raleigh, knocking over trees & power lines, demolishing entire buildings, throwing debris miles away, and cutting out electricity to thousands (including the venue we held the event), just an hour before the fundraiser was to begin.
Whenever I’m worried or scared, I always ask myself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” and I usually realize that it’s not that bad after all. “Everything will be fine.”
But what happens when the unthinkable happens? When something . . . → Read More: Disaster relief fundraiser complicated by tornado outbreak
By Carlee Mallard, on December 10th, 2010% I went to (and threw) a lot of great parties in 2010. Taking the best parts from each of my favorite events, I present to you my formula for throwing a party of epic proportions in 2011!
There shall be dancing!
Case Study: SPARKcon flash mob dance: Raleigh, NC If you look closely, you can see my head bopping to and fro. Participating in a flash mob dance was something I got to check off my bucket list this year!
Music to my ears.
Case Study: Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
Just pretend like you’re hearing . . . → Read More: How To: Throw the Best Party of 2011
By Carlee Mallard, on December 8th, 2010% #reverb10 December 7th prompt: Community.
Community has been such a significant keyword in my life throughout 2010 that I had to mindmap everything I could think of relating to community in my life this past year (hence the image to the left). Yea, a lot, right?
First of all, to answer the first part of today’s #reverb10 prompt, “Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010?” Believe it or not, online communities often help formulate IRL relationships. I know, hard to believe that having profound, intelligent, and sometimes emotional conversations in an online community could move you . . . → Read More: Recognizing Essential Communities
By Carlee Mallard, on December 7th, 2010% You’re like “What the hell is a PechaKucha” right? First of all, it’s Japanese for “chit-chat” pronounced something along the lines of: ‘peh-CHAK-cha’
Nobody says it the same way, so whatever. I’ll move to what it is. Basically it’s an event featuring 8-12 speakers giving a presentation about something they’re passionate about in any way they like as long as it involves 20 {graphic} slides that each advance automatically every 20 seconds. Meaning each presentation is only 6 minutes and 40 seconds (20×20). Topics vary quite a bit from spoken poetry (complemented by photographs on each slide) to special . . . → Read More: I Made a PechaKucha {presentation}
By Carlee Mallard, on October 6th, 2010% I have this unique (or so I think it’s unique) perspective in dealing with the press for the first time as an event organizer because actually, at times I actually am the press. Not for the same purpose, though. I don’t get so entangled that I actually report on my own events. Yes I do blog about my events but really who actually reads this? My blog certainly isn’t mainstream media so it doesn’t count.
Cyn Mallard, Jay Dolan, and Chris Sopher on the radio with Frank Stasio
I digress. So about the same time that PechaKucha Raleigh . . . → Read More: Learning from the Press: both sides of the story
By Carlee Mallard, on September 29th, 2010% PechaKucha Night at ideaSPARK on September 16th, 2010 was by far the biggest and most seamless PKN to date. With 14 presenters—out of about 26
Me and Alex Gibson (our emcee) at the PKN after-party celebrating 1 year in Raleigh
submissions—and a packed room of about 200 attendees (out of the over 300 that registered), the fact that it’s popularity had seemed to doubled overnight was sort of obvious.
While I expected the PK night during SPARKcon to be a more popular event, I was completely unprepared for what actually happened. I predicted that recruiting speakers would be . . . → Read More: PechaKucha at ideaSPARK: Behind The Scenes
By Carlee Mallard, on July 9th, 2010%
It’s already been three weeks since our last PechaKucha Night. Since we’ve already made a lot of headway getting the next set of speakers together for the September event at SPARKcon it feels more like months ago, though!
I wanted to take a moment to relive and reflect on that night.
It was such a great event though that I can still feel the energy in the room. I remember the smiles as guests, organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and even curious passerbys walked into Relevance’s snazzy loft office space to grab some wine or beer, Mediterranean appetizers, . . . → Read More: PechaKucha: Creative Minds do Durham
By Carlee Mallard, on May 18th, 2010% I found out today that I will be giving a 1-hour presentation at a conference (technically they call it an “un-conference”) on Saturday. I don’t think I’ve ever given a presentation in front of so many people at once before. And I have about, oh… 3 days and a few hours to prepare.
You’d think I’d be really nervous and freaking out, right? For some reason I’m not at all. Ok, maybe a little freaking out about how little time I have to prepare because I’m a perfectionist, but mostly I’m thinking, “No biggie. I got this.”
How is . . . → Read More: First Speaking Engagements. Scary, Right?
By Carlee Mallard, on March 30th, 2010% As some you may know, I helped organize an event this month called Pecha Kucha. While you’re still trying to figure out how to pronounce that, I’m already basking in the warm-n-fuzzy creative juices as a result of the presentations and the engaging audience.
I will admit that I was unable to focus and didn’t comprehend all of the speakers’ presentations at the time of the event due in part to being an organizer and trying to make sure everything went smoothly and in part due to the extremely distracting & noisy sorority girls present in the room. Hmmm . . . → Read More: Pecha Kucha: A New Sector of Raleigh Creative Minds
By Carlee Mallard, on March 2nd, 2010% February surprised me in a lot of ways. When I wrote my goals for February I thought that I had it all planned out. But then mid-month some new opportunities arose, events popped up, connections were made, priorities changed.
Cyn Mallard's New Paintings
I know that’s all very vague, but my point is that if you can’t go with the flow, you might just miss out on some really great stuff. For example, you might notice that I have a brand new WordPress website with my own domain! When my aunt offered (read: really pressured me) to host . . . → Read More: March Monthly Goal Meetup
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