Blog Assignment 5: Group Brainstorming

In our group, my role is that of leader/manager and point-of-contact person. As of yet, I feel that I have contributed much to our group and our project. I researched many nonprofit organizations and report my findings back to my other group members so that we might all decide upon an organization to choose for our project. I then helped to assign individual tasks to my group members in order to get work with our group memo rolling. I set deadlines for the completion of these tasks in order to ensure that the assignment was completed efficiently and on time. I also contacted the director of the organization that our group chose and visited the site of the organization in order to meet the director and get more information. Furthermore, I helped to construct the final layout of the memo by putting everyone’s work together in the appropriate format.
I can see several different directions in which our project could go. For one, I think that we could build a website that honors and highlights the accomplishments of the organization we have chosen. My group members and I all agree that the organization that we have chosen is a very positive influence on the city of Hattiesburg. Another possibility for our project is that we could create a website that tries to get the organization that we have chosen sponsorship or grants. We could highlight what the organization does while discussing the organization’s need for funding. We could use the persuasive writing skills that we have learned in this course to convince other organizations to donate to our organization. We could also use these persuasive techniques to try and recruit volunteers for the organization. A third option is that we could create a website that tries to attract youths who might be looking for an after-school program and outlet to express themselves through art, get tutoring, or get moral support. I think that all of these options could result in a successful project for our group. Hopefully, we can find a way to combine all of these options.
My group members and I all communicate quite well with each other. We communicate through facebook and email. So far, it has been pretty easy to get in contact with everyone and everyone has been really supportive and considerate of each other. We try to divide up work into individual tasks of equal and fair quantities. So far, this has worked quite well. By assigning individual tasks, it makes the completion of our overall group tasks much less confusing and much simpler as each group member can focus on one particular aspect.
Besides improving on the writing skills that we have discussed in this course, I feel that this project will help us learn how to efficiently complete tasks in workplace settings where we would be working with others. Because everyone in our group seems to be very willing and eager to do his or her part, I believe that our group project will be very successful. I think that we can do a really good job and create a website that does the organization that we have chosen a real justice.