General guide for event organizers - Public events

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1. Main dish#1: Public Events
   

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2. Caution!
   • Keep things simple
   • Always ask questions
   • Use materials on the website.
   • We’re non-profit. We cannot provide a
   financial support. (You might need a
   sponsor)
   

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3. Ingredients
   • Participants >= 50
   • Speakers >= 2
   • Camera & Materials*
   • Refreshments & So! Drinks*
   * Materials are downloadable on our website (Resources). Materials consist of Posters(A4), Name
   tags, Videos, Presentation slides, and so forth.
   * While refreshments and soft drinks are not essential, they easily make people happy.
   

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4. Recipe
   • 17:30-18:00 Opening & Intro Material*
   • 18:00-19:30 2~3 Speaker Talks*
   • 19:30-20:00 Open Mic Session*
   • 20:00- A!er Party
   * Presentation & Video materials (Intro, 5 interviews, and two collages) will be published on the
   website. You could select the video you think will best suit your target audience.
   * Talk should last less than 30 minutes. The recommended format is (10m: failure + 10m: lessons
   + 5m: Q&A)
   * Open Mic sessions: Anyone could come up to the stage and share their failures and lessons
   within 5 mins. There should a timer who does his job strictly. And encourage the big applause
   after each sharing. When someone tells inappropriate stories, use your common sense and
   interrupt.
   

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5. Spices*
   • Post-secret: Participants confess to their failures by writing them down
   in a post card. Later we display on the web.
   • Cool Failure Competition: Compete with each other for the cool failure
   experience they have. The winner gets a small prize.
   • ‘Doomed to fail’ Games: Have participants do tricky things (e.g. Juggling
   or Tongue twister before audience.) The point is to make them fail. The
   one with most courage will be rewarded.
   • Pledge Bold Action: Prepare a big white board or an equivalent. Let
   people publicly announce their dreams.
   * For more details or suggestions, contact info@dayforfailure.com
   * Only when you have extra time and energy, use the above. While they will significantly improve
   the taste of the event, you should remember not to overdo them; Less is more.
   

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6. Chef ’s Duty
   1. Inform us when and where you will
   organize an event. (contact us)
   2. Take as many photos as possible.
   3. Cook a one-page report on what
   happened, which will be collected for
   the blog.
   

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7. One more thing...
   Make sure people use
   #dayforfailure
   on Twitter.
   

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8. Next is Desserts.
   

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