Business Correspondence Critique---Email

Dear fellow friends,

My names Mary Chia Shan Shan. The XXX Community Center (10 minutes walk from XXX MRT) will be holding a blood donation drive this coming September. Here are the details.

Blood Donation Drive 2008
Date:27th Sep 2008
Time:11am
Venue:XXX CC

If you are able to support the drive, do mark the above date of your calendar and support us, at the same time saving lives.

Here are some of the Facts:
Everyday, about 250 units of blood are required by the hospitals in Singapore for patients requiring bloodtransfusions. Unfortunately, the number of units that is being collected daily is insufficient to meet therequired needs.
Blood is needed not only to save lives in times of emergencies, it is also needed to sustain the lives ofpatients who requires regular blood transfusions at the hospitals.
Important for more healthy individuals to come forward to help save and sustain the lives of these venerable people. For this blood donation drive, we are appealing to all healthy individual between the ages of 16 to 60 to help save lives.
Lastly, the Red Cross officer has also indicated that their blood stocks in the blood bank is extremely low thus making situation more critical.

So please spread this message to your friends and relatives of the said event.
For enquiries and/or make an appointment for the timing on the actual day,
Call : 1234567Email: 1234567@hotmail.com
Kindly provide us with your name, NRIC, contact number, and email/call to register for an appointment.

Thanks and Regards,
Mary Chia Shan Shan
Organising Committee Coordinator,
Blood Donation Drive 2008,
XXX CC

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This is an email sent out to urge donors to come forward to donate their blood.

This email is clear in emphasizing points that are more important in the form of bolding and increasing the fonts of the words. Another good point is that the writer starts and signs off the email in the appropriate way with her designation and where she is from. In addition, the tone of the email sounds generally pleasant.

However, I feel that the email is not very organized as the facts were not properly listed down and there is not much sequence on the email as the writer jumps from the event to some background facts of the need to donate blood and back to the event again. Perhaps the writer should have started off by introducing the event and all the details before talking about some whelming facts of blood donation.

The email is not very concise too as details of the event will not very clearly stated. For example, the time frame of the event should be listed rather than just stating the start of the event. More details of the events such as, how long will donors take to donate his blood and are there any special points that a potential donor needs to take note before donation should also be mentioned in the email.

There are also some expression problems in the email. For example, “My names Mary Chia Shan Shan.” should be expressed as “My name is Mary Chia Shan Shan.”

An interpersonal conflict

An interpersonal conflict can arise at any corners of the world. The only difference lies in whether there is a solution to it or will it result in a formation of a long term war. In this post, I am going to share an interpersonal conflict that I have experienced and would like all my readers to provide me with some suggestions.
It happened around December last year, when I was appointed to organize an annual children camp with Quan. We are both volunteers that are under the Youth Executive Committee and I have known him since secondary school. We are very good friends in private and will often hang out together with our friends. As we were under different subgroups within the committee, we seldom have the chance to work together. This Children Camp was the first event that we will be working together on and it was a challenge for the both of us as we have different working styles.
When we were planning the event with the rest of our Children Camp committee, our views and opinions often could not be met. I am more of a perfectionist and I would go into the details of the camp program to make sure that everything goes smoothly on the day of the camp. Quan on the other hand, likes to do things last minute when the event is drawing near.
Despite being the heads of the event, this difference sours our partnership. This problem went on for two months and things finally blew off on the day before the camp. We were supposed to meet for a final check of the event when he suddenly threw his temper at me and stomped off, leaving me puzzled and frustrated behind.
If you were in my position, what would you do, especially when the next day would be the camp and the two of you have to be in control of a total of 40 volunteers and 150 children participants?