[Bryn-gwlad] Ideas about newcomers from...a newcomer

[Robin Craig]

How about a nice, normal nametag?

-Robin


On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Coblaith Mhuimhneach wrote:

> Sean wrote:
>> The idea of a simple banner to alert individuals, such as myself,  
>> to a location where information and friendly advice can be had is  
>> terrific. This banner would be useful for attracting attention but  
>> would not help anyone once they walked away. As I understand it  
>> Bryn Gwald has a rather large number of participants and not every  
>> member knows one another, so how are they going to know if a  
>> person near them is new or not.  Perhaps a simple cloth shield  
>> with the colors and Halberd of Bryn-Gwald could be offered to  
>> "Newbies" so that others would know they were...new.
>
> Something like this had occurred to me.  But I wonder how many  
> newcomers would be comfortable with it.  I'm concerned that it  
> would seem to many like the propeller-beanies freshmen wear in old  
> Hollywood movies about college kids--sort of de facto hazing.   
> Perhaps if we presented them less as "something newcomers (have to  
> or should) wear" than "something to wear if you want to invite  
> people to come over and introduce themselves to you"?
>
> I have also thought that it might be helpful if officers and guild  
> principals wore some sort of insignia at Populace in the Park.   
> Newcomers might not know what the individual badges mean, but they  
> would know the people wearing them were available to answer  
> questions and make introductions.  (Of course those who were too  
> busy doing other things to volunteer as foci for attention could  
> leave them off.)  And if somebody wanted to point one to a  
> particular officer, they'd have a better way to do it.  ("Right  
> over there, with dark hair.  Standing next to the big guy with the  
> beard," is typically much less helpful than, for instance, "Right  
> over there.  The one with the black and white feathers on her  
> armband.")  I usually chase anybody I don't know around the park,  
> waiving a sheaf of newsletters at them, anyway; I'd be happy to do  
> it wearing the chroniclers' badge.
>
> Similarly, members of the populace who were willing to be general  
> "ambassadors" on any given night could wear the Barony's badge or  
> green-and-gold bands or something.  Then all the folks at the  
> Hospitaler's table would have to do to is point them out and  
> explain what they mean (or hail somebody who'd chosen to put one  
> on, depending on the circumstances).
>
> I, as a newcomer, wasn't unwilling to go up to people and say,  
> "Hi," but I was reluctant to "horn in on" conversations and harass  
> people who were busy doing other things, and it often looks as  
> though EVERYBODY at PiP is busy.  If there had been people wearing,  
> "Harass me, please!" labels, I would've been more comfortable  
> approaching them.
>
>
>
> Coblaith Mhuimhneach
> Chronicler, Barony of Bryn Gwlad
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