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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>my two cents here if I may, I m going to give some
issues/techniques that I had to deal with and how I managed to get the Combined
practice off the ground.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some back ground </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The first combined practice was a "disaster" there
were only five fighters in attendance, compare this with the last one we hosted.
where we had 20 heavies, seven lights and 3 combat archers, plus all of the
support crew.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One I didn't moan about it to just my home group, I
went out and started cornering people at revels,events and practices. I didn't
just confine myself to just heavy fighters either</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A short list of people who were contacted by
title/position for this upcoming practice</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the northern Chivalry and centurions that I
have e-mail address for.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the Northern Dons that I have e-mail addys
for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Namron, Northern Region, Weisenfeur,
Moonshadowe and Eldern Hills E-mail lists</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The unofficial e-mail lists of the Ansteorran
marshals and Allthings Ansteorra</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>His Majesty</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>His Highness</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kingdom Earl Marshal</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Northern Regional Knights Marshal</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Northern Regional Chiurgeon</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kingdom Siege Weapon Marshall </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Namron Siege Marshal</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Northern Regional Water Bearers Guild</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ulf and Maleah</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Marshals of each of the sponsoring groups (
both heavy and light)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The seneschals of Namron,Skargard, and Eldern
Hills</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Hospitilers of Namron and Skargard and their
deputies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The established Fighter Support crew from
Namron</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have contacted Daniel Blackaxe about getting all
of his fighters to this</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And have cornered and tried to pin down as many of
the Chivalry, Nobility,White Scarves,Centurions, and Arctus Majoris as I
can in person.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In addition I have also used word of mouth to
spread this around, I don't have the contact info for our current protector, but
someone did and said they would ensure that he knew about it. This is how
Skargard got Duke Michael of Momithshire to the practice they
sponsored</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In short It took work and dealing with a large
variety of people with a large variety of interests to get this thing to the
point that at the last practice we had a Duke that hadn't been seen in almost
ten years to show up and participate</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It also took almost six months of this kind of
effort, starting small and growing a bit bigger each time learning from the
mistakes that were made.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lord Wilhelm von Winkleried</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Knights Marshal, Barony of Namron</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=muriel@entelesoft.com
href="mailto:muriel@entelesoft.com">muriel@entelesoft.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=namron@ansteorra.org
href="mailto:namron@ansteorra.org">'Barony of Namron'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 10, 2004 8:26
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Namron] Mentoring </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=484241702-11122004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Suggestions to get more people involved:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=484241702-11122004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>1. Ask people personally. This helps in two ways:
making sure they know (hard to hear at pop, not everyone is on the list,
etc) and letting someone know that you think they would be good at it (doesn't
naturally occur to everyone).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=484241702-11122004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=484241702-11122004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>2. Never stop mentioning it "officially" - send an article to the
Plume every month including updates about the success of the program and
what's needed, always bring it up in populace,
publically thank people who help and publically introduce the
newcomers.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=484241702-11122004> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=484241702-11122004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=484241702-11122004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-Muriel "now to take my own advice"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=484241702-11122004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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