[Sca-cooks] Missed announcements in Kingdom newsletter

[Stefan li Rous]

Kiri commented:
> Sounds wonderful. I just hope mine goes as well...though I'm wondering
> if I'm going to have anyone to cook for. Seems the event announcement
> isn't in the March edition of our Kingdom newsletter. So if no one 
> knows
> about the event, it is doubtful anyone will come!
Time to start some retroactive correction.
In conjunction with your Event Steward and your Seneschal you should be 
doing a bit of extra PR work.
1) Send one (or more) event announcements to your kingdom mail list. 
Mention that the announcement didn't get into the kingdom newsletter. 
This is so folks do see the message and delete it, figuring they will 
get the rest of the details from the newsletter. This also helps put it 
in their mind so when they scan the event calendar in the newsletter, 
they remember that not all events are given there.
2) Make sure the event is in the kingdom calendar posted on your 
kingdom website.
3) Depending upon the time to your event now, make sure you send out 
letters of invitation to the event and a copy of the event announcement 
to each of the seneschals (and baron/esses) of the groups in your 
kingdom, or at least the nearby groups, and ask them to announce it at 
their meetings or fighter practices.
4) Make copies of the event announcements and send sets for handing out 
with folks going to nearby events.

It is too late now, but this is one of the reasons my barony will often 
pay for an extra month's announcement space in the kingdom newsletter.

Your group may have already done much of what I'm suggesting. Also some 
things are available in some kingdoms but not in others. I don't know 
but thought these might be ideas to keep in mind.

Our kingdom has started limiting the number of official on-calendar 
events that a group can hold (two for barony, one for shires?), so 
these methods also might be good to keep in mind for such 
"off-calendar" events.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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