[Sca-cooks] Missed announcements in Kingdom newsletter

[Elaine Koogler]

Thanks, Stefan, for the advice. To be honest, I am trying to get the 
autocrat to do all of these. However, trying to get the event on the 
Kingdom web site is virtually impossible...the web minister has made a 
rule that event announcements don't show up on the web site until 
they've been published in the newsletter...and even then, he runs a 
couple of weeks behind. Part of the reason for the delay is that we have 
been told by our Kingdom Chronicler that she won't publish our event 
listing, even to just list it on the calendar, until we have a site for 
the event. Seems a little odd as I've seen numerous events from other 
groups published with a "TBA" listed for the site. I have a feeling that 
I should have autocrated this event rather than cooking it...I tend to 
be a little more "pushy" about such things since I've been around since 
rocks were soft...and I really hold very few people in this Kingdom in 
awe, unlike a lot of the newbies.

But yeah, we're trying to do all of what you suggested. In fact, I plan 
to take flyers and hand them out at Coronation this next weekend.

Thanks for the kind thoughts!

Kiri

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> 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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