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Twitter
There is an enormous presence of Runescape players and J-mods on twitter. This is why it is a great to be there. When we are hosting any kinds of events, a tweet is sent out through our Twitter, @2007_reddit. We usually get retweeted by some of the OSRS J-mods or the @OldSchoolRS page.
Jagex
Old School J-mods are fairly active on our page. This gives us nice support from them. A while ago, we created a creative competition in which people could use their talents to win some prizes. Mod Mat K offered a reward of 12 months of membership to the winner, which was definitely a great incentive for people to contribute. In the end, we chose a player who wrote and sang a song about OSRS, covering Sweet Home Alabama. It was very good considering he also played the guitar himself
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We also had them attend our events, which is also great fun as they appear as Jad. They make events much more fun.
Twitch streams
This is a new area we are exploring. Lately, we’ve been collaborating with a popular OSRS streamer to make events even more fun. Together, we hosted the chicken suit KQ and participated in a massive F2P war, which was streamed on the official Runescape Twitch channel.
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There is much more that I have not mentioned. So many things come together to make a successful event. It is never black and white. I would encourage anyone to try something new. Think of ideas and pursue them to the best of your ability.
What do you think? Are these points accurate for more than just events? How do they compare to RS3 events?
Please share your ideas below
Reddit /r/2007scape
There is an enormous presence of Runescape players and J-mods on twitter. This is why it is a great to be there. When we are hosting any kinds of events, a tweet is sent out through our Twitter, @2007_reddit. We usually get retweeted by some of the OSRS J-mods or the @OldSchoolRS page.
Jagex
Old School J-mods are fairly active on our page. This gives us nice support from them. A while ago, we created a creative competition in which people could use their talents to win some prizes. Mod Mat K offered a reward of 12 months of membership to the winner, which was definitely a great incentive for people to contribute. In the end, we chose a player who wrote and sang a song about OSRS, covering Sweet Home Alabama. It was very good considering he also played the guitar himself
.
We also had them attend our events, which is also great fun as they appear as Jad. They make events much more fun.
Twitch streams
This is a new area we are exploring. Lately, we’ve been collaborating with a popular OSRS streamer to make events even more fun. Together, we hosted the chicken suit KQ and participated in a massive F2P war, which was streamed on the official Runescape Twitch channel.
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There is much more that I have not mentioned. So many things come together to make a successful event. It is never black and white. I would encourage anyone to try something new. Think of ideas and pursue them to the best of your ability.
What do you think? Are these points accurate for more than just events? How do they compare to RS3 events?
Please share your ideas below
Reddit /r/2007scape
02-May-2014 00:44:41 - Last edited on 02-May-2014 00:48:31 by Zoidberg PhD
Looks great Zoid. As the Event Moderator with Reddit, I follow most of these when I am trying to create an event for the community. One thing I try to do is ask around in the clan chat and get a majority opinion on what events they would like hosted, using strawpolls for this also works really well. If people have any questions for me about coming up with different events please send me a PM in game and I would be more than happy to answer
~Neyer
~Neyer
02-May-2014 03:16:11
Really amazing thread
will be having a read
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~DieHunted
will be having a read
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~DieHunted
DieHunted
02-May-2014 03:28:52
Publicity is extremely important. No one can attend your event if no one knows about it. Recently the RuneScape Wiki has been lacking in publicity, and it has shown. One GWD event we had four attendees. However, when we have made an effort to publicize an event, like our recent Spring Wikifest, we had well over 800 people. It's amazing how many more people will attend if you go all-out on the publicizing.
Twitter/Facebook/other social media sites definitely help to inform more people, but I think the most important way to publicize is within your own fansite. It all starts from there. Also as Neyer said, polls are pretty helpful. To satisfy your entire fanbase, you can use a poll to determine how often to have a certain kind of event rather than to have it or not. This has worked well for us - everyone gets what they want eventually. (:
Time organization is a big issue, as you mentioned. When I was involved in clans, this was combated by holding the same event at multiple times throughout the day. It's not something we at the Wiki have tried before (or not many times rather), but it might be something that would work for another fansite. (:
Fergs
Twitter/Facebook/other social media sites definitely help to inform more people, but I think the most important way to publicize is within your own fansite. It all starts from there. Also as Neyer said, polls are pretty helpful. To satisfy your entire fanbase, you can use a poll to determine how often to have a certain kind of event rather than to have it or not. This has worked well for us - everyone gets what they want eventually. (:
Time organization is a big issue, as you mentioned. When I was involved in clans, this was combated by holding the same event at multiple times throughout the day. It's not something we at the Wiki have tried before (or not many times rather), but it might be something that would work for another fansite. (:
Fergs
02-May-2014 04:34:02
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