Originally posted by gatebuilders39
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"If it ain't broken, why break it?"
PS -- yeah, I know the saying is fix it!
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ALso, there is really no way of knowing how long this campaign will last, so looking to 2010 is not really that strange. Look at the Jericho fans. They have a table at Comicon. Season 2 ended last year, so that puts their initial campaign starting over 2 years ago. I can say that we need more people involved in leadership for that to happen. Here's the thing, in order for anything this massive to 1 -- work, and 2 -- last, there has to be enough people to do smaller tasks -- so that there is not a huge amount of work left to the few. I know the earlier campaigns hurt this aspect tremendously. As did the circumstances of the cancellation, but there are still lots of fans, and we need people to volunteer to participate. I mean it could be as simple as being sure that the threads (like on sci-fi) get bumped up to the top of the list daily -- not to difficult, but it takes one more task of the leaderships to-do list. It could be helping to compose a weekly or monthly update. It could be answering email questions. It could be volunteering at a con to pass out flyers..... None of these things in themselves are massively time consuming, yet, you get a group people dedicated to do these things, and next thing you know, we have a much larger reponse and participation in the campaign.
Check out the Jericho fans. While they are about 3x our size in viewers, I would guess that fans that attend cons for each show is either equal or in SGA's favor --meaning, we have some pretty enthusiastic fans. They still have very active members. One thing that is a huge disappointment to me is that while SGA has a huge number of fans, clearly evident by the amount of traffic on GW on the finale, but many of those fans while upset are not willing to participate. Maybe it is our average age -- and have lots of stuff going on, but really, some of the tasks I mentioned are not huge time commitments.
Well, those are just my thoughts about this tonight. If you are not already involved, I hope you consider pitching in to help. And if you can't help with any of the behind the scenes work, please set aside a little bit of time and money for printing and mailing the mock order form postcards, starting Friday, July 10.
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