(Forgive me if this has been posted in some form or another already...I did a quick search and didn't see anything on it, so I assumed it went missed in the Future Updates subforum of the RSOF; Quick find code: 16-17-305-59400729)

 

 

 

Hi guys,

 

 

 

As the title would suggest, we're looking to kick off a Community Newsletter type thing on the forums.

 

 

 

Being a community newsletter though, we don't want to just jump in before we have some feedback from you guys on whether you'd be interested in reading such a thing. I'm also really keen to hear what kind of stuff you'd potentially like to see featured.

 

 

 

One of the main features of such a newsletter would be that as well J-mods writing articles and making contributions, the RuneScape community itself would write articles and provide content for inclusion. From what I read around the forums, I know you've generally got something to say.

 

 

 

So, to get you started, here's a quick window into my head so you can see the kind of stuff that going on in there (relating to newsletters only though I should add!):

 

 

 

- Pick of the events

 

 

 

A calendar of some description that lists just a few of the many events held in game each week

 

 

 

- Classified Ads

 

 

 

There are dozens of businesses, hotels and the like to be found in game. We could create a classified ads page so you can tell the masses what you're up to.

 

 

 

- Story of the week

 

 

 

The roleplay forums show that there are some real literary marvels out there.

 

 

 

- Ask a J-mod

 

 

 

Yeah yeah, we've seen lots of these in the past but an RS problem page could be fun (nothing irl though, really, I don't want to know!)

 

 

 

- Caption competition

 

 

 

Each week we put up an image and the best caption wins!

 

 

 

- This week in CM

 

 

 

A quick rundown of what the Community management team are up to just in case anyone's interested.

 

 

 

- News from the frontline

 

 

 

News articles written by the community for the community. Maybe that's a report on a particular event, maybe it's an issue important to us all.

 

 

 

I could go on but you get the idea.

 

 

 

So, over to you. I guess the easiest way for us to manage this thread and collect your responses is if you guys can format your posts in a way that's easy for us to check out. That pretty much means:

 

- no articles please! (we'll get to that later)

 

- no 500 word epic posts (if we all like an idea, we'll get in touch so you can elaborate on it a bit)

 

 

 

Fair enough?

 

 

 

I'm now off for the weekend so I'll get back to you on Monday and we can start sifting through the ideas and between us, perhaps get something together.

 

 

 

Thanks for reading!

 

 

 

Paul M

 

 

 

17-Aug-2009 15:36:45

 

Last edited on 17-Aug-2009 15:52:30 by Mod Paul M

 

Hi guys,

 

 

 

Ok, so I think it's fair to say that we're all up for this then.

 

 

 

Thanks for all your ideas and suggestions, you certainly kept me busy over the weekend reading through them all. I'll leave this thread open for a couple more days and then get to work collecting your thoughts together before coming back to you with what we can include straight away, what we may be able to include (depending on how much development work is required) and what we can't include. For the stuff we can't include, we'll come back to you with reasons why not as hopefully, that'll help us all fine tune our suggestions for the future. I hope that all sounds fair enough to you.

 

 

 

So, thanks again guys, I think we're well on the way.

 

 

 

Paul M

 

 

 

EDIT: ****, I don't get into game on this account as much as I'd like so we probably miss each other I'm afraid. I do go in on my home account though when I get home so I'll try and bump into you on that account and then hopefully, we can catch up.

 

 

 

It looks like it will be similar in function (maybe not form) to Tip.It's newsletter.

really getting closer to the players this year, nice to see they're expanding relations.

 

 

 

Might enter the caption contest bwahahaha

Hmm, I guess it's good. Not sure how they're going to manage it.