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Post by veronic on May 16, 2010 0:05:06 GMT -5
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Post by veronic on May 16, 2010 16:18:21 GMT -5
SaveOurSeeker
@oicaxf Almost $4300 now! Will update the site later tonight.
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Post by veronic on May 20, 2010 15:57:21 GMT -5
Donation update: $6,835.63 USD
We need more money.......DONATE¡
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azeri™
Sister of Light
OMG DANCING BRB FLAILING!!
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Post by azeri™ on May 20, 2010 16:50:57 GMT -5
We have until the 1st week of june to donate for the DVD drive! So donate when you can! <3
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Post by Extremis on Jun 1, 2010 23:46:14 GMT -5
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Post by Extremis on Jun 13, 2010 23:53:10 GMT -5
An update about the DVD Library Donations from Kate of the 'SOS Team' on June 13th/2010:)
DVD Library Donation Project
This will be the page where we'll post updates on the Library-DVD drive. Thanks to your generous donations, about 250 'Legend of the Seeker' Season One DVDs will be donated to public libraries in the US.
Some fans purchased a few DVDs and they're contacting and donating the DVDs directly to their local libraries. We'll report on those donations once we find out about them. Other fans sent us brand new DVDs from Europe so we could donate them to a US Library.
Process
Our approach has been to donate to libraries in the top Neilson markets/cities, but before we mail the DVDs, we're contacting the library directors to make sure they do accept DVD donations. Some libraries don't (but gladly accept recommendations for new titles), for example donations may not be generally integrated into their collection, but are put out for sale to the public (i.e. Kings County Library, NJ). The Chicago Public Library explained that due to the high cost of cataloging and processing unsolicited materials, they cannot accept donated materials. Sadly, many libraries are understaffed, so it's taking longer than expected to hear back from them.
Firstly, the 60 sets to send to Terry Goodkind for personalization were bought to mail to those of you who donated over $100, and then between the team a fair quantity of others (such as this) were purchased that same day to contribute to the effort on May 26th to get the DVD on the Amazon rankings, which it did at #11. We used Barnes & Noble to purchase the remaining number.
Response & Fun Stuff
Of those that have so far accepted, there have been some nice responses we thought we'd share:
"We would be interested in receiving donations of Legend of the Seeker. We do own 2 copies of season 1 (shared amongst 10 branches), that have been circulating continually and are checked out right now. So there is definitely demand here. I looked up saveourseeker.com and I think it’s great when libraries receive material like this, best wishes in your donation drive." - Library Manager, Ohio.
"We do accept donations with certain restrictions. In this case, since I am familiar with the series and it’s not in our collection, we’d be happy to add it." -Library Director, Minnesota.
"Thank you for your offer of a free set of the first season of “Legend of the Seeker” on DVD. As a small stand-alone library, without the resources of a large library system, we have a very limited DVD budget. I would be happy to add this series to our collection, especially with its connection to the Terry Goodkind books (which we do have in our collection)." -Librarian, Washington.
"These sound like nice sets and my husband will probably be the first to check them out. He loves this series." -Library Director, Florida.
The New York City Public Library only has one DVD set remaining as one set is missing, and another is lost. The one on their catalog has 27 holds. Response from the library: "We are pleased to accept your generous offer of the DVD sets."
We will not send any DVDs to the Cleveland-Akron libraries as they already own 17 copies (owned by all CLEVNET Libraries). *applause please* cpl.org/
Happy librarians at Woodbury Public Library, CT with a donation.
Please click to see the list of libraries that have received the DVDs so far, in parentheses is the number of sets sent to each.
community.livejournal.com/legendofseeker/690926.html
That site will be continually updated when when we can name more libraries that have accepted our donations. We have asked each library to give us some publicity in the form of, for example, a mention of the DVDs and why we are donating in their newsletter, Facebook and Twitter - so we will link to those too along with other fun facts and pictures.
community.livejournal.com/legendofseeker/690926.html
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Post by jlyn on Jun 16, 2010 16:29:22 GMT -5
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Post by veronic on Jun 17, 2010 15:17:42 GMT -5
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auroracat
Listener
Awesome Avi by Azeri!!!
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Post by auroracat on Jun 17, 2010 15:47:01 GMT -5
Direct quote of text: Hi everyone, Apologies for the delay in posting this update. In the past few weeks, we looked at many different advertising opportunities and contacted many, many vendors to get quotes. We looked at billboards, video projections, mobile ads (on trucks), mass transit ads, aerial advertising, posters, and even murals and pavement advertising. And it took longer than expected for some of these vendors to get back to us. There are a number of upcoming conventions, and these are the best opportunities to introduce genre fans to "Legend of the Seeker". The International Comic Con in San Diego, for example, will draw 120,000 attendees. We'd like to focus our next advertising projects and fan involvement on the upcoming big conventions: Comic Con International (San Diego, July), Dragon*Con (Atlanta, September), and NY Comic Con (October). This also means that our fundraising efforts will be on raising funds to buy promotional opportunities at these events - both inside the venues and outside, in city hosting the events. We currently have $4,000 in the SOS PayPal account, which is enough to buy some ads for Comic Con, and of course, if we can raise a little bit more money, we can do more. Later today, we should get a quote to advertise on the San Diego Trolley. The trolley stops in downtown San Diego, right by the Convention Center where Comic Con will take place. I'll post an update as soon as I hear from the vendor. With the funds we currently have, we can do a couple of things that would be high impact and cost effective: 1. San Diego Trolley ads (assuming the vendor quote will fit our budget). 2. Rip-away posters. See pics. Any overage could roll over to produce some small giveaways for the freebie table at Comic Con and other events. Plans may change at the drop of a hat if we get a special deal. For example, unsold billboards, that are usually billed for 4 weeks, are sold at a dirt cheap price for 2 weeks. We just have to be agile enough to grab these opportunities. Hope you'll like the plan. - laura & sos.com team p.s. We're also working on a fundraiser incentive. We just don't have anything concrete right now. Also, no incentive is big enough to thank this generous fandom. None of this would be possible without your support and energy. |
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Post by veronic on Jun 26, 2010 11:35:29 GMT -5
Donate more, please
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derascal
Nightwisp
S1 Celebration Missing Fanfic Scene-Second Place
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Post by derascal on Jun 27, 2010 15:04:56 GMT -5
Thank you so much for looking into ads at the conventions. I think that and the other posters like the bus stop one... in cities with upcoming convos will really help... Did anyone do bumper stickers??? Great to pass out at cons? I would like to get some if you know of where. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work and continued strategies. ras  |
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