Hellos, Goodbyes and Community Management

Salutations,

It's Wikia Wednesday, Norrathians! Where we blog about things...For reasons! So I'll get this started.

This last week and a half has been quite an emotional roller coaster for me. My new title as EverQuest 2 Community Manager, drops me into Norrath, a place I have so many memories of and has me "leaving" Auraxis. "Leaving" because I am not truly leaving. I am just no longer the Community Manager. I'll still be playing PlanetSide 2 to get my FPS fix and I'll be involved in lots of things like Friday Night Ops and Community Clash. I never realized how hard it would be to find the words to say goodbye and hello to a community. If you want to check out my hello and goodbye posts, they'll go over everything a bit more in depth.

So...Here I am! The New Community Manager of EverQuest 2. What does that mean? For me, it means, I am here to help grow and direct our player base into a conglomeration of what EverQuest 2 is all about! This includes EVERYONE - solo-ers, multi-boxers, dungeon groups, questers, crafters, interior decorators, trades brokers, raiders, PvPers and so on and so forth! I often see MMO communities get split up into tiny groups, but what a lot of people don't realize is that together...Together we are WAY more powerful. United, we make the game. Honestly, we do. Without us, the players, these games wouldn't exist.

What I want to see is all of us working together and if not agreeing, at least understanding one another. Let's work as one to build a better community where new people feel welcome and there's always something fun to do!

First of all, I want to go over what I generally do:

• Reports - I scour the internet to aggregate analytic data
  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Upon Development's Request
• Forum Moderation and Duties
• Social Media Engagment
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • G+
  • YouTube
  • TwitchTV Livestreams - NEW!!
• News and Announcements
• Articles
• Events
  • SOE Live, etc

Beyond that, I want to do so much more! With a game like EverQuest 2, we have potential to create some really amazing stories together for all kinds of aspects of the game.

This is where I want your help! I usually end every blog with a question, but today, I have many questions! I'll be setting up a new livestream series, similar to Friday Night Ops if you've ever checked that out.

• What kind of content would you like to see?
• What day would be best for you to view the livestream/partake in it - Keep in mind it must be between Monday and Friday?
• How often would you like to see these streams? Weekly, biweekly, monthly?
• And last, but not least, what should we name the livestream!? :D

Here are some general ideas I have for the livestream segments:

• Dev Spotlights
• Content Spotlights
  • Throw Back Thursdays - Checking out old content
• Guild Spotlights - Including all types: PvP, PvE, crafting, etc
• Event Spotlights
• Fansite Spotlights
• Individual Player Spotlights
• Discussion Panels
• Guild Recruitment Videos
• General Video Submission
• Screenshot Submissions
• Fanart Submission
• Guide Program

Let me know what you think of my ideas and leave yours in the comments section below!

Good hunting,

-Margaret " Luperza " Krohn

EverQuest 2 Community Manager

Sony Online Entertainment

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TL;DR

• Hi! I'm your new Community Manager
  • Saying hello and goodbye is hard
  • I do lots of things, read the blog to find out what it is that I shall be doing
• Weekly Wikia Question(s)
  • If we did an EverQuest 2 livestream: what content would you like to see, what day would you want to watch it, how often should we stream, and what should we name it?