open-goverance/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/09._Publicity.md

## Publicity
Over the course of the year, we ran a total of 25 events, all listed on wolves and announced on Discord.  

We ran regular weekly activities on Wednesday, using our Discord Server and emails to inform our members of upcoming events and opportunities.  
Our Discord server was our social hub of communication between members and committee  
and has now grown to have ~300 members.  

We also collaborated a lot with other societies, which helped bring a lot of new eyes to us and to what we do.  

We used posters for larger events, since we began putting more effort and quality into the creation of our posters.  
This helped create a more professional image for our society and helped us stand out from other societies.  

### Other Societies

We worked with several Societies over the last year  
which has meant more advertising for our society in addition to helping other societies grow.  
This includes collaborations and larger-scale events like our Birthday event, SISTEM, and our Unity Workshop.  

![Games Soc poster on the Birthday Event](Pictures/09._Publicity_01.png)
![Poster for SISTEM Event](Pictures/09._Publicity_02.png)


### Posters

This year included a shift in our approach to posters.  
We decided to put more effort and quality into the creation of our posters, which also made them difficult to create for weekly events.  
Thus, we could ensure that our larger events had more powerful visuals  
and helped communicate to our members that this event is more significant than our weekly events.  

Posters can be found [on our forgejo][0]  

### Event Announcements

We primarily used Discord and Emails for our event announcements,  
while prompting our users to sign up for events on Wolves.  
This helped us keep track of who was attending our events and allowed us to send out reminders to our members.  
Our Discord server also allowed us to quickly issue reminders or updates to our members, which greatly improved our communication.  

Event Announcements can be found [on our forgejo][1]  

[0]: https://forgejo.skynet.ie/Computer_Society/open-goverance/src/branch/main/Events/2024-2025/Posters
[1]: https://forgejo.skynet.ie/Computer_Society/open-goverance/src/branch/main/Events/2024-2025