Seeker Fans Celebrating Stars’ Birthdays

Due to two consecutive bouts of influenza January was not a very productive month for me. I missed celebrating Craig Horner’s birthday with other fans.

Fans will be celebrating Bridget Regan’s birthday on Sunday, February 3, 2013. You can learn more about the Tweetathon on this Facebook page.

For those of you who don’t have Facebook accounts (I don’t blame you) here is an excerpt:

► ► Celebrate Bridget Regan’s Birthday with a NEW Tweetathon this Sunday, February 3rd/2013 ◄ ◄
- – Hashtag #BridgetReganBDay
(click on SEE MORE to see all of the information)

⇨ This time, we will be tweeting the Hashtag #BridgetReganBDay
(We’ve previously trended #BridgetRegan, and #BridgetReganBirthday, so we needed to change the hashtag)

► This is a 24-HOUR TWEETATHON around the WORLD
(**including a 2-hour “POWER WINDOW” from 12Noon to 2PM Pacific Time)
The 24 HOUR Tweetathon begins as soon as February 3rd begins in your country – at 12:00 AM,
and ends on 12:00 AM on Monday, February 4th – but you can always tweet longer if you want to.

I’m not sure how much I can participate but I wanted to make sure I helped spread the word.

BTW — I have noticed a lot of original programming promotions on Hulu. We should probably start discussing a campaign to try to bring the right people together to discuss a possible revival on Hulu. If you have a Hulu+ account (it’s only about $10 a month) you may be able to help influence their production decisions. I do have a Hulu+ account and will be glad to work with other Hulu+ users to lobby for a LOTS program on the service.

Just keep in mind that my schedule can be a bit wacky.

12 Days of the Seeker

I wanted to do something for December that was a little special and helped to keep the idea of bringing back Legend of the Seeker. Since it’s the Christmas shopping season one hears all sorts of silly songs, and various renditions of “Twelve Days of Christmas” have been filling the air.

On the other hand, coordinating a lengthy 12-day campaign would have required more time and energy than I could commit to the task; and the more you ask of fans the fewer people will have the time and energy to participate.

Hence, I decided it would be simpler to just ask people to post something once a day from December 13 through December 25 in the form of a brief Tweet in the style of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song.

So, on December 13 you Tweet something like “On the 1st Day of the Seeker all I want to see is LOTs coming back to TV”, etc.

December 14 is the 2nd Day of the Seeker, etc.

It’s easy enough to schedule 1 Tweet a day and you don’t have to feel like you’re letting the cause down if you miss a day or two.

But you can also help by ReTweeting other people’s Tweets. That way we’ll keep the tradition going throughout the twelve days without having to pound on the keyboard, schedule Tweets, etc.

BTW — you can actually schedule Retweets (for Tweets that have already been posted) through Worphy. It’s a fairly new service but I like it so far. Just grab the STATUS URL of the Tweet you want to retweet by right-clicking on the time stamp in the Twitter listing for a given Tweet.

You could grab 5-10 friends’ Tweets and schedule 1 Retweet for each of them each day.

Finally, we can use the hash tag of #12seekerdays to let people know what we’re doing. Don’t worry about trending. This isn’t about trending. But we can create some Storify pages, maybe, if we get enough interesting Tweets.

I’m sorry about not providing the details sooner. I’ve been really busy and stealing time to promote fandom projects. I should be able to get a few Tweets scheduled for December 13 in time. After that, I hope you’ll help me keep it going forward.

I’d love to see Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Bruce Spence, and the rest of the Seeker cast get back together next fall, or maybe make a movie. The Tribune bankruptcy was so unfair to a great show and a great fandom.

And who knows? Maybe an online service like http://blip.tv/ will take an interest in the franchise (or maybe some production company that works with online media will).

I’m not ready to give up. I hope you’re not, either, because there is still a great deal more that we as fans can do to show people in the entertainment industry that there is a market for this show.

Legend of the Seeker fans trend on Twitter

Yesterday, April 26, was #savetheseeker day on Twitter as far as fans of Legend of the Seeker were concerned. They turned out in force and brought along a lot of friends and new fans to promote the campaign to bring the show back.

Laura (@sot_fan) from Save Our Seeker shared the following screen captures with everyone to show that the Tweets hit the number 3 ranking in the US and number 29 Worldwide.

Legend of the Seeker fans hit the number 3 spot on Twitter with #savetheseeker on April 26, 2012.

Legend of the Seeker fans hit the number 29 spot Worldwide on Twitter on April 26, 2012 with #savetheseeker.

The next Twitter campaign being planned is for May 13, 2012 — Mother Confessor Day. You can help make it a special one by suggesting your ideas in the LOTS.org forum or at the Confessor and Seeker Society.

Hope for reviving the television series is building up as companies like Netflix and Hulu announce more original programming for their online services. Sure, we’d love to get a broadcast network to pick up the show — or even to entice a film studio into making a movie — but millions of fans just want to see the Seeker and Mother Confessor back in action, and the Internet is starting to prove itself as a real video entertainment medium.

Thanks to all the fans who turned out for to Save the Seeker yesterday. Laura is already working on new ideas. Be on the lookout for more initiatives.

And don’t forget that the April 2012 Save Our Seeker Contest is still running. You can still enter.

Legend of the Seeker starred Craig Horner and Bridget Regan. Be sure to follow them on Twitter. ABC Studios still owns the rights to the show, according to Terry Goodkind (author of the Sword of Truth novels upon which the show was based); we need to show them that we’re not going away.

Legend of the Seeker Fans Organizing April 26, 2012 Tweetathon

If you’re wondering whether Legend of the Seeker fans are hibernating, wonder no more. They have two Tweetathons coming up. The first is scheduled for April 26, which is later this week. You can read all the details at the Confessor and Seeker Society’s Save Our Seeker forum and the LOTS.org Save Our Seeker Forum.

Here is the opening part of Laura’s (SOT_FAN) message to Seeker fan everywhere. You’ll need to click on one of the links above to read the full message:

Please save the date!

We’ll be twitting the hashtag: #SaveTheSeeker on Twitter, Thursday, April 26 to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Save Our Seeker campaign. It’s been that long and we’re still fighting.

The Tweetathon starts at 12:00 noon PDT and ends at 2:00 pm PDT. You can check your time zone here.

To have better chances of trending #SaveTheSeeker worldwide, please focus your tweets (or schedule your tweets) between 12 noon and 2pm Pacific (USA) Daylight Time. Supposedly, if we also start tweeting a couple of minutes before the set time of 12 noon, there’s a better chance of jump-starting the trend, so please give that a try too.

Please Spread the word on LiveJournal, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Forums, deviantArt, You Tube, etc..

I cannot help but feel flattered that the hashtag this time is “#savetheseeker” although I doubt it had anything to do with this blog. Unfortunately, it seems that Twitter has a long memory and you’re not allowed to reboot old hash tags if you want to trend.

At least, that is my understanding.

The goal here is to get the hashtag to trend so that people around the world see it and click on it.

We have a 2-hour window in which to conduct the Tweetathon. The more people who join in, the better. You can use services like Tweetdeck and Hootsuite (to name just 2 of many) to schedule your Tweets in advance. Some fans have 2 or 3 Twitter accounts so they can switch between them when their accounts are temporarily blocked by Twitter (this is sometimes lovingly referred to as “Twitter Jail”).

The other upcoming Twitter event is the May 13 Mother Confessor Day Tweetathon. We held one two years ago that was immensely successful. This year Bridget Regan has 2 reasons to celebrate the day — She is now a mommy in real life.

Please check out the discussions at LOTS.org and the Confessor and Seeker Society. I’m soliciting ideas and feedback, and I want to make sure everyone knows about the Mother Confessor Day Tweetathon.

BTW — just so I mention Craig Horner in this article, remember that he now has an official Craig Horner Twitter Account. Craig recently announced that he had wrapped up filming the “Joey Dakota” pilot. Of course, we all wish him well and much success — but we’re also hoping to see him come back as Richard Cypher/Rahl.

Of course, if you’re not following the @seekerfans account on Twitter you should be — you’ve be reminded almost daily about both Tweetathons.

Hope to see you there. After all, we’re here to Save Our Seeker and bring about a third season of Legend of the Seeker. No one goes home until the job is done.

Craig Horner Mobbed at WonderCon 2012 on 2nd Day

Word has apparently gotten out that Craig Horner is greeting fans at the Legend of the Seeker fan table. Laura (@sot_fan from Save Our Seeker) has uploaded some more pictures to Twitter. Hopefully she’ll publish a whole gallery from WonderCon 2012 in a couple of days. Here are a couple of samples she uploaded today.

Legend of the Seeker fans line up to meet Craig Horner at WonderCon 2012. Photo courtesy of SaveOurSeeker.com.

Craig Horner, star of Legend of the Seeker, chats with fans and signs autographs for 2nd day at WonderCon 2012. Photo courtesy of SaveOurSeeker.com.

Seeker fans who cannot attend WonderCon 2012 have been busy on Twitter with a #richardfest that was scheduled from 12:00 PST to 3:30 PST today (so technically it’s still going on as I write this update). The show of support is warm and ongoing despite the fact that some of the most active Twitter fans have limited access while attending WonderCon 2012.

So far as I know, the next big Legend of the Seeker Twitterfest will probably be this year’s Mother Confessor Day in honor of Bridget Regan. Looking forward to it!

Thanks, Laura, for sharing photos from WonderCon and for organizing the fan table and coordinating with Richard and generally just for doing everything that you have done over the past two years to help bring back Legend of the Seeker. We’re here to Save The Seeker and that’s all there is to it!