Social Media
Norwescon maintains several social media accounts that are used for disseminating information about the convention. While the website is considered the canonical source of information about the convention, many people will turn to social media (particularly Facebook and Twitter) with questions, so accounts should be regularly monitored and responses provided when appropriate.
Primary Accounts
Facebook Page: The official Facebook Page for the convention, and the most appropriate place for announcements and posts. Only approved individuals can post to the page.
Facebook Group: The Facebook Group for the convention. This group was originally created as a space for any Norwescon members, fans, or interested parties to connect, and not as an official information outlet. However, as Facebook has moved to prioritizing groups over pages, this has become one of the most used information outlets, and any posts made to the official page should be cross-posted to the group as well. All group members can post, however, posts are moderated to prevent spam or abuse.
Moderation Policy
Broadly, all comments to page or group posts, and all group posts made by members, should abide by Norwescon's Code of Conduct.
In order to keep the spirit of the Facebook Group as a space where members can discuss the con and related issues, we have a few guidelines for posts. In brief: posts must be on-topic, and no advertising or promotions are allowed. Posts are moderated only against those guidelines; we allow posts critical of the convention as long as they are presented respectfully and do not directly target individuals. The full guidelines are pinned within the group.
Twitter: The official Twitter account for the convention. Primarily used for brief announcements with links to more detailed announcements on the website or other locations as appropriate.
Twitter should be monitored as frequently as reasonably possible for mentions of the convention. Not every mention needs a reply, but we're free to do so when it seems appropriate. The two easiest ways to monitor Twitter are via the notifications tab (which will only catch Tweets that specifically mention @norwescon) and by keeping a saved search for "Norwescon" and other related terms. The official hashtag for each year is nwcXX, with the XX updated each year (#NWC44 for Norwescon 44, #NWC45 for Norwescon 45, etc.; the same pattern can be used to reference past or future years, such as #NWC17 or #NWC50).
The current search string is norwescon OR nwc44 OR nwc45 OR nwc2022 OR nwc2023 OR waypointnwc OR pkdaward OR pkdickaward OR philipkdickaward OR norwestcon. The string gets updated annually. The "OR" boolean designator must be in all caps.
norwescon OR nwc44 OR nwc45: catches general mentions, plus the current and prior or upcoming yearnwc2022 OR nwc2023: catches people who don't know the official tag and make a guess at the "abbreviation plus year" patternwaypointnwc: catches mentions of our mid-year "Waypoint" eventspkdaward OR pkdickaward OR philipkdickaward: catches mentions of the Philip K. Dick award; the "philipkdickaward" tag is the official string we should use when posting about the awardnorwestcon: catches the most common misspelling of our name