# Creating awareness about a forum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-awareness-about-a-forum/30371>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [June 23, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-awareness-about-a-forum/30371 "2015-06-23T12:57:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-awareness-about-a-forum/30371/4 "2015-06-23T13:23:01Z")

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The forum we hosted this on was running vB but the competition itself (where we kept track of entries etc) was a Rails app - so I suggest creating a similar app.

If you can’t do that I suggest a simpler kind of giveaway or competition.

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