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Meeting #5 (7-17-15)
Topic Started: Jul 17 2015, 10:24 AM (334 Views)
SweetTea
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Hello Mimions,

So this meeting will primarily cover participation incentives and ideas. As of right now, we have more representatives than ever! However, we are lacking active participation. Below are some of my ideas to encourage participation in current and potential representatives. Please comment with your own ideas or thoughts on what I have come up with! Feel free to bring up anything off topic as well! After all, that is what these meetings are all about.

All my love,
SweetTea

Test Your Knowledge Quests
I think making quests based off of the information on our website would be a good idea. This would encourage representatives to continue to read everything on our forums including the new announcements or announcements from before they joined the MIM Squad! This could also be advertised on the MyVMK forums if anyone wants to try it and learn about us.

Forum Challenges
Does anyone have any ideas for forum challenges we could host on our own forums? We could even make an announcement under "User-Made Contests" on the MyVMK forums to get more people to look at our forums. Forum challenges could even be taken in-game and made into a quest of some sort.

Emoji Escapes
Each month I would like to host what I like to call an emoji escape. For example, I would post an announcement saying "Oh no! Mike Wazowski has escaped from the emojis bar! Quick, find Mike throughout the forums! He will visit 4 threads this month. Can you find each thread Mike visits? :pixelmike: " Representatives would then email the staff with the titles of the threads Mike is found in by the end of the month and they will receive a prize in-game at the next MIM Squad event. What are your thoughts on this? I feel like this would encourage more people to actually read the forums more often and attend MIM Squad events.

*Puff mentioned placing emojis beside a rule to remind players/representatives of specific rules. Why don't we change this idea to being able to place emojis not only throughout the forums but also the site to encourage active participation in reading announcements, rules, etc?*

Prizes
Speaking of participating in events. If a representative wins anything for any reason, they will not meet one of us in the game to receive their prize. Instead, they must attend an event and receive their prize from one of us at the end of said event. Again, this is to encourage active participation. This is not a set in stone rule as of yet, but I would like it to be. Thoughts?

Kindness Award
I have not received ANY submissions for the Kindness Award. Get those submissions sent!

Gold Star Reward Badge
The staff and I have spoke about bringing the Gold Star Reward badge to our own forums as a prize for representatives who have done something outstanding for the squad or gone over and above what the kindness award requires. I think it is about time to get this badge started. I will soon add a form to nominate players for this badge on the same page the kindness award nomination is found.

Friendly Games
I have noticed a greater number of people having trouble finding friends or other players to play friendly games with them. I suggest we establish a friendly games request thread on the main forums. For one thing, there is nothing like this on the forums and since so many players are looking for something like this or don't even think to look for something like this, it will be incredibly useful to them! On the other hand, publicity-wise this is great for us as well! Since nothing like this exists on the MyVMK forums already, it will give us a chance to continue to get the MIM Squad name out there!

Uniforms
Please respond to the final uniform poll that has been posted as of today!

*Update!*
Privacy Policy
How do you guys feel about loosening up on our privacy policy? I know a lot of the staff have accidentally revealed some personal information to one another and several representatives already know each other's first names. Besides, MyVMK does not even have as strict a policy as we do. In fact, they basically only require you to not give out phone numbers, addresses and log in information. Aside from that, I believe you are allowed to exchange names, friend each other on social networks and what not. I propose we adopt the same policy that MyVMK follows. This just means that it is up to you to decide how much or how little you are willing to share. However, regardless of whether MyVMK changes their policy, our policy would prohibit address, phone number and log in information exchanges. Does this seem fair? If this is agreed, I would still like to keep our Skype and Forum names and profile pictures the same as our in-game characters for functional purposes.

Facebook & Twitter
The MIM Squad now has its own Facebook page and twitter! Please feel free to like and follow both to view announcements and updates in your feed!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/MIM-Squad/926932900706207?ref=hl
Twitter: @MIM_Squad
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PuffTheMagicDragon
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I think it would be a cool idea to do a "Create an Emoji" contest on the forums. I'm not particularly savvy with Photoshop or the likes, but I think it would be fun to design something with the hopes of it being available for use after the contest! I'd be really excited to see what people would add! Of course it should be Disney related.

Emoji Escapes
This is such a cute idea! It could also be used as a *hint hint-here's a reminder of the rules* type of thing! Like placing it ever-so-sneakily in a specific rule.

Prizes
I like the idea of having a "Pickup On-site" requirement. We will have to host more events for that. We have all been a bit busy so the events have been kinda sporadic.

Friendly Games
If this is about Pirates, there is a thread on the MyVMK forums, and I believe it's called "Friendly Finder". If It's not being used, then we should totally make a new one :)
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SweetTea
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Ahh! I didn't realize that they had one already lol I have been looking around. Alright well what if our thread could be for all mini games and not just one specific game? Players could post what times they are typically on along with what games they like to play and meet each other accordingly. By the way, I like your idea of placing it throughout the rules too! Great idea! Maybe we could place the emojis throughout the site AND forums that way everyone will be required to look at both since we have important announcements/rules on the site as well. Also keep in mind that the emojis WILL NOT be released all at once. A new emoji will be placed in new and old posts.

P.S. Puff, creating contests are great! I think consolation prizes would be awesome so that the players that don't win will still get something for participating.
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PuffTheMagicDragon
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Perhaps a new forum badge for participating and something small for in the game? I have credits to donate. That would be a cool participation prize :)
I would be happy to put together the rules and submission forms if everyone likes the idea. I would need help advertising though, since I've been so out of reach lately.

Also, I like the idea of having a thread for all friendlies, HM and Pirates alike. Sounds cool to me!


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SweetTea
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Great! I will begin drafting something once a few other members have responded to this! That would be great actually :) what if we left the forum badge as the consolation prize and the winner will get a winner badge as well as an in-game prize. I think that is more than fair for their efforts especially since we have a limited supply or credits at the moment. By the way, I forgot to mention two other topics. I added them to the bottom of the original post!
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Wow! You guys are so efficient lol I didn't realize you went into this much depth to bring us all your fun events! It sounds like you have really had a hard time getting people to attend events. I can understand because I have only been able to attend like two or three of them..so I think that holding off on giving someone their prize until they attend an in-game event is MORE than fair. I also think your concerns about the privacy policy would be nice to change to allow us to share the information you listed above. And again, if any one person prefers to keep their information private, that is totally up to them! This should just be an option for those that do want to share a little more about themselves. As you said, addresses and phone numbers should DEFINITELY be kept private though. I love all the new ideas as far as forum quests, escapes, challenges, etc. I can not wait to see those things made available to members! You guys are awesome and I am so happy to be a part of this! :D
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SundanceCody
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Forum Challenges:
PuffTheMagicDragon
Jul 17 2015, 11:13 AM
Forum Challenges :pixelmarie:
I think it would be a cool idea to do a "Create an Emoji" contest on the forums. I'm not particularly savvy with Photoshop or the likes, but I think it would be fun to design something with the hopes of it being available for use after the contest! I'd be really excited to see what people would add! Of course it should be Disney related.

Love it! I'm not a Photoshop genius myself, but small graphics like emoji are actually pretty simple to do once you get the hang of it. It's making clean edges on them that's the hard part ;) . I'd certainly participate in a "Create an Emoji" contest!

Emoji Escapes:
I like it! I've seen similar types of contests many a time. They're super simple and really fun! My only concern would be counterfeit emoji visits to threads, but that could be easily remedied by having official emoji thread visits conducted by staff members only (if you see the emoji in question visiting a thread under a non-staff username, it isn't an official visit). Having specific emojis escape the forums over to the Website would also be pretty cool, and there's no way that one could be hidden unofficially over there ;) .

Prizes:
That actually makes perfect sense to me. It's a given that we'll be hosting more and more events at more varying times in the future, so that would provide a wide range of opportunities for representatives to receive any prizes that they've earned/won outside of regularly hosted events. I wouldn't necessarily set that rule in stone, but I would make it a sort of guideline. At least for now, there may be times when a representative simply can't make an event, so setting up an alternate meeting time for prize redemtion might be necessary. I do like it though. I would encourage any representative who has earned/won a prize outside of a regular event to make an effort to inform a MIM staff member of what event they'll be able to attend to receive their prize. That way we can be sure to have the prize on hand for them at the event :) .

Friendly Games:
Excellent idea! This would also encourage players to seek out and form new friendships in-game by meeting with other players who have similar mini-game interests :) .

Privacy Policy:
I could see adopting and maintaning the same privacy policy as MyVMK and the MyVMK forums for simplicity's sake, but at the same time, I think we should encourage safer online habits regarding privacy. That was one of the original VMK's top concerns given the age range of most players at that time. Granted most of us playing MyVMK are VMK veterans, so we're a good bit older now and mostly wiser. Still though MyVMK has quite a few younger players who may not yet be quite as seasoned as some of us veteran players ;) . What if we created a page on the MIM Website that outlines what to do if you think you've given too much information out and/or feel unsafe? Sort of a "Cyber-bullying/Cyber-stalking 411" page?

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Test Your Knowledge Quests
I like the idea of a quest based on our site, but I think we should also come up with quests that pertain to the season or month events. For example, a “fun in the sun” themed quest for August, where we follow a storyline of different Disney characters visiting warm places. “Lilo was out surfing this afternoon and got caught up in a wave. Help Stitch find her during this adventure! Let’s look for her on MyVMK’s tropical island!” [Tiki Tiki Tiki Island] (Then on a second ‘quiz-styled’ site, we can have multiple choice questions, where you need to get one right to move on.) “Lilo isn’t there, but there’s a river in sight! Let’s head up stream and see if we can find her where some large animals have plenty of space to swim!” [Elephant Bathing Pool]…etc.

Forum Challenges
I like the Create an Emoji contest…. My lack of creativeness and graphic design skills will go hide in a corner for this one though… I can help judge, since I can’t create squat!

Emoji Escapes
Not a bad idea. I feel like the prize would have to be decently large to promote a lot of activity.

Prizes
I like this idea to an extent. If we are hosting only one game a week and it just happens to be at a time someone is working or sleeping consistently, then that may pose a problem. Maybe have a 2 week waiting period to pick up your prize, or sooner if you go to said event?

Kindness Award
Maybe open this to the general MyVMK community?

Friendly Games
There’s already a pirates one in play, but not a HM one… maybe we could go that route?

*Update!*
Privacy Policy
I like the idea of keeping our rules close with MyVMK’s rules, but I very much support SundanceCody’s Cyber-bullying page idea. I think having ways to protect our information would be very useful. From experience here, some have accidentally used our personal email, which has our name or school linked to it, some have made a new Skype, but accidentally put some real information in there and now someone else knows your name, and I’m sure there have been other slip-ups. With MyVMK’s record of finding information about members and abusing it, I definitely think we should have something to promote online self-defense. I found a person on facebook once by seeing the dog that was found, and a name of a previous owner and their hometown. With just that info, I was able to find the current owner, who was living more than 100 miles from the hometown of the previous owner. (The dog had a microchip, but the info wasn’t updated for the new owner.) Yay for finding the dog’s owner, but it took me less than 10 minutes to find the owner on Facebook, learn his hometown, his appearance, and whatever else he had on his profile that was public.
Facebook & Twitter
Facebook: Joined! (Recommendation, make sure your profiles have your hometown as “Friends Only” or “Friends of Friends” to prevent random people from finding out where you live too easily.)
Twitter: Don’t have one…
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SweetTea
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Thank you everyone above for responding to the meeting!

Cody, your idea about a online safety page is great! I have a lot of projects I am working on right now for our squad but I will add that one to the list BEFORE we update our privacy policy.

Jen, haha I am in the same boat with you regarding any kind of design skills! So you can I can definitely do the judging for any emoji contests or the like. Also, I really like your idea about having a 2 week wait unless a representative decides to claim their prize at a MIM Squad event. Of course, the representative will have to get in touch with the staff that is hosting the event to let us know that they will be there to claim their prize. Lastly, the test your knowledge quests are meant to promote active reading of all meetings, announcements, updates, etc. each month. But we can certainly have separate quests that go hand-in-hand with the month's theme! In fact, I'd really like to get something like this started. I know you are going to be busy for the next month. So maybe another staff could begin coming up with a quest for August once the theme has been released on the first! I have my hands a little full right now, so if no one steps up to the plate, I will be doing this much later into August after I have had enough time to get my current projects completed.
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JenJaws
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I can always attempt to make a simple theme quickly, and maybe someone could elaborate more on it, or find an outside site to use for the follow-through of the words?
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