New Citizens Inc Blog comes back online

After many weeks of being offline, the New Citizens Inc from Second Life is back and bigger than ever before. I’ve been returning over the last few weeks to the site and I’m seeing alot of good progress being made. The NCI Web Services team has introduced new forums and its worth checking that out, CLICK HERE.The New Citizens Inc group in-world has over 9, 547 group members and its growing all the time. NCI is one of the biggest, well known groups in the Second Life community. If your interested in helping with the NCI blog, check out the latest post called Open Casting for NCI Bloggers! or contact Lethe Naumova in-world.

New Citizen’s Inc. Your Portal to Second Life

The three columns to the right are for our Classes and Events, Second Life, and our community, in that order. You’ll find class schedules and news, Second Life news and grid news, and lots of links to both NCI stuff and SL stuff.

NCI calls itself “Your Portal to Second Life”, and I like to think of this blog as “Your Portal to NCI” (which makes it “Your Portal to  Your Portal to Second Life”

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about that kind of thing, be sure to wander over to the forums and post them there!

Learn more about New Citizens Inc, CLICK HERE

Second Life Answers official launch soon

Watch out for news in the coming weeks or even months for the upcoming official launch of Second Life Answers on the Official Second Life Blog. Check out Second Life Answers Beta – Thank You! post for more information (August 18th 2009)

Second Life Answers stats before July 31st 2009

36,127 page views occurred on 445 threads.

The most active category for number of questions (85) was in “Technical”.

3 of the most viewed questions were: Can I change my Second Life name? , PW change: Forgotten answer to the security question and How can I get a job in Second Life?

Over 45 languages accessed the Answers main page. The top 2 are English and German.

Second Life Answers is the fastest growing help resource ever.   Ok…I made this particular metric up but you can make it true!

Keep your eyes open for the official launch of Second Life Answers soon!

SL Volunteer Info Updated

I’m a SL Mentor in Second Life and I love mentoring new residents at HI’s, OI’s and at help points around SL. I first applied for the mentoring program back in 2007 and since then it’s been great and still is. Over the past year or so many residents have been asking about when LL will open up the volunteer applications for new SL Mentors again and I have linked them to the volunteer section on the Second Life website. In recent months the same message was shown (July 2008 info) untill June/July 2009 where there seems to be hope for new mentors, as there will be new info coming out on the SL blog very soon. Earlier this year LL shut down the TSL Mentoring program and their TSL Volunteer Island was removed. Here are some recent statistics on members in the SL Mentors group and it shows a big decrease since late 2008.

SL Mentoring Stats 2009

26th October 2008

Starting with approximately 3,700 mentors, roughly 1,700 went through the renewal process. This far exceeded Linden Lab’s expectations for renewals, which were anticipated to only range from about 350 to a little under a thousand, based on observations of volunteer activity. From SL Massively

2nd February 2009
1, 733 Members

25th April 2009
1, 687 Members

5th May 2009
1, 682 Members

22nd May 2009
1, 679 Members

16th July 2009
1, 653 members

July 2008

Volunteer Info

In our continuing effort to make the Second Life Volunteer program the finest in Second Life, we have adopted new processing steps for Apprentice mentors to advance from Apprentice to full Mentor. Recently, our application processing rate has dropped to accommodate these changes. Rather than let the application list grow at its present pace and force residents who desire to participate in the Volunteer program to wait weeks if not months to hear from us, we have decided to stop accepting applications until we have processed the list of residents currently in the pipeline. Thank you for your patience.

The Second Life Volunteer Team

As of 15th July 2009 – Latest Update!

Thanks for your interest! We are currently not accepting new applications for the Second Life Mentor group. Please watch the Second Life blog for updates and more information.

- The Second Life Volunteer Team

Sounds like VTeam or someone at Linden Lab will be making announcement’s soon on the SL Blog and VTeam blog for SL Mentors in the coming weeks or even months. Hopefully the announcement will include details about accepting new mentors into the SL Mentor groups or related. Hopefully this will jump start the group again into a successfull future.

The recent update by the VTeam was this Volunteers are staying busy! by Lexie Linden.

Second Life’s 6th Birthday event is a prime example of volunteers in action. 80-90 Mentors volunteered their time and skills for this very popular event.

In the coming months, we will be looking into additional  ways that volunteers can come together to help and inspire new Residents as well as seasoned members of the Second Life community.   We will update you after  these ideas become better defined.  Stay tuned…

When there are new updates I’ll post them here.

If you have any feedback on this recent update to volunteer info, feel free to comment.

Reached 1,000 flickr comments

Today the 1000th comment was recorded in the early hours of this morning (SLT) on my Second Life flickr stream for Second Life and I’m really happy I’ve reached this milestone. I joined Flickr, in June 2007 and since then my flickr stream has been viewed more than 20,000 times  which is just amazing. The view counts on my flickr stream have now reached the 95,795 mark.  As you know,  I love sharing my adventures in Second Life with you and I think sharing snapshots is a great way of sharing knowlege & stuff with friends in the SL community. I hope you have enjoyed my snapshots and found it interesting! Spread the word :D

Expected soon

• To reach 100,000 view counts by the end of May 2009.
• To reach 10,000 snapshots by the end of May 2009.
• To reach the 600 (Add to faves) mark from others.
• To hopefully have more flickr Testimonials
• More comments and views! :D
• Feel free to share LMs and places with me

My Flickr Stream

• More great snapshots coming right up >>> VISIT MY FLICKR STREAM
• My Sets
• My Collections
• My Achieves

Thanks very much for viewing and commenting on my flickr stream!

Tell others and make the SL a better place! :)

SL Mentor Meeting – January 2009

Check out the full transcript of the first SL Monthly Mentor Meeting of 2009 here: http://vteamblog.com/2009/01/30/monthly-mentor-meeting-transcript-january-30-2009-10am-pst/

January Mentor Meeting snapshots you can find here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157611479807232/

For more information, visit the SL Volunteers Portal: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Volunteer_Portal

Check out my SL Mentor wiki page: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager

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Highlights of the meeting

• Welcome the V-Team
• Community Translation Project – Helping to help translate more pages
• Education Support Faire & Change of roles
• No plans for Greeter program yet
• Applications will remain closed until futher notice
• New blog/forum software is coming soon
• Q&A session
• Upcoming valentines events 2009
• Good-bye to the V-Team

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This was my first time I went along to a SL Mentor Meeting on the Main Grid, I really enjoyed and found it interesting in the developments in the SL Volunteering Program. I was excited to see so many residents attending the meeting and the lovely V-Team that always makes it fun for the SL Mentor group in some way, shape or form. I loved taking snapshots of the meeting and taking it all in…everything seems to be on a bigger scale the Teen Grid, I enjoyed my time in the TSL Mentors 2.0 program too. :)

One step for me, one step for SL Mentor Kind! :D :)

SL MENTORING 2009 ROCKS!!!!!

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TSL & SL Mentor Applications – Update 2

Latest News

• Second Life Mentor applications have been closed since June 08 time.

• In July 2008, I posted about the TSL Volunteer Program and status of members, you can view that here. And check out my previous update post about applications – update 1, here.

• There has been no news of when applications will open again for new mentors.

• The latest post about the SL Volunteer Program, was posted on Massively in late October, Updates to Second Life volunteer programs.

• TSL Mentors 2.0 members have been dropping at a alarming rate and they can’t access the TG Orientation Island or TG Help Islands. There have been no TSL Mentor meetings or group notices or updates on the TSL-VTeam blog.

• In March 2008, there were 260 TSL Mentors and today there are 219 TSL Mentors.

• I’ve been told, that there used to be over 36-37K SL Mentors on the MG and now there is 18K of SL Mentors.

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Teens and Adults can’t sign up to join the volunteer program because it pops up with this message:

Volunteer Info

In our continuing effort to make the Second Life Volunteer program the finest in Second Life, we have adopted new processing steps for Apprentice mentors to advance from Apprentice to full Mentor. Recently, our application processing rate has dropped to accommodate these changes. Rather than let the application list grow at its present pace and force residents who desire to participate in the Volunteer program to wait weeks if not months to hear from us, we have decided to stop accepting applications until we have processed the list of residents currently in the pipeline. Thank you for your patience.

The Second Life Volunteer Team

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