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.

Turned 18yrs

I’m 18 Today

Whooooooooooo!!!!

It’s party time both in-world and in RL!

 

TSL Breaking News: Teen Second Life Manager steps down “kkthxbai!1″

Blue Linden, has just released new details today on the TSL Forums under the  TSL Announcements section, saying he will no longer be in the “Teen Second Life Manager” position for the Teen Grid anymore, which is really sad news. 

 

 Blue Linden has been a awesome Teen Second Life Manager since 2005, in (beta). I think everyone would agree with that, everyone loves Blue. http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=296969

kkthxbai!1

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Change is the nature of Second Life. Over the years we’ve seen Teen Second Life grow from 6 individuals, to thousands and from a few mainland regions to scores of sims, with dozens of islands run by non-profits, educators and entrepreneurial teens. In time it was no longer possible for me to handle certain tasks like land management and support for TSL expanded to include numerous lindens and teams like the Linden Land Gurus. Eventually this became the case with all teen-related issues…to the point where today there are no longer any TSL tasks on my schedule.

And so, just as no single Linden runs the main grid, there is no single Linden that runs the teen grid, and no need for the position “Teen Second Life Manager”. Eliminating this position is primarily a clerical change and will not represent a significant or even noticeable difference for teen residents. Lindens still host office hours on TSL (catch me at 4 on Thursdays in Meiji West!) and of course, I’ll still be advocating for teen residents here at the Lab and will still be available at [email]blue@lindenlab.com[/email] when not inworld.

As I’m sure you know, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed being able to call myself the “teen grid guy” and work so closely with such an amazingly smart, talented, and creative group of residents these past several years. Just don’t forget me after you’ve taken over the world 

-Blue

 

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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