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.

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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My 18th Birthday has arrived

I’m 18 Today

Whooooooooooo!!!! It’s party time both in-world and in RL!…:)

If you see this avatar in-world, don’t forget to say Happy Birthday and send me a present or two. hahaha

Come celebrate with me today!

For LIVE UPDATES on my transfer, click here.

-Daniel Voyager!

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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