Hello! Some big changes in the mythical FashCon Towers this week, which I’m very pleased to tell you about, as I now have some STAFF. Oh yes – two innocent and unsuspecting SL residents have taken on a couple of roles to help me out running FashCon, and this will hopefully mean (a) I may moan less and (b) you may find response times to queries a bit quicker. Also, new designers and HUD – read below!
Firstly I’d like to thank everyone who took time to apply for these roles (via the Cafe) – I wrote rather stuffy job descriptions and was amazed with the care people took to apply, and it was extremely hard to choose people. Ivy Norsk is now FashCon Content Moderator – she will address issues of notice content, reminding designers of the rules on content and ensuring all you buyers get the notices you signed up for; and PK Emmons is my Kiosk Maintainer, who will deal with queries from designers about joining FashCon and kiosks, and in due course take over the weekend runs of data analysis from the kiosks and updating the HUD.
You’re most likely to speak with Ivy or PK if you’re a designer, but as they get settled in I’ll be automatically forwarding queries about content and kiosks to them both, and you’ll often hear from them, not me. If you do, please don’t think I’m being unfriendly – my support notecard folder has 100-200 notecards per month in it, and I get a whole lot more IM requests (which you shouldn’t do! I strictly only deal with questions on notecards not IM now). Also, when they speak to you, please understand they are formal members of FashCon staff and carry my authority (no sniggering at the back!). In other words, if they ask you do something, it’s me asking, so be nice and obey the law. Drive safely now.
Also I have to say thanks again to those group members who have volunteered to help out calming the storm that is group IMs – they aren’t staff members and do this gratis, and are very helpful, as I’ve never had any staff until today. And in the context, for anyone who missed it, group IM policy has CHANGED, and is explained in my last notice Summary: don’t use group IM at all anymore – instead join the Fashion Consolidated Cafe group.
Secondly, I’ve added another weekly chunk of new designers to the group, who you will see on the FashCon Who page – I’ve also added them to the FashCon HUD. If you don’t have a HUD it’s freely available in the boxes on the floor outside the FashCon Cafe. If you have the HUD already (and 550 people updated to a new one last week!), just load up your existing FashCon Tour HUD and it’ll send you an update. I hope to organise events like organised tours based around the HUD soon, so get one now! Designers: I often get asked if you can be added to the HUD and website with the full SLurl/blog/SLX/Onrez links you see for new designers there – to get this, just buy a kiosk – see http://fashcon.com/apply – and fill in the notecard and texture inside. Please consider buying one if you don’t have one – FashCon needs people to move over to the new system to make admin easier. Thanks!
Finally, as offline notices are still broken, I’m going to be sending out these newsletter in notices twice, to make sure everyone sees them. Think of it as dejavu.
That’s all folks.
*Wiggle*
Honey Fairweather <3
