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I want my readers to trust me, and therefore I value transparancy. As disclosure, due to the time that will take away from this project (but, then, again, contribute to it monetarily), please know that I will be using two Alt’s along with this account: one is a personal alt. Nine hours a week I will be working as a host somewhere with this Alt, earning Lindens in order so I can serve well both the Content Creator community and the New Resident community alike. This club features music I love, but moreover it will provide a way to live and also to fund this project.
The other Alt is named Ckelan Piaggio, and this Alt will be my research alt. This alt, will, in other words, explore areas where I deem it may not be safe for me to go, or less than ideal. Gender- unspecific and totally unlike me, Ckelan will, for the most part, do the exploring and the investigating.
I do not want to be the only one writing and working to improve the Metaverse for our Content Creators, especially as I am imperfect.
Our readers and commentators are as much part of the discussion and making of the blog as the regular staff writers of “CONCLUSIONS by Tarasia”. Further, I will be actively seeking people to work with! I am hoping that we will have a rockin’ team by the middle of April, perhaps even sooner. Hopefully sooner, haha.
Interested? IM me and let’s talk! The vision is to preserve Creators’ creative space, preserve the quality of Consumers’ choice, and educate New Residents. Therefore, I would need my partners to:
1- Understand that this is a non-paying, volunteer position. I work in a different job to earn Lindens too, and I cannot afford to pay salaries. In addition, I would like people to be in this with a passion .
2- Be of high integrity themselves. In addition, they at minimum must agree to the definition spelled out in the Introduction. . They do NOT have to agree with me 100% with other things, but they must adhere to that point of view and write consistently from it. Consistent endorsement of this issue is necessary if we are going to help bring about reform.
3- Be completely transparent about their Second Life identities and email addresses to myself and other team members, and be willing to reveal enough information publicly so that our readers can trust us. . This means that Readers must at minimum have your credentials (e.g., product specialization, rezz date , and list of educational achievements). You may post underneath a pseudonym AS LONG AS the staff knows who you are and can identify you by email address. The email address part is important, as to register as a user anywhere you will need to use an email address.
In general, we need to be able to trust each other and assume that we can be depended on to be careful. With every blog, comes a community. Therefore, trust is essential. Transparency, btw, also means citing wherever you can your sources, if you have any.
4- Be level-headed. We will meet with enough drama, and hopefully you will not have to take the brunt of it. I would like to work with calm, highly- ethical, level-headed, crisis-cool people.
5- Be able to write AND be more knowledgeable and experienced than me….This means: more shopping experience, more building experience, texturing experience, whatever. :P ….. Ha! Only one clown (me) is required at this blog thank you! :P
Well said.
By: Taryn on November 11, 2008
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