Seven Thousand Linden Meeting Minute Contest

 NOTE:  Written on April 18, 2025 but not published to my blog until May 20, 2025.  

This post was published after the contest for the DX Team ran, I just wanted to get my thoughts down while I had the time and I don't want to give the secret out in the event one of them happened onto my blog!! 😂

One day I decided to see how many people actually read and keep the meeting minutes.  I try to make the flow of the team go as smoothly as possible - always sending out notices, putting links in the notices - any way to make it easier for the team so they don't have to rely on the meeting minutes but still, they are important, especially if you don't make the meeting.  

Anyhoo, I decided to have a contest and I called it the "Seven Thousand Linden Meeting Minute Contest."  The contest required you to create a folder with your name then do a search for "Dance Xcetera - Meeting Minutes."  Put a copy of every meeting you have into this folder and hand it back to me.  The contest closes on May 17th @ 6p SLT.  Since most of the team did not show up for the next meeting I used it as a perfect opportunity to launch my contest.  Those that were at the meeting were encouraged to get the minutes and read them anyway since I told them I was only touching base on some of the things I wanted to talk about but didn't due to lack of attendance.

If you can read the above, you will see that the contest wasn't going to be judged on how many cards you actually have, but how many you have vs. how many you should have.  The one that comes closest to 100% gets the prize.  This contest isn't advertised so no notices will go out about it and no reminders of the deadline, they won't even know what hit them until our May 20th meeting.  

UPDATE:  May 20, 2025 - I love my team, every last one of them.  Not everyone submitted folders but there were far more than I had thought!

So I'll break it down like this:

    - 1/4 of the team submitted entries.  One of them still asks me "who, what, where, when" and my favorite, "do you have the link?"  No friend, you do.  

    - For those who didn't, I've rarely or never have had to chase them down for anything.  They know the "who, what, where when" and always are on point. 

Every year on my birthday Mr. Chad Shoreman - my real life husband - gives me $100 to upload to Second Life.  This is in addition to the monthly expenses I normally upload linden for.  This year I decided to earmark the entire $100 to the team because there was never going to be only one winner.  Every person who submitted a folder, every person who messaged me to tell me they only had the meeting minutes from that night won $7000 Linden Dollars each.  Why?  Because they paid attention.

I am a very proud and happy 🐝 Queen Bee. 🐝

Best Show Ever!!

 I can't even put into words how exciting this show was!  Looking back to our records since 2016 when I first started recording information, this weekend show brought in the most guests (over 60) and the highest in tips that we've ever received.  Thank you so much to our fans!  

I was really proud of Pinky.  This is a girl who said she'd never learn the system we use to perform dances and one day she just decided it was time to learn.  Before she did her first dance she helped build sets for some of our teammates, she decorates the sim for our shows and she MOMages the team.  She came out of the box being anal about her set, the way it looked, the way the animations looked, the choreo.  She was very easy to teach but she talks too much!  😂😂😂  I'm going to start calling her "mouth." 😄😄😄😄

We had lag but we didn't have any serious technical issues because of it.  It really felt good to be back on stage again.

Now for the 100th time I am going to say that the team is going to finish up the dances for the production show.  It's not being scheduled until it's finished and we've rehearsed it, but it's our focal point right now.  2025 is going to be a GREAT YEAR for this team!!!!!!