Job Idea - Rewarding Mentors

Well I'm certainly far from the best scriptor, but happy to help w/out fees or expectations of any kind. Welcome to send um my way as well.

Boso

Getting paid isn't what mentoring is all about and I'm against it. We could use maybe another fifteen mentors though, especially if they can script or give good advice on technical issues.

hahaha, just remember you asked for it!

How about, having mentors sign up for particular times, they will be in game and are willing to come and be assigned to newbies to show them around and answer questions on a one on one basis. Or a IM can go out to the mentors on line at the time and make the offer.
Example- I am on line most of the time. Which ever Linden I will assume Char for now has three newbies come on. Char puts out the call to a mentor (keeping track of who she asks) The conversation would go like this; CHAR: " Nyna I have 3 newbies who need a mentor guide. I see you let us know that your availible today to help." NYNA: "Sure Char be right there. " Then Char would follow up with the newbie to see if they had all there questions answered. Or if the mentor picked them up and dropped them some place, with out actually helping.
Lets face it we need a check system too. Once she is satisifed with the job done we would get paid. (Oh Phillip this would require a feature needed to pay from a distance. She runs arouns alot now trying to get our event money to us.)
Granted everyone can not be on line as much as I am fortunely enough to be. So you get paid per newbie or by group.
I love doing events but with a 100 + Mentors it is going to get harder and harder to schedule event time. Plus events as a mentor vs a citizen is no different then, where the location is and we do basic help classes.
I feel if we are not either assigned or scheduled, Misnomer's statments would be very true. Then the newbies would be badgered by some, and those of us that do not ask would get over looked.
Lets face it if you wanted to be a mentor, it should be becuase you like to help. Not because you want, just the title or the money.
I am at the meeting area a good deal of the time and I am doing what is suggested in this thread now. So if I get payed extra great, if not no biggie.
But if your going to start asking the newbies, they are overwhealmed as it is and might not remember the mentor's that actually helped them when they first came on.
I have sat at many a new comer event and had been the first to help some and when they were asked, who helped them them would answer with the last person who had.
Just my thoughts on the matter

here's an idea, ok for everyone in the mentoring program, hold a meeting and tell them about this idea. If they like the idea here's what we should do. This is just an idea, maybe not a good one but maybe so. For each new person that joins the game for whenever mentors are online have the system choose the next mentor on the list as in when that person became a mentor.

Like the first ever, mentors would be chosen first and for example: Someone enters prelude and as soon as they do, whatever mentor is online that was either the very first mentor, if they are online, or the next person that became a mentor etc gets an auto IM saying that a new person has joined the game. It would then display a window saying would you like to help that person, yes or no? If you choose yes it would automatically teleport that mentor to prelude where they could guide the new person around. Say another person joins the game that's new, another IM would be sent out to the next availble mentor.

This would be a good way to do this, I think, maybe not, but to me it would benefit the mentors pretty well, where they could choose if they wanted to help a newbie at that time or allow a fellow mentor to use their turn instead. This would be a no pressure way of making that happen. Right now 69 people are mentors and I believe on average the game might get 10 new people a night, that would average out if people were online and chose to help them every 7 days you would get a chance to make some money helping out newbies.

That estimte might be off a bit, but this would be a good way to figure it.

I'm finding that a big problem, lately, is that the newbs are confused about the classes. They've been going to the scheduled classes and no instructor is there. This is happening a lot, apparently. Maybe we need a changeable Lesson Schedule Board, too, and since the trial users can go to Perry now, why have two class locations?
Today I did an impromptu Intro to Building for about six, and, unlike every single one of my scheduled events, lately, my regular griefer did not make a guest appearance. So I'm thinking I might just do impromptu unannounced little events like this in future, for those who can't make a class or don't want to wait. I'm willing to do without the event money if it means I can avoid the EZ Money.
As for there being too many mentors, well, we can definitely use more European and East Coast mentors and Liasons; there's no reason we cant have more early weekend events and classes.

Good Somaritan ticket idea is -great-, I would love to see that implemented.

Thing is... The people who want to help newbies do it because they really want to. I'm not a mentor yet (I'll be 30 days in about a week) but I'm around the welcome area all the time because I remember how helpful it is to have a mentor helping out (thanks, Loki)... To think that people would instead help newbies out because of an incentive and not because they want to be helpful could cause the wrong crowd to be acting as educators. I do agree that being helpful should have its merits, but if people are in the welcome area because it is lucrative and not because they are willing to be patient and supportive of new people could jsut eh, yeah, like I said.. attract the wrong crowd and invoke a poor impression of what it's like to enter SL.

Thank you Daemioth and your welcome

The unexpected thank you that comes weeks later and realizing I made a difference in a newbies SL life is why I am a mentor.