Clay has a great post on this new area of Minti, called our "Popular Topics" pages..

Here is the post on - Popular Topics

This allows members to see what are the most popular topics for parenting and ideas for more articles to write about.

What is great about how this helps Minti is that we can attract readers to find Minti rather than just arriving at the main homepage, which then helps more readers find your articles in these popular areas!!!

Best,

Rachel,

CEO Minti

Hello All,

I am attending a store launch here in Perth. Minti-mail me if you live in Perth Metro Area and I will give you the details.

Tuesday at noon - ie. tomorrow

Rach

What breaks our Terms of Service and Code of Conduct and what is fine to blog about?

In regards to advertising, it is perfectly fine to blog about products or services you want people to know about, but it has to be from your experience, or from friends or something you discovered and genuinely want to share and have an opinion on or excited about to help the Minti Community. That is perfectly fine.

What isn't fine?

Blatant sales one-liner from a person that signed up a second ago and will never contribute to the community but spam the blogs with constant lines of links and fake avatars and no completed profile or sharing in the community.

Does it come down to working out what the intent is?

YES

You will always know that before you even report?

- Is this member passionate about sharing their knowledge about a product or service as a mother?

YES

then you cannot report.

Is this member just here to provide spam links or spam our list of members?

YES

then you can report, but check...

if they are a legitimate company, then you can tell them or I can if escalated,

"that member profiles are not the place to do their free blast of an ad campaign. Best that they actually contact myself or Belinda about a proper engagement with our wonderful passionate members and give them some real value that actually "is" accepted."

Case by Case and Boarder-line Content?

Reviewing certain issues case by case helps us refine the policies as well as judge on "boarder-line content". I always like to review the "intent" this is usually a good reference point.

*I am in the process of reviewing all our policies and make sure there is clarification and proper guidelines. As well as reporting policies and escalation methods. As well as rewarding admins with positive tasks to balance out the negative side of managing the challenging side of reporting issues. Update our rewards to Admins in very innovative ways.

Hi All,

Belinda and I are soooo excited. We have come up with a proposal for businesses to get involved with Minti with a co-promotion and targeting the radio here in Perth.

Now, before anyone feels left out. I am trying to entice businesses here in Perth just to start with and some Perth members about 2800 of them can actually visit the instore promotions, but first signing up to a Minti/[company] group for exclusive offers which will also be broadcast over the radio so we can get more local mums to join this fantastic community.

I have more meetings to get to the final outcome, but I couldn't keep it in any longer. So if you are in Perth stay tuned. If you are rural and also in other Aussie cities, Rachel is working overtime (poor clay) to get to you.

Izzy came up with the initial proposal and for a regular Product Review group which will be the long term group, and we could have samples available everyday to experience and write about which hopefully will be global.

I also want something for Minti mums who have just had a baby. Ellosunshine just had a baby and Izzy is soon!!!!

The local push, is because we need these companies to launch advertising with us to feed Minti's site developments, ie. photos are slow to load, we all can't stand the blog editor and Minti mail is a nightmare to load. So please I hope you all support this effort!!!!

And yes I will have a break over Christmas!!!

Luv

Rach