Howdy all, (yes Josh awoke and my brain is in overdrive lol, about to get my milo! Dont tell on me to Clay lol that its 2:23am in perth)

It has been insanely busy here on the Minti front, with back to back meetings and getting a fast track absorption on the business. One thing we have lined up quickly for November was the awesome competition that you would have all received. Would love feedback here, as we have one lined up for December and then the real fun starts.

Just to let you know we are scoping out our communications system and Belinda our Social Media Manager, has so many improvements of our newsletter system, she has really understood what needs to improve and better connect with our members in a way that makes them excited.

At the same time we are about to launch a new area for business. If you know of any parent related businesses Minti-mail me as I am happy to give a spotters or referral fee, but will give you details upon launch :0)

So excited to work on ways to give back to Minti members!!!!

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.