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Hey, it’s been a little over two weeks since I last posted! I know I’ve commited one of the cardinal sins of Blogging (not updating on a consistent basis), but I’ve been super busy with a new job I just started and playing way too much Halo 3. I really enjoy the job I started and one of the nice perks of the job is free access to the sounder (a commuter train in WA). So I’ll be picking up a laptop soon and will be able to blog and work on my websites during the morning and after work commute so you should expect to see more updates.

The blogging schedule I’m going to focus on maintaining is every other day which will put me at 3 posts a week and 4 posts the following week. I’m sure I can do that and the slip I’ve recently experienced has been a combination of the Master Chief calling my name to come play more Halo 3 and the new job taking up a lot of my time as well.

Who else here suffers from maintaining a consistent blogging schedule?

On a blog related note, I’ve had a lot of trouble trying to get the top commentators plugin working on my site for some reason. It’s been giving me more of a pain than any other plugin I’ve worked with. So if anyone wants to give me a hand with that feel free to post your msn or aim and I’ll get in touch with you.

As for my forums, I’ve been undergoing some staffing woes and am trying the new staff selection process I coined: Have your forum members pick their moderators and here is part two. I’ll be writing one more part after the new staff selection process finishes up on my largest forum, but I’ve seem some positive results so far and I think it’ll be in the best interests of the community by coming up with new staffers by having the members nominate them.

Has anyone else tried my ‘nominate your forum moderators’ idea for your forum(s) yet?

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This is a follow up post on where I wrote about having your forum members pick their moderators. If you’d like to read the first post you can do so here.

It’s safe to say this idea was a success. I wrote a thread on my World of Warcraft Forum where members could nominate themselves or other members on the forum that they’d like to have be moderators rather than simply leaving the task to the administrator. We now have two moderators on the site that are both interested in doing it and received some nominations. I think that from now on I plan to add moderators to my new forums via member nominations because this way the members have more of a say in who helps to shape the community. Even for a smaller forum this tactic worked out well.

Has anyone else tried doing this before?

Side Note:

In the past several weeks I’ve been working really hard on this blogs, my forums, finishing up paperwork and more. So because of the hard work and the fact that Halo 3 came out recently, I haven’t been as active on my blogs and forums. For those of you that haven’t read my about me page, I suggest you read it. One of the primary reasons why I am running websites now is because of my success in using videos from Halo 2 as a promotion tool. I’m obviously still a Halo fan so I was looking forward to Sept. 25th and some time to relax. Now that I’ve taken a solid break I’ll be playing less Halo and getting some more work done

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