How do you feel we can be a better united team across all of Community??
an interesting video:
check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9_EHU5BKnQ
There are various differing Teams - all working inside FS Community - among them:
* Full time paid Employees of FS - who often sacrifice a high salary elsewhere to be able to work for FamilySearch. Thanks for your expertise!
* Moderators who are volunteer missionaries (God Bless them for their sacrifices of time and effort!)
* Other missionaries who work with and train those moderators - Thanks for all you do!
* Community Group Leaders and volunteers (who are not moderators - and a few who are not even missionaries) (God Bless them for their sacrifices of time and effort!)
* Various community "super users" (non official / non missionaries) who have been in the community for years now - and even without official title and assignment - -often work as many hours providing answers and support and often for longer periods of time - than people in any of the other groups - often without recognition. They may often have more experience in genealogical matters than many of the volunteer missionaries - simply due to their long time experience over many years. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
God Bless them all!! in their united efforts to make The Community a great place
What are YOUR ideas - as to how we can work in more unity, syncronicity and coordination among these differing groups (both formal and informal)??
we can do MIRACLES - if we are of one heart and mind . . .
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Hi Dennis
I am new to communities and fall under the No 2 Category above. Although I have posted questions in various groups and found them most helpful.
While I am new to this role, many of us, are not new to FamilySearch and have been serving for many years, myself included.
I believe one way for us to work together is to be kind to any comments made and acknowledge answers. If we need to "Correct" an answer then private message a person.
Always encourage and be courteous.
I love your statement about "we can do MIRACLES - if we are of one heart and mind . ."
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First rule of engagement in communities: never rank participants except when required for functional purposes. Second rule: never thank some people but not others. So, not ordered list but bullet points:
- Contributors who build trees on FT rather than scraping data to take somewhere else
- Paid Employees of FS
- Missionaries serving as moderators and moderator trainers
- Super users
- Community Group Leaders and volunteers
There is one ordered list that would be appropriate, and interesting: by numbers of persons. Millions of contributors, hundreds of FS employees, etc. Also, volunteer and paid are not antonyms. Perhaps not in FS, but elsewhere there are unpaid employees and paid volunteers. It is a 2x2 matrix: paid/not paid, vol/non-vol.
Edit to add: FS employees deserve a lot of thanks. The salary ranges on FS employment opportunities I have seen posted are at best 50% of what those skills normally would earn in parts of the United States with ultra low cost of living. That salary disparity constitutes a huge tithe.
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note that I was specifically referring to COMMUNITY - not FamilySearch in general (I was referring to people who answer questions)
I agree about ranking - but thats why I used letters instead of numbers - - it was just a list, not a ranking
Yes - I should have also thanked FS employees
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