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You are in charge of your group, so this shouldn't be a transfer of the blame.Quote:
Originally Posted by XxZammyxX
I would prefer timezone groups again; the problem with that though is that there aren't many international staff at HxL at the moment.
We do have timezone groups right now :P Except as our timezone 3 group is such a small one we just have 2 timezone 1 groups and 1 timezone 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grig
Oh btw, in regards to multiple managers; I think that there should only be one manager for each department but having two assistant managers instead of 1 could work. Obv graphics/RV/content/comps don't necessarily need that but for HxL and maybe events it could work?
One thing I would like to say on this matter is that the issue often seems to be the same as it is with events and other community departments - the sense of community is downplayed so much that it almost might as well have password access. Too much is always put on just pandering to the host's chums and having private jokes if there's any speaking at all. On friday (I think, could be wrong) there was a show where in among a few songs the DJ did an "agony aunt" request line, and while a lot of it was people sending in rude stuff that couldn't be read out it got more listeners than most shows and was actually enjoyable and interactive rather than just being a bit of background music, which let's face it we could all put on ourselves since people tend to have their own music on the computer anyway. More interaction with the wider community that staff are supposed to be representing would mean that people actually feel like they're part of the process and hopefully be wanting to get involved themselves.
Also some of the jingles are awful and whoever commissioned them should be shot. There's one that goes on for like 5 minutes and it's just clips of various songs cut together with Movie Maker or something
I would assume that international managers (international still being a far smaller part of Hx) would still be answerable to the main dept manager so it would be like an extra assistant yeah, and obv only necessary for community departments as you sayQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr-Trainor
Weren't they back before you became manager, I'm sorry, but we haven't had consistent reports in ages lmao.Quote:
Originally Posted by Inkwell
@Grig; I never wanted to make them monthly, that was done when i was the assistant with Charlie, I somewhat like weekly ones as you get feedback often.
nop :P remember I did the december monthlies myself as well anyway before I even got assist and there wasn't actually any weeklies till I brought them back :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Samanfa
Thats the whole point of bringing in these type of weekly shows for a community feel. The Heads and Seniors all have requirements of hosting x amount of events per month and to be honest pretty much all of those rules are still in place as set when Jess, Logan etc. was here.
Obviously it was fine up until myself and Mark went away for three weeks due to exams and since then it has drastically dropped. In hindsight I wished I have asked GM to take over for those three weeks as it quite obviously have a hard fall down in May for us because of the impact of having no management in charge but its just one of those things that we have to look at the department as a whole and also at the individuals and see who we feel should be making the cut and also HELPING those who don't rather than just throwing them aside.
Obviously at the moment we are bringing back weeklys, sorting out big events, trying to encourage DJ workshops and server trials, we've improved the way in which to apply on hxl.com so you don't need to e-mail. Loads of things are getting done just at the moment it is a lot of back end stuff that needs sorting out.
I might as well post some ideas in regards to roles within the radio and events etc.
I think in regards to roles and management there needs to be set international managers, thats what works. I've just come out of a stint at another fansite and the way the management was laid out was amazing and it was so much easier than Habbox management. They had:
EU Radio Manager
NA Radio Manager
OC Radio Manager
All the departments had equal times to DJ, there was a nice mix of international and home presenters and we all worked together to make events and helped each other develop our respective departments. I think that HxL should either have a stricter rule on hiring DJ's, for example put them on the server trial with no option to make sure they arent lying in their application and then when you think they are ready put them on the main server. I don't think that new DJ's should be allowed to go straight onto the main server and completely ruin the listeners, or just disconnect. Some of the new DJ's need some serious training with connecting, covers, SAM etc.
I think that OC needs to be focused on because during AEST times its pretty much offline for the whole time, apart from the odd Senior+ staff that goes on and streams for a couple of hours. I think its a bit silly that there are 2 managers for over 40 DJ's, both EU managers. There are head DJ's 2 are EU, and seniors have no authority what so ever. I personally think that senior DJ's should be scrapped and have maybe:
EU Radio Manager
2 EU Head DJ's
NA Radio Manager
2 NA Head DJ's
OC Radio Manager
2 OC Head DJ's
because in my opinion from working with senior+ since 2011, the main role of the Senior team is to report DJ's, post feedbacks and get told to do events which dont tend to occur. If there were more head DJ's then there would be more authority and an improved quality during non-UK peak times.
In regards to events and shows HxL need to go through with the news shows. Also I dislike some of the senior+ events at Habbox, mainly because from what I've seen they are pretty much 'forced' events due to the 2 events per month rule. They are all the same, win a rooms and giveaways and guess the passwords (that arent events, they are small competitions at the most) and i've said this so many times even when I was management.
The Vault (I can help you with it if you want etc)
Whos on 'Heart' idea, the one @MissAlice suggested over 6 months ago
Deal or No Deal, @,Jess,; did this many times and it was awesome.
More connection to other community departments, mainly events and help desk.
Habboxlive needs a serious clean up, and I think Jade and Mark can do that when they are settled back into rota, as they all have exams at the moment. As do most of the department at this time of year. Social Media and Weekly Shows need sorting out badly, and of course radio events.
Top 20 shows
Call in shows
Weekly chat shows
News shows
these would be a good start, with decent trustworthy DJ's.
Thats me finished, night all! x
Well I don't think it's a good thing to lie to grig regardless of who brought them back. I wanted them back ages when I was originally the assistant the first time, but I didn't get as much chance as you did when you were yhe assistant. Although there was no point as we had a lack of staff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Inkwell
yea not denying that you didn't was just stating it to grig :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Samanfa
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+ I agree with Jazz a lot really, more stuff to do with news was something me and her were discussing a bit and it's definitely something that I need to probably discuss with jade/mark really to actually get going more too, sort of just halted really. Lots of weeklies of all sorts are definitely a good way to go forward tho