message_of_the_day - [Message of the Day Event Promotion]

If you're looking for a missed MotD or more information on the current MotD rotation, click here.
If you're looking for how to get your own event in the Firestorm Message of the Day, keep reading!

The events we promote on the viewer Message of the Day are:

• Not for profit, community events organized, hosted and/or sponsored by the community.
• Charity events that benefit good causes.

The idea behind what we agree to promote and what we don't are simple. If it's going to benefit you financially either directly or indirectly (publicity stunt), we are not going to promote it. However, if it's purely for residents, hosted by residents with no profits or financial benefits either directly or indirectly to you or those involved, we will consider it. We have always been, and will always be, about the community.

We cannot however promote religious events or anything that may offend or exclude other races, creeds, cultures or persons. For example, we were asked to promote Memorial Day, and while we support troops all around the world 100%, it is an American event which other countries do not participate in. That makes it exclusionary and not something that qualifies for us to promote.

Note: we do not promote anything on the login page itself. Just the Message of the day.

(Information extracted from this blog post.)

Partial day events, events that don't run all day and only run for a few hours¹⁾ will not receive a 24 hour Message of the day. It's a waste of valuable Message of the Day space. Approved partial day events Message of the Day will be run for two hours preceding the event and will end five minutes after your event has begun.²⁾The rule regarding this is still being discussed internally, it may go into effect or be removed.

Your Event must be suitable for a 'General' audience.
This includes the region hosting your event, as well as your web site and all its contents including any advertisements that may appear on your web pages, (not only the page we will be linking to in the MotD).

Events on 'Mature' regions will be considered on a case by case basis only and we must be given early access to your event space for assessment. ³⁾
If your event space is closed to the public prior to your event opening, please add “Animal Resident / a46fc033-40e8-4378-927c-81f35451be0c” to any necessary access list or group so your event space can be checked for anything that may need to be addressed before your requested message of the day run time.⁴⁾

Adult events and events on 'Adult' regions will not be promoted in the Firestorm Message of the Day.

If in doubt, ask yourself these questions:
Would I want my grandmother attending my event?
Would I ask a kindergarten class to attend my event?
Would I ask my co-workers to attend my event?

See Maturity ratings - Second Life, for more information about Second Life maturity ratings.

Make sure the page on your website we will be linking to in the Message of the Day:

• Has an easy to find and prominently displayed SLURL to your event.
• Is clear and to the point about your event. ⁵⁾
• Is easy to read. ⁶⁾
• Has your contact information if you wish to provide it.
• Doesn't send people clicking on other links to find what they want to get to your event.

You should save promoting your overall web site and more information about your event for your event. Once people are at your event you can tell them what ever you want, it's your event! The page we link to in the Message of the Day should be focused on getting people to want to go to your event.

When designing the web page we will link to for your event;
Keep in mind, when people see the Message of the Day they are trying to log into Second Life, not your web page, if your web page doesn't give them what they want, and quickly, most won't stick around to find it.

Please please please be sure and promote your event in other mediums as well! See Priorities below as to why this is important!

• Message boards.
• Classifieds.
• Profile pics.
• Etc.

The Firestorm Message of the Day priorities governing what Message of the Day will be run at any time are as follows:

1. Real life global crisis. ⁷⁾
2. Linden Lab requested MotD issuing critical information regarding Second Life. ⁸⁾
3. Firestorm viewer related news.
4. Firestorm viewer related events.⁹⁾
5. Firestorm hosted events, not viewer related. ¹⁰⁾
6. Important Second Life community events. ¹¹⁾
7. Hot support topics from the in-world support groups.
8. Other messages of the day, these are on an automatic rotation¹²⁾.
   1. Other organization hosted events. Your MotD request. Rotated with other events as needed.¹³⁾
   2. Other organization event application requests. Your MotD request. Rotated with other application requests as needed.
   3. Firestorm classes. ¹⁴⁾
   4. Firestorm tips and help.
9. Linden Lab standard MotD.

If you have a community event that you would like promoted on our MOTD you can send a request to lassie@phoenixviewer.com for consideration. We do not charge for promoting your event nor will we accept any benefits, financial or otherwise. Though you can expect we may attend your event . Please provide your in-world name and details to the event. All events we promote are required to have a website we can link to.

The name of your event in the subject of your email. For example, MotD Request for Watching Grass Grow Event.

And in the body of your request:
If the following info is not in your request your Message of the Day will not run.

• Tell us a little about your event.
• The specific date range you would like your MotD to run.¹⁵⁾
• The URL for your event website.
• A secondary contact name¹⁶⁾.
• An in world name we can contact if needed.
• Optional, what you would like your Message of the Day to say.¹⁷⁾

Once this is received your request will be evaluated for inclusion in the Firestorm MotD. If you don't hear back from us in a few days consider everything good to go. We will email you if we need more information or if something is missing.
If your MotD is declined you will be replied to as to why your event MotD wasn't accepted.


Good luck with your event!

Included for transparency.

• Better define what is acceptable as a MotD and what isn't.
• Discuss whether or not to include an upcoming, in progress and or past MotD reference list, (and what to include in it).
• Finish the MotD application form.

Coming soon!
Click here to apply for a Firestorm MotD (Doesn't work yet.)
But is still a good template for what you should send us in an email about your event!