Post by King James I on Sept 21, 2007 10:59:12 GMT
When we were first formed the majority of our activity was conducted through email. We had around 50 people join us within just a few months, and did not even have a message board until October - 2 months after first being formed. During these first two months I received some of the most promising and enthusiastic messages, in the form of emails, that I've ever received for Jamzinia. Back then we used the site a great deal more and existed outside of the one thing we are currently soley evolved around - message boards. Looking at the situation it's not good. Recently for the past year or so, my priorities seem to have been set on attracting new citizens that are active and that post on our message boards, but in reality does it matter? By only looking for these citizens who are willing to post day in day out, we are severely restricting our opportunities and the overall population. Thinking about the whole situation, I'd rather us have lots of citizens emailing me regularly with great ideas than lots of pointless posts on the message boards.
We should exist outside of our message boards, and from this day forth we will. We will also ignore what crap certain micronational communities spew out. Clearly some people involved in those communities are so bitter in being failures in attempting to create 'active' micronations that they attempt to ease the disappointment and sence of failure through making others feel failures. They make sarcastic and nonconstructive comments that limit people's views and aims in micronationalism. Quite frankly it is the equivilent of Hitler campaigning for world peace.
I've been thinking about the problem of seemingly solely existing almost as a forum, for several days, which is why I have begun emailing a few old citizens and marketing Jamzinia, a country with a message board, not a country that is a message board.
With this, I bring good news in terms of progress in this area. I am delighted to announce that we have appointed a Jamzinian Ambassador for the Netherlands, Ernie Maanzaad. Ernie contacted me by email and showed great enthusiasm, vowing to aid us in our aim of 'spreading the word' and noting that 'there is a little bit of Jamzinia in all of us'. For this I shall keep you updated.
I can also inform you that we have appointed ministers For "Artistic Developments" and "Culture, Media & Sport". I will update you on this, shortly.
I am going to be creating profiles on the website, for those people in Jamzinia with roles. Therefore I may need to speak to those of you with roles in the not so distant future.
I would also like to make it clear for the ministers- both current and newly appointed, that it seems it hasn't been all that clear in the past what you can physically do in your role to help Jamzinia progress, so I'd like to explain briefly;
Now as you're aware Jamzinia is a non-territorial country, currently a community with citizens from all over the world, this obviously means we are restricted in what areas we can progress in and what we can develop. However there are three primary ways of carrying out the job that all ministers can do, and decide upon when making plans of any kind, either by;
-Email/Message Boards/Internet
-Face to face
-By Post/Phone
This is relevant to all developments or activities that they have. For example, if the Education Minister is looking to bring in a course of Jamzinian National History, then he/she has three ways to conduct the course, either online (Internet/Boards/Email), face to face (Arrange an event, almost like a conference/training day - obviously harder than the other two options), By phone/post (Offering the course either by phone, or by sending out the course info in the post).
We should exist outside of our message boards, and from this day forth we will. We will also ignore what crap certain micronational communities spew out. Clearly some people involved in those communities are so bitter in being failures in attempting to create 'active' micronations that they attempt to ease the disappointment and sence of failure through making others feel failures. They make sarcastic and nonconstructive comments that limit people's views and aims in micronationalism. Quite frankly it is the equivilent of Hitler campaigning for world peace.
I've been thinking about the problem of seemingly solely existing almost as a forum, for several days, which is why I have begun emailing a few old citizens and marketing Jamzinia, a country with a message board, not a country that is a message board.
With this, I bring good news in terms of progress in this area. I am delighted to announce that we have appointed a Jamzinian Ambassador for the Netherlands, Ernie Maanzaad. Ernie contacted me by email and showed great enthusiasm, vowing to aid us in our aim of 'spreading the word' and noting that 'there is a little bit of Jamzinia in all of us'. For this I shall keep you updated.
I can also inform you that we have appointed ministers For "Artistic Developments" and "Culture, Media & Sport". I will update you on this, shortly.
I am going to be creating profiles on the website, for those people in Jamzinia with roles. Therefore I may need to speak to those of you with roles in the not so distant future.
I would also like to make it clear for the ministers- both current and newly appointed, that it seems it hasn't been all that clear in the past what you can physically do in your role to help Jamzinia progress, so I'd like to explain briefly;
Now as you're aware Jamzinia is a non-territorial country, currently a community with citizens from all over the world, this obviously means we are restricted in what areas we can progress in and what we can develop. However there are three primary ways of carrying out the job that all ministers can do, and decide upon when making plans of any kind, either by;
-Email/Message Boards/Internet
-Face to face
-By Post/Phone
This is relevant to all developments or activities that they have. For example, if the Education Minister is looking to bring in a course of Jamzinian National History, then he/she has three ways to conduct the course, either online (Internet/Boards/Email), face to face (Arrange an event, almost like a conference/training day - obviously harder than the other two options), By phone/post (Offering the course either by phone, or by sending out the course info in the post).