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Fyi… getting close to the end of the month. Thank you to the one person who nominated a cache or two. Get your nominations in as soon as you can.
You’re welcome, or didn’t I do it right?
The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.
As the BOD has decided.. COTM changes are coming… think more like the POTM… these changes will start March 1st. more details to come.
Having some minor insider knowledge about what might be coming. PR Suggestion with being careful about describing COTM to be more like POTM as when it was first shared to me that way I assumed all Facebook since that is where POTM takes place and have a feeling others might think that way too 😉
Climbing To New Adventures
**The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.**
There will now be rewards for COTM. Including rewarding the owner with a prize and most overall votes yearly will receive a top prize as well. This is changing to 1 cotm per state.
There will now be rewards for COTM. Including rewarding the owner with a prize and most overall votes yearly will receive a top prize as well. This is changing to 1 cotm per state.
This is some exciting stuff!
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
Has there been any thought given to series of the month? There are some great cache series out there that with the new format can get lost in the shuffle. Perhaps a state-wide COTM on a monthly basis, and a series of the month on a monthly, quarterly or semi-annually basis?
I like the idea of keeping it as is with one series of the month for the whole state and one cache of the month for each of the five sections of the state. The benefits of it are up to six quality caches are highlighted each month, and those six cache owners get to put a nifty graphic on their respective cache pages. Consolidating it into one winner per month doesn’t seem to me to solve the main issue, with that issue being people actually voting for and nominating caches. Another benefit is that people will hopefully be eligible to actually vote! Since you can only vote for caches that you’ve actually found, to a certain extent if there was only one winner per month, the only people who could consistently vote would be those who are well traveled around Wisconsin. Imagine what it would be like if a cache in the north woods vs. a cache in West Bend were nominated. The north woods cache may have only a handful of finds, while the WB cache may have had hundreds. Therefore the north woods cache only would have a relatively small amount of potential voters, while the WB cache could have dozens or even hundreds of potential voters. If one were going to vote for a potential COTM and the choices were all unfamiliar and outside of their area, they’d potentially move on to something else. So if we keep it with the same format (5 regional caches + 1 series of the month), how do we promote it and increase voter traffic? The general membership hasn’t been very proactive, so I guess it is going to have to start with the board of directors. If each BOD member would nominate a cache or three every other month, that right there would be a big improvement. I nominate caches almost every month, sometimes in all 5 regions since the whole state is our playground. 🙂 Secondly, giving a shout out to the COTM winners (maybe with pictures) at WGA events would help bring awareness. Thirdly, promoting the COTM on social media can help, and it’s already being done to a certain extent from what I’ve seen in the past year or two. It’s great that the issue has been brought up here (actually I saw the question posed on FB and followed the link here, nice). I look forward to following the discussion.
I know this is an old post, but now that the web site is working faster, it may be possible to revisit the idea of promoting COTM, I agree with the above ideas, and just think we need to promote it more, like Marie has promoted the LCG.
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