Final Report
11 January 2023
Hello everyone!
It seems like a week ago that I made my opening address, how quickly time flies, doesn't it? It has been a pleasure to have served on the cabinet and I will leave it to the next delegate to see where I'll be next term. I would like to thank
@Pallaith for the opportunity to serve on his cabinet, it has been a deep and useful learning experience. Today I will be giving you a comprehensive report on the term, what we have managed to accomplish, what we have not, and what I think could have been done better, and my thoughts on what could be done to improve.
Lists and Rows
In the Lists and Rows operations, we have achieved a significant feat, beginning on 10 June 2022, we have published 29 lists in total. Contacting a total of 38,432 nations, among the lists, the most common ones that were sent out were New Foundings for the Forum and Issue Answerers for Executive Staff/Citizen.
I have a few issues with this, for one, 38,432 nations doesn’t necessarily mean that we reached 38,000 people, so we should focus on list audiences where the majority of the nations we reach are actual people and not puppets, such as the RMB Posters, it will result in smaller lists, but we reach actual people who ought to be interested in what we have to offer, and not 1000’s of puppets.
Another one is the type of list we do, the current system is, in my opinion, not exactly utilised to help facilitate recruitment. We should pick our lists based on data, for example, executive staff numbers are down, do executive staff lists, citizens are down, do citizen lists, and the way we figure out this data is by tracking it, create spreadsheets to track data and base our recruitment lists on that.
Mentorship Programme
In the mentorship programme, we have contacted a total of 226 people on the forum. According to a system we implemented in September 2022, where mentors would track the number of people who responded to the messages, around 10 people responded. As this was implemented in the second term, let’s only count the mentees we contacted in the second term, so only 10 people out of the 144 we contacted.
10 out of 144 is not a good number, I believe that we could do much better, for one, I think we should have a more personalised touch to our mentor templates, the current templates are great, but in my opinion they seem a little too scripted, we should leave it up to the mentors to write a personalised message to the mentee, everyone has a different style of writing, with a more personalised touch, I believe people would be more inclined to engage with us. I also think that we should keep the templates, but make them into more of an outline, with the actual wording of the message being up to the mentors.
Birthday Party Strike Group
I don’t have much to say in this regard, we have wished people’s birthdays on time and I hope that will continue in the future.
Northern Notes
In this term, we also did two publications - Northern Notes I and Northern Notes II, both of these publications were successful and received well by the community, and I hope that Home Affairs will continue doing such incredible work.
Welcome Wagon
The Welcome Wagon programme has been largely neglected for a while now, which is upsetting as it plays a crucial role in the Ministry. Unfortunately I couldn’t really work on it this term but I do have a few ideas which I think would help in the future. Firstly, we need to make it more visible, the welcome wagon applications are tucked in the back of the sub-forum, we need to change that, as some people won’t go back so far to find it.
We should also encourage people to become Welcome Wagoners, some people who may be interested in the activities of the Welcome Wagon may not even know it exists, so we need to reach them.
We also need to make sure that the Welcome Wagon is doing its job, by that I mean we need to see that Welcome Wagoners are reaching out to newcomers in discord, guiding them, showing them the different aspects of our discord and encouraging them to sign up for executive staff and citizenship.
I believe that about wraps up my final term report for May 2022 - January 2023. I want to thank
@Fili and
@Magecastle for being incredibly reliable deputies during my term, and I want to thank the staffers of Home Affairs for their incredible hard work and determination. Something which I hope will continue in the future.
Signing off,
Caius
Minister of Home Affairs
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