Just a heads up for any MINI clubs out there that would like a Club Forum for your club On NAM. We are happy to set up specific club forums on NAM. We have done this quite a few times now, and the whole process is pretty streamlined.

If you would like us to set up a club forum for your club, please contact me with the following information:

1) The club name and if your club is commonly referred to in some other way, the name you use (i.e. BAMA, M2C2)

2) The geographic area you club covers

3) The URL for your club's website

4) Who should moderate the club forums (screennames on NAM). This isn't really moderation of hot topics, but more along the lines of forum management - stickying posts for upcoming events. Most likely this will be one of the club officers.

5) For any moderators, let me know if you would like to be automatically subscribed to e-mail notification for each new thread. Also, if desired I can set it up so you get e-mail for every new post in your club's new forum (that is potentially a fair amount of e-mail at times, so consider if that's what you really want). Most moderators get e-mail notification for each new thread and then decide whether to subscribe to the thread to get further notifications.


There is a fair amount of information requested above, but once I have all of that information provided it only takes about 15 to 20 minutes to get the forum up and running.

Again, we are happy to set these forums up and want to do what we can to encourage MINI enthusiasts to get together.

Dave

 

Hi Dave,

Here's the pertinent info, dude:

1) TEAMMIGHTYMINIZ (TMMZ)
2) Mainly Southern California, but we've got many members nationwide.
3) http://www.teammightyminiz.com
4) iDiaz
5) Sign me up for all the notifications. Good stuff.

Thanks!

 

iDiaz,

NAM originally started offering club forums because a lot of clubs didn't have that capability on their own. I'm just a little curious about how a club that already has forums on its own site envisions using a club forum on NAM? Do you see some unserved need NAM may be able to help with for other clubs in the MINI community that already have their own forums? I suppose ultimately we'll just have to see how the new NAM TMM forum evolves, to get the real answer, but I am interested in your thoughts on both those questions since you built the TMM site and made the request for the NAM forum.

The new forum is listed along with our other club forums
Your username has also been updated to show your status as moderator of the new forum. When you are in the club forum, the moderator options (sticky posts and such) are located under "thread tools" just below the NAM header at the top of the page.

I moved over a couple threads you made from the SoCal forum, but if there are other threads you'd like in the TMMZ forum, PM me a list and I'll try to get to moving those over too.

Let me know if you have any problems.

Dave

 

Thanks, Dave! I'm all about bringing together as many MINI enthusiasts as possible. Sure, we have our own forum, but so do other clubs such as SoCal MINI Maniacs, even though they've made it for club-members only.

TEAMMIGHTYMINIZ has historically encountered some serious strife and seemingly unfair treatment on NAM, but I'm glad to see you're doing your part to turn this around. We do have a section on TEAMMIGHTYMINIZ devoted to other clubs and groups, so please feel free to start a NAM thread if you're so inclined.

My only other request would be to have some of the bans imposed on my fellow team-members reviewed, since it has been a long while since they've been on here, and much of the behavior they were supposedly banned for is evidently allowed for many other members on NAM with nary a consequence.

Thanks again for being open and friendly. Take care! :smile:

 

Just remember there are two sides to every story... You only know what Doug and the rest of your TMM people tell you, and they aren't telling you a lot...

 

The stories are all here to read on these public forums. Ray getting banned for having a "non-MINI-related" signature? You can honestly tell me you've never seen someone with a non-MINI-related signature on NAM?

 

Trust me, his banning had NOTHING to do with a non-MINI related signature. It had everything to do with his activities here on the board...

 

I'm disappointed to have to comment on the subject of banned members on the day I acted to help move beyond the past. In any case, here it is:

Our position on banning is unchanged. Mark and I have said in the past, we make case-by-case decisions on banning based on the actions of individuals. Those that have been removed will not be invited back. Banned members are banned. Anyone posting for banned member will be banned. There will be no further comment on banned members and we won't be having a discussion about it.

MOVING ON....and returning to the original topic of this thread:

Any other MINI clubs that are interested in having a club forum on NAM, please see the first post and provide me with that information.

 

I've got a board meeting on Saturday and will discuss this with the DC group. I'd like us to move away from the Yahoo group and to something better. ANYTHING is better than that Yahoo group, including a bunch of cans tied together with strings!

 

My sincere apologies. We're not really into banning anyone on our forums, so I figured you guys might be willing to talk it over. Ah, well. Thanks, nonetheless.

 

Thanks for being so generous to offer this. Our club would love to be included here on NAM.

1.) c3 or c3club.org or Cooper Club for Charities
2.) Our members are nationwide. The club is based in Los Angeles, but we support charities all across the USA.
3.) http://c3club.org
4.) I'll be the Moderator (OctaneGuy)
5.) Subscribe me.

 

DiD would you add our new club to the list

1 Panhandle MINIs

2 Our area is from Panama City to Pensacola in Fl

3 http://www.mini.passionroad.com

4 I’ll do the honors, sndwave

5 yes subscribe me to the email list

Thanks

 

OctaneGuy and sndwave,

Your forums have been added

I also changed the titles under your username. It still looks a little awkward to my eye, but if you have any suggestions for another way to handle the titling (since you're both moderating two forums), let me know.

I found one c3 thread to move over, but I didn't see any Panhandle MINIs threads to move into the new forum.

Dave

 

Thanks a lot!!! You're fantastic!!

Richard

 

Hey DiD,

Just wondering why the spot under my name doesn't show me as a moderator on the TMMZ forum. Let me know!

Thanks again,

Ivan

 

That's a good question actually. My first review of it makes it look like it should be working fine, but it's obviously not. I'll get back to you on this.

 

Looks like I fixed it. I created another usergroup, it looks *identical* to the one I had before, but for some reason this time the name change took hold. Strange.

 

Weird.

 

Whoa, what the hell?! It was working just fine as I read your replies, but once I posted, it reverted to the "2nd Gear" title.

 

yeah, this is really screwy. Hopefully later today I'll have some time to get into this more.

 

Is there a charge to the club to have a club forum listed on NAM?

In the past when I looked into it I think there was a $100 charge.

 

No charge for hosting the forum. We will offer web hosting services for clubs sometime this fall. Pricing has been determined but it should be $100 or less per year including automatic domain renewal, mysql, php, and email support. I'll provide more info as I figure out the details.

In the meantime any MINI-related club can request a forum on NAM.

Mark

 

I'd like to sign up our club for the club forum on NAM.

1. Hawaii MINI Motoring Club
2. State of Hawaii
3. HawaiiMINIClub.org
4. Keikilee
5. No automatic subscription or email notification please

Thanks and Aloha

 

The Hawaii MINI Motoring Club forum is up and running. Keikilee has been made moderator of the forum.

Dave

 

Wow!!!! I wish I knew that. I just bought hosting!

Thanks Mark for allowing the club space here on NAM. We really appreciate it. Brad, thanks for pointing this out...and DID, thanks for getting the Hawaii MINI Motoring Club forum up and running!