[Ansteorra] Recognition (WAS: Travel)

[Bob Wade]

I agree with Elsa that a major ingredient, if not the key ingredient, of an Award Rec is communication with others.
 
My list is usually greater than 3 people, though.  I talk with officers, nobility and those who already hold the recognition to get their opinions.  The stronger I feel about somethng the more people I talk to.
 
Sometimes the Crown feels they deserve a higher form of praise and sometimes we have to petition again the following reign.  The effort, of course, is worth it.
 
Tostig

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:52:50 -0600
From: Elsa <elsavonschammach at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Recognition (WAS: Travel)
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I have a flow-chart for this moment. I learned the skill of award rec
writing as a 5-step process:

1. Write out what you want to put a person in for - spell it all out,
including "fluffy" points like: "because I like them and they're pretty." I
make a conscious point of including: what work have they done to support a
level of the organization? what do they do to either fight or support
fighters? what arts do they engage in?

2. Look at the OP to see what they already have. Use that to help jog your
memory of what they've been up to for the past while, and to get a gauge of
how long they've been publicly active (years playing is a field on the rec
form after all). Include that information as you begin to refine your notes.

3. _Then_ look at the charters to find a good fit with the information you
already have. Quantify your notes into a solid outline including dates and
specific incidents.

4. Use clear, simple, respectful language to type it all out in paragraph
form. Type it in a word processor first: to get a heads-up on spelling,
because the form itself has a tiny window, and because you can save on a
word processor and come back later.

5. If you get hung-up on any point, talk to someone who knows stuff about
specific things, but keep the "parties" at 3 or fewer people at any single
time:
a) You can get more candid information/conversation and reduce the risk of
accidentally letting something slip to someone you're writing about.
b) That leaves an opportunity to have more than one meeting to refine
information with people who have a completely different perspective.
c) That gets more people thinking about why Person X deserves formal
recognition for Activity Y. Instead of having those people sign off on the
one you wrote, ask them to write their own. Even if you share your notes,
they'll find different things more important. And I think we can all agree
that more recs are more better.

Elsa,
one of those weird Mooneschadowe people - and a mundane textbook editor