If we help at an event, should we do our own Event Reporting Form, or should just the leader of the event do it?
I would have thought it would be just the leader, but the email we got says “If you host or help with an event before the next webinar in November, be sure to tell us about it using the event reporting form”, which seems to say we each do one.
@kestrel Did you guys figure this part out? Like, if 2 ambassadors cohost a webinar, do they both get credit, with each being credited for hosting 1 event?
Speaking of iNaturalist Ambassador activity, I just received Alison’s email that says that they had more than 1,000 people sign up.
If I’m reading iNat correctly, there are currently 3.9 million observers (not relevant in this context, IMO) and 456k IDers (more relevant here, since hopefully ambassadors have done some IDing).
So we could round it by saying that roughly 1 in every 450 IDers was interested in becoming an ambassador. Is that good engagement? What do you think? (It’s a real question; I don’t know the answer)
On the reporting form, there’s a section for listing other iNat Ambassadors that helped with the event! And yes, both get credit.
Yes, but does that mean that only one of the ambassadors needs to fill it in? Or should everyone do it?
It depends! If you have the other ambassador’s contact information (email and/or iNat username), then they can get credit for the event and get entered in the drawing for iNaturalist merchandise. If you don’t have their contact information, then have them fill out the form too to make sure they get credit and entered into the drawing.
I submitted my first report and noticed a minor misspelling on one of the pages (‘even’ instead of ‘event’). Just mentioning it so it can get fixed.
I had a couple of question about the photo submission link. What kind of photos are you looking for? I have pictures, of course. The types of pictures I have are:
Before submitting any pictures of type 2 and 3, I’d like to know what happens with these photos? Are they going to be used, and if so how and where? Do we need to obtain permission from people in photos before sharing? Do you need contact info for publicity releases?
Thanks for holding an event and submitting a report! And thanks for noticing the typo, I’ve gone in and fixed it.
For photos, yes, we’re primarily looking for photos of the event itself, not observations that happened during the event. This could be a photo of what a table you had looked like, a photo of people participating in the event, a photo of you hosting the event, etc. I’ve updated the form to say just this, and to note that you can only share one photo (I was hoping people could submit more than one through the form, but alas!).
Right now we’re just enjoying seeing the photos, but if we wanted to use one for any reason, we’d contact you and ask. The primary use case would be highlighting ambassadors / ambassador activities in an ambassador email or webinar, in an iNat newsletter, or on the iNat blog, and likely using photos that either don’t include people or where faces are obscured.
At some point if we think we might want to start using the photos more widely, we may create a photo release form for participants at ambassador events, but as we’re just starting the program we didn’t want to put up too many hurdles for holding events.
All good questions, thanks for asking!
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