Hi, Welcome to TEAM (Team Evaluation and Mentoring)

We are a group of Web Masters / Mistress's who have taken the pledge to give you only the best in web site evaluations. We offer you a complete evaluation with positive feedback and if asked, help in your goal of presenting a professional Award Program or Web Presence. They also make themselves available to other Award Programs to assist in an evaluation when needed.

We want to thank you for taking the time to review our program. Please take some time to review the different memberships that are available to you. Catch the TEAM SPIRIT. If you are interested in becoming a member fill out the form to your right and we will be glad to review your request and if approved, will send you a badge to place on your web site.

The Guidelines

TEAM Player To be a TEAM Player, you need to make yourself available to any Award Program that may need on occasion an extra pair of eyes when doing a review of an Award Applicant or when the Award Program has an evaluation in which there is a "Conflict of Interest". You will need to be able to follow another programs criteria. The Team Players will be on a rotation, meaning as requests come in, you will receive an e-mail from us denoting the award program requesting help in a review. (The letter "P" on your badge will represent your membership in this listing)

TEAM Award Master To become an Award Master, you must take the pledge that you will offer positive feedback to all applicants who have asked to be reviewed including those who do not earn an award. You will also offer to all disqualified applicants a list of the items that have caused their review to be disqualified. (The letter "AM" on your badge will represent your membership in this listing)

TEAM Mentor To become a TEAM Mentor, you must already have an operational Award Program, that has been in operation for at least one year. You have maintained outstanding ethics in your evaluations and belong to an Ethics Organization. You must make yourself available to new award programs to help them in evolving their award program to insure it is ethically sound. You will also take the new award program under the auspice of your own award program as an evaluator for a period of at least 16 evaluation's to certify them in giving sound, ethical evaluations. (The letter "M" on your badge will represent your membership in this listing)

TEAM Nominee A TEAM Nominee will be a New Award Program of 1 year or less. The Nominee will avail themselves under the auspice of a TEAM Mentor who will help them in structuring their award program and site to insure legalities, ethics and proper criteria. A nominee will also undergo evaluation skills training. (The letter "N" on your badge will represent your membership in this listing)

TEAM Certified Evaluator A TEAM Certified Evaluator will be an Award Giver who has maintained an Award Program for at least one year and has proven themselves to be ethical in all evaluations. They will also belong to an Ethic's Organization or have an ethics staement on site. Note: If an applicant for this membership does not own an Award Program, but does evaluate for one. The Award Program owner needs to submit a letter of recommendation to TEAM stating the member is under their auspice and is ethical in giving evaluations will be given membership to this area as well. All TEAM Nominees who after their Mentorship and verified by the TEAM Mentor will be certified as a web evaluator and then added to the Certified Evaluator listing. (The letter "CE" on your badge will represent your membership in this listing)

Primary Disqualification's The following are the only reasons said membership may not be granted. Site's who promote pornography (this does not include artistic impressions), drugs, gambling, alcohol, hate, racism, the occult and violence towards people or animals. Site displaying Copyright Infringments. Site not displaying an Ethics statement. Site not belonging to an Ethics Organization or not under the auspice of a program owner who is responsible for their actions who is a member of an Ethics org.

Reporting of members not adhering to guidelines; read more...

The Award Master Pledge We the Award Masters of TEAM, do hereby pledge that we will provide all award applicants with positive feedback on each evaluation including those who are disqualified.

Please Note; This pledge must be in the "Alt" tag of your sites badge.