Virtual Outworlding: 2013 1stHELP: About this blog. Mission, goals, themes

Monday, January 2, 2012

2013 1stHELP: About this blog. Mission, goals, themes

About this blog. Mission, goals, themes, 2012

If you know where you are going,

you can figure out how to get there.

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Objective of this blog: Show people what they need to know to get the best out of virtual worlds and to suggest lines of creative thinking about how to exploit the potential of virtual worlds.

Concretizing the objective

provide basic instruction needed to start using Second Life
provide instruction needed to start using important new features in Second Life
report on the developing infrastructure of virtual worlds to suggest the fan of future possibilities
report on lines of creative collaboration that seem to be emerging
suggest lines of potential creative collaboration that I expect to emerge
Report on ways to monetize inworld creativity with revenue from the physical world

Change log
Both Mission and Contents are now listed as live links at the top of each post
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Permalinks and content updates. A number of the posts on this blog are of lasting interest. Some of the content has to be updated, but such posts need a permalink so links still work after the update. Fortunately, I can edit the posts and keep the content up-to-date. That is what I have been doing over the last few months. Now most of the previous posts have been updated or marked obsolete.
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Posts that have recently been updated will have a prefix of the year of the most recent update. New posts for 2013 will have 2013 as the prefix.
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Obsolete posts carried:

announcements of events, contests, and the like.
information or instruction that has become outdated
videos that have been pulled from the web by the owner

These changes will make the table of contents more useful and easier to maintain. See the Contents button in the Header Menu above.
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Search bar and Translation bar have been added to the right-hand column
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Themes

Search terms in bold (keep the caps and colon)
Art: Three-D builds and digital paintings ART:
Art videos and videos of art ART: VIDEO:
Business BIZ:
Comedy and comedy videos COMEDY: VIDEO:
Education EDU:
Events: Continuing events in virtual worlds
Helpful articles for beginners and others: HELP:
Hobbies HOBBIES:
How to use your head: TKR:
Music MUSIC:
Music videos MUSIC: VIDEO:
Performing arts STAGE:
Promote your project in virtual worlds PROMO:
Sights in virtual worlds. SEE:
Social media/remote collaboration. STECH:
Videos in general VIDEO:
Writing in virtual worlds WRITE:

Invited articles and press releases
I am looking for Invited articles and news releases that fit these themes. If you have a report or release that you want me to consider, the best way to contact me is to send Thinkerer Melville a notecard inworld or a message via MySL. Be sure to include relevant slurls and web links.
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You can also make a comment on this blog. In that case, your post should carry the news you want to release. I may not pick up the information. at least not immediately. In some cases, I may not post on it but will list it in the Events page (see above in the header menu). But if I see something that calls for follow-up, I will get back to it when I have a place on my publishing schedule.
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Please note that I am primarily interested in actionable content--content that some readers could use in things they are doing or planning.
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Publishing schedule
These publishing times are picked to fit the benefits of shared-media posters in Second Life.

Early morning SLT (As needed) Special events for that day.
Late Morning SLT. Main feature story representing one of my themes. Preferably carries a picture, since it will be up on my shared media posters through much of the day. These posts are not deleted unless they become out of date
Afternoon SLT. (As needed) Late-breaking news, time-sensitive announcements, or secondary feature. Time-sensitive posts may be deleted when they become outdated.

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