2013 1stHELP: Table of contents. Summary.

Table of contents. Summary

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This Table of contents is a collection of articles with answers to questions frequently asked by new people in Virtual Worlds and by posts in the forums.  

• About this blog. Mission, goals, themes

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This and other posts linked here are updated frequently and will often have content later than the date of the post.
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Basics

• How to get into Second Life without really trying 
• World Map. Find your place in Second Life
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Newcomer help
• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL
• Appearance, summary
• Communication: summary
• Viewer 3.3+ Preferences window, Summary
• Travel Secrets of Second Life
• People
• Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
• Solutions, cautions, and tips in the Second Life grid
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate 

Intermediate

• Land and houses
• Events in Virtual Worlds: Attend, organize, promote, present, calendars/schedules
• Business, Professionals, Educators
• Viewer 3.2. Main screen, advanced setup
• Remote collaboration: methods
• Content Creation: Build, script, video, classes, tools, collaborate
• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how

Search

• Search: find: friends, places, events in SL
• World Map. Find your place in Second Life
• Themes on this blog and how to find the relevant articles
• How to search this blog 

You and your things

• Your Stuff. Inventory
• Appearance, summary, 
• Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
• Managing resources in Virtual Worlds

Communication and people

• People 
• Communication: summary 
• Voice
• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary
• The Etiquette of Friending in Second Life

Classes and tools

• Tools: classes, windows, rezzers, holodecks, collaboration
• Classes in Second Life: Calendar Collection
• Builders Brewery. Advanced and intermediate classes
• NCI Classes    
• Events in Virtual Worlds: Attend, organize, promote, present, calendars/schedules

Languages

• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate 

Land 

• Land and houses

Business

• Once Upon A Fairy Tale (Weddings)
• Fruit Islands Estate, land and services
• Caledon, Steampunk, land and services
• Balanvi. Gets more out of the land  
• Zoha Islands, land and services 
• Information overload. See you later, aggregator   
• Vintage Retro, Theme Aggregator 
• Second life grid survey

Promotion

• Promotion: from virtual worlds. Summary

The Arts

• Performing Arts in virtual worlds: Theater, video, acting, directing, script-writing
• Digital painting and 3D  building 
• The music scene in Second LIfe
• Literary Arts (TBD)

Entertainment

• Music Videos from Virtual Worlds, Summary
• The entertainment business in Second Life Summary
• Continuing Events in virtual worlds, blogs, places, and Google calendars
• Musical acts: Google+ Hangouts On Air
• Music Calendars in Second Life
• Play Music and Video/TV on your land
• Streaming audio in Second Life.  Shoutcast.   Music stream to your land
• Hear/see music/video media/BOP in Second Life 
• What do we do in Second Life?
• Sex in Second Life. Find and access Adult places.

Hobbies

• Hobbies in Virtual Worlds

Blogs, News Media

• Blogs and media in Virtual Worlds. Possible publicity outlets

Business, Professionals, Educators

• NPSL: Nonprofits in Second Life
• Business, Professionals, Educators
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary 

Remote collaboration

• Remote collaboration: methods

Content creation

• Content Creation: Build, script, video, classes, tools, collaborate
• Good Building Practices (Linden Lab Summary)
• TPV:  Viewers  by third parties, not Second Life  
• Textures, Pictures. How to make and use them

Professional

• IEEEVW Metaverse Standards Overview

Solutions, Cautions, and tips

• Solutions, cautions, and tips in the Second Life grid

Get more out of your head

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how

   

Art

• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

     
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Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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