2013 WRITE: EDU: VWBPE: Blogging as instruction and information in virtual worlds, summary

VWBPE  Blogging as instruction
and information in virtual worlds, summary
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If you would write it, you could blog it

• No publication costs
• No one between you and your readers
• No time between writing and publication
• Update whenever you need to.
• Display inworld for class or poster.
• Answer questions on the article.

This article gives summary instructions and serves as an example.

• Use the media in SL: Browser-On-Prim (BOP) Summary
• Blogging in Second Life. How to... Summary

Blog hosting

• Free blog hosting: 2012 Blog Service Comparisons
• My choice:  Blogger.com

Content

• Invited articles and press releases
• Feed reader: Feedly
• Stick to what you want to tell people about 
• For a detailed article, present one thing in one article 
• Start each article early-- you will start seeing items you want to include
• Blogger has a convenient system to let you handle work in progress 
• Give everything the reader will need to follow the instruction
• Give links to things that are best explained elsewhere
• You can combine later, in summaries, for your Table of Contents

Layout, pictures, graphics, videos, calendars

• Procedural steps go well with bullet points
• Textures, Pictures. How to make and use them 
• Combine/embed Google calendars in your blog  
• Browser on prim, advanced. Videos, calendars

Blogs as posters 

• Browser on prim, advanced. Videos, calendars.
• Put the important words in the title.
• Show the title in distinctive text (e.g, red).
• Use a picture or graphic near the top.
• Avoid long paragraphs near the top.
• Start with bullet points to summarize the content.
• Schedules Google calendars: blog, display, wear, combine. Summary 
• Videos:  Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Send readers to the web, where they can bookmark

Writing for search

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)  
• Use both technical terms and common synonyms.
• Type important text even if it appears in a picture.
• Search engines don't read pictures.

Curation-- evergreen content

• Instruction and Information have lasting value, 
• if people can find what they want. 
• Keywords, in the title. I put them like this:  WRITE: 
• Organize and link to past posts (see above)
• See example: How to search this blog
• See example: Table of contents 
• Have an objective: Mission
• Top menu (see above)
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 

Monitization

• Don't expect to get rich
• Bloggers Share Income Tips 
• Your can list your blogs on your vita
• You might establish your credentials as a consultant

Promotion 

• Bloggers in SL--Promote your blog and the SL Blogging Community
• Use social media to promote your blogs
• Use Second Life as social media 
• Promotion: MySL summary 
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Put this blog in you feedreader: Problogger
• Meet and talk with potential readers 
• Meet and talk to people who are potential sources 
• Gather people interested in what you write about. 
• Send people to your web site from your inworld places 
• Get reactions to ideas

A community of bloggers in SL

• The writing community of SL. What does it offer to writers?
• Blogs in Second Life
• Promote the evergreen content on your blog
• Bloggers in SL--Promote your blog and the SL Blogging Community
• Tech info for collaborative blogging on Blogspot
• Browser on prim, advanced. Videos, Calendars

Writing

• Work your title. It's where your writing meets the road
• Your opening paragraph catches your readers. Or not. Checklist  

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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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