2019 PEOPLE: Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals

Virtual worlds are about people.  
Communities, communication, shared goals
Updated 1/11/2019

Virtual worlds are not about technology.  They are about people.  People having fun together.  People working together on shared goals.  People helping each other.  When you think about virtual worlds, follow the people.

People

• Social VR: The Next Big Thing that virtual worlders have enjoyed for years
• Roland Francis tells about Neiferleaf. People and places in virtual worlds
• Dancing in OpenSim: Osgrid and Zangid. Okay, we do party a lot
• HG Safari celebrates 3rd anniversary with a dance
• The Hypergrid work in progress (WIP) show, March meeting on Cookie II
• Digiworldz dancing at Digiworldz birthday bash. Video by Wwanderer
• We get together in virtual worlds. Dress up, down, or costumed.  Play games or dance
• Interested in virtual worlds? Don't start there. Start with people. Metaverse communities
• The Drax Files: People get together
• People 
• How do I meet people? 
• Who is near me? Use the people window 
• Communicate: Make and maintain contacts 
• Tank hockey game: the design process in collaboration

Inworld Communication

• Friend connections, IMs, and group memberships work over the hypergrid --part of the time
• Every community needs a group inviter. Here is one to handle multiple groups
• Present information in ways that help people use it
• Communities of the virtual worlds on Google+
• Communication: summary
• How do I find: friends, places, events in SL? 
• Chat Hotspots 
• Dealing with other avatars
• V3.2. Profiles. Yours and theirs 
• Communicate: Make and maintain contacts 
• Local Chat/Voice 
• Instant messages/voice calls

Communities

• Friendica for social media?
• The entertainment grid Opensim.life grid. It's all about people having a good time.
• AvatarFest 2017 Sharing our light. Starts Saturday, September 23
• AvatarFest. the third year: the hypergrid-based opensim community
• This link will find some G+ communities:  Communities virtual worlds g+
• Want to know when people are in your virtual world? An accidental feature by Kitely
• HG Safari, week 119 Nara Nook, the writers colony on the hypergrid
• Glimpses of Hypergrid Work-in-Progress (WIP) show
• Araucana, exiles of the galaxy, HG safari. Sight-seeing on the Hypergrid
• OSGRID 9th Birthday dance PARTY at Event Plaza Opensim
• Builder's Guild on Kitely. Creative Collaborators region offers Builder's Guild Showplace
• Welcome kiosk for community collaboration 0.4
• Connecting in Kitely. And why communities are important. Invited article by Freda Frostbite
• The business of community building in HG.. Ann Tree Prenyour comments
• Virtual World Sailing 
• Exploring the Hypergrid: tours, destinations, addresses, communication
• Fastest-growing G+ communities of 2015
• The Hypergrid WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely Oct 25 2015
• Virtual Lisbon, scaling a replica of the central city
• Burning Sim--A celebration of Builders, Music, and Community!
• The WIP show (works in progress), operating plan (WIP)
• I'm not going there unless my friends go there
• Building communities in virtual worlds. Common interests, easy communication
• Best metaverse communities
• Builders in Collaboration: Hobo Island Rebuild
• Communities in Second Life: Community Cultural Hub
• Second Life Birthday Community
• Second Life communities
• Connect with Second Life communities
• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary
• Remote collaboration: methods 
• Group chats, voice meets, notices, friends, IM/calls 
• Hobbies in Virtual Worlds
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Google communities, Facebook groups: could they replace inworld groups?

Social Media

• Hypergridders: We may be able to use Discord for event notices much as we have been using inworld groups.
• The Great Disruption: Unleashing the Power to Create
• Why I gave up on virtual world communications and shifted to social media
• What social media works best with blogs?
• Social media can promote your projects. Summary 
• Facebook and twitter for promoting your project
• Groups for virtual worlds in Facebook
• The Second Life feed as a social tool
• What social media works best with blogs?
• Blogs and media in Virtual Worlds. Possible publicity outlets
• Top five Social Media sites to promote your virtual world projects
• Google communities, Facebook groups: could they replace inworld groups?
• How to use Facebook/Twitter in Second Life for your Business
• Promotional videos made in Second Life

Help for people 

• 3rd Rock Grid Fund Raising for Doctors Without Borders
• Symbolic Modeling Training in Second Life: by Marly Milena, Octagon:Creative Exploration
• No Borders Festival for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders International
• Lighthouse point: Sexuality and gender for therapists (LGBT)
• WINTER SHOWCASE & ART SHOW IN SUPPORT OF TEAM DIABETES OF SECOND LIFE
• Find friends fast when you start in Kitely-- use the login page
• What is the non-profit commons? Working for social good in the virtual worlds
• Help for nonprofits in virtual worlds. Articles from NMA blog. Summary 1
• CREATIONS FOR PARKINSON'S RED, WHITE, AND BLUE EVENT
• Jamie Jordan at Lauren's Place
• Amputees, prosthetics, virtual therapy is real. The Drax Files
• Social Skills Haven (Kitely), helping those on the autism spectrum
• East Texas Geriatric Education Center-Consortium
• Clinical depression, Inner Prisons, and Escapes
• Social Anxiety Disorder: How Does Second Life Help Overcome This Anxiety?
• THERAPY: The Dogfather and TBI survivors (Traumatic Brain Injury)
• Hobo Amusement Park--and why
• Torley Linden at Autism Society of America (ASA)
• Community HIV/AIDS Resource Exchange (CHARE)  Village
• Creations for Parkinson's, the Drax Files. Creativity for health
• The man who did not talk. A true story
• Support groups in Second Life
• Cape Able for people with impaired hearing

People Games

• The Chronicles of Lisianthus: A Medi-Fantasy Roleplay Sim
• The virtual match game, with Catboy Qunhua and friends

Stories

• Christmas Cards in a virtual world
• Find the relatives of your avatar. Celebrity Look A Like Generator

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Art in virtual worlds

• AvatarFest celebrates the strength and diversity of the hypergrid user community
• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• 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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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
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