2014 WRITE: PROMO: A Virtual World Magazine could also be a blog

A Virtual World Magazine could also be a blog
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• A magazine published in a virtual world could also publish as a blog.
• You already have the content.
• You already have the writers.  
• You can get additional distribution as a blog on the web.
• Here is why and how (below the fold)

• Scroll down for News and Notes
• L$1 Mil+ UWA 3D ART & MACHINIMA GRAND FINALE 
• The 8th Annual VWBPE conference calls for proposals
• You judge: MACHINIMUWA VII: Top prize 20,000 Lindens
• Univ. of Delaware NATIONAL AGENDA 2014 Speaker Series 
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library
• Psykopaint
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

Why publish as a blog?

Access and visibility

• Accessible to the general public. More people can see it.
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote.  Summary
• Open to web search. Readers can find it next year
• Readable in browser, thus in tablets and smart phones.
• Other blogs can link to articles in your blog.  More visibility.
• Value added for advertisers
• You can sell ads or use Google Adsense.
• Brand Blogging in virtual worlds. Blogging for the brands.
• Open to feed readers.  Automatic subscriptions.
• Naturally archived, available for author's portfolio of work

Promotion

• You, authors, and others can promote on social media.
• Use social media to promote your blogs
• People can pass links to friends.
• Can carry embedded content: videos, calendars
• Twitter stream on your blog or webpage. Make a virtual world poster.
• Combine Google calendars in your blog
• Can be curated to get more out of the work. 
• A curated blog, what, why, and how. View counts for my top curating pages
• More ways to promote.
• Top 10 posts in Virtual Outworlding about writing 
• You can get feedback
• 5 Ways to Find Out What People Really Want From Your Blog

Profit

• Google AdWords

How to...

• Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary

Collaborative blogging is like running a magazine

• Invited articles and press releases
• Collaborative blogging, invited articles. Overview
• Tech info for collaborative blogging on Blogspot
• Remote collaboration: methods
• Work your title. It's where your writing meets the road
• Your opening paragraph catches your readers. Or not. Checklist  

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News and Notes

Contests and dated calls/invitations/events

• L$1 Mil+ UWA 3D ART & MACHINIMA GRAND FINALE 
• 6AM SLT SUNDAY 14TH DEC
• Location Links.  Choose any one. Click  to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20WA/72/72/1647
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/WASP%20Land/241/105/1645
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/107/241/1645

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• The 8th Annual VWBPE conference calls for proposals
• Deadline: December 14, 2014.

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• L$1 Mil+ UWA 3D ART & MACHINIMA GRAND FINALE - 6AMSLT SUN.  DEC 14

Events 

• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

• Blender Basics - Making Basic Mesh Prims
• Communities in Second Life: Community Cultural Hub
• Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28
• How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
• Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life
• Learning Objectives Creator

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again in couple of minutes.  Sometimes the first try fails (probably times out).  And try again a few hours later. Some hypergrid destinations are offline part of the day. 

• The ideal Hypergrid address form--almost there in Firestorm

If you get an address like this: 

 hg.francogrid.org:80:Residence-09:/119/128/190     

paste it into the address bar of Firestorm, see if it takes you to the exact coordinates. 

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• 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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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
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• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only. 
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• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else. 
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• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lawst%20Paradise/147/61/23 
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second Life or Kitely
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