2018 WRITE: BLOG: Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary

Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary
Updated 1/19/2018

• Articles on how to blog in virtual worlds, links

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Why blog about things in Second Life?

• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote.  Summary
• Collaboration
• Pictures and graphics
• Events
• Curating  
• Writing
• Promoting
• Monetizing

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Sources

• The Whitechapel atrocities, investigation continues. Timeline violation?
• Bloggers: Google+ Communities get you leads and get you reads
• A Virtual World Magazine could also be a blog
• Google+ as an identity directory. Link to people you write about.
• How to keep up with the news you want to follow
• Guest bloggers and press releases
• Invited articles and press releases for this blog

Starting

• The whys and hows of blogging
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote.  Summary
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage

Collaboration

• Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds
• Collaborative fiction blogging in virtual world. Writing need not be lonely.
• The writing communities of virtual worlds: Nara's Nook
• Added News and Notes section, collaborating blogs
• Invited articles and press releases
• Collaborative blogging, invited articles. Overview
• Tech info for collaborative blogging on Blogspot
• Remote collaboration: methods

Pictures and graphics

• Embed GettyImages
• Textures, Pictures. How to make and use them 

Events

• Combine Google calendars in your blog
• Promoting Events in SL: Blogs
• Google calendars: blog, display, wear, combine. Summary 

Curating  

• A curated blog, what, why, and how. View counts for my top curating pages
• How to search this blog
• Promote your evergreen content

Resources

• Search makes Google Communities more useful
• The 100 Best Websites for Writers in 2016
• 3 Writing Superpowers Every Blogger Needs
• NaturalReader:  Free text-to-speech reader for proofreading
• 10 Ways To Stay Productive as a Work-at-Home Blogger

Writing

• SHAKESPEARE system for helping authors by Matthew Mather
• Work your title. It's where your writing meets the road
• Your opening paragraph catches your readers. Or not. Checklist  

Promoting

• Give your blog article a search description, teaser, or other short promotion
• Send G+ communities your blog links. Tell a community about your article
• Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds
• The 100 Best Websites for Writers in 2016
• If you want people to talk about your blog, don't lock them out
• A dozen+ tips for building your blog about virtual worlds
• SEO tips for promoting your virtual community (Not how to cheat with SEO)
• Interest tally, virtual worlds. Top posts on this blog about Opensim worlds
• 5 Ways to Find Out What People Really Want From Your Blog
• Top 10 posts in Virtual Outworlding about writing 
• Twitter stream on your blog. Make a virtual world poster
• Top ten general help posts on Virtual Outworlding
• Top 5 Newcomer help posts from Virtual Outworlding
• Top ten general help posts on Virtual Outworlding
• Bloggers in SL--Promote your blog and the SL Blogging Community
• Use social media to promote your blogs
• Browser on prim, advanced. Videos, Calendars

Monetizing

• How A Simple Blog Led To Writing For Forbes, Mashable, and TechCrunch
• 5 Advanced Techniques I Use To Make Money On My Blog
• Google AdWords
• Brand Blogging in virtual worlds. Blogging for the brands

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• To find  events, scroll down to "Labels used on this Blog," click EV
• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• 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. 
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc. 
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else. 
• Ads are from Google 
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• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second LIfe or Kitely
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