2014 PROMO: OPENSIM: Use a Google calendar to promote events in virtual worlds

Use a Google calendar to promote events 
in virtual worlds
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How to use a Google Calendar  to  promote your events.
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• Calendar Creator/Owner: Add event managers
• Social Media Specialist: Create calendars as a service
• Event Managers: Post  notices
• Bloggers: Embed the calendar on your blog
• Venue owners: Make a poster to display your calendar
• Readers: send the calendar to your Google calendar
• Everybody:  Invite friends to the event, 

For How To, read on

Notes

• Google calendars normally adjust the time to your local time.  
• If you embed a Google calendar in a web page, you can specify the time zone it uses.

Calendar Creator/Owner

• Create  a  new Google Calendar
• Share a calendar with event managers

Promote with a Google Calendar,  make a poster 

• Google Calendars: blog, display, wear combine. Summary 

Hire help

• Social Media Specialist: 

Social media specialists

Offer calendar setup and management as a service

• Social Media Specialist: 

Offer targeted, aggregated and promoted calendars as a service

Pick a theme, such as Hard Rock.  Make an aggregating calendar by combining calendars from calendars by performers.  Promote the calendar (get it embedded in some blog)   Make a poster to display it.  Do this for a number of themes.  Offer to include new clients in the appropriate calendar as a special service.

Managers

  Post  notices

• Google Calendars: blog, display, wear combine. Summary 

Bloggers

Embed a Google Calendar on your blog

• Google Calendars: blog, display, wear combine. Summary 

Venue owners: 

Make a poster to display a calendar

• Google Calendars: blog, display, wear combine. Summary 
• Display the calendar at your venue.
• Special boards to read a Google Calendar and display the schedule may be available from the Kitely market.

Readers

Send the calendar to your Google Calendars, +Google calendar, bottom right.

Set reminders for you in your Google Calendar.

Examples

• Kitely Events Calendar
• Classes in Second Life: Calendar Collection

News and Notes

• Short Poetry Wkshp., 4/8/14, 7 pm SLT:  Reverdie, an old French poetic genre from of the 13th Century which celebrates the arrival of spring.  
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

• April treasure hunt on Kitely open now
• http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Sierra-Jakob/April-Hunt-LAUNCH-POINT
• Upcoming: This Wednesday through Sunday: VWBPE
• VWBPE Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference: Apr. 9-13 2014
• Theater: Margaret Edson’s WIT at the VWBPE Quadrivium, by Quill and Quarrel Theatre
• Marie interviews Kevin Feenan (SL: Phelan Corrimal) about VWBPE 
• Kitely is now working on full Hypergrid connection

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