2014 BIZ: STAGE: How can we handle tips in Opensim? Paypal, Kitely Credits, sell tee shirts.

How can we handle tips in Opensim?  
Paypal, Kitely Credits, sell tee shirts..
Thanks, Roxy Roller

• Paypal donation box for tips.
• Tip Jar for the local grid "currency."
• Sell tee shirts on the Kitely market (for paypal cash or kitely credits)

Kayaker Magic's Paypal tip jar 

• PayPal Donate Box
• Thanks to Roxy Roller for researching this.
• Tip jar for the local grid "currency" 
• Sell tee shirts on the Kitely market 
• Sell videos or take donations on the web

• Scroll down for News and Notes
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• Firestorm on SLGo
• Hypergrid users surpass those on closed grids
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Paypal donate box

• No LL exchange fees. 
• No waiting for third party action.
• No problems with third party systems.
• Gives clear idea of the value of the tip.  
• (A tip of 100 Lindens looks much bigger than 40 cents.)  
• But may not keep donor ID secure.
• Thanks to Roxy Roller for researching this.
• Wizards Retreat, Morlita Quan, Roxy Gellar and the Sun & Moon Group

Tip jar for the local grid "currency"

• Keeps ID secure for both parties.  
• But local currency may not be exchangeable for real money.

Sell tee shirts on the Kitely market 

• For Paypal cash: Protects Donor ID
• For Kitely Credits: More transfer cost than tip jar
• For the function to handle this, see this page: llLoadURL

Sell videos, music mp3's. or take donations on the web

• For stage performances--anything that can captured in video or audio
• (music, musical videos, music-particle videos, stage performances, etc.)
• Details of sales/delivery TBD.  Kitely Market?

Skip the tips, get sponsors

• Entrepreneurs alert:  Potential advertising business here.
• Coordinate ads at events with sales on Kitely Market.
• Performer weaves ads into performance.
• Performer wears fashion ads (avatars, clothing).  
• I will cover this in a future article.

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News and Notes

Events 

• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar
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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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