2019 PEOPLE: Building communities in virtual worlds. Common interests, easy communication.

Building communities in virtual worlds
Updated 3/16/2019

 

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Community: A group of people in interaction, sharing common interests and goals

What builds communities?  

• Common interests and goals 
• + opportunities for interaction
• Fantasy dance at OpenSim.Life
• Kitely community party. Music and dancing
• Land for rent in Kitely on a rural residential sim. Ann Tree Prenyour comments
• The business of community building in HG.. Ann Tree Prenyour comments
• Boating and sailing communities developing on the hypergrid
• Virtual worlds: Where is everybody? How do I find people?
• Fastest-growing G+ communities of 2015
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Virtual World communities
• The WIP show (works in progress), operating plan (WIP)

Key communities and potential communities in virtual worlds

• Socializers who spend their time hanging out and meeting new people
• Artists who create sculptures, images or video using the virtual worlds
• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Fashionistas who enjoy shopping and showing off their looks
• Role Players who participate in organized games or informal communities
• Entertainers who play music or participate in theater, dance or comedy performances
• Educators who use Virtual Worlds as an extension of RL classes
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary 
• Patrons of the Arts who visit galleries and art exhibitions, listen to live music, attend theatrical performances, etc
• Merchants who create and sell products or services
• Land Developers who acquire, improve and rent land
• Professional and Semi-Professional Content Creators who create and sell products
• Explorers who spend most of their time visiting new places
• Bloggers who write about virtual worlds 
• Blogs and media in Virtual Worlds

Adapted from:  BotGirl Questi. Linden Lab CEO: The First 100 Days
Link annotations by me

My additions and my collection

• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. Hobo Island in SL up for sale
• Poets and poetry aficionados
• Fiction writers and story-tellers
• Video producers  and script writers who make videos for entertainment and sales
• Builders in Collaboration: Hobo Island Rebuild
• Hobbies in Virtual Worlds
• Support groups: S.O.S. Survivors of Suicide in Second Life
• Comedy:  Doc Grun at Lauren's place: Unpresidented news

Communications 

• Hypergrid communication quest, What we can get from MeWe?
• Friend connections, IMs, and group memberships work over the hypergrid --part of the time
• Welcome kiosk for community collaboration 0.4
• Every community needs a group inviter. Here is one to handle multiple groups
• Builder's Guild on Kitely. Creative Collaborators region offers Builder's Guild Showplace     
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• Jobs from the virtual world. Virtual Lisbon, AvaHyr, Job world (SL), etc  
• Tank hockey game: the design process in collaboration Use hypergates and hubs to build hypergridian communities 
• People 
• Communication: summary  
• Connect with Second Life communities 
• Voice  
• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary 
• Make a poster to help people to join your group

Outworld communication for inworld communities.

• Want to know when people are in your virtual world? An accidental feature by Kitely
• Every grid needs a G+ community: G+ communities grow in the Hypergrid
• OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS)Comedy videos from the Virtual World
• Communities of the virtual worlds on Google+
• Best metaverse communities
• Google+ becomes friendly to virtual names and pseudonyms  
• Why I gave up on virtual world communications and shifted to social media
• Google communities: can they replace inworld groups?
• Remote collaboration: methods
• Use Google+ communities and email to support business-like communications in virtual worlds

Use a social media community or group

• How do I find communities I like on the hypergrid?
• Hypergrid communication quest, What we can get from MeWe?
• Create a community in a social media site
• Make it public.
• Use a name people can easily recognize.
• Invite people from your other contact lists.
• Post general notices to members (like group notices and group chat) 
• Share important web-links 
• Put comments on postings by other members.
• OpenSim scripting resources: OpenSim Scripters (G+), Showcase trail

Promotion

• OSGRID 9th Birthday dance PARTY at Event Plaza Opensim
• Promote your HG business or community with a landing page

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
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