Tips for building your blog about virtual worlds
1. Know your audience
Use the resources of hypertext, the web and virtual worlds to build readership for your blog
1. Know your audience
2. Write to your audience
3. Write to catch and hold attention
4. Post the search description if you can.
5. Help the search engines to help you
6. Use pictures, screenshots, graphics, and calendars to break up the text.
7. If there is a lot there, tell the contents above the break
8. Plug in to content sources
9. Use BOPs in your virtual world
10. Curate your content
11. Use social media
12. Signal what you want the reader to notice
13. Aim for fast loading
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News and Notes
SciFi Film Festival
- SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
- For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia
- pays the fee.
- Deadline for Regular submissions Midnight – 1 August 2015
- Deadline for Late Submissions Midnight – 29 August 2015
Summer of Arts submissions open Monday on Metropolis
- Summer of Arts 2015
- Open to artists now.
- Open to everyone September 25, 2015
Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid
- OpenSimWorld: HyperGrid Destinations Directory
- OpenSimWorld: upcoming events
- Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
- More news in my blog roll (column on the right)
1. Know your audience
- Who are you writing to?
- Who will be interested in what you are writing about?
- What people do you know that could be a readers of your blog?
- What do they want to read about?
- Can you meet them and chat in your virtual world?
2. Write to your audience
- What things will be most interesting to your readers?
- What words will catch the attention of your readers?
- What language style will be most familiar to your readers?
- What ideas and words are already familiar to your readers?
- What other sources are familiar to your readers?
- What does your readers want to know?
- What can your readers do with the information you are providing?
- Don't make up answers. Ask people in your virtual world.
3. Write to catch and hold attention
- Work your title. It's where your writing meets the road
- Your opening paragraph catches your readers. Or not. Checklist
4. Post the search description if you can. Blogger helps you with that.
- When someone finds your post in search the description
- will usually be under title-link listing.
- Tell people why they want to read your post.
- Leave it out and the search engine will show something from your text.
- Are you smarter than a search engine?
5. Help the search engines to help you.
- Use words that people search for, those are your keywords
- Put them in the title, the search description, and above the break.
- Put keywords in the title, in the search description, and above the break.
6. Use pictures, screenshots, graphics, and calendars to break up the text.
- Virtual worlds are visual. Take pictures.
- If it is about a place in a virtual world, show it. Ctrl+shift+S
- If it is about the screen, use annotated screen shots. Jing
- If it is about something general or abstract, show an example.
7. If there is a lot there, tell the contents above the break
- The break is the opening of an article.
- The main page of a blog may carry the openings of recent articles.
- The reader can look over the page and select articles for further reading.
- Plan the outline.
- Title the sections.
- Present the section titles above the break. Use keywords here
- "Above the fold" may be used in reference to paper newspapers.
8. Plug in to content sources
- Feedly
- 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
- Blogrolls. Here is mine. Column on right, scroll down
9. Use BOPs in your virtual world
10. Curate your content
11. Use social media
- Top five Social Media sites to promote your virtual world projects
- Get leads from that social media.
- Use the social media to interact with your readers.
12. Signal what you want the reader to notice
- Use bold face or color or a special font
- to tell the reader what is most important.
13. Aim for fast loading
- Slow loading loses readers
- Use .jpg rather than .png unless you need high quality
Related
- 10 Quick Tips for Going Viral
- Blogs and media in Virtual Worlds. Possible publicity outlets
- The writing community of Second Life. What does it offer to writers?
- OZLAND Picture Stories writing series on Wednesdays
- Blog to publicize Summary
- Promoting Events in SL: Blogs
- Posterize your blogs in Second Life
- Combine Google calendars in your blog
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News and Notes
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How to handle a Hypergrid address in Firestorm
- Example HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II
- Paste the HG address in the World Map, next to Find. Click Find, TP
- When you get to the grid, look for TP to local destination or use world map.
- Testing HG addresses and address forms. Failure is not forever
- Travelling with Firestorm. Local, nearby, ingrid, Hypergrid, summary
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- For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
- 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.
- Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
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