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How to search this blog for what interests you.

This blog is curated to help people find articles of interest to them.  Here are several ways to find what you want in this blog.

• Summary pages
• Google search, key words
• Google search, target audience
• Search on page

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Pantoum Poetry Workshop - Tue 11/24, 7pm SLT 

The Short Poetry Workshop this week revisits the 6th Century Malaysian form - the Pantoum, which is a series of quatrains with repeated lines. It can be rhymed or unrhymed but must make use of repeated refrains from one quatrain to the next.

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Avatarfest, Nov. 13-16 Builds open till the end of November
• Hypergrid address:   avatarfest.net:6000
• Put the address in the World Map, next to Find, click Find, TP 
• Blog,  Calendar,  G+ community

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• MACHINIMUWA VIII  (Win A Share of L$41,000 for Watching Machinima)
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• Summer of Arts in 2015, Metropolis Metaversum
• OSCC15 - Call for Proposals,  OSCC15:  Dec 5.
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015
• Immersive Edge, a Hypergrid Story, Launches November 8 & 9, 2015
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• 2015 UWA Art challenge: developing exhibit, contributions closed

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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You can find other summaries with a Google search on Summary.

Google search, key words

• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left or column on right.
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms.
• Second method works with any site.

Google search, target audience

• Most articles have a target audience. 
• Search for a term related to the target audience
• Bloggers search for blog
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Search on page

• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• Other browsers probably offer this service, but I don't know how.

If you get really good at at online research

• How to Make Money Online Doing Research

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News and Notes

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The Hypergrid WIP Show

The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog. 

Next WIP show

• Next WIP show: TBD  

• HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
• in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

Entertainment on the Hypergrid

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS

HG links-- depending on your interests

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
• Best metaverse communities   
• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Hypergrid Destinations

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• I publish about 6 days a week, skipping 1 or 2 days in midweek
• 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.
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• 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. 
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• Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
• Lauren is funny;   Avatar  Repertory Theater