2015 WRITE: P2P: Community blogging your virtual world. HGProjects

Community blogging your virtual world 

Maybe it is a grid-wide community.  Maybe it is a themed community such as sailing, railroading, or flying.  Maybe it is a venue-oriented community, promoting entertainment events.  If you want to bring in more people, promote beyond the inworld.  Promote to the outworld.  Here is how to use blogs to do that,  

• A Virtual World Magazine could also be a blog
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary
• Collaborative blogging, invited articles. Overview

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• (More after the break)
• Where is Arcadia?

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Sign of the Kite Newsletter 15 Jan 16
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely

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What would my community do in a blog?

• Tell the purpose of your community and what people do in it.
• Tell people how to get started in your community.
• Give a link to your Google+ community.
• Invite people to join your Google+ community and ask questions. 
• Answer questions and announce community events.
• Communities of the virtual worlds on Google+
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage. And a demo of blogging for instruction.
• The whys and hows of blogging

How to start a blog 

• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary 
• A dozen+ tips for building your blog about virtual worlds

How to get content

• Collaborative blogging, invited articles. Overview

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News and Notes

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Tuesdays & Sundays

• 1 - 3 am PST - 10:00 am CET - 9 am GMT
• 8 - 10 am PST - 17:00 pm CET - 4 pm GMT
• A weekly repeating event. At HG Welcome Center.
• Everyone welcome, no matter which language. We got translators
• Hypergrid address: arcana.hopto.org:9021
• Put HG address in World Map next to Find. Click Find. TP.

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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: Sun. Jan 24, Noon SLT
• Location: 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

• Narasnook  location
• world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

• Cookie II location
• 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 Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
• 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
• Hypergrid Destinations

HG links-- depending on your interests

• Sign of the Kite
• 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

Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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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? 
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• 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. 
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