2016 NEW: NMA: PEOPLE: HG: If I bring new people into Cookie II, how do I get them to my place?

If I bring new people into Cookie II, 
how do I get them to my place?

Community entry plans could lead a few communities to take responsibility for managing an entry path for newcomers in cooperation with other communities.  If newcomers arrive at a single location, it is easier to have welcomers onsite but the site needs to provide easy access to the other community sites.  Here I provide suggestions as to how to do that.

Bring them in 

• Bringing new people into virtual worlds?  Bring them in via Cookie II or use the NMA method on your own site   
• NMA low tech entry path for starting in Hypergrid. HGProject

Get them to your place

• Give people the address of your welcome center on your website.
• Give both the Firestorm Hop and the web address.
• Firestorm Hop:  hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/125/129/25 
• Web address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
• Put a welcome kiosk where you expect new people to arrive.
• Welcome kiosk for community collaboration 0.4
• You may not be able to put a walkin TP there.
• To work, a walkin TP may need to be placed by someone with land authority there.
• OSSL adds functions to LSL: threat levels control misuse
• Put your the landmark to your welcome center in the kiosk box 
• Give landmarks in the welcome folder.
• Give people a reason to come to your place: Free community-related things:
• avatars, clothes, landmarks, calendar, events, contacts, groups, sandbox.
• Tell them how to join your community group and send IMs to the community.

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

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Kitely adds events calendar to login page
• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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Promote your community

• On your community website
• On the Google+ page for your community
• On other G+ pages related to what your community is about

The metaverse is about communities

• Interested in virtual worlds? Start with people. Metaverse communities
• The business of community building in HG.. Ann Tree Prenyour comments
• Community-based welcome site
• Every community needs a group inviter. Here is one to handle multiple groups
• Community-based entry paths on the hypergrid.  HGProject
• Virtual communities: are you setting up feeder lines to bring in more people? 
• Send G+ communities your blog links. Tell a community about your article

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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 and elsewhere.

Next WIP show 

• Next WIP show: Sun. July 24, Noon SLT 
• Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
• 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

• Narasnook  location (second Sunday of the month)
• Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
• 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 (fourth Sunday of the month)
• 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

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• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community   
• HYPERGRID EVENTS   
• Hypergrid Destinations

HG links-- depending on your interests 

• Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
• Sign of the Kite
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Best metaverse communities   
• Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid

Metaverse beginner help

• NMA entry path 
• How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
• Metaverse 101 Info + Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers
• 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/zone into Google search to get your time 

Schools in virtual worlds

• Heritage Christian Online School
• HCOS Brochure

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