Friday, January 19, 2018

2018 WRITE: Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds

Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds
Some suggestions on building a blog to help grow and maintain a 3D virtual world community.

What would you use a community blog for? 

  • Promote the community to the outworld, get new members.
  • Keep community members informed about happenings.
  • Support communication among members.
  • Answer questions for members, find out about new concerns.
  • Share promotional copy and graphics. 
  • Support collaboration among members.
  • Post/distribute news of interest to members.
  • Keep a record of previous events, pictures, and videos, for future use.
  • Hypergrid Writer's Community
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Basic requirements for an effective community blog

  • Post several times a week.
  • Promote on social media.  
  • Carry notices of upcoming events.  
  • Get support from several community leaders.
  • Post pictures and videos of events.
  • Establish a community calendar; post or link to it regularly in the blog.
  • Carry links to notices about upcoming events on other posts.
  • Have several people committed to one post a week, or something like that.
  • Have a G+ community to provide a source of community inputs
  • Use the G+ community to promote the blog: announce posts, talk about news.

Collaboration tasks for maintaining a community blog

  • Reporters:  Monitor specified sources for information relevant to the blog.
  • Reporters send finds to their G+ streams where they may be picked up by Writers. 
  • Reporters will monitor sources of interest to them.
  • Sources include the G+ stream of the community, 
  • and sources relevant interests of the community.
  • Sources are not limited to focus on virtual worlds. 
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  • Sourcerors: Find sources and alerts reporters by posting them in G+ stream.
  • Sourceror checks G+ groups and Google search for relevant sources.
  • Relevant sources are not limited to focus on virtual worlds
  • Occasionally posts about sources in the blog. 
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  • Writers: Monitor G+ streams of reporters for items worth reporting.
  • Writes and posts reports when appropriate.
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  • Editors: Find and appoint people to other task roles.
  • Collect and present suggestions for improvement of the blog.
  • Writes and posts aggregating (summary) articles as appropriate.
  • Seeks invited articles as appropriate. 
  • Selects specific topics for the blog to focus on,
  • and finds Reporters, Sources, and Writers to maintain that focus.
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  • Promoters: Find places on social media where some articles can be cited.
  • Many such places will be among the sources.
  • Place the citations or arrange with writers to cite their articles.

Where did I get the above list?

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      • Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain
      • Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
      • All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
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      The Hypergrid WIP Show

      • The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress. 
      • Everyone is invited.  Building, scripting, entertainment-- whatever you are working on.
      • Selby may capture video of presentations in voice, for posting on YouTube.
      • The WIP show normally meets on 2 Sundays a month at 12 pm California time.
      • The show meets at the Pandora location on the second Sunday 
      • But will not meet in the summer.
      • And at Cookie II on the fourth Sunday.  
      • To keep up with the WIP meetings, join the Kitely group, Work in progress.
      • We can go to your place if there is time.

      Next WIP meeting

        • Sunday Jan 28, noon SLT (California) time
        • 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, put Cookie II into the find bar of the world map. 
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        • Suspended for Summer: Pandora 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

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