2017 LIBR: This blog is curated: How to use search to find things. Digital smarts

This blog is curated: 
How to use search 
to find things

Digital smarts include knowing how to find things easily and knowing how to make it easy for others to find things in your publications (blogs or scholarly articles).  Here are some tips.

Key word list 

Note search-in-site bar, upper left

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• Some of these features may not be offered except in Blogger
• Search on page:  Ctrl f,  put search term in bar, upper middle.
• Works in Chrome, may work in other browsers.
• List important terms at the top of an article to show readers what to search for.

Help your readers search your blog

• Articles about writing in this blog
• Articles about blogging in this blog
• You can pick up the search command and use it as you would a url.
• The search command is in the address field

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More after the break

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Registration Deadline for the Rockcliffe Conference is August 31
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• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Hypergrid Destinations
• IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• OpenSimWorld Events
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
• Selby's daily events and news collection:  Virtual worlds are real 
• Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
• Web-world videos

Metaverse places and activities

• List of Social VR/Virtual Worlds by Ryan Schultz
• Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
• IMA projects
• 3D WEBSITES A2Z
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community) 
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

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Search for research

Key word search 

• Key word list at the end, right column -- scroll down.
• The number of entries is given next to the word.   
• A large number means you may get a lot of results,
• Note that you can get the results time-ordered.  
• You may want time-ordered, most recent first.

Help your readers search your blog

• Articles about writing in this blog
• Articles about blogging in this blog
• You can pick up the search command and use it as you would a url.
• The search command is in the address field

Google search tips

• Common Google Search Operators
• For authoritative research, watch for a separate list of scholarly articles.

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License

• 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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Drop by my web office Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time  (US) 

• Cybalounge, entry place or elsewhere
• We can also visit 3DWebWorldz, a professionally-built world. 
• Mondays we focus on learning/library/museums.
• Wednesdays we focus on promoting your project, using this blog.
• Fridays we may focus on grants, contracts, business and web-worlds.
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  
• If you see no one, click the pointed push-pin (bottom line) to find me.
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Web-worlds are small and run in a browser with nothing else to install.
• Full virtual worlds are a bigger experience but need extra software installed.

Videos from virtual worlds

• Selby's YouTube Channel
• Free video resources for virtual worlds
• Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
• Convenient video capture in Windows 10--any window
• Articles about videos from virtual worlds

News and Notes

Communities in the virtual worlds

• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid   
• Best metaverse communities
• Communities virtual worlds G+
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari

Radio in the virtual worlds

• OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS). Invited article by shawnkmaloney
• Aviation radio: Music to fly by. And to promote your aviation event.
• Radio for your place - Radio for the metaverse. Anyone for podcasts?

Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info + Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• 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 

Articles in this blog

• About education
• Sailing in virtual worlds
• About Videos
• Sights of the virtual worlds
• People of the virtual worlds
• About business

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• For more, follow Selby Evans in Google+
• Annotated screenshots made with Jing
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc. 
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google.
• Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
• Lauren is funny

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