Social media for the
virtual worlds (RIP G+).
Summary
Updated 2/18/2019
Summary of articles on social media for the virtual worlds. This article will be updated when new information is available.
Uses for social media
- Ingroup communication
- Event promotion
- Outreach: professional
- Outreach: general
- Outreach: playful
- Outreach--repost target
Dimensions of evaluation
- Useful persistence: ephemeral, persistent, archival
- Ephemeral means you can't expect to find it after a week
- Useful persistence means that you can find items after a month.
- Persistence is not useful without good search support.
- Archival means you can find it years later. (Blogs are usually arcival.)
- Reputation: playful, professional
- Reach, target density
- 14 Key Points to Keep in Mind Before Migrating Your Online Community
Replacements for G+, by the service needed
- How do we replace Google Plus? Preliminary ideas
- Platform Types (PlexodusWiki)
- PlexodusWiki serves G+ users seeking to continue their community.
Ingroup communication
- Social Media: Discord may meet some OpenSim needs
- Hypergrid communication quest, What we can get from MeWe?
- Friendica for social media?
- These have no outreach and doubtful persistence
Event promotion
- Join "Jwheels Recommends" to promote events. Invitation from Jamie Jordan
- MeWe offers a calendar, so it may prove useful for promoting events
Outreach: Professional
- Posts in professional outreach can be considered professional if the content is professional.
- Professional outreach should offer a good chance of reaching other professionals with relevant interests.
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- LinkedIn: businesses, educators, professionals: jobs
- LinkedIn is a good place to reach other professionals.
- You would not be reluctant to mention that you post there.
- You can expect to find processionals here.
- LikedIn is not kid stuff.
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- YouTube cannot replace G+. But it can do some things better: Outreach
- A collaborative blog is social media if you use it that way
- Twitter can serve as your timeline and you can embed it in your blog
- Posts in these three can be professional or playful depending on the content.
Outreach: Playful
- I use the description "playful" to avoid the pejorative "kid stuff."
- Facebook offers much the same things as G+. For those willing to use it.
- YouTube cannot replace G+. But it can do some things better: Outreach
Outreach--repost target
- Repost buttons are offered on most blogs and some news sites.
- These encourage reposting to those targets.
- Reposting promotes ideas you like.
- And builds readership of your timeline.
- And saves links in case you want them later.
- My recommended repost target is Twitter.
My comments
- G+ was a major source for news leads as well as an outlet for promotion.
- And it served for ingroup communication, event promotion, and outreach.
My sources now
- My main source for leads has been Feedly.
- Feedly monitors blogs, websites, and news items.
- Feedly gives me news items with links.
- I need links because I will not generally report unless I can cite the source.
- I now follow MeWe, and LinkedIn.
Ingroup communication
The MeWe has made a tool that will import your Google+ data to their platform. The tool is simply called the G+ MeWe Importer. The tool is expected to go live on March 12th, possibly even sooner. Here’s what MeWe had to say about the importer tool:
Here are some of the details of this G+ MeWe Importer tool:
Move your public G+ posts to MeWe as open posts on your MeWe timeline (dated and ordered the same as they were on G+).
Move your public collection and community posts to MeWe and create open posts on your MeWe timeline (dated and ordered the same as they were on G+) with the collection or community name as a #hashtag.
We’ll make improvements to the G+ MeWe Importer after launch, including the ability to import your data from Circles onto MeWe, which is expected to be live April 1.
To make your transition to MeWe easier, by the end of March a “posting to close friends” feature will also go live on MeWe.
To make your transition simple, we suggest you do two things right away – download your G+ content and create your MeWe (https://mewe.com) account.
Instructions to download your Google+ content can be found on Google’s website here. MeWe confirmed on Twitter you’ll need to download in JSON format.
Event promotion
- Collaborative blog by Jamie Jordan
- Posts on my Mewe timeline
Repost targets
- RIP G+, time to review your likes and repost strategy
- I usually repost articles I think might be of interest to my readers
- My main repost target now is Twitter.
- An excerpt from my Twitter timeline is embedded in my weekly MUVE update.
- It is always current and can be scrolled to read more.
Outreach (for professionals)
- Facebook: Lots of users, low target density, low reputation, good persistence
- Twitter: Lots of users, low target density, neutral reputation, doubtful persistence.
- LinkedIn: Limited users, high target density, good reputation. uncertain persistence.
- Your blog: What you make of it, excellent persistence.
- A collaborative blog is social media if you use it that way
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