2019 WW: PROMO: Promote your grid or community with something lively on your landing page

Promote your grid or community with 
something lively on your landing page

Suggestions on how to add something to your landing page  that suggests or offers interaction with live people.

Kitely login page

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Kitely login page

• Active Destinations (People are there or were there recently)
• Events (Kitely Calendar)
• New in Kitely Market
• Kitely forum posts
• Each of these options enlarges to show more when the cursor is over it.
• These are helpful to people already in Kitely. 
• But they are only selling to the sold. 
• They could also work for marketing if they were on the Kitely landing page.

Something lively

• Not an animation--that's old.
• A twitter stream: That changes all the time.
• A Google calendar:  Always up-to-date 
• Posts on the grid Forum
• A live chat button.  Interactive.  Visitors can text to residents.
• A live talk button.  
• A 3D web-world on your landing page. You give them a sample.

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• OpenSim Fest starts Friday Mar 1 Sci-Fi EXPO nears the end

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A Twitter stream for promotion

• Twitter can serve as your timeline and you can embed it in your blog

My Timeline

Tweets by selbyevans

OpenSim Grids on Twitter

• 3rd Rock Grid
• "A friendly, stable and secure online 3d community since 2008"
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• Littlefield Grid
• "Littlefield is an OpenSim 3D virtual world welcoming adults 
• who enjoy fun, friendship and community in our friendly, supportive environment."
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• Leighton Marjoram @OutAndProudGrid 
• "Out and Proud is an LGBTQ+ online community for gaming and collaborative creativity." 
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• I would like to list more, but these were all I found with search on grid.  
• Some other grids have listings, but these are not easy to find without grid.

Part of the Littlefield landing page
(Recently)

A live chat button

• Littlefield's live chat was not really live when we tried it.  
• But it is still a good idea.

How could you make that work without paying chatters?

• Set meeting times, preferably same time every weekday.
• Find the most active group on your grid.  
• Ask them if they want to talk to potential new members.
• If they do, ask them for meeting times they can commit to.
• Maybe they can give times; then you have your meeting times.
• Make a bot member of the group; put a group chat panel on the landing page.
• Maybe give the bot a special sound to indicate incoming from the web.
• Promote the group, the meeting times and the chat panel on the landing page. 
• Maybe they can't give times; then set up as above, but with no meeting hours.
• Show available only when somebody in the group is online. 

A live talk button

• Do the above, but add group voice conversation as an option.

A 3D web-world

• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary    
• Bringing OpenSim and web-worlds together: Web-world on the landing page
• Web-world places can be set to send email when someone enters the place.
• Or you can have visitor times as I do.

Make a simplified sim for export to a web-world

• Remove nonessential objects 
• Remove transparencies, such as those for trees. 
• (Web-worlds have another way to make trees.)
• Remove/replace sculpties
• Save to an OAR file 
• Convert the OAR file for import to  a web-world
• You can import the converted OAR  into 3DWebWorldz or CybaLOUNGE
• The dev in either site can help you import and give you the embedding code.

Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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