Virtual Outworlding: Promo

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Saturday, June 19, 2021

2021 VW: Want more traffic on your Kitely place? How can people find your place? What makes them want to come? What can you do to help?

Why don't you get more traffic?

How can people find your place?

What makes them want to come?

What can you do to help?

Imaginary greeter bot applies for a job.

Watch on YouTube
Works 24/7, always says what you wrote,
works for milliamps, makes a virtual world social.

Spread the word
Improve onboarding
Collaborate
Ad a greeter bot
Make videos
Promote

2021 BIZ: WEB-WORLDS: The four pit stops on the road to marketing

The four pit stops on
the road to marketing

We are marketing all the time. If you want people to do something, you market that action to them. If you want them to pay money, it is called selling. If you want the kids to clean up their rooms, it is called parenting. If you want kids to learn something, it is called teaching. Here is the kernel on how to.

Articles in this blog about marketing and promotion

2021 PROMO: Plan for organizing a blog in a digital "world". One person, publishing once a month, will get no following in years. But a collaborative blog...

Plan for organizing a blog in a digital "world".
One person, publishing once a month,
will get no following in years.

But a collaborative blog...

Suggestions as to how and why a community or professionally-oriented class might want to develop a collaborative blog that reports on what they are doing.

Twenty people, publishing once a month on related topics, can build a following.
That is the potential of a collaborative blog/

Where would you get 20 people?

In a community. People in a community share common interests.

In a professionally-oriented class. They all share professional interests.

Why blog?

The whys and hows of blogging.
Publicize something.
Build a portfolio.
Build a reputation.
Show off project results.
Let students build portfolios.
Promote events.
Promote the interests of your group
Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary

Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN.

2021 Promo: How to promote your place or event in Kitely. Weekly meeting, calendar, Explore Worlds page, groups, social media

How to promote your place or event in Kitely
Weekly meeting, calendar, Explore Worlds page,
Opensim promotion, groups, social media, forums

A summary of promotional methods available to Kitely users.

Kitely weekly meeting

KItely meeting
Calendar
Your Kitely Explore Worlds page
OpenSim promotion
Groups
Social media
Groups

Meet the NPC Board Podcast by CVL (Community Virtual Library).

Meet the NPC Board Podcast by CVL

(Community Virtual Library).

CVL shares a podcast to introduce the Nonprofit Commons Board in Second Life- a collaborative network of virtual world communities.

2020 PROMO: BIZ: HG: See you later aggregator. Aggregate the offerings and you aggregate the customers.

See you later aggregator.
Aggregate the offerings and
you aggregate the customers.

Aggregators in OpenSimulator.

Stores and malls are aggregators

Multiple choices draw multiple customers.

That is why producers sell to aggregators for resale to customers.

Kitely Market has over 14,000 items on offer for export.
OpenSimulator does not have to be limited to Cottage industries
What else can we aggregate?
Schools in virtual worlds
Art colonies
Events: Hypevents, OpenSimWorld Events
Places: Opensimworld
Educational places: Kitely search.
Educational products: Kitely Market search

Update 1/28/2021 Land up, actives down in January. Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year. VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2020 WW: PROMO: OSCC19 How web-based virtual worlds can serve as gateway to installed virtual worlds

How web-based virtual worlds can serve as
gateway to installed virtual worlds

Web-worlds and installed virtual worlds: symbiosis.

The integration of a web based virtual world in a grid’s homepage can attract lots of new users by the ease of access and the ease of use.
These users can then be guided to join your grid to experience OpenSim’s advanced features.
SceneGate developments will allow a voice connection between OpenSIm and Web-worlds

Web-Worlds now!

CybaLOUNGE

3DWebWorldz

No download. No registration. Go to the page, enter as guest.

Details after the break

Update 11/12/2020 VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds.

2020 VW: #VWEDU: Student onboarding for the online campus: Treat onboarding as a use case with its own skill set. Use-case analysis. Identify and teach the skills.

Student onboarding for the online campus:

Treat onboarding as a use case with its own skill set.

Use-case analysis.

Identify and teach the skills.

Recommendations on onboarding plans for beginners entering virtual worlds for remote learning or remote meetings.

Onboarding place
in 3DWebWorldz

3DWebWorldz onboarding place
This place can be incorporated into any online campus.

Use-case analysis

Use-case analysis for this case

Describe a detailed scenario of what the beginning user needs to do.
Identify each needed action and the skills required.
Caution: you must get the novice viewpoint, not yours.
E.g.: "Click the Login button." You know where the Login button is.
The novice has to find it.
If you cannot easily see from the novice point of view, don't try.
Get a few novices and have them follow the onboarding procedure.
Have them talk aloud about what they are wondering at the moment.
Developers: this is how you debug the instructions.
How do I fix it? (After the break)

2020 #VWEDU: V1 CVL Podcast help: How to get the audio (mp3) from a video (mp4) using Shotcut

CVL Podcast help:

How to get the audio (mp3)

from a video (mp4) using Shotcut

Community Virtual Library (CVL) has started a podcast project in virtual worlds with focus on educational podcasts. This article tells how to get mp3 audio from a video clip (mp4).

Annotated Shotcut screen

Click image to enlarge

Why do it this way?

Virtual worlders are already familiar with making videos in virtual worlds.
And we are familiar with editing those videos in Shotcut.
We will make our podcasts in virtual worlds, since we are familiar with meeting there.
And we already know educators who will collaborate with us on the project.
Collaboration is the secret sauce for educators in virtual worlds.

Update 9/3/2020 Cambium Learning Group adds Rosetta Stone to its portfolio of digital-centric learning brands Virtuality, Virtual Reload grids closing OpenSIm Fest exhibits and merchant areas stay open thru Sept

2020 PROMO: Find events in Kitely: use the Kitely calendar. Promoters in Kitely: take note.

Find events in Kitely:
use the Kitely calendar.
Promoters in Kitely: take note.

With Kitely adding major improvements to host high volume events, it is time to review available support for promoting events in Kitely (and Kitely Organizations services.) Here I review Kitely calendar support.

Kitely Events Calendar

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Friday, May 15