2016 HG: PEOPLE: Virtual communities: are you setting up feeder lines to bring in more people? HGProject

Virtual communities: are you setting up feeder lines 

to bring in more people to your community?

Social media offers free feeder lines to your virtual world.  Unsolicited testimonials to the fun your participants are having in your community.  Pictures and videos that tell about what people are doing in your community.  P2P conversations with people in the community.   But nothing will bring people unless you show them how to get there.  So think of feeder lines as just the start of the entry path.  

The entry path

• Feeder sites: attract and link to main web page
• Entry web page: show how to enter and get started
• Welcome site: help for newcomers to community
• Community:  show activities they can start immediately or soon

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 WRITE: SEO: Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds

Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds 

How you can use virtual worlds to promote your blog about virtual worlds 

• SEO tips for promoting your virtual community (Not how to cheat with SEO)
• Interest tally, virtual worlds. Top posts on this blog about Opensim worlds
• Make your articles search friendly
• SL Enquirer offers aspiring writers a place to show their work
• The writing communities of virtual worlds: Nara's Nook
• Google+ as an identity directory. Link to people you write about
• Role playing tools, immersive writing, encounter boxes
• A curated blog, what, why, and how. View counts for my top curating pages.
• Bloggers: Google+ Communities get you leads and get you reads
• Metaverse Authors (G+ group)
• Role playing tools, immersive writing, encounter boxes
• How to build a fictional world, Kate Messner
• Virtual Writers Workshop
• Virtual Writers, Inc.
• Written Word: A community of writers, prose and poetry
• Virtual Stages: Theater, video, acting, directing, script-writing
• Teaching creative writing in a virtual world: How get the world.
• A tale of three kitties
• Notes from a novelist in SL, by Keykey Underwood

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 WRITE: EDU: Ever heard of writer's block in role-play? Role-play in virtual worlds as practice writing

Role-play in virtual worlds as practice writing.  
Writing-by-improv.  

Role playing has

• characters
• a scenario
• a place 
• a quest
• a challenge
• a resolution

What else does role-playing need to be story-telling?

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Shadorma Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 3/22,7 pm SLT

This week the Short Poetry Workshop features the Spanish style called Shadorma. This was a popular style back in the 14th Century. It is a sestet with a specific syllable count. So come join us at the Short Poetry Library to find out more about it.

Go there

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 EDU: Putting language back into the language arts

Putting language back into the language arts

A talk at Virtual Worlds Best Practices Annual Conference 2016. Language is a shared experience.  In a virtual world, language and its environment can be shared with people around around the world. Told with 3D Power Point

• Watch on YouTube
• Caledonia Skytower
• SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• "The Great Gatsby" Explore. Stage and Virtual World

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 STAGE: Virtual worlds as a practice field for voice-over performance

Virtual worlds as a practice field 
for voice-over performance

Virtual worlds have opportunities for people interested in selling their voice production services. Not a lot of money in it, so of little interest to people already making a lot of money. But for people breaking into the field, they offer practice, coaching, professional exposure, portfolio-building, contacts, and maybe a little money.

• Watch on YouTube

Learn some basic voice-over training and technique pointers from Dan Levine. For additional voice-over technique tips and a free 1/2 hr video all about the voice-over industry, please visit:  http://www.suchavoice.com/social

 What can virtual worlds offer you?

• Practice voice-over with experienced actors
• Coaching by experienced directors
• Professional exposure on stage
• Portfolio-building with video and audio capture
• Contacts
• Maybe a little money
• New Media Arts
• No cost.  NMA is a non-profit organization
• NMA team
• Avatar Repertory Theater
• Come into a virtual world the easy way
• Video production: Flying Saucers Return
• NMA Blog
• Voice-over actors of the internet

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 HG: STAGE: Cookie II bigger, better, beyonder. A 4X4 now, 16 old style sims.

Cookie II bigger, better, beyonder.  
A 4X4 now,  16 old style sims. 

Cookie II on Kitely had been expanded to a full 1024 x1024 meters,  That's a little over 6 tenths of a mile.  In addition to the Hobo Sandbox, it now has freebie stores, entertainment venues,  a Shakespearean theater, a new Lauren's place, and Junkyard Blues,

Arrive at Cookie II

Go there

• Put the HG address in the World Map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP.
• HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
• In Kitely, put the Firestorm Hop in the Nav bar of the FS viewer, enter.
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/126/125/25
• New Media Arts Inc.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 HELP: How to do avatar design for virtual theater and video. A tutorial summarized

How to do avatar design for virtual theater and video.  
A tutorial summarized

In virtual world theater and video, avatars are the people.  Avatar design takes the place of casting for appearance, costuming, and makeup.  This article, published in full on the New Media Arts blog, explains in detail how we do that. 

• Avatar Design for Virtual World Theater
• by Ada Radius
• Invited article
• Summarized from:
• The New Media Arts blog

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 WRITE: OPENSIM: Writing on the grid. The writing community of the Hypergrid.

The writing community of the Hypergrid

A writing community?  Yes.  Storytellers get together to share what they know about story-telling, developing media, social support for developing a story, producing a story in various media, and marketing a production.  

• Well established group of writers in virtual worlds: Metaverse Authors
• That is a Google+ community.  So you don't have to be in a virtual world to join it.
• You can find out what they do by chatting with others in the community.
• If you want to enter the virtual world and take part in their activities,
• you can get help from others in the group.
• An Author's Guide to the Metaverse & How to visit Greyville Colony
• The writing communities of virtual worlds: Nara's Nook
• Devokan Trust  A Google+ community of story-builders in words and worlds
• Here is a G+ group not specific to virtual worlds: The Writers Community

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2017 PEOPLE: HELP: Interested in virtual worlds? Don't start there. Start with people. Metaverse communities

Interested in virtual worlds? Don't start there.    
Start with people.   Metaverse communities. 
Updated 1/24/2017

Virtual worlds are made of people.  Find out what happens in virtual worlds by listening to the people.  You can listen to them in Google communities. Just join a community that interests you.     You can see the pictures they take.  You can see the videos they make.  You can talk to the people there.  You can even get help in coming into a virtual world. 

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• Virtual worlds are really made of people.  So start with  people.  
• Those avatars have real people behind them.  
• And we talk a lot in public--on the web.
• So drop in on us, see what we are doing.
• You'll find out why we are interested in virtual worlds.
• Google communities are a good place to start.  
• After the break, I give links to some of the communities in virtual worlds
• See if any of those match your interests, join them, ask what is going on
• To search this page on Google Chrome, press Ctrl+f.  Type search term in bar, upper right. 

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Kerouac & Beat Poetry Short Poetry Workshop Tue, 3/15 7pm SLT 

Because this week is Jack Kerouac’s birthday, the Short Poetry Workshop will celebrate with poets across the world by performing Beat Poetry in the style of Kerouac. Join us at the Short Poetry Library to learn, write and share the Beat.

Go there

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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2016 VIDEO: PEOPLE: Tropical island to Grand Canyon, digital moon to snow-capped mountains. Sight-seeing is better with friends

Tropical island to Grand Canyon, 
digital moon to snow-capped mountains.
Sight-seeing is better with friends

Virtual worlds let someone create replicas of huge sight-seeing vistas.  But would you go to Grand Canyon by yourself?  Alone?  The Drax files gets the key.  Elegant replicas of scenic vistas that you can walk around in, that you can visit with your friends.  Sure, the real thing would be even more attractive, but how often can you go there?  You can visit you virtual replica any time, with any friends.   

• Watch on YouTube

"People feel a sense of presence in Second Life without any fancy input devices simply because they are touched by the relationships with others they have in the moment. I help them to feel they belong there by making their surroundings real and beautiful!"

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection
• VWBPE Video collection

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