I’ve mentioned this before but here we go again. Second Life could do with more ways for people to share information about events, places and sims by allowing people to easily embed that information into blog posts.
Flickr allows you to embed or copy the code of a picture easily so that you can included it in a blog post :
YouTube makes it easy for you to share or embed videos :
These quick and easy ways of sharing content from social media sites help to not only promote your own content, they help to promote the brand of the platform you publish on. Second Life is a little lacking in this area when it comes to sharing content from Second Life on blogs. Let’s look at some more social media examples.
From Facebook, you can embed posts :
From Google + you can embed posts :
From Twitter you can embed Tweets :
New Blog Post – Interesting ideas emerge after LL invite feedback on suggestions for @SecondLife more Orcs needed : http://t.co/klQH2ZpL2H — Ciaran Laval (@Ciaran_Laval) December 12, 2014
From Second Life you can create an ad widget for Destination Guide locations :
Winter Holiday Village
Christmas time fun is here and Winter Holiday Village is open for it’s 6th winter on the grid. Winter Holiday Village is chock full of wintertime goodness, fun and snow! Visit Polar Bear Pond, Penguin Park, slippery slopes, ice tunnels, arctic scenery, ice skating and so much more with surprises around every corner. Santa even makes personal appearances November 28th through December 24th.
Visit in Second Life
However there’s not really a lot that can be done with events, places and regions and this seems a great pity because giving some oomph to events, places and regions for blog posts would add depth to the promotion of them.
The Destination Guide links work really well and I’d really like to see them extended to other areas so that people can promote the good (and of course bad) things that Second Life has to offer in a much more vibrant format. Obviously it’s possible for people to create some code of their own to give life to these areas, but as we can see from the likes of Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and Google +, making it easy for users to do this is beneficial.