Virtual Worlds – Page 289

April 29, 2011April 29, 2011

Talk to us, like Lovers do

Jezebel Bailey has taken up the Relay For Life baton from me, whereas I covered Fantasy Faire 2011, our Jezebel is covering the Relay For Life Home & Garden expo and to that end has already put the spotlight on two of the sponsors, Stonewood Homes & Interiors and Shameless Bits. I thought I’d inform you of this as an example of communication, because communication remains an issue with Linden Lab, most notably the blog, but also information that doesn’t get blogged.

Blog updates have been discussed by Tateru Nino, in a blog post that saw the strange appearance of the ghost of John Howard Galt, who has a strange view on communications to say the least.

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April 28, 2011April 29, 2011

RFL Home & Garden Expo Sponser Spotlight — Shameless Bits

Shameless Bits!!

Bringing romance into SL at affordable prices. With loving beach and outdoor furniture which helps to set the mood for those romantic moments! You can find everything to make your outdoors (and even indoors) as romantic as can be!

They also have a pretty extensive landscaping section as well, including “Kissing Trees”, that let you kiss and dance and cuddle on the branches, try one out.

There is also a pretty great Midnight Mania board. All new releases go in it (a Lite version of course). They try to have new releases twice a week, and the full version of those items can be purchased 1/2 off until the board changes.

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MIDNIGHT MANIA:
There is a new item for the store twice a week. The new release are put into the Midnight Mania Board. It’s a lite version of the new release (usually 2-5 animations – the full version usually has around 50-100 animations). There’s always something pretty nice on the board, come slap it as you’re looking around!
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April 28, 2011April 29, 2011

RFL Home & Garden Expo Sponser Spotlight — Stonewood Homes & Interiors

*Stonewood Homes & Interiors*

Owners, Rider Raleigh and Hailie Callisto, have been working together for the past two years to bring you quality Second Life Homes and Furniture. You will be amazed at the attention to detail from the build to the textures. As well as log homes and cabins, Rider has expanded his homes to include Southwestern and Tuscan styles. All homes come complete with a Home Control System that control the doors , and windows. There is also a built in radio controller. The kitchens have menu operated stoves and open/close refrigerators. The homes are completely modifiable. You can change textures, duplicate parts, alter structure to suit your imagination.

Stonewood Homes & Interiors also offers a wide range of cabin and Southwestern style furniture. You can find everything from bedrooms, to living rooms, kitchens, baths, spa’s as well as dining rooms. Accent pieces include flowers, candles, lamps, just about anything you need to furnish your home with elegance. Rider & Hailie have combined their talents in all avenues of home building and home furnishing to bring you top quality country home living.

Stonewood Homes & Interiors has just added a third sim on which they just opened a flower shop and it is also where you can find the Southerstern Homes. Continue reading “RFL Home & Garden Expo Sponser Spotlight — Stonewood Homes & Interiors”

April 21, 2011April 21, 2011

To Noob Or Not To Noob

There was a very interesting Community Tools User Group Meeting tonight, interesting because Amanda opened up the floor to brainstorming rather than going over old ground, which was nice. Quite a few suggestions were raised and there was discussion whether “Noob” is a derogatory term, I ony see it as derogatory when it’s used in a derogatory manner, which is usually when an experienced user is called a Noob by someone else, this happens in World Of Warcraft a lot!

However when it comes to retaining new users and helping them, we really need to start with looking at the new user experience and that means delving into basic mode in viewer 2, to be a noob, you have to become a noob …. or something like that! The issue with basic mode in viewer 2 is that it’s very basic, it also has some features that I think older residents would benefit from. However when it comes to ideas about new user orientation, people really need to understand how basic, basic mode is, there’s no inventory, no file menu, no Linden dollars!

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April 20, 2011April 20, 2011

The Power of Advertising

Rodvik’s Twittering has got tongues wagging, opened a dialogue and started to exemplify the reach of Twitter. The official @secondlife Twitter account has 22,862 followers as I type this. That figure could change during the course of this blog post, but not by much. Now some of those accounts will be dormant, many of them won’t see any official Tweets, but it gives a good idea of the potential for promoting Second Life on Twitter, because some people will retweet any initiatives, which then extends reach further.

This is low cost advertising, Twitter is free to use but there’s a cost implication with Linden Lab getting someone to Tweet, so it’s not a no cost operation, but it’s pretty damn low cost. Advertising is something Linden Lab don’t do well, some people find advertising a bit tacky, but it’s a cold hard reality that it needs to take place and Linden Lab need to open up their eyes not only to advertising initiatives of their own, but also of advertising via their customers, be that on the forums, blog sites, Twitter, Plurk ……. yes even bloody Facebook! Although the jury is out there with their silly no pseduonyms BS, but we’ll come to that later.

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