{"id":4513,"date":"2014-12-24T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2014-12-24T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:10:07","slug":"linden-lab-provide-a-gift-create-a-contest-concierge-support-get-christmas-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"Linden Lab Provide A Gift, Create A Contest &#038; Concierge Support Get Christmas Day Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linden Lab have announced a new snapshot contest for the holiday season as well as news of a Christmas Gift : <a title=\"Gift and Contet\" href=\"http:\/\/community.secondlife.com\/t5\/Featured-News\/Celebrate-the-New-Year-amp-Pick-Up-Your-Holiday-Gift\/ba-p\/2878761\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrate the New Year &amp; Pick Up Your Holiday Gift!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">We want to know how you celebrate the coming of the New Year in our New Year Snapshot Contest. If it\u2019s a whole new look for your avatar, or an inworld party to celebrate \u2014 share your snapshots for a chance to win L$10,000, L$5,000, L$3,000 or L$1,000.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To enter the contest you will need to go to the official Second Life forum post : <a title=\"Snapshot Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/community.secondlife.com\/t5\/2014-New-Year-Contest\/con-p\/2014_New_Year_Contest\" target=\"_blank\">2014 New Year Contest<\/a>. The rules seem to be <a title=\"Contest Rules\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.secondlife.com\/wiki\/2014_Second_Life_New_Year_Snapshot_Contest_Rules\" target=\"_blank\">on the Wiki<\/a> and are worth reading, especially if you live in Canada because there&#8217;s a requirement for Canadian based Second Life residents to also perform a maths test.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown of prizes is :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Grand Prize \u2013 10,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at US$40.00).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">First Prize \u2013 5,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at US$20.00).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Second Prize \u2013 3,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at $12.00).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Third Prize- 1,000 Linden Dollars (estimated value at $4.00).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for the gift, that will entail making a visit to Portal Park.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Portal Park is where you will find a lot of Linden Lab created activities, it has also been decorated for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sl-dg-widget\" style=\"background-image: none; border: 1px solid #2c2e30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: auto; width: 450px; display: block; background-color: #2c2e30;\"><a style=\"border: none; color: #5cb192; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 5px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/destination\/portal-park-1?sourceid=dgw1\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 440px; display: inline; border: initial none initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lecs-destinations-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com\/img\/13292\/53c41da7b3353670951857.png?w=525\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #5cb192; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-size: 20px; line-height: 22px; padding: 6px 0px 3px 2px; margin: 3px 0px 0px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">Portal Park 1<\/h1>\n<p style=\"border: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 7px 5px 0px; padding: 2px 0px 3px 3px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; color: #bbbbbb;\">The Portal Park is your launching pad to several great experiences in Second Life. Start here for easy access portals that will teleport you to The Cornfield, The Wilderness, Linden Realms and more!<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"sl-dg-widget-btn\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 0px 1px 3px 0px; background-color: #ff5c00; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#FFB23F), to(#FF9A03)); border-bottom-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.246094); border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: none; outline-color: white; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 3px 0 5px 0; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.246094) 0px -1px 1px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%; border-width: 0px;\">Visit in Second Life<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"dgw-pix\"><\/span><!-- End Second Life Destination Link -->Once you reach Portal Park, you&#8217;re looking for a red gift box. There&#8217;s more than one incarnation of Portal Park in Second Life but here&#8217;s the SLURL for one of them :<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Portal Park 1\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Portal%20Park%201\/133\/119\/23\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Portal%20Park%201\/133\/119\/23\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then comes the news regarding Concierge support :\u00a0<a title=\"Concierge Support Closed For Christmas Day\" href=\"http:\/\/status.secondlifegrid.net\/2014\/12\/24\/post2446\/\" target=\"_blank\">Concierge Phone and Chat Support Closing for Christmas Day<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Concierge phone and chat support will be offline Thursday, 25 December, so that team members can spend the Christmas holiday with their friends and family. Both services will close at midnight Wednesday evening and will re-open at 8am Pacific on Friday morning.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope everyone will wish the hard working support team a Merry Christmas and a well earned day off. I would imagine that the Concierge team did a happy dance upon hearing this news, possibly something like this :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a3-sAh5e39k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With thanks to Jupi Shinn for uploading the clip.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4513\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linden Lab have announced a new snapshot contest for the holiday season as well as news of a Christmas Gift : Celebrate the New Year &amp; Pick Up Your Holiday Gift! We want to know how you celebrate the coming of the New Year in our New Year Snapshot Contest. If it\u2019s a whole new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linden Lab Provide A Gift, Create A Contest &#038; Concierge Support Get Christmas Day Off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,17,14],"tags":[19,1022],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1aN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}