The Future of Social Media and Virtual Worlds – Immersive 3D
Web Environments, Experiences, and Education
Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond [email protected] uniqueasyou.com
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Zinnia Zauber in Second Life
Sign Up! Top Social Media Sites
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.linkedin.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.secondlife.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.linkedin.com
http://www.foursquare.com
http://www.wordpress.com
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.tumblr.com
Your Avatar
Unlock your best self through the use of an avatar
and your positive presence through social media.
An avatar is a visual representation of yourself and
a form of Personal Branding that must
communicate your enthusiasm, openness, and
mission to tap those productive emotional
interactions and encouraging participation that
online communities utilize.
Facebook
Choose between a Business and Personal account,
you can be only one entity on Facebook. Having a
Personal account gives you more options,
connections, and flexibility while still maintaining a
professional presence on Facebook.
Applications / app – programs, widgets,
games and etc that show up on your Profile
and Wall.
Avatar - a creative representation of yourself in the
form of a three-dimensional model or visual icon
used for online communities, social networks,
blogs, and virtual worlds.
Comment – give feedback.
Groups – peer-to-peer social space in
Facebook.
Like – fast positive feedback.
Link – you can share a link to another
webpage.
News Feed / Stream - an automated list of all the
stories and activity of you, your friends,
groups, and pages.
Pages – public Facebook Pages for artists,
groups, companies, brands, entities that are
not individuals.
Photos – you can upload photos to share and
put in albums, add comments, and tag.
Profile – page that contains your stories,
interactions with friends, personal profile
information.
Requests – friendly inquires for you to answer for
friend requests, friend suggestions, event
invites, and application requests.
Wall – the stream on your Profile page
where Friends can post public messages,
stories and status updates are posted there.
Your Business Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
Set your Usernames for your Profile and Pages,
that is your Facebook URL
http://www.facebook.com/username
Create badges and banners on your websites and
blogs to direct people to your Facebook Page.
http://www.facebook.com/badges
Twitter - micro-blogging technology that creates
effective, fast paced networking and drives people
to seek out more about you and your activities with
140 characters and Twitter applications.
Friends – your connections.
Create a Twitter Handle @yourname
Choose your avatar picture wisely.
Bio (you have 140 characters)
Make a custom background design for your page.
The background remains still as you scroll.
Tweet – a post / update / status in the Twitter
Stream.
Twitter Stream – current tweets like a newsfeed.
Followers – users who follower your Twitter
Stream.
Following – users’ streams that you follow.
ReTweet / RT - To repost a tweet that has been
posted in Twitter stream.
@reply / at reply - a direct tweet or message sent
to a Twitter user.
# / Hash Tag / hashtags – a way to tag tweets by
keywords / topics / subjects
environments, creative social networking, and
discover the future of online existence through
collaboration, economics, art, activism, and
training. It is a place to express yourself with
positive action.
Your Quick Start Guide is at
http://secondlife.com/support/quickstart/basic/all-inone
Take a class with me – Social Media: Second
Life April 30 call 417-6340 to sign up.
Join a group of friendly avatars – Join Sequim
Humanities and Arts Alliance
Ask for help - most people in Second Life are
smart and friendly. Pay It Forward is a movement in
SL that encourages helpful behavior,
understanding, and life long learning.
Prim – short for primitive, the 3D objects that are
the building blocks of everything in Second Life.
Online resources:
Add Links! Always add Links! Use shorten URLs on
Twitter like - http://ow.ly
http://wiki.secondlife.com
Photosharing on Twitter - http://twitpic.com
http://secondlife.com/destinations
Use an Apps to improve your Twittering
Get to know all the Torley Linden Videos!
http://secondlife.com/my/whatnext/video-tutorials/
http://hootsuite.com/
Lifestreams - a chronological aggregated view
Second Life / Virtual Worlds
Virtual Worlds are the future of online
communication. Learn to create an avatar, navigate
through immersive 3-D environments, engage in
innovative learning, and research your personal
interests.
Sign up and download the Second life viewer at
http://www.secondlife.com
Working in Second Life
Zinnia Zauber creates, connects, and collaborates
with color and conviction in Second Life. Second
Life is a free 3D virtual world owned by Linden Labs
and uniquely created by its Residents. It is free to
join at www.SecondLife.com. There you, as an
avatar, can interact in a productive immersive
environment with real people from all over the
world. You can explore the educational
of your life content or activity provided online and
off by you and friends.
http://www.tumblr.com
http://flavors.me
https://posterous.com
Maintain Your Social Media Goals
Limit your time and be super efficient. Think ahead
about what you want to share. Photos, Video and
Links are awesome!
Create badges and banners on your websites and
blogs to direct people to your Facebook Page.
http://www.facebook.com/badges
Create a Twitter Widget at
http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets
Use Social Media for Social Good
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