How To Blog from Second Life - Dedric Mauriac

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How To Blog from Second Life - Dedric Mauriac
Dedric Mauriac
The Virtual Persona of Lewis Moten
Blogging from Second Life I have blogged from Second Life since the year of 2005. It originally started out with me taking screen shots, saving them to my local hard disk, and manually posting the content to my blog outside of the virtual world. Since that time, I have made much progress to blogging directly in-world as well as cross-posting to my accounts on social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Plurk and Twitter.
The general goal for this article is to enable you to take a snapshot from within Second Life, send it as an email, and then have it appear on a traditional blog as a post through automated processes. It is like moblogging (Mobile Blogging) with an image with each post, except that you are not using a camera phone. From there, I will expand how to cross-post to social networks and use the technique to take advantage of other services. Many of the services are provided free for everyone to use. In this article, I will attempt to give multiple solutions for flexibility. The topics covered are: 1. Setup a blog 2. Get a Second Life 1. Blogging Tips for snapshots 3. Snapshot Hosting 4. Cross-Posting 1. Feed Polling 2. Status Aggregators 5. In-world Displays 6. Additional Services 7. Future Changes
Summary I write about things that I do in virtual environments such as content creation, scripting, marketing, education, publishing, and social collaboration. I may also offer free opinions from time to time regarding news about virtual worlds.

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I've had some questions directed towards me about a recent post about my social media setup where I post snapshots in-world to many different social networks without lifting a finger outside of the virtual world.Since I've been snowed in most of the day, I worked on a document outlining the different parts of automated cross-posting, techniques, and different options to consider when cross-posting. Just like my own cross-posting setup, this is a work in progress, but should serve to help answer many questions that new folks may have regarding these services, limitations, and in general, gaining knowledge about there existance.

Blogging from Second Life

Good luck. You'll need it!

Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac - Visit Applewood

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