When i sign in to SL Dashboard, do I show as online to those inworld

[Storm Clarence]

Your dashboard is not linked to you being in-world - only your friends.  So no, when you log-in to dash you are not registered as being in-world.

[Storm Clarence]

Your dashboard is not linked to you being in-world - only your friends.  So no, when you log-in to dash you are not registered as being in-world.

[valerie Inshan]

Adding to Storm's excellent answer, the names of your friends appear in 3 different colors on your dashboard:

black: they are online, logged in SL

grey: they are offline, out of SL

green: they are online in SL and have allowed you to localize them on the world map, therefore if you click their name, you can launch the viewer and join them at the location were they are currently logged.

[roxyangel007]

Thanks for the quick responses. Its so easy to have questions answered!! Love this!