[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

41 minutes ago, Draxtor Despres said:

The door is WIDE open and we constantly do outreach [Strawberry, I and others] but we can only respond to people who come forward. As for style I would encourage you to check out the full offerings of videos including the ones that do NOT feature real life footage. And in regards to what "most people in SL" want = with all due respect I disagree with your opinion. I think it is pretty unknowable what "people" actually want. And that is true for any gigantic place with countless subcultures and micro niches

As documented on Twitter, I reached out to you...but you blocked/muted me after you posted a picture of yourself in a Bernie Sanders T-shirt and I reacted with confusion.

I know it's a savage battleground of "you're either with me or against me" at the moment, but there is life after an election.

Smashing perceived threats with a brick doesn't bode well for community building!

[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

20 minutes ago, Quartz Mole said:

Try attaching your facial animation HUD in an area where you can run scripts, before you tp to Ahern.   

If the HUD is properly scripted, it should continue to work in no script areas, so long as it's attached and running when you arrive there.

No that doesn't work...the second thing I tried!

The same method would allow abusive residents to use griefing objects...the very reason I suspect scripts were banned there in the first place.

[Flashpoint]

 

[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

Well this was made in SL!

 

[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

On 3/5/2020 at 6:21 AM, Beth Macbain said:

Also, @Strawberry Linden's new resident tutorials don't get near enough exposure and/or credit. They should be playing at the end of the hallway after new residents learn how to walk, jump, and fly. The information is much more helpful for anyone who joined SL because they saw one of these ads and the gorgeous avatars and are trying to figure out what they're supposed to be doing. 

If I recall correctly, Strawberry got her videos on YouTube copyright struck by LL themselves.

It was reversed of course, but It's part of my longtime gripe with how they handle things.

Too many staff not communicating & assuming everyone's a troublemaker till they can prove otherwise...or are too well known to ignore.

[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

Against my better judgement I decided to give it one last try.

I went to Ahern to try and do a comic on "Second Life Avatar uses Second Life to see what the fuss is about".😄

Okay...some surprised facial animations....wait...no scripts?

Well then.....................um.............................yeah.....so much for that idea!

[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

3 hours ago, Beth Macbain said:

I'm curious about the subject matter of your photos and what they could contain that would get you banned from the official SL Flickr group.

I think it was a Deadpool pic, Disney IP

[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

Mixed feelings reading this discussion.

Back when I joined SL I really wanted to help LL market it, even though I didn't know how.

I knew there was no money or fame or glory in it, just an old habit.

I've been working since I left high school & you do your part to make the company rise, it's habit.

I tried making marketplace items but, they got banned for various reasons I don't recall, maybe IP similarity to Disney property (anyone would panic smash items that dared incurred the wrath of those lawyers)...ran away from that idea scared I'd get banned...account was too important to me!

Then I tried making Flickr pics, even added some to the official SL group...got banned...never an explanation!

The ban was lifted recently which was bittersweet as it was after Wagner James Au asked me to DM him with the details on Twitter...sinking feeling it only got noticed & reversed out of fear I'd talk to the press.

Today...I approach 8.6 million views on Flickr, each picture created in SL gets about 500 people a day, also on Twitter, Deviant Art, YouTube...spreading everything i create in here far & wide.

You'd think that would be prime to do a bit of advertising, drop a link here & there...but I've removed all mention of Second Life from my work.

I got ignored, treated like a troublemaker, punished like I was out to screw the system.

How can LL market SL better?

................................know what you've got...before it's gone!

[Question about high-quality snapshots]

...thought it was just me

[What are you listening to?]

 

[What are you listening to?]

 

[Music Videos?]

On 5/25/2019 at 12:26 PM, JordanRizzo said:

So, I enjoy taking SL pics. I have a couple of Flickr accounts to show off my work, and it's fun and all. But more than anything, I enjoy making sl music videos. I don't seem to find this much, only able to think of a handful of video creators. I wonder why this is such a dying art form on the grid. Anyone out there also creates videos? I'd really love to just connect with someone. Check out my channel below. I'm filming a movie next and just would love to bump heads with fellow video creators!

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMDKsx5mTTETa-0eAvK30eQ/videos

 

 

I sure do!🤣

 

[Personality Type]

11 hours ago, Eva Knoller said:

I’ve noticed some talk of personality types in recent threads, and am curious to see who identifies as introvert vs. extrovert. SL seems to appeal the the introvert in a lot of people.

I am an introvert who is forced to be extroverted at work and professional settings. As a result I REALLY value my recharge time. 

Please indulge my curiosity! 
 

Extrovert...hoo boy do I crave centre stage!

[is SL going to die ?]

The most frustrating thing I've found about getting new people into SL is the "Mistaken for something else" problem.

As in you ask them what they want...and they describe SL to a tee...but then say they don't use SL because it "doesn't have what they want".🤨

Like saying "No thank you I don't drink cola...do you have any Pepsi?"

[Why isn't there a Linden Embassy?]

We often hear the lindens roam around SL interacting with residents as they go about their business.

So, why is that such a rare occurrence?

We used to have meet the lindens events in random sims around the place but that's more of a meet & greet, not a customer service situation.

We always heard SL was the golden new frontier of work & how businesses can interact with their user base so why has one of the central tenets of virtual worlds seemingly been squandered?

[is SL going to die ?]

Hugo's Design!

I run promo events for them and the brand is the strongest in the fetish/latex scene!

[is SL going to die ?]

1 hour ago, Qie Niangao said:

Not sure where the Sansar thread is; maybe there's been a sudden turn-around in the past couple months. I suppose I should pop in again although it's difficult to work up much enthusiasm for downloading it. Everybody else always enthuses about how great the graphics are (if only there were any people around) but even the supposedly wondrous graphics don't do anything special for me. I mention "the past couple months" because the statistics I'd been watching are stuck somewhere in August -- evidently the API broke and I guess nobody could be bothered to investigate. It's kinda too bad because those were supposed to have been the all-inclusive numbers, not just the Steam entry statistics (which don't really look any better than before).

That cross-subsidy was to be expected at first but there needs to be an actual customer base by now or it's high time to pull the plug. I get the feeling that the whole VR industry is based on the sunk cost fallacy leavened by an eternal spring of hope for consumer adoption of the next big hardware announcement, always just around the corner.

Oh did you hear the Occulus blah de blah is coming out in fnar whoop de do?

[Landscape Photographs!]

On 5/9/2019 at 5:35 AM, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It seems odd that there is no thread here for landscape photography, which is actually a pretty popular genre of photograph in SL. So I thought I'd start one!

I am not disinterested: I've been focusing in my photography on the avatar (portraits or figure-in-landscape), but I'm interested in learning how to do landscapes properly and well. So I'm hoping that, in addition to awesome photos of SL landscapes, people will have hints and ideas on how best to go about landscape photography in Second Life, and maybe even offer constructive critique of my pics!

So, here's my first offering, taken at Whimberly (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whimberly/229/109/32). (It seems to me logical that people should include locations and maybe SLURLs with their landscapes here?) It's my first really conscious attempt to photograph just a landscape, and I'd love to hear ideas to help me do better next time!

And please, post your own! I want to steal be inspired by your awesome ideas!

 

Tried the widescreen thing?

Just zoom back a bit & take a pic in Firestorm that's 6000x2000!

[is SL going to die ?]

On 10/14/2019 at 1:29 AM, raa21 said:

so i have been gone for like 5 months and many things changed 

Many socials islands are closed or others are dead,
Many people got banned from social islands My old friends are gone because of this decision

I used to run a store and was making around 20k lindens per months and now not many people buying.
Even my landord sold all of his land. 

I guess they are promoting Sansar more and more....not sure but SL used to be a very coool....
User activity is decreasing... SL needs more social placed where people can meet and greet 

I guess they are going to close (or merge) SL and will promote Sansar.. not sure

 

Share your thoughts....... 

 

 

You may have got an overly "what's on the label" idea of Sansar there!

The reality is we haven't found much use for it.

Sure there is worryingly "stepford wives" levels of enthusiasm from those who stand to gain from it (Bloggers, influencers & such) but for your average resident it's a new rendering engine (one of the best really) with very little content.

Que the excuses about content will come, but it's recognised as harder to produce than in SL.

I get it...tech trends are hard to predict...and there was SO much fear of missing out drummed up by VR pundits and if you're gonna make a VR platform you need to go all-in.

Linden Labs were lucky they had SL to fall back on for funding...but residents are tired of subsidising a mistake nobody wants to admit!

[My Flickr Century....]

Not seeing a link for the 101st follower😕

[Memes?]

"Yo Dwag"

[SL Blogger Network]

"Do some unpaid promotional work for us in exchange for influence".

[How does your avatar look today ?]

Kinda arty!

[Show me your funny Second Life pictures.]

Snapchat Corgi Filter

[Anyone here login into SL and Sansar?]

Sorry, I went through a lot of places that had radio going and YouTube filed no less that 8 copyright claims...so the video being unavailable is the result of the copyright holder denying that work from being aired in your region.

 

Anyway...Linden Labs grossly over-anticipated the demand of VR...Phil Rosedale too.

Everyone mistook it for one of those things where people criticize it and it becomes successful like "they laughed at the Iphone and look what happened".

"Just because we laughed at every genius throughout history, doesn't mean everyone we laugh at is a genius"