Blogging & tweeting from Second Life

19/02/2008 by nicola.

Only test posts in there at the moment, so I wouldn’t bother looking at. Using an app called BlogHud which at the moment is appearing on a separate blog. I am attempting to link it to my regular blog, but this will also wait until I can spend more time in there, but if you are interested in following anything I am going to be up to in SL may be worth getting a feed or checking in once a week, something like that.

Am also able to now ‘tweet’ in and out of Second Life using an app called Twitterbox. It only took a few mins to find and set up - but part of it does involve looking at a piece of code (for anyone who has never coded anything and finds the idea terrifying) and sticking in your twitter details. the instructions are very very easy to follow and it simply won’t accept your details if you either stick them in the wrong place or think you might have deleted something by mistake, so you can’t really go too far wrong

Have posted elsewhere but this can be very useful for a backup, if you are with a bunch of people who have not used Second Life for the first time and you have arranged an event/meeting in-world, if they are either running late, experiencing technical difficulties / logging in/ can’t figure out how to move / have teleported to a different location by mistake and / or lost, they could use either their phone or open a web page, to send a tweet through to you, which you can pick up.
Getting in and finding way around can be a big learning curve and if this is their first experience, it could put them off, but finding a back up plan - such as twitter, can help them overcome ‘perceived’ hurdles.

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