Book description
You've heard all about Second Life. Maybe you've already jumped with
both feet-and gotten stuck. Or maybe you're a Second Life veteran who
wants to build something or run a business. Fear not!
Second Life For Dummies
is hear to hold your hand, pat your back, and cheer you on through this
new and enchanting reality.
Written by a pair of Second Life old
timers, this easy-to-use, flip-and-find guide is packed with expert
advice, seasoned insight, and handy tips and tricks to get you moving
fast. You'll find out how to set up your account, create an avatar,
meet people and socialize, and find your comfort zone and stay in it.
But it's a big world out there, so you'll also learn how to make
stuff, buy stuff, do stuff, and keep track of all the stuff you're
accumulating. Discover how to
- Install Second Life get started
- Create and customize your avatar
- Meet and get to know fascinating people
- Stay safe and comfortable as you learn and explore
- Make, wear, and sell your own fashions
- Script your Second Life
- Buy land and build a house
- Become a land baron or a money maker
- Make real money in Second Life
- Get a real-life education-even a degree
Complete with fantastic lists of cool places, answers to big
questions, and supplemental software, Second Life For Dummies
is your ticket to a great virtual adventure.
Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins is the Director of
Emerging Technologies for Media Sauce (www. mediasauce. com) in
Carmel, Indiana, as well as a Ph. D. candidate in Rhetoric at Ball
State University, where she teaches Rhetoric and Composition by using
Second Life. She currently spends her time blogging at Ubernoggin. com
and researching technology trends for education and marketing. She's
frequently on the go, giving talks all over the country about Second
Life and Web 2. 0 topics.
Sarah is the proud mother of
five-year-old triplets (Morrigan, Teagan, and Xander), who recognize
her avatar as “Mommy!” When she's not hanging with the munchkins,
she's reading a few hundred blogs daily, attending seminars, knitting,
and collecting socks. And yes, she does have pink hair in real life, too!
Mark Bell is a Ph. D. student in Telecommunications at Indiana
University, where he studies social networks in virtual worlds with
the Synthetic Worlds Initiative. Before going back to school, Mark
spent 14 years in the software industry as a trainer, a documentation
specialist, and an all-about super geek. He is a Canadian transplant
in Hoosier Land and gets back across the border north (where they
understand “real sports”) as often as he can. Mark is the father of
Jackson, who is five. Mark blogs at Storygeek. com
In their
“free” time, Mark and Sarah run the Second Life Researcher's List
(SLRL), throw parties for their starving grad student friends, and
play Wii games with four five-year-olds.
