Friday, June 13, 2008

Mentor info at my finger tips

The Volunteer Portal:
-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Volunteer_Portal
This the gateway to much of our information. There is a lot of stuff here, if you dig for it. Find links to resources for other languages (French, Spanish, Japanese, etc.)

* The Tao of Volunteers:
-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Tao_of_Volunteers

* VTEAM Blog:
-- http://vteamblog.com/
The VTEAM Blog has information about upcoming meeting & events,transcripts of meetings, and upcoming classes taught by mentors (week to week)

* Monthly Meeting Schedule:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Monthly_Mentor_Meetings_and_Events_Schedule

* Mentors Teaching Mentors
-- http://vteamblog.com/
The class announcements and schedules are maintained at the Vteam blog.

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Volunteer-sponsored_Classes
Another place

-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mentors_Teaching_Mentors
Outlines the requirements for teaching other mentors

* Mentor Goodies and Freebies
-- http://slurl.com/secondlife/SLVEC/120/128/22
-- http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tenera/208/85/70

Go to the kiosks all around the landing zone - explore the language-specific shops, pickup the latest Orientation Island HUDS and work them yourself (keep an unused one to give to a newbie who might not have their tutorial on their screen). There are notecards with useful info, New Mentor Starter kits

* Wiki User Page creation
-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Quickie_Wiki_Intro
Shows you how to go about creating your User Profile Page (like the link at the bottom of my messages). Translated into several languages for your convenience. This page has been translated into numerous languages - and we're still looking for people to help translate into other languages. Click the language navbar at the top of the page for your locale.

* Places to volunteer
-- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Inworld_Locations_for_Volunteers
Suggestions on where to show up to help people. Translated into a couple languages.

* Helping Residents & Troubleshooting tips
-- https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Lum_Pfohl/Troubleshooting

Other sources of information
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* SL Forum (Restricted- requiring registered payment info)
-- http://forums.secondlife.com/
Discussions on scripting, access to a scripting library, the knowledge base,Animation Tips, Building Tips, Texturing Tips, Scripting Tips, Movies and Machinima, etc., etc.! Includes multi-language forums in German,Korean, Japanese, Italian and Spanish.

* SL Support Portal
-- https://support.secondlife.com
Access to FAQ's and Knowledge base and Solution Finder. Requires login (and available to basic membership residents). For premium account residents, it also allows you to navigate to a Live Chat page with Linden Support.

* Resident Blogs & Tutorials
-- http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/11/build.html
This girl is incredible! She will show you how to make everything from shoes to hair to clothing and more!

-- http://torley.com/
Torley Linden's blog where he features lots and lots of YouTube video tutorials on how to do stuff and what stuff mean.

-- http://www.vintfalken.com/
Like Natalia above, Vint Falken is another super-explorer with useful tutorials on just about any topic (including building and Photoshop)

* Use Your Search Feature
-- Press the SEARCH button and select the ALL tab. Enter 'Mentor' and search. Wiki pages, Mentor Buddy Lists can be viewed directly from inside SL without having to open up a new browser!

* When all else fails
-- http://www.google.com
Search for ' second life +site:youtube.com '
Search for ' second life tier fees '
Search for ' second life mac right click '
Search for ' second life estate tools '
so on and so forth.

* What's been going on with SL
-- http://secondlife.com/whatis/economy_stats.php