Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Second Life Help for New Residents (Lee's RLetc Guide)

07-06-2010, 11:25 AM


Second Life Help for New Residents

Where can you go to get help, information, training and the resources to get up and running and playing in Second Life?





☛ Community Gateways

"A Community Gateway (CG) is a starting point for new Residents of SL which is not maintained by Linden Lab, but by an established community in SL. These gateways offer their own orientation path to give Residents an easy start."

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Community_Gateway
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Cate...munity_Gateway




☛ Help & Welcome Centers ✰ A Best Bet

You can find locations built for the express purpose of helping new residents in Second Life. They are often populated with formal volunteers, the occasional Linden Lab employee and a whole lot of random people who just like to help and answer questions and meet people. You will often find freebies and tutorials and class schedules at the Help Centers.

Help & Welcome Centers are "a combination of content, objects, and services developed to help newcomers discover the advantages of Second Life as quickly and as easily as possible."

http://forums-archive.secondlife.com.../304365/1.html
http://rezzable.com/blog/thinkerer-m...r-notice-lists
http://thinkerer.org/SLintChan/SLinChLev1.htm




☛ RLetc.com Second Life Guides ✰ A Best Bet

Fellow RLetc.com forum whores have created Second Life Guides with all kinds of tips and tricks and good information. Right here in RLetc.com!

There are actually a lot of Second Life fan forum sites out there with people who have the ability and willingness to answer questions and help out. Google is your friend.




☛ RLetc.com inworld Second Life Group

Join RLetc.com's inworld Second Life Group. Open a Group chat. Put a call out for help. There may be a member online willing to answer questions or show you around. Give it a try.





☛ Youtube ✰ A Best Bet

Linden Lab employees and regular Second Life residents and fans have posted lots of helpful tutorial videos.





☛ Second Life Wiki ✰ A Best Bet

I'm a regular on that site. It's like a Second Life encyclopedia. Good stuff, Maynard.

You can do subject-specific searches or read the User's Manual.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Help...in_Second_Life
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Support




☛ SecondLife.com

The Second Life website has loads of useful information and links.

http://secondlife.com/destinations/howto
http://secondlife.com/support




☛ Second Life Official Blog & Forums

Second Life has a forum. There are sections of it devoted to answering questions and assisting new residents.

http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/answers




☛ Second Life
  • Second Life Help F1
  • Tutorial
  • Official Linden Blog
  • Search




☛ Second Life for Dummies

There's a Second Life for Dummies book in Second Life. You can find it at many Welcome and Freebie Centers or get it from a fellow resident.




☛ Second Life Volunteer Help Groups ✰ A Best Bet

There are Second Life Volunteer Help Groups made up of people ready, willing and knowledgable who signed up because they wanted to help people like you.

Look for them using your Search function in Second Life or on the Second Life website.





☛ People

Fellow Second Life residents. A lot of them love to help. RLetc.com members too.

One of the people who helped me the most when I first joined Second Life? A guy I met at Lar's Place, a club. The other people who have helped me? RLetc.com forum whores right here in the Second Life threads. Those Guides and discussion threads are pure GOLD. I've also used and abused Steph's patience and goodwill quite bit. I yelled "Steph" the way Brando yelled "Stella." Her request? Pass it on. "YOU help the NEXT newbie." 

One of the people Gi says has helped her the most in Second Life? A Bloodline vampire she met in a Welcome Center, who after politely accepting Gi's choice not to participate in Bloodlines, proceeded to coach her on Second Life, give her freebies and landmarks, and show her around.



What am I forgetting or missing? Loads of stuff in all likelihood! If you really look for help in Second Life, you will be overwhelmed by what's out there.



Note: The underlined headers in this thread are clickable links. Try 'em.


Continued at:  http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?2799-Second-Life-Help-for-New-Residents
 

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