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Second Life for Dummies
Author(s): Sarah Robbins (Author), Mark Bell (Author)
- Publisher: For Dummies
- Publication Date: January 1, 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 321 pages
- ISBN-10: 0470180250
- ISBN-13: 9780470180259
Book Description
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. Youll 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 its a big world out there, so youll also learn how to make stuff, buy stuff, do stuff, and keep track of all the stuff youre 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 educationeven 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.
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From the Back Cover
Make friends, start a business and create amazing products – on your terms!
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the online world that is Second Life, Second Life For Dummies is the book for you! Written by a pair of experts who know the program inside and out, this book offers the scoop on getting around and making friends as well as how to personalize your avatar or even open a Second Life business.
Discover how to:
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Set up a Second Life account
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Customize your avatar
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Chat with other residents
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Start your own business
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Make real money
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Expand your education
About the Author
Sarah is the proud mother of five-year-old triplets (Morrigan, Teagan, and Xander), who recognize her avatar as Mommy! When shes not hanging with the munchkins, shes 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 Researchers List (SLRL), throw parties for their starving grad student friends, and play Wii games with four five-year-olds.
