Business, Education, and Marketing

This is a temporary home page for content being moved from Developer Resources on secondlife.com.

Before going live, all links should have a brief description of what they provide.

Press Kit/LL & SL Info

• Company Overview- including company background, fact sheet, and management profiles
• Second Life Overview- overview of SL features
• Second Life Technology - technologies used to create the SL experience
• SL Image Gallery - SL screenshots
• Press Contacts - contacts for media inquiries
• Linden Lab Press Releases
• Recent Articles in the News about Second Life & Linden Lab
• Links to Second Life Economic Data- includes statistics, graphs, and market data

Marketing Content

• Brands - lists of publicly announced brands in SL, as well as non-profit and government organizations
  • Tateru's Mixed Reality Headcount - Compares traffic to the top 3 native-SL businesses versus 10 RL businesses in SL
• SL Videos - SL-related videos, by category
• Business Blogs - blogs about business uses of Second Life
• Recent Business Articles - Articles about business in SL
• Developer Project Articles - Content about projects by Second Life Solution Providers
• Marketing Your Products In Second Life
• SL-related web applications - Web services or applications that extend Second Life
• MailingLists - Mailing lists directed at businesses involved in SL
• Classifieds&Exchanges - Employment and project listing exchanges & classifieds
• SLPeriodicals - SL-related periodicals, including editorial and advertising contact information
• UserGroups - Second Life-related user groups
  • GIS use in SL: http://slgis.org/
  • Corporate Business Council
• Volunteer_Portal- The Volunteer Portal not only provides some useful resources for dealing with Second Life, but also provides access to knowledgeable, enthusiastic Residents who may be interested in being hired to support events and activities in Second Life

Market Research & Data

• Market Data Home
• Links to Demographic Studies - a list of available studies about our residents and their RL behavior.
• The 2007 Second Life Market Data Project - A group is spearheading a collaborative effort to get voluntary data from a large group of Residents during this calendar year.
• Market_Research_Suppliers

Presentations

• Businesses in Second Life - Introduction of SL to those interested in business in SL. Includes history, core principles, uses of SL for the business community, and how to enter SL (includes notes)
  • PDF Version: http://s3.amazonaws.com/linden-presentations/SLBizU_Public_0705_PDF.pdf
  • Notes in PDF: http://s3.amazonaws.com/linden-presentations/SLBizU_Public_0705_Notes.pdf

Issue Tracker

• Recently resolved issues (general resolutions in last two weeks)

» https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10100

• All fixed bugs, sorted by votes

» https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10234

• • You just need to login with your Second Life name, then you can see the growing lists. Also to emphasize community spirit, some of these bugs were patched by Residents!
• More handy filters are on the front of https://jira.secondlife.com , and if there are more you think would be extremely useful, please suggest. :)

Getting Started

• Frequently Asked Questions (from What Is Second Life?)
• New Media Consortium's Getting Started
• Getting Started in Second Life by Random Unsung and Prokofy Neva
• How to learn about Second Life before learning Second Life (Eric Rice)
• Getting Started in LSL scripting in Second Life
• Using the Linden Scripting Language: Tutorial on basic LSL capabilities
• Noob Be Gone Video Tutorials
• See also Recent Business Articles - Articles about business in SL