User:Torley Linden/Postcards

I'll teach you how to share your postcards with the world so you can easily capture and broadcast your Second Life memories. This is how I do it; feel free to adapt and vary to fit your needs best.

The first step is choosing one or more sites which will display your postcards. I use these, each of which has cool, unique features:

• SLBuzz
• Snapzilla
• BlogHUD

Optional but useful: these three sites also allow you to crosspost if you have a Flickr account. What's the advantage? Saved time and no extra "Second Life" logo image also appearing, which is a by-product of the original postcard which doesn't get automatically stripped out, and an annoyance if you use the regular email-to-Flickr. All you need to do is login via these links as applicable and set it up:

• SLBuzz-to-Flickr
• Snapzilla-to-Flickr
• BlogHUD-to-Flickr

Since you don't likely don't want your postcards appearing at Flickr in triplicate, I suggest selecting one crosspost service. I use SLBuzz's because I like the styled "Visit..." SLURL inclusion, which makes it easy for anyone to teleport to the location I took the postcard at. See an example.

Once you've got that setup, you're ready to send a postcard — not just to any email address, but the special email addresses each of these sites use. I send to these:

• SLBuzz's special Flickr crosspost addy - flickr@slbuzz.com
• Snapzilla's general addy (just about any alias will do) - x@slpics.com
• BlogHUD's - pix@bloghud.com

and I also email myself for an extra copy.

Here's what it looks like: