Bringing Your Community into Second Life
Linden Lab provides several opportunities for you to bring existing communities or groups in to Second Life. This is an overview; you'll find more information in our Knowledge Base (http://support.secondlife.com). You'll also find Solution Providers who can assist you in creating a presence, building your Orientation Island, or building the entire process from website to community activities.
Creating your own content and space in Second Life
You can engage your community in Second Life by creating a space for them to meet, interact, and engage with your content or content created by your community. Options range from highly public space in the Mainland to completely private islands that are only available to your community. Many communities provide housing (for a fee) as a way to further engage their residents and, as in the real world, to provide local traffic, as well as holding events to enable meeting and sharing with other community members.
Bringing your community into Second Life
Linden Lab offers a Registration API that you can use to register your community for Second Life accounts from your web page, with your branding. When they download the Second Life viewer and log in, they are at an area that you designate (for example, your Orientation Island). This gives you an easy way to bring your existing community into Second Life and engage them with your Second Life content.
Bringing a larger community into Second Life
The Community Gateway program offers you an opportunity to publicize your community to people registering for Second Life on Linden Lab's registration page. This enables you to reach out to people interested in Second Life and engage them in your community.
Creating a custom Second Life experience
The Open Source client offers you a way to completely customize the user experience with Second Life, from branding the viewer itself to the configuration and functionality. Through our Viewer commercial license, you can create your own version of the Second Life viewer to distribute to your registrants.