Activities and Events
- Events Planning - From an era gone by...
- A nostalgic post that describes the popularity of 'road trips' in AWTeen
- Expresses the potential value of older builds for future events
- Tours - YOU are the Key to Retaining New Users
- Two narratives about helping newcomers to AW; one by myself and the other by Urbane Chaos
- Offers numerous ideas and suggestions on how to play a role in a newcomer's AW experience
- Web - A Closer Look at Advertising 1: What should activeworlds.com represent?
- Presents an argument for identifying an audience and rotating through new content
- What sort of audience would be interested in Active Worlds?
- Praises recent attempts to integrate social media into the homepage
- Web - A Closer Look at Advertising 2: Utilizing Twitter
- Examines Twitter as a platform for AWI and content creators
- Discusses existing examples
- Web - From 3D to 2D: How do you express a 3D product in a 2D browser?
- Discusses how AW has been presented on the web historically
- Presents video as an emerging (and ideal) alternative to text for web presentation
- Web - Is grassroots advertising the answer for Active Worlds?
- Presents an argument for content creators to advertise the platform
- Discusses recent examples of content creators such as myself attempting to advertise
- Discusses minor successes of AWI's recent foray into social media
Community Noticeboard
Oftentimes I will take breaks from articles and tutorials to help promote an event, sale, or other recent news pertaining to Activeworlds. These posts are tagged as "Noticeboard" posts, and they can be viewed here.
"From my Teleports List"
A series regarding places in ActiveWorlds and my experiences there. Always includes screenshots and coordinates of the featured locations.
- Seiya's Orchard Home
- Builder: Seiya
- Location: BuildCity 6.212n 28.272e 0.3a 0
- AirSpeed
- Builder: SW Chris
- Location: AW 2417.74s 3444.94E 22.70a 263
- Architecture - Why do we pursue realism in the Virtual World?
- Conjecture on why most builders attempt to re-create reality as opposed to abstract spaces
- Community - Images For Old Friends at Sonic HQ
- A photo commentary of a build site in AWTeen that acted as the virtual home for a major gaming forum community in 2003.
- Gateway - The Forums Beat Me to the Punch!
- Discusses the merit of AWGate as a starting point for new users
- Encourages AWGate regulars & GateKeepers to take advantage of existing visual cues
- Discusses an alternative 'linear tutorial' for new users
- KnowledgeLand - My First Experience in Virtual Reality
- This post describes my first experiences in VR, the KnowledgeLand online game of the late 1990s.
- Readers were asked to comment with their first experiences; there was a wide range. This included AW, WorldsChat, 3D Dinosaur Adventure, and even some platforms dating back to the 80s!
