Pastor Q

I’m very new at blogging, I hadn’t realised that a blog could be used for something else besides the dubious exercise of trying to make money online. I knew that there would be some personal journals around but rarely saw them.

A friend pointed me toward Entrecard and, to be truthful, I joined mainly to stop the nagging. What a surpise it was to find such a diverse collection of blogs of all interests in an easily accessible place! So I’ve enjoyed reading quite a number on a daily basis.

Still, I couldn’t quite work out how the Entrecard system worked — until now. But now I know. I got the book!

entrecard_official_ebook.pdf

The book explains it all, how to build up credits just by visiting other blogs, how to make your entrecard widget attractive, different techniques of dropping my card and, at the risk of sounding corny, all those things that I didn’t know and really was embarassed to ask.

In fact it’s so simply explained that I’m going to add another Second Life blog to my account. Before this, you had to have different accounts, log out of one, close your browser and then open up to log into another one. Too much hassle for me.

However the new system is simplified and streamlined and I can add another blog - or 10 other blogs - and have them all neatly in one place. The entrecard PDF book lays it out step by easy step,

Thanks to the Entrecard Team, you’ve made my experience just so much better

A Stanford University study shows that people carry over the benefits of their Second Life avatars into their real lives.

For example, people with avatars skinnier than their real selves go out and lose weight. The researchers call this the “Proteus effect.”

You can extrapolate from this to see how complex, granular role-playing games can have positive effects on team dynamics, helping organizations with lots of remote workers or, worse, different parts of the organization located in different parts of the country, heal divisions and even build stronger bridges.

Here’s the study on avatars as behavioural models