Wanted: Second Life community experts for hire

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Ever wish you could get paid for your love of Second Life? This could be your chance.

Our Second Life Destination Guide pilot project is now up and running on www.livework.com!

As announced in a previous blog, we're looking for a few good Residents to help the community--but how? By finding the best destinations in Second Life! New Residents (and many oldbies too) aren't sure where to go, what to do, and how to find other people once they're inworld.

In a recent survey of Residents, two of the biggest reasons that they leave Second Life is that they either "couldn't find anyone to talk to" or "didn't know how to find interesting places to see, things to do." As a Linden, I can tell you that when I run into Residents inworld, they often ask me what they should be doing or where they should be going. Obviously, Second Life is a very subjective experience, so I always ask them what they like to do or what interests them. By creating a Destination Guide, we can all work together to discover the best of Second Life from not just one person's perspective, but from a variety of of perspectives. The Destination Guide will help potential, new, and existing Residents to discover and explore some of the amazing regions and communities within Second Life.

What do we want to include in the Guide? In addition to highlighting places based on their creativity and/or aesthetic impact, we will be looking for places with large and active communities. As the successor to the Showcase guide (featured on the website and inside SL), the Destination Guide will feature regular updates and expanded categories that highlight interesting and active spaces that we hope Residents will want to visit.

As members of the Second Life community, you're the experts we're looking for to create this Destination Guide. To help us in this endeavor, Linden Lab has partnered with LiveWork, an organization designed to help companies to outsource ongoing projects to a distributed team of experts.

Here's how it works:

1. Click here to see the Destination Guide Copywriter position. You'll be prompted to sign in to LiveWork. If you don't already have a LiveWork account, you can register for free as an expert.
2. To register, you'll need to create a profile that includes a summary of your skills, work history, resume, and/or any other related areas of expertise you have to share. Be sure to include your Second Life name! Qualified applicants must have a Second Life account (six months' old or more) in good standing.
3. Click the Account link at the top right-hand side of the page to include your contact information and other indicated preferences. The LiveWork platform uses PayPal as their method of payment, so, you must have a PayPal account to get paid.
4. Once signed in, click here to view the Copywriter position.
5. If you're interested in participating in this project, click the Apply button.

Selected candidates will be contacted in mid-October for the next steps in the hiring process, including a written test to assess English skills.

Managed by Lindens and staffed by Residents, this pilot project is the first of its kind for us: We're really excited about this new type of collaboration with Residents! We will only be hiring a handful of Residents for this particular project, but if all goes well, we're hoping to add more projects and invite Residents to apply through LiveWork. We'll keep you posted as we move forward and let you know how it's going.

Thanks to everyone who applies and participates in this project! We appreciate your support.