Resources

Here we’ve collected our best, go-to resources in one place. Keep this handy list at your fingertips and make your organization more successful on the Second Life Grid.

General Resources

• Solution Providers
• General Land Information
• Land Store
• Paying Via Wire transfer
• The Linden Exchange (Lindex)
• Trademark, Logo Usage
• Terms of Service
• How To Articles, Overviews, and Tutorials
• The Second Life Support Center
• Mailing Lists
• Downloads

Business Resources

• Doing Business with Linden Lab
• Economics/Market Data
• Promoting Your Business/Brand on the Second Life Grid
• Second Life Classifieds and Exchanges
• SLDevelopers.com Downloads
• Fact Sheets, Guides, and White papers
• Market Data Portal
• Businesses and Organizations on the Grid

Overviews of Doing Business on the Grid

• Practical Marketing - Physical Business in Non-Physical Worlds
• The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse
• Business Week: Breathing Second Life into Business
• MSNBC: Starting a Second Life business
• Business Week: My Virtual Life
• WIRED: Making a Living in Second Life
• Business Communicators of Second Life
• Reuters: Second Life News Center
• SLNN - Text 100

Besides these overviews, you can find more comprehensive and up-to-date lists of Recent articles about business and Second Life, Business Blogs about Second Life and Videos about Second Life on the Second Life Wiki.

Solution Provider Resources

• Second Life Wiki Marketing Links
• Second Life Wiki Solution Provider Resources
• APIs
• Resource Matrix
• SL Boutique
• SLDevelopers.com Downloads
• SLX SL Exchange
• My Second Life Project
• Second Life Project
• Solution Providers Submission
• Support Documentation and Resources
• SLBusiness Mailing List
• Scripting List
• Software Update Announcements List
• Second Life Mailing Lists
• LSL Scripting Wiki

Education and Non-Profit Resources

• NOAA Island Tour
• Tech Soup's Non-Profit FAQ
• The Crisis in Darfur
• The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life
• Using Second Life to help train emergency responders
• SimTeach
• NWN Article on Political debate in SL