What’s New SL has been operating as a blog now for nearly two years*. Many stores started out with What’s New SL and were able to reach a large audience .  The time has come to turn What’s New SL into an in world presence. Designers/Creators will have the ability to not only send in world notices, but also post their new releases on this all in one website, creating an archive of all releases of stores involved.

What’s New SL is a site for designers and content creators and/or their Managers/Partners ****, to post NEW items from their businesses in Second Life.

This group is not only for fashion but also Furniture, Gadgets, Animations/Poses, and any other businesses approved by the What’s New SL team. We will be a group that stands behind the promotion of old and new creators, allowing newer designers the ability to reach a large audience from the start.

Previous contributors to the What’s New SL site will have instant acceptance to the new What’s New SL format, however they must still send all information required to Whatsnewsl Core. For NEW contributors an application fee will be charged. This fee covers the time required to process your application, and set you up on all the mediums used for What’s New SL. Please confirm your store is in line with our rules before applying to ensure your application is approved!

All stores will be checked thoroughly before they are signed up. You must have vendors that the contents is viewable by Whatsnewsl Core, if you use scripted servers, then you need to arrange with Whatsnewsl Core to be able to inspect your merchandise.

RULES :

1. NO Reselling
   If you are reselling designer items with permission of the designer, then it is up to the designer to join What’s New and send notices on the products available, if they wish to include LM’s to your reselling stores that is between you and them.Exception: the only one to this would be a Designer has a small amount of product in a large store as extras, this will be subject to a case by case situation, and would be more of a collaboration than reselling.  Reselling/commission  vendors in your store will make your store ineligible for participation in What’s New SL. A reseller is also an affiliate vendor set up, they are one in the same.
   
2. NO Business in a BOXThis comes into the no reselling category, as most – not all – BIAB kits are subject to scrutiny due to theft issues. Exception: Full Perms kits purchased to create other items do not always fall into the BIAB category, so that will be checked if reported to be so.
3. NO Theft/Copybotted Items
   This will never be tolerated, if you are reported for theft items in your store after joining What’s New , someone will come and check items and if there is ANY doubt you will be relieved of membership*****.
4. NO NudityIf you sell skins please link to the full nudity pictures if you have them on your own blog. We do not want people having to close the blog because the pictures aren’t suitable for work or around children. If sending naked pictures for skins in world, please make sure you acknowledge that in your drop down notice first.Exception: In the event that a picture depicts nudity in an all covered capacity for a tasteful advertisement that isn’t for skins this may be deemed ok, but that will be at the discretion of Whatsnewsl Core to give final decision on, if in doubt send the images by notecard to that account first.
5. NO Yard Sales/ Land Sales or SPAM No Designer/Creator who has notice sending rights may send notices to sell their land, announce yardsales or use it to spam unauthorised information.Exception: If your store is part of a sim sale event , that has a theme of yard sale then that may be included in your second notice for the week as a newsletter event item.
6. Kiosk
   The What’s New SL Kiosk is a click to join and visit website kiosk. This kiosk must be in your main store as well as any other approved locations for your stores. The Kiosk must be visible in a main area of your stores, the more accessible it is the more likely it is for residents to join and see your products. This group is about the most visibility to all Designers/Creators by All residents, the more that is done as a group the more people will prosper.

   We really hope that after reading all the rules and guidelines for What’s New SL you decide to join us. This is something that has been in a the making for two years now , and we hope for it to go on for many more.

7. Please add Whatsnewsl.com to your blog roll on your store blog, the more exposure What’s New SL gets, the more your store gets. ALWAYS have What’s New SL group visible in your profile, the more people that join the more of an audience your product has.
8. Adult content will have to be approved by the What’s New SL team, even though this is an adults only grid, we do not deem all adult content appropriate for the majority. Some exceptions may apply but the last word on this will be from the What’s New SL team.
9. One Business Per Registration: Each business – not location – is a seperate registration…by signing up one business you can only send notices or post about that registered business, you cannot send info regarding another without registering it***.

Example: John Smith owns Hat Shop and Car Shop … John must fill in a separate notecard with all info for each business, and pay separately for each business registration.

John Smith cannot post a notice combining all businesses without doing this, each business must be registered as each one must be checked and logged into the data base with it’s own kiosk etc…this is a safety measure for ALL involved in What’s New SL.

1. Group Notices
   As a contributor to What’s New SL you will be allowed to post two in world notices per week:
   • One notice must include a new release for the week. Notecard is the preferred way to send a notice as you can include pictures, LM’s (to ALL available locations ) and information.
     You may of course decide to just post a LM or picture, this will only do your store a disservice as many will not TP without all info.
     In the event you forget to include one or the other in your notecard you can resend – but repeat occurrences of this will be considered spam and could result in your removal from the group. Please check everything is included before you send a notice so that this doesn’t occur. Sending notices can be stressful so stop, breathe, and remember the people in the group want to know about your items.
     The grid is changing every day with new events and information. You may decide to join something midweek and have already used your first notice. Your second notice will be your ‘Newsletter” style notecard.
   • The second post allows for a second new release, new locations info if you have set up a new store, and/or hunt info if you are going to be in one that week – though events must fall within the same week.
     New Lucky Chair items, group gifts or promotion items may also be included in your “Newsletter” notice – it is preferable that the group gift also be available to What’s New members.
     The second notice is an option for you to catch everyone up on what is taking place for your business before your next weeks release. If you do not have any new products, information, and are not involved in any hunt/event/charity  etc that week do not send a second notice. It would be considered spam.

   If a majority of your group notices do not announce new releases it will be considered an abuse of this forum and may put you at risk of your group privileges being reviewed.

2. The Blog
   You may post in the website up to  twice a week in the same format as you will with notices – please keep the second “Newsletter” style posting a summary formation, linking to your own blog for more info.

   When posting a What’s New SL post, keep it short and sweet: pictures of the new items, and a small amount of information including SLurls to your locations and Xstreet listing of the item – if you have one. For info on how to do a SLurl click HERE.

   What’s New SL is NOT a place to post on personal matters, even when posting on a new release it is advisable for non-pertinent details to be included on your own website and linked to. An overuse of the blog may result in your membership being revoked. If you have any doubts about this please contact Whatsnewsl Core by notecard and she can check your posts.

To Join :

Send a notecard to  named What’s New SL (Store Name – Avatar Name ) to Whatsnewsl Core with :

Avatar Name:

Store Name:

Store SLurl :

Store Blog URL:

Landmarks: (to ALL Locations in world)

Xstreet Link: (if you have listings there)

Email Address: (so you can be added to the website)

Business Partner/Manager: (optional – for the purpose of allowing for someone else to post for you as needed- it will still be only 2 posts per week/per store, you cannot post per avatar)

2nd avatar name:

2nd avatar email:

Your Store Logo: ( this will need to be square and full perms and put into the notecard)

Include a transaction history copy of your payment to Whatsnewsl Core of 1000L .

If you have already joined the group, please specify in the notecard, so that your status can be changed, sending an invite to a different one does not work if you are already in the group.

Each day Whatnewsl Core will check stores applying and distribute invites to the group and website as well as send a What’s New SL kiosk on approval.

If your store does not fit into the What’s New SL criteria – due to going against the rules outlined – the payment will be returned minus 250L , this is a part processing fee as locations will be checked, and all of that takes time.** (see bottom for explanation)

Whatsnewsl Core will log in every day , and notecards sent during that time, “may” not be processed until the following day dependent on load. In the event that more than two days have passed without word, a second notecard may be sent…this could be due to LL issues.

Oh and by the way:

Flickr! & Plurk

Once you are added to the groups you can join the http://www.flickr.com/groups/whatsnewsl/ group to add your pictures there as well, the more locations What’s New SL has available, the larger the range of people that will see what you have to offer. Please, no naked pictures in the Flickr group. We want the group to be deemed safe for every viewing environment.

Please also note, that Flickr frowns on images with monetary value visible on them, it has been in the past reported that a Second Life creator was removed from Flickr because of this, please ensure for your own protection that you do not do this, it will not effect the group, but it would be awful to lose all your images if reported.

What’s New SL will automatically send your post to Plurk , that way even more people can keep up to date with your stores releases.

http://www.plurk.com/WhatsNewSL   fan this plurk account and you can know What’s New in Second Life.  You can also bookmark the page so that you can just check in on it day to day.

For any other queries please send a notecard to Whatsnewsl Core.

*Due to the limited number of contributors allowed on Blog Spot , What’s New now has it’s own hosting and location. Not wanting to saturate feeds that the previous What’s New SL was on, this one will not feed into that.

** This also helps weed out those that know they are selling things that are against the rules, as they may be less likely to apply if there is threat of a loss for them.
*** The extra registration is a precautionary measure for the group as a whole, as well as the individuals. Approval for one business does not guarantee it for another, as well as the processing of membership for each business still has to be done.

**** Designers/Store Owners MUST be the one that registers the business, they are the ones that will be nominating a second avatar to represent them. In the event that an Owner does not speak english etc, they must clearly have the Manager/Business partner mentioned in their profiles as a representative of that store, and then the Manager may register them, in the event that employment with a business ceases, rights to send notices etc will be removed from that avatar. This is to protect all businesses registered with What’s New SL.

*****Not only for sale by you, but if there are stolen items in any way connected to your business this will mean either instant decline or removal.

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