Blog Me! Owner manual

Terminal version: 0.5
Last update: 10/01/2024
Incremental: 0046

Blog Me! is a tool used to manage blogs for events.
With this tool, you do not need an extra set of passwords to access Blog Me!, but you will just need to select the correct event on the Access Terminal and you will receive a token valid for two hours.
For more information, please visit https://www.virtualty.space

1. Possibility to manage the bloggers via an ad-hoc list or a SL group
2. Logo and Blogger Box instructions as images changable on the db directly
3. Inclusive version: allows merchants that offered a blog item to take items from other merchants as well
4. No password required: a token of two hours can be obtained in world to access the portal
5. Pay per use: the fee is paid only when a new round is created, otherwise you have no costs

This product is heavy personalized for each Event, since there is no event like another.
You will have then to contact Virtualty first, then we will be able to help you and send you the full package already ready for your event to be ready to roll!

Blog Me! is quite easy to manage and to use.
It works either with a list, manually managed by the owner or the managers, or by an inworld group, and this will be defined by you in the information we will ask you in the initial face.
Every time you want a new round of the event to be created, the owner of the event will have to pay the fee to the Owner Terminal.
Blog Me! does not work as a subscription tool, but it is a pay-per-use tool. This means that you will pay the fee only if and when you are using the tool, because a new round has been created.
We will see this later in the manual.

You will receive an object containing 6 different items, that will be already tailored for your event:

• Owner Server
• Manager Server
• Blogger Box
• Access Terminal
• Rack
• example of the bloggers notecard

Owner and Manager server are quite similar. Check the overtext to be able to recognize them:

The moment you will rez the Owner Server, you will be requested to allow access to the L$: this because you, as Owner of the event, you will be charged every time a new round will be created.
The Owner Server is the one that should be kept only by the owner of the event.
The Owner Server has only two tasks:

1. update the list of bloggers (if the list is used as management method for the bloggers)
2. create a new round

When you will select the “new” button, you will be informed that a new round has been created and you will pay the fee. The “update” button will load the notecard into the database to make the items accessible to bloggers.
Once you do it, you will receive a message stating that you changed the list.
IMPORTANT

• The notecard HAS to be called “recipients” and it HAS to be made as the example given you in the package.
• The notecard shouls ALWAYS contain the full list of allowed bloggers, if you have to delete somebody, or add somebody, just do it on the list and load the full list. The software will take care of deleting who is not wanted anymore and add the new ones.
• This action can be done at the same time by the Owner and the Managers. The last loaded list will be the one considered valid, so please coordinate between your staff who will do what.

You have received the rack and the manager server as copy/transfer, so that you can send a copy of them to your manager(s).
Please remember to tell Virtualty who you want as managers.
Please also send the rack and the Manager Server as copy only.
The Manager Server has only one option: to update the list of bloggers, nothing else.

The Blogger Box is the item that has to be bought by the merchants and filled in with their items and hence be taken by the authorized bloggers.
The event owner just has to duplicate as many of them they want and put them on sale.
Once they are bought, the merchant will be saved in the database, and once filled in, also the information on the item will be saved in the database.
Once the round is finished, just delete the old Blogger Boxes and rez new ones, they will automatically connect to the newly created round.
If you have selected the Sharing option, when a merchant will put an item in a blogger box, they will be added to the list of allowed Bloggers, so they will also be able to take items from other Merchants.
Of course the blogger box has to be set on sale so that the merchants will be able to use the original object:

The Access Terminal is the terminal used to get the token to access the portal, just click on it, select your role and you will get the url to access it.
See the Bloggers' Manual for more info.