Meet Chestnut Rau, New World Notes' New Events Hostess!

After a long audition process, I'm proud to announce that Chestnut Rau will be this blog's events writer, giving you a weekly calendar of fun and worthwhile happenings in Second Life. Look for "Chestnut's Choices" to launch tomorrow.

Meantime, let Au introduce Rau: she's been in Second Life since June 2007, enjoying virtual art and live music, and is avid explorer of learning and self-expression made possible by the metaverse. She's also a good SL blogger and photographer in her own right, the author of Second Life of My Dreams. (I've highlighted many of her great posts, as here, and here.) In real life, she tells me, "The woman behind Chestnut Rau is a wife, mother and university administrator who lives in the New York City area."

How do you tell Chestnut about upcoming Second Life events she might want to cover? Read on for guidelines after the break.

Submitting events for coverage in New World Notes

Every Thursday, NWN highlights events for the upcoming weekend into next Wednesday.  Please see the guidelines below for details on submitting events.

Guidelines:

1. Events for the coming week must be received by Tuesday Noon SLT.
2. Include all the relevant info; day, time, and especially the SLURL to the event location.
3. Please send related graphics such as screenshots or photo of the event site, if available.
4. Events with artistic, cultural, scientific, political, creative, and/or educational value preferred.
5. Events sponsored or promoted by real world corporations are welcome, as long they serve and entertain the Second Life community, and/or foster Resident-made content (live music, builds, scripting, fashion, games, etc.)  Events that merely promote the company or organization's Second Life presence are not generally appropriate; you may instead consider advertising your event or service on New World Notes.
6. Mature-rated events are permissible, but listing descriptions should be PG-13.  Political and religious events are encouraged, though those of an extreme or non-inclusive variety are rarely included.
7. Bonus consideration given to game-related or machinima events, and for events with "I've never seen that in SL before!" value.

If you'd like an event to be considered, send the description and event information via email to Chestnut Rau at [email protected]. Or contact her in-world via IM.

Comments

[Crap Mariner]

Who? ;)

[Carter Liveoak]

Yay! (yay)
Congrats, Ches and good choice NWN!

[Ann Otoole]

Welcome Chestnut! Hope you find us much coolness to actually go do in SL.

[Lanna]

Congratulations, Ches! I know you'll do a great job and have a wonderful time. :-)

[rikomatic]

Welcome Chestnut! Feel free to ping me if you have any questions about the gig. And have fun!

[Emerald Wynn]

Yay Chestnut!

(Hey, where'd you get your hair in that pic?)

[Chestnut Rau]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!

Emerald~

Hair: Tyra from ETD
Skin: Celestial Skins
Dress: Icing
Jewelry: Paper Couture

[WIdget Whiteberry]

Sometimes I can find Chestnut's calendar and other times not. Is there a link from NWN that I am missing?