ourwwworld pilot game: week 2 update

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ourwwworld how-to: DIGG TWICE

1. go to the ourwwworld blog at http://ourwwworld.blogspot.com

2. find any play that you haven't dugg before

3. click on the read more link.

4. digg that story

5. go anywhere else on digg and digg something unrelated to the ouwwworld game

6. now go to your digg profile. find the links you just dugg at the top of your recent activity

7. drag your cursor over one of the links, right click to copy it

8. go to your blog and open a new post

9. paste the link you copied into the new blog post as your digg 1 or digg 2.

10. go back to your digg profile and repeat steps 7 and 9.

a post with 2 digg links in it can be saved as a partial play.

You can now either:

• publish and come back later to COMPLETE YOUR PARTIAL PLAY, or
• continue to BLOG YOUR WORDPLAY

ourwwworld how-to: COMPLETE YOUR PARTIAL PLAY

1. when you are logged into blogger, get to your dashboard. To get to the dashboard, click on any link that says dashboard or click on the small blogger logo in the top left of your blog.

2. at the dashboard, find the name of your ourwwworld blog. Click on the edit posts link below it.

3. find any post you've named Partial Play

4. click on the post title to preview what's in there

5. click on edit at the left of the post title to open the post for editing.

continue to BLOG YOUR WORDPLAY

ourwwworld how-to: BLOG YOUR WORDPLAY

With a post that contains your two diggs open for editing, you can now blog your wordplay.

1. open the google trends page in a new window and look at what is there.

2. select your play approach (I wonder, common thread, talk2me, i didn't know, my own way)

3. Start writing

4. drag your cursor over the links on the google trends page to copy them

5. paste the links from the google trends page into your text as you write.

6. create a title that starts with the name of your play, followed by any 1-3 of the google trend search terms you included in the text, separated by commas.

7. Publish your post

8. View your blog

Continue to DIGG YOURSELF

ourwwworld how-to: DIGG YOURSELF

1. View your blog

2. click on the title of the post you want to digg

3. find the Digg! submit link above the google ads. right click on the submit link to open the digg submission process in a new window.

4. drag your cursor to select and copy the title of your post.

5. Paste your post title into the digg submission page

6. Drag your cursor to select and copy some of the text you have written

7. Paste your text blurb into the digg submission page.

8. click submit and complete the digg process.


Help!! When I click on the title of my blog post everything looks the same
If you are digging the most recent post you've made, the top part is supposed to look the same. When in doubt about where you are, scroll down, look up to the URL that's showing in your browser, or do both. If you scroll down to find yourself on a page with that post only and no other posts below it, then you are in the right place to digg. When you look up to the URL address in your browser and see yourwwworld.blogspot.com/2008/xx/the-name-of-your-post.htm then you will also know you are in the right place to digg.

If that's not where you are finding yourself, then try clicking on the title of the post again.

HELP! Digg says my post might be a duplicate! What do I do?
Just scroll down to the bottom of the list and click "totally original, I swear"

ourwwworld pilot game: player welcome

Dear ourwwworld players,

it's been a blast getting your game blogs and sample plays ready. Thanks for agreeing to try out this concept. Now get ready for a wild ride in cyberspace! I'm very excited to watch what happens when your creativity moves into action with this unusual fundraising game.

Remember: Digg twice, blog your wordplay, digg yourself.

The players with the most diggs win!

To dig, in my dialect of the english language, means to enjoy. So log-in and start digging around at Digg.com. Take a look at today's google trends, and get ready to enjoy this game. I think it's going to be alot of fun!

Here are some useful links to posts I've been making over the past few days here at the ourwwworld blog, to get you started playing the game:

• How to play
• Player rules
• Points, scoring and winning
  
  
• Allowable plays:
• I WONDER
• COMMON THREAD
• I DIDN'T KNOW
• TALK2ME
• MY OWN WAY
• PARTIAL

As you will undoubtedly notice, I've refined and added some rules since I wrote your invitation, to give us all more structure to work with in competing to be creative.

Your game blogs are listed below. By now you should have received an invitation from blogger to have authoring permissions on your blog, so you can log in whenever you want and start posting plays or partial plays.

• LIVE: kellyswwworld for mme. kelly in l.a. (or is that la-la land?!). ms. kelly is playing this game because she believes in her cousin, and because she wants to help.
  
  
• LIVE: grandmaswwworld for our global grandma in the pacific northwest. grandma is playing this game because her daughter on the other side of the world asked her to, and because she is excited about the funds it can raise for her favorite cause.
  
  
• LIVE: nobsoswworld for mr. nobs in the solar heart of east africa. he's playing the game because his girlfriend designed it, and because he'd like to raise capital for more of his solar energy projects.
  
  
• LIVE: ndeloswwworld for mr. ndelo in east africa. he's playing because he wants his blogging and clicking skills to finally turn into some cash. he also wants to see his organization move forward.
  
  
• PENDING PLAYER CONFIRMATION: ayaaswwworld for ms. ayaa in east africa who really needs to check email more often.
  
  
• PENDING PLAYER CONFIRMATION: lindernswwworld for mama linda n., whose heart, body and mind are divided between africa, asia and america right now.
  

Please don't miss the announcement about the first week's posting requirement.

If you have any questions, we can chat about those at ned.com, where I will be starting an ourwwworld game pilot project discussion within the coming days.

Keep it global, make it fun, and don't forget to enjoy yourselves!

Most of all, thanks for agreeing to help pilot the ourwwworld game concept.

ourwwworld pilot game: start up announcement

Confirmed ourwwworld player pilot game blogs will be made live on 1 September.

For the first week of play only (1 - 8 September 2008), the minimum 2 play per week requirement will not be strictly enforced.

Players must, however, have a minimum of 4 plays completed by 15 September 2008 (two weeks from now) to remain a player for the rest of the September's game. The normal weekly requirement of min. 2 plays per week will apply after that. Please also note that if we do not have 5 players with 4 posts each by 15 September, the game will be discontinued.

Please always remember that 2 plays per week is just a minimum. You are welcome and encouraged to play (and have fun with the ourwwworld game!) as much as you can.

ourwwworld pilot game: how to play

Digg twice, blog your wordplay, digg yourself.

1. Digg Twice

Once you've been digging around a bit at digg.com, the 2 digg links you need to paste into your post appear in your digg profile as soon as you have dugg them.

Start your play by clicking on "new post" at your player blog.

digg 1: paste the digg link for any completed play you have dugg that you found here at the ourwwworld blog. Any post appearing at the ourwwworld blog (including this one) is open for you to digg and play on once.

digg 2: paste a new digg link for any other (non-ourwwworld game related) page you have dugg on digg.com

A reminder - the 2 digg links you need to paste into your post appear in your digg profile as soon as you have dugg them. Drag your cursor across a link in your digg profile to copy and paste it into your blog.

If you save your post at this point, give it the title PARTIAL PLAY. You can come back to edit the post and blog your wordplay later. Uncompleted partial plays earn 1 point in the end of month score tally.


2. Blog your wordplay

a. Visit the google top trends page, to choose at least 2 search terms (or search term variations) to include in your post. Drag your cursor to select the search terms and their links from the google trends page, and paste them into your post as you incorporate them into your text.

b. Select one of the following 5 allowable plays, and model your post after the provided sample.

1. TALK2ME
2. COMMON THREAD
3. I DIDN'T KNOW
4. I WONDER
5. MY OWN WAY
6. PARTIAL play

c. the first sentence of your wordplay text must include the name of the allowable play you choose, as shown in the sample plays

d. The title of your published post must include the name of your play followed by 1-4 of the google search terms included in the post, like below, or it won't be counted as a play:

COMMON THREAD: football scores, football schedules
I WONDER: ordinal, revelation generation, federalist papers
I DIDN'T KNOW: matsunichi photoblitz 7” digital picture frame
etc.


3. Digg yourself
submit your completed play post to digg.com. A self digg of a correct play adds two points to your end of month play point tally. Your completed play will be posted for others to digg at the ourwwworld blog

ourwwworld pilot game: points, scoring and winnings

A completed play is worth 3 play points

A post that only includes two diggs can be saved, published and counted as a partial play (1 play point). A partial play should not be submitted to digg until it has been edited to include your wordplay. A partial play that has been edited to include the wordplay but not yet self dugg will not yet count as a completed play.

The cash bonus pool (20% of the ourwwworld pilot game ad revenue, plus revenue shares forfeited by players who fall out of the game) is distributed among the winning players at the end of each monthly round as follows:

• 25% to the player with the most play points
• 25% to the player with the most diggs received on all completed plays.
• 25% to the player with the highest digg score on a single play.
• 25% to the player whose blog content generates the most advertising revenue

Partial plays die at the end of each monthly round.

ourwwworld pilot game: player rules

The pilot ourwwworld game will run under my stewardship as moderator and financial manager from September 1 - November 30 2008. This is a private, invitation only game that players agree to play for 3 months only. When the pilot game has ended, you get to keep your blog (and 100% of any income it continues to generate), and do whatever you want with it.

During the pilot game period, we all get a share of advertising revenue generated by the content of our own wordplays; plays and diggs earn us points in competition with each other for extra cash; and 40% of everything the pilot game earns goes to Life in Africa.

During the pilot game period, we agree to play by the following general rules:

1. Two correctly completed plays per week keeps you in the game, but you may play as often as you can. You may skip a week and stay in the game as long as you completed at least 2 more than the required weekly plays during the previous weeks. If you fall out of the game by falling behind in your weekly completed plays (ie, week three is over and you only have 5 plays completed), you forfeit your revenue share for that whole month to the cash prize pool.
   
   
2. No post may include the word “click” or verbally encourage visitors to click on any link in the post or on the game blog page. Players also agree not to ever click on any of the advertisements appearing on any ourwworld game blog.
   
   
3. Keep it global. Players may not mention the name of ANY country or continent in their game posts. City names may be mentioned.
   
   
4. Players agree to only discuss game rules, procedures and strategies with each other in public, at a ned.com discussion thread established for that purpose.

Any violation of these 4 simple rules (or any other abuse of the digg.com, blogger or adsense terms of use) will result in your being eliminated from the game for the rest of the month, with your revenue share forfeited to the bonus pool for winners.

PARTIAL PLAY: ourwwworld pilot game sample

The ourwwworld pilot game brings a small global group of good citizens together in a world wide wordplay competition to benefit our favorite cause. This post illustrates a sample PARTIAL PLAY in our game.

read more | digg story

ourwwworld pilot game sample: the I WONDER play

The ourwwworld pilot game brings a small group of intelligent global citizens together in a world wide wordplay competition to benefit Life in Africa. This post illustrates a sample play

read more | digg story

TALK2ME play: ourwwworld pilot game sample

The ourwwworld pilot game brings a global small group of good citizens together in a world wide wordplay competition to benefit our favorite cause. This post illustrates a sample TALK2ME play in our game.

read more | digg story

COMMON THREAD play: ourwwworld pilot game sample

The ourwwworld pilot game brings a global small group of good citizens together in a world wide wordplay competition to benefit our favorite cause. This post illustrates a sample COMMON THREAD play in our game.

read more | digg story

MY OWN WAY play: ourwwworld pilot game sample

The ourwwworld pilot game brings a small global group of good citizens together in a world wide wordplay competition to benefit our favorite cause. This post illustrates a sample MY WAY play in our game.

read more | digg story

I DIDN'T KNOW: ourwwworld pilot game sample play

The ourwwworld pilot game brings a global small group of good citizens together in a world wide wordplay competition to benefit our favorite cause. This post illustrates a sample I DIDN'T KNOW play in our game.

read more | digg story