Dear friends
The awesome Trixibelle had a great idea ....

It is called “Mentors Project” and it works this way:

Are you a beginner in photography or machinima? Are you making art experiments and would you love to receive constructive comments from the most skilled Koinup members?

Great! This project is for you!
Add the tag: review
to all your works you wanna be reviewed from the pool of mentors and they will review and make a deep analysis of them!

Is there a better way to improve and become an artist?

Right now, the group of mentors is made up by:
Ji Dallagio, Rhondita, Bbea, Zeppy, Don Hosho, MightyP, Angel-Ronmark and Eves

(soon, you will see the mentors here: koinup.com/people/?q=mentor )

If you wanna be a mentor, please add the tag: mentor
to your profile and add other tags for the fields you are an expert (photoshop, windlight, machinima, second life, imvu, etc)

If you wanna a constructive comment, tag your work with: review


Mentors will periodically browse all the works, tagged with: review
here: koinup.com/works/tag/review/

once the constructive comment has been posted, mentor can add the tag:
tutorial on that work



Please, spread out this message and broadcast it, too yourself!
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dear friends,

If you stumble on some nice sims, places, clubs or party in SL
you can send an invite to your Koinup friends, by sending a postcards on Koinup.

How?

Easy, go in your account : koinup.com/account/

Set-up your Koinup Upload Email and then, when you are in SL, send as many postcards as you want to that email address recipients.....

We on Koinup we will see the postcards and probably we will join you inworld!

Note: The postcards arrive on Koinup with the Slurl, so each one can directly tp there.....

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dear friends,
we have launched a channel for Lively!
Its a new world, but it is really interesting....
last but not least because it is the first venture of mr big G google in the Virtual Worlds Scene:
koinup.com/in-lively/

So, I suggest you to have a look at the World By Yourself:
lively.com/popular

Go there, take some snapshots, and upload your own reportage on Koinup, I would love also to share opinions, ideas, advice about this new new thing with you! Have Fun!

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Three Contest, Three amazing prizes, Three new occasions for express your "2nd" self!

A Day in Your Virtual Life Contest (Video contest, for all virtual worlds users)
koinup.com/contest/machinima/

Lifestyles Contest (Photo Contest, for Second Life members)
koinup.com/contest/twilight/

Gion Project Portrait Contest (Photo Contest, for Second Life members)
koinup.com/contest/gionproject/

Have fun!
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Dear Friends, we have enabled a New Share This" Link for your Koinup items

Now, you can share your Koinup items in more than 20 Social Networks and more 25 Bookmarks websites, with only a few (I would say with only one) clicks!

here you can view a graphic:
koinup.com/pier/work/47887/

If you have Facebook or Myspace or otherwise some accounts on Del.icio.us, Digg and other websites....you can now easily share there your Koinup Items........

Just click on "Share This" and Select your website!
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Hi buddies, I wanna broadcast you! Because we have enabled the new Widget Platform!

koinup.com/widgets/

If you have a webpage, a blog or a personal page on Facebook, Myspace, etc.... you can now display your koinup pics/videos on there with a single click!

try now, koinup.com/widgets/
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Hi all. Nope, no blatant plugs from me this time, lol but a request. I am very much a photo novice and would greatly appreciate critique comments or suggestions on pieces - if you feel you would like to. Of course I greatly love being told something I've done is wonderful *grins, a massage to the ego is no bad thing sometimes...but if you genuinely have a suggestion or comment I would be delighted to hear it as I really want to improve. I have only just got a post prod suite so I'm learning that too. I hope this makes sense anyway!! Thank you my chums and mmmwwaaaa xxxx
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Dear friends,
I've recently posted 2 entries for 2 different contest,
have a look if you have the time :)
Emvee Cuba: koinup.com/Silvia/work/41708/
Orange Photo: koinup.com/Silvia/work/42030/
Anyway, good luck to all of you, the quality of the works for the Koinup's contests is always amazing!
P.S. There is still time to take part to Cuba and Orange contests... don't miss them! ;)
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Ok so I feel rather embarassed to do this (I am English so being embarassed and apologising are national pastimes lol) but if I don't promote my own work, no-one else will. So here's my entry for the Orange contest koinup.com/Trixibelle/work/41645/ Thank you chums xxxx
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Hi Guys,
we have enabled a new awesome feature on Koinup:
koinup.com/comments-youve-made/works/

Now you can follow the comments you've made and see if others have replied to your discussions, questions, advices...etc...

Koinup is more and more social and other updates.......are coming! Stay tuned!

(thanks Raul, for suggesting this)

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Orange Week Photo Contest

Certainly once, you have felt surrounded with reality in SL... an awesome build, a true moment of emotion, a real expression on a friendly face...

"One second of reality Contest" aims to find out where reality begins for you. Try to mesmerize the jury and make us believe the photo was taken in RL.

Winners will participate to an exhibition in a RL gallery in Paris. Prizes are a complete studio kit and a printing in high quality format.

koinup.com/contest/orangephoto/


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I posted a tutorial, showing you how to make reportages and send them from Second Life (and also There.com) to Koinup, without saving your postcards to the hard disk.

This TUTORIAL could be useful if you want cover events, tell your Koinup friends about amazing places in metaverse or also work as virtual reporter.

This is the tutorial, if you have any question, leave me a comment

koinup.com/pier/work/36637/

You can view as a slide show:
koinup.com/pier/work/36637/

or as a list:
koinup.com/pier/work/36637/as-list/
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Hi buddies,
I'm sure you are interested in this contest:
koinup.com/contest/windlight/

It is restricted to Second Life Residents......

(btw: for now Sl users: I think that this the best opportunity to download Second Life and start to snaps...)
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dear friends,
this broadcast is to inform you that we have just launched a Second Life Music Videos Competitions! Look here:
koinup.com/contest/secondlifemusicvideos/

Winners will get 20,000L$ plus an amazing price supplied by CodeBastard Redgrave (her page: koinup.com/codebastard/ )
take part in the contest, show us your machinima talents, have fun!

good luck to all of you!
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I'm so pleased to announce the 1st Sims 2 Photo Contest!
Have a look at the page:
koinup.com/contest/sims2spring/
The Contest is for Sims 2 Fans! Partecipants con submit their Photos and Win Amazing Prices!
The Contest is about the concept of “Spring”. So, well, start to think about your entries and spread the word about the competition!

Link: koinup.com/contest/sims2spring/
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Don't want spam guys......
this group message is only to inform you that we are announcing the winners
of the imvu fashion contest

look here:
koinup.com/contest/imvufashion/

(delete this message, once read :D)
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Hi friends,
this broadcast is to inform you that we have introduced the World Selection!
Now, as soon as you login on Koinup you can find the option: Which is Your World?
Right now, You can select your fav world (SL, IMVU, There, The Sims, vSide and the other metaverses listed on Koinup) ......Once you checked one of the worlds, the corresponding logo will be featured in your homepage

This feature will help us to serve you only informations relative to your fav worlds (as contests, etc..)

Here's the announcement on the blog:
blog.koinup.com/2008/03/which-is-your-worl...

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I saw the announcements of the exotic contest!!! congrats to the winners!
had you see them:
koinup.com/contest/exotic/

I agree with the jury....winning photos are totally amazing.....
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Hey friends!

These are the last hours for the SL Exotic Contest on Koinup!
So... have a look to my entry and, if you like, vote for it! ;)

koinup.com/Silvia/work/19115/

Otherwise, vote for someone else lol!

Have a good day!
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