BellaTECH Bloggers

The BellaTECH Nation is a high-traffic events and lifestyle blog looking to bring entertaining, engaging, and informative blog posts to the Second Life community. With over 175,000 page views per week, we are one of the most popular blogs in the Metaverse! If you have a talent for writing and a love of photography and are looking for an audience to share your creativity with then please take a moment to read over the information below and then fill out the application form. 

Types Of Bloggers We Are Looking For

Fashion Bloggers

Look of The Day style posts featuring new fashion finds complete with beautiful photography and shopping lists detailing where readers can find all of the items in the photo.

Travel Bloggers

Destination Review style posts featuring locations across the grid with a detailed account of the blogger’s exploration alongside photographs of the destination.

Lifestyle Bloggers

Personal Experience style posts inspired by the blogger’s personal interests, daily activities and areas of expertise inside of Second Life accompanied by topic themed photography.

Creative Bloggers

Fictional Narative style posts featuring the original short stories and stories told through chapter posts enhanced by in-world photography inspired by the current story. 

Event Bloggers

Event Review style posts featuring overviews of the latest shopping and community events from around the grid including the blogger’s photos of and thoughts on the event.

Blogger Requirements

We ask that bloggers adhere to the following guidelines when submitting posts to our website. If you have a question about these requirements or need further explanation please contact Starlet Whimsy in world.

General Requirements

  • Bloggers must submit a MINIMUM of 1 new post per calendar month to remain active on the website unless otherwise discussed.
  • Posts should contain original written content ONLY. Plagarized writing will be declined and the blogger removed from the website.
  • Posts MAY NOT be XXX or pornographic in nature; no genitalia or sex acts should be shown on any images submitted with posts. 

Location Requirements

  • Blogger MUST publish their posts on our website or they will not acount towards their minmum requirements.
  • Bloggers MUST join the BellaTECH Nation Flickr and add their blog related Flickr posts to the group.
  • If bloggers publish identical content else where in addition to our blog we ask that they add a link back to www.BellaTECHNation.com at the end of the post.

NextUP Event Blogger Requirements

Official Bloggers, regardless of genre, are given the option to participate in the NextUP Event Blogger program. Those that choose to participate are given access to official blogger packs but must meet the following requirements and schedules. Please note that these requirements and post schedules ONLY apply to bloggers looking to gain access to these blogger packs. Those that do not wish to use the blogger packs do not need to meet these requirements and schedules.

General Requirements

  • Participating Bloggers must submit a MINIMUM of 3 new posts per round in any genre of their choosing.
  • If you take it you MUST blog it! We track the items taken from the blogger room. If you take an item we expect you to include it in one of your 3 required posts. Bloggers found to be taking items they do not use in their posts will be removed from the team.
  • Each of the required posts must prominently feature AT LEAST 2 items from the current round.
  • The post MUST include a section at the end that details the event items used including and Brand and Item name along with a SLurl link to the event and current shopping guide.
  • Posts MAY NOT be XXX or pornographic in nature; no genitalia or sex acts should be shown on any images submitted with posts. 

Location Requirements

  • Blogger MUST publish their posts on our website or they will not acount towards their minmum requirements.
  • Bloggers MUST join the BellaTECH Nation Flickr and add their event related Flickr posts to the group.
  • If bloggers publish their content else where in addition to our blog we REQUIRE that they include a link back to www.BellaTECHNation.com in each event related post.

Schedule Requirements

  • The blogger room will open by the 7th of every month
  • Blog Submission 1 is due by or before the 14th of every month
  • Blog Submission 2 is due by or before the 21th of every month
  • Blog Submission 3 is due by or before the 28th of every month
  • Posts submitted after the deadlines will NOT count towards our minimum requirements.