I am always delighted when I find my creations mentioned, blogged, reviewed, photographed or podcasted. But I am always surprised to find myself on non-English pages. I really shouldn't be: at least one third of the people that visit my store do not speak English yet I have done a very poor job making my products accessible to those that speak other languages.
For example, on this page, Hanepin - to the best of my ability to translate the page, seems to have lost her piano due to a server glitch, and because she does not speak English, she never contacted me. She seems to be very sad that she has lost her piano. I will send her a new piano tonight.
A couple of months ago, I walked into my store and found two people speaking Japanese. One of them was able to speak English and she explained that she had found my piano because it is featured in a book, in Japan, about Second Life. Knowing that I would not be able to find this book here in the United States, she was kind enough to scan the page featuring my piano and sent it to me, in-world.
I had never imagined that my name, or one of my products might appear in any book, and least of all a book in Japan. This was a big thrill for me. In fact, I think I have a yen to order this book :)
2 comments:
Hello :D
Thank you for your link to my blog.
I bought your Harp once, and lost it due to SL glitch. But I repurchased it because your Harp is awesome! (^^)
Oh, Don't send me a harp please, I have it already. It is not your fault nor your obligation. I just wanted to say thank you for your link and your product (^^)/
ah, Do you have the plan that we can add music to a musical instrument?
I do have plans to provide for adding music. Keep checking my profile and my blog for information about this. And thank you so much for your purchase :)
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