Pat Mitchell: "There are epic, inspiring experiences of always bold, sometimes outrageous, entrepreneurs in remote and difficult places throughout the world, and these are stories optimally shared across many platforms." Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Do you have an incredible idea for a new iPhone/iPod touch app? Don’t have the time (or money) to learn iOS programming? Via siobhan-o-flynn 
Today's film-makers regard the smartphone as more than just a replacement camera and it allows directors greater creativity than a mere script.
"High Definition and pixel-sensitive smartphones are a new platform and mean films made on them can be watched on all devices and in cinemas." Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Multiplatform transmedia content and targeted online marketing pulls thousands of fans into Battle Castle universe before tv documentary series broadcasts.
[Wow! Transmedia as a way of expanding viewership beyond the traditional audience for documentary works. Yeah!] Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
"A series of technological, economic, and consumer trends are driving the development of transmedia projects as a new form of marketing, entertaining, and educating" ...
Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using your Facebook data? Or when Google put your place of birth into Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown video?
[Can't say I'm a big fan of this concept ... I prefer the idea of social TV where the viewer is active and, more directly, in control of their experience.] Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Sandy Rai, an Indian exchange student, comes to the journalism program at Toronto’s Ryerson University and teams up with fellow student Trevor Shale for an assignment...
[Guidestones is an interactive web series which fictionalizes real-world events and experiments with "real" time by not compressing time between episodes ... interesting!] Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Point of View magazine recently spoke with the internationally renowned transmedia expert Anita Ondine about the challenges and opportunities of transmedia.
Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Via Anca Toader 
Looking at the photos on Aaron Hobson's site, you'd think that he has travelled the world, visiting remote and exotic locations, camera in hand, taking some pretty impressive photos ... (These gorgeous photos were taken by Google Street View Cameras.
Via siobhan-o-flynn, Anthea Foyer 
Content creators of all stripes came together this week for StoryWorld, an international gathering of transmedia storytellers. Our editor was on the ground in San Francisco and reports that there’s more to this story than you’d think. Via José Carlos |
I’ve never seen a room of theatre folk this curious about a new innovation in theatre storytelling. Probably, because there hasn’t been a new innovation in theatre storytelling for decades.... Via Simon Staffans, The Digital Rocking Chair 
It's an exciting time for filmmakers and storytellers who are exploring ways to enhance their stories via the web. One of the new genres to emerge is the "web" or "connected" documentary. In essence, these are documentary projects that try to engage... Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
'This time we talked to Robert Pratten, whom a lot of people know as Transmedia Storyteller or for his company Zenfilms, which he founded after a successful career in marketing. Last year he wrote one of the first books on “Getting Started in Transmedia Storytelling”' ... Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
First, a transmedia approach to journalism would require that it be designed as transmedia from the start. Editors must consider what media are available to them and how the individual strengths of those media can be used to the story’s advantage...
[Another excellent piece from Kevin Moloney ....] Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
"Storytellers are mixing communities to create narratives across mediums. This process often involves sharing with a group or co-creating stories together"... Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
The home of quality cinema in Reading (Reading Film Theatre's Facebook page: http://t.co/rM4K7G5S...)... 
The Dadaab camps in Kenya, where the people interviewed for this project reside, is home to more than 400,000 refugees, making it, in effect, Kenya's third biggest "city"... Via Anca Toader 
Capture anything you see on your PC screen! SnapIt is convenient for bloggers who capture and crop images for ther posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. Via Anca Toader 
[Hat tip to Thaler Pekar @thaler for the heads up on this one!]
The original storyteller, Lt Col Karuna Ramanathan, lives in Singapore and has a pretty heavy accent when speaking English. Although accents often create a communication gap, in this case I believe it helped because one had to concentrate throughout to pick up all the words.
As you can imagine from his title, Karuna is part of the military in Singapore. He starts out by setting the scene and explaining that military personnel in Singapore are very reluctant to share their opinions due to their culture. This can make for a very quiet after-action-review (AAR). In order to maximize the value of the program, they need to coax out the tacit knowledge. So, his team developed a framework they call 2-5-1. It goes like this: Via Gregg Morris Nancy Duarte, Duarte Design (www.duarte.com) I've heard it said before that its the dark threads in the tapestry of our life that make it the most visually r... Via José Carlos |
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