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Fiona Milburn: "As a creative practitioner, you're probably familiar with twitter as a key social media platform for marketing your projects to today’s internet-savvy audiences.But did you know it’s also a great storytelling tool?"
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Why 2013 is shaping up to be the year the Internet upends traditional TV.
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The most successful shows tended to offer strong social media hubs for the program at a network site or show-specific hubs, along with extensive Facebook FB 0.31% pages and Twitter engagement. “Glee’s” characters each have their own Twitter feeds, for instance. For advertisers who are chasing these users, it’s important to set up national media campaigns that take into account online video, as well as anything “that extends a brand beyond the television viewing occasion.” “A big part of the negotiation now,” said Kahn, “is about how do we extend television campaigns so that they live in social media and online video? That’s something [ad agencies and programmers] are trying to figure out together.”
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"Now that the National Film Board of Canada is not the only big player in the game of transmedia storytelling (outside of the branding world, of course), the Tribeca Film Institute, Mozilla and more are eager to put their money and support behind transmedia storytelling"
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"With this second post in our lessons learned series, Emily Treat discusses what went right and what went wrong in terms of initial concepts and content for the Half the Sky game."
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Gianluca Fiorelli: "Every brand has a story to tell, and the way users consume stories is changing faster than ever. How will you tell your brand's story across multiple media outlets and platforms, while still giving users an active role in the expansion process?"
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Lots of videos featuring family activities, places to visit, education news and resources, lifestyle tips, parenting advice and help, health matters, being a mum or dad.
Type:Rider is a multiplatform game whose name evokes its basic plan, a mix of mechanical writing (“type” of the typewriter) with the idea of a race (the “rider”).
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Here are 101 fantastic social media technology tool tips that you can use to promote your business on social media. Are you looking for some tools and tips related to social media tools and technology? Want to add a bit of magic to your social media marketing? As we specialise in tools and technology we come across great tips and tools every day. From the list below we guarantee you will find something very useful for your business.
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People don’t want more information. They are up to their eyeballs in information. They want #faith - faith in you, your goals, your #success, in the #story you tell. says Annette Simmons, author of “Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins”. How do we reach that people have faith in us? So easy! If we show us from our best side, are authentic and trustworthy and give people appreciation and love they will #respect us, too. What we give comes back to us! The seeds we sow we will harvest one day! Life is a process of giving and taking. Read more: http://bit.ly/NCCGCi
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Eddie Rehfeldt: "Breaking News: the search for a better narrative format for the internet is now available. Ben Decker once said “the internet is not just another TV pipe” and this was made apparent at SXSWi in Austin last week."
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360i's Rosie Siman responds to the myths of social TV, adding what she believes are the truths about the medium. (Watch and learn.
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Social media, done right, is not cheap, free or fast. It takes time to listen, to find the moments that people want to share and to build campaigns that lead to an enviable social media strategy that truly aligns the brand.
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tripventure: Adventurous location-based gaming or discovering cities – tripventure presents a variety of tours and games. Storybased gameplay meets Augmented Reality.
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Susan Karlin: "In Defiance, the Syfy cable channel and Trion Worlds gaming company tackle a never-before-tried $100 million transmedia experiment--a crossover TV show and an MMO game that are interdependent and independent of one another. Showrunner Kevin Murphy tells us how he straddled the two worlds."
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Cathie Howe: "With the imminent implementation of the BOS Syllabuses for the new Australian Curriculum English, particularly with a need for teachers to facilitate the ability for students to respond to and compose multimodal and digital texts and, the need to address the ICT capabilities of Literacy, ICT and Critical and Creative thinking, transmedia storytelling could potentially provide an engaging and effective way to meet these elements."
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Randy Astle: "TFI has been supporting digital, transmedia, and multimedia projects for years through programs like its New Media Fund and hackathons, and now TFI’s Director of Digital Initiatives Ingrid Kopp (who was recently interviewed by Filmmaker) has found a way to bring some projects into a physical space to coincide with the film festival in lower Manhattan."
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ABC News introduces Social Soundtracker, a new way to make what you watch more social. (Social Soundtracker.
Jason Hamilton: "It's impossible to track down exactly when transmedia began to take effect as a major form of storytelling. As with any movement, it built up bit by bit, and is still gaining momentum. However, almost anyone with any knowledge in the area would agree that one of the biggest early influences was the film Star Wars and the pop culture phenomenon it started."
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Cathie Howe: "With the imminent implementation of the BOS Syllabuses for the new Australian Curriculum English, particularly with a need for teachers to facilitate the ability for students to respond to and compose multimodal and digital texts and, the need to address the ICT capabilities of Literacy, ICT and Critical and Creative thinking, transmedia storytelling could potentially provide an engaging and effective way to meet these elements."
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V Renée: "Have Nicolás Alcalá and his team at Riot Cinema Collective discovered the future of filmmaking?" ...
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Tom Vanderbilt: "From Game of Thrones to the new Arrested Development, television is better than ever. And it's not just a lucky accident. Turns out that networks and advertisers are using all-new metrics to design hit shows."
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Randy Astle: "Tuesday night Facebook hosted a panel discussion about social issue-oriented transmedia at their office in midtown Manhattan" ...
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Alex Graham the producer of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? was on Start the Week on Radio 4 this morning. I find the philosophy of the programme very interesting. It was created to tell a...
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