Earn + Empower + Curate

October 25, 2015

Storytelling in the digital age is a bit like storytelling in the Stone Age and a whole lot unlike storytelling in the 1950s. (Or, for that matter, the latter half...

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Transmedia Storytelling: Ready, Set, Go!

September 2, 2015

What exactly is transmedia storytelling? And how do you develop, produce, share transmedia stories? Well, for starters, you might want to check out Robert Pratten’s Getting Started with Transmedia Storytelling a practical guide for...

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Internet = Transmedia Vector

March 3, 2015

[The Internet is] a natural transmedia vector, and we already see stories being told by parallel text, video, audio, fixed image, and other kinds of content, on multiple screens. To...

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Slow Storytelling

February 3, 2015

Story is trending. Storytelling is trending. Old news, right? Everyone’s talking about storytelling and storification and story-[add your favorite composite] as a business and marketing tool. Everything’s a story, a...

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News Gamification

March 24, 2014

Before dipping into the idea of news gamification let’s take a look in news juggernaut’s rearview mirror. Once upon a time, not too terribly long ago, CNN and USA Today...

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What is Gamification?

March 17, 2014

Gamification continues to surf the buzzword tidal wave in media and publishing and marketing and virtually anything else that involves audience and narrative and commerce. Not because the idea is new....

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Spreadable Media

December 20, 2012

In short, Spreadable Media argues: If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead… this book challenges some of the prevailing metaphors and frameworks used to describe contemporary media, from biological metaphors like...

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Copy, Transform and Combine

December 13, 2012

I included “Everything is a Remix So Steal Like An Artist”, a video featuring Austin Kleon and Kirby Ferguson (writer, filmmaker and creator of Everything is a Remix) in an...

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6 Transmedia Tips

December 6, 2012

Writer and game designer Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) hass corralled 25 Things You Should Know About Transmedia Storytelling which you should read before it becomes 26 or 50. But, if you’re...

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