Report on Social Web Foo Camp 2009

By christy on June 14, 2009

A couple of months ago I was fortunate to be invited to the O’Reilly Social Web FOO Camp in San Francisco.
Australian new media arts organisation dLux Media Arts was one of my sponsors for the trip, and so I’ve published my report on their site: http://bit.ly/fId0H 
Enjoy!

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Released: ARGs Around the World data!!

Released: ARGs Around the World data!!

By christy on March 30, 2009

Over a year ago I started gathering data on the state of ARGs Around the World. I was interested in how many ARGs are created and experienced outside of the regular countries of USA, UK and Canada…and Australia (data for these is on my ARG Stats page). I was particularly interested in non-English-language ARGs and non-USA [...]

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On Seeing: There’s Gold in Them Thar “FAILS”

On Seeing: There’s Gold in Them Thar “FAILS”

By christy on March 4, 2009

I’ve been seeing a lot of negative ‘FAIL’ rhetoric lately in social media about social media campaigns, or anything really. Many of the negatives are from social media commentators, but also come from a wider range of sources. Indeed, it is all too easy (and sometimes fun) to join the chorus. But what concerns me [...]

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Announcing the launch of The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living

By christy on December 11, 2008

Woohoo!
For a few years I’ve been working with the Australian Literature Board on their Story of the Future project. The project (a big hat tip to Josie Emery for creating the program) involved touring Australia running sessions on how digital technologies can be utilised for storytelling, for marketing your stories and running your writing business. [...]

My keynote & workshop at Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival

By christy on November 12, 2008

Last month I was lucky to be invited to present at the Power to the Pixel event, which is part of the London Film Festival.
POWER TO THE PIXEL is a not-for-profit company that provides the independent film community with the latest in depth information and knowledge about new opportunities available in the transforming digital media landscape.
I did [...]

The [6] Wonders of the Imaginative World (?)

By christy on November 12, 2008

In today’s post I thought I’d share so real life places I’d like to do/have enjoyed. These real places are related to the immersive entertainment and marketing area many of us are in. They are experiences that, unlike many of the online works that many people refer to all the time, you actually have to go [...]

Techniques for Segmenting Content Across Media

By christy on September 4, 2008

Hello everyone! Today we’ll delve into segmentation techniques. By segmentation I refer to the various ways unique content can be continued across different media platforms. This doesn’t mean cutting up content created for a single session (a feature film for instance) and then delivering it in parts (although you can do that!). But here [...]

An archive of my old LAMP ppts

By christy on September 2, 2008

A few years ago I was lucky to be invited by Gary Hayes to be a mentor for a new laboratory that was being developed by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Those were the heady days of the Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP), when this great range of mentors and participants (and [...]

Cross-Media Technologies (Crafty Toys)

By christy on August 22, 2008

Hello everyone! Today we’ll look at technologies used to manage cross/trans/multi-platform/media projects. I’m not talking about cross-media measurement, but about the tools you can use to deliver and manage your content across media platforms. I’ve selected a range of technologies used in alternate reality games, pervasive games, location-based games and interactive TV:

Xenophile Media’s ‘Reactor Engine’
Xenophile [...]

It’s Manifesto Time!

By christy on August 11, 2008

Manifestos can be wonderful community-forming, revolution ranting things. I cannot recall why (I just needed to I think) but I created my own little silly declaration in 2005:
A cross-media creator is a conductor of an orchestra of media channels & arts types; an imagineer, constructing fictional worlds that cover the planet; a programmer, interpreting conversations between [...]

So, here is one reason for the delay in posting here…

By christy on July 28, 2008

Hello! I'm Christy Dena. I'm a Cross-Media Specialist. What does that mean? I research, design, strategise, mentor and educate about creative projects that combine multiple media platforms, events and locations. This site is a merging of my various blogs: Cross-MediaEntertainment.com, UniverseCreation101.com, Transmodiologist.org and CompletionofBeginnings.com. I thought it was time for the gang to get together. Feel free to contact me via email: christy at this domain.

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