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Videos of my Power to the Pixel talks, UC101 posts & another podcast

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As I mentioned in my last post, I was lucky to be invited to present at two great events last month: Microsoft Research’s Social Computing Symposium in Seattle, and Power to the Pixel event, which is part of the London Film Festival. The videos of the Microsoft event aren’t up yet, but I will be putting my ppt up with full annotations soon. Power to the Pixel, though, have put up all the videos on the video page at the main site Power to the Pixel, Blip.tv and YouTube. To recap what the event was about:

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 opening talk on the conference day, ran a workshop and participated in the special Think Tank. It was an amazing event in which I got to finally meet many people for the first time, people I have watched, conversed with online, and even worked with remotely. Liz Rosenthal did a fantastic job with the event. The sessions were webcast on the main site and at Screen International. They had over 10,000 people watch the webcasts, which is very cool. There are LOTS of interesting talks there about distribution, branding, crowdsourcing and finance there. But I’ve also embedded here and at UC101, the videos and ppts of my talk and workshop on ‘Films in the Age of Cross-Media Production’ and my workshop on ‘Writing Across Media’ respectively.

Should We? Could We? Would We? Films in the Age of Cross-Media Production

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Writing Across Media

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I also did a post UC101 about Immersive Entertainment and Marketing PLACES I’d like to visit…

Oh, I have also started a personal podcast. It is where I share my personal thoughts about who I am and life in general. No cross/trans/multi-platform/media-storytelling/entertainment. 🙂

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

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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 opening talk on the conference day, ran a workshop on the workshop day and participated in the Think Tank they ran. It was an amazing event in which I got to finally meet many people for the first time, people I have watched, conversed with online, and even worked with remotely. Liz did a fantastic job with the event. The sessions were webcast on the main site and at Screen International. They had over 10,000 people watch the webcasts, which is very cool. Well, now the videos are slowly being released online. All the conference day talks are now on the video page on the main site, but not the workshops. They are available elsewhere at Blip.tv or YouTube. There are LOTS of interesting talks there about distribution, branding, crowdsourcing and finance there. But for here I’ve embeded the videos and ppts of my talk and workshop on ‘Films in the Age of Cross-Media Production’ and my workshop on ‘Writing Across Media’ respectively. Enjoy!
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Microsoft Research, Power to the Pixel & UC101 podcast

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Hello everyone!

Today I’m flying to Seattle to participate in Microsoft Research’s Social Computing Symposium. Every year since 2004, Microsoft Research has been inviting 90 people from both academia and industry to pow wow about social computing. Participants over the years have included:

Here are the attendees, agendas and videos from the previous events:

This year, the following great peeps will be there (and of course many others!):

And me! Looking over the attendees for the past few years, it looks like I may be the first person from Australia!? Definitely the first who is at an Australian university.

Everyone has to prepare a presentation, but I doubt I’ll be presenting it as there is only time for a handful out of the whole group. What I’m looking forward to is the pow wow with a lot of great peeps. It should be a lot of fun.

I fly back from Seattle next week and then fly out to London. I’m very privileged to be asked to give the opening speech at Power to the Pixel. I’ll be presenting on the 22nd Oct, running a workshop on the 23rd and participating in the Project Forum launch on the 24th. Look at the great speakers that will be there. Every second of my time in London is booked up, but if you’re in London at the same time, come and say hi at PtoP!

And last but not least: another Universe Creation 101 podcast interview! Wohoo! I’m firing now: that is two this year. hehe. OK, the time between podcast interviews is a bit too long, but it is worth the wait. This interview is a special UK issue with online drama expert Tim Wright. He shares great insights from his years of working with innovative online interactive drama and multiplatform storytelling. Check it out.