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Commissioning for Attention Part 2 – Getting Attention
[This is the second part of a short series, based on a talk I gave at MIPTV in March 2009, sharing some insights from our commissioning social media projects at Channel 4 Education] Matt Webb, the...
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Commissioning for Attention Part 3 – Keeping Attention
[This is the third part of a short series, based on a talk I gave at MIPTV in March 2009, sharing some insights from our commissioning social media projects at Channel 4 Education] We’ve had a couple...
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Story – the conference
Right then. It looks like I’m going to actually have to do this. I tend to go to a lot of conferences, and most of them are focused on specific business sectors or platforms. At the Edinburgh TV...
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The Story website goes live!
So, after getting a huge number of comments to the post about organising a conference all about stories, I’ve managed to book a venue – The Conway Hall, London – and a date – Friday February 19th, 2010...
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5 things I’m thinking about
Following Alice and Dan, here’s my contribution to the ‘blog 5 things you’re thinking about’ meme: 1- Attention Patterns I’ve been getting very obsessed with the patterns of attention around content...
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Ed Catmull on Creativity at Pixar
This is pretty much everything I could ever say about the industry I work in, but said more effectively than I could ever say it: “If I look at the range, you’ve got one [constraint] that is art...
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The common ground between TV and Gaming
I’ve just had an interesting email conversation with Nicholas Lovell, the excellent games consultant and Gamesbrief blogger, prompted by his appearance at the Edinburgh TV Festival on a panel about the...
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Life inside Seven Days
[This is a piece I wrote for Broadcast Magazine, about Seven Days, a cross-platform project I'm working on in my dayjob. Posted here as its behind a paywall on their site] Something very interesting...
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The Groupon Shop
The Groupon Shop Just around the corner from where I live is this shop. Its in a small parade opposite Portslade train station, along with a couple of barbers, a greasy spoon cafe, a bric-a-brac shop...
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What you know, what you do, and what you own.
I was discussing what we do at Storythings recently with Ben Lunt, and we were talking about a interesting pattern we’d seen in some of the agencies and companies we really admire. Traditionally,...
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Following Alice and Dan, here’s my contribution to the ‘blog 5 things you’re thinking about’ meme: 1- Attention Patterns I’ve been getting very obsessed with the patterns of attention around content...
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