I was recently interviewed by Digital Book World‘s Emily Williams, and the first part of that interview is now up at DBW: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/collaborative-communities-transmedia-evolved/ It was a lot of fun to speak with Emily. In addition to writing for DBW, she’s also the co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group’s Rights Sub-Committee. Since much of the [...]
Remix Fiction has posted a third installment of my interview series; this time Martin Aggett and I discuss Brain Candy, LLC’s collaborative commercial entertainment model. Remix Fiction Television Episode #730.2 (Scott Walker) from Martin Aggett on Vimeo. Also, be sure to check out “The Making of Martin Aggett” project over at Wreck a Movie: http://www.wreckamovie.com/themakingofmartinaggett.
Had the pleasure of being invited to sit down across the virtual desk that is Skype from Martin Aggett of Remix Fiction. Very grateful to Martin for giving me the opportunity to discuss Brain Candy, LLC on his show. Remix Fiction Television Episode #730 (Scott Walker) from Martin Aggett on Vimeo.
Uploaded a new Brain Candy, LLC marketing presentation that summarizes the approaches, philosophies, and framework considerations for co-creating value with audiences. While it’s focused on collaborative commercial entertainment properties, it has applications outside of commercial entertainment (also posted on the Brain Candy, LLC home page and on my personal Slideshare account).
After a few months of deliberation, today I scraped the word “transmedia” from my company’s website. I didn’t do it to make some point or start a protest, and this post isn’t a manifesto, a call to action, a damnation, or an act of praise (it’s not likely to receive wide readership, anyway, much less [...]
Earlier this week I was interviewed by Heather Leonard at The Business Insider about my company, Brain Candy, LLC, and its first internally produced entertainment property, Runes of Gallidon. It was just one part of an amazing whirlwind trip to NYC where I was able to: – have dinner with Ivan Askwith, Cheryl Furjanic, and [...]
We just got a new presentation up at the Brain Candy, LLC shop that is a high-level summary of how we apply our collaborative approach to entertainment content (here is a direct link). The model is incredibly flexible and scalable, and it generates new revenue streams for entertainment properties of many shapes and sizes (movies, [...]
I recently finished a presentation called “Building a Renewable Entertainment Franchise” for Brain Candy, LLC that discusses a new model for building and managing entertainment content/franchises. The presentation highlights the current challenges facing content owners in a digital age and touches on the more critical approaches to use when implementing this model. The renewable franchise [...]
After reading several books, blogs, and online articles on the elusively challenging art that is called writing, I felt prepared enough to actually start writing my first novel. The ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for three years took on a substantive form – characters, dialogue, even a rough overview of the [...]
Just launched a new version of the Brain Candy, LLC site this week. It’s a huge improvement, although almost anything would have been (combine my limited design skills with the even more limited Google Apps web templates, and the result looks terribly…1995). We hired Alice Tang of think/feel to handle the design and WordPress implementation, [...]