Archive for July, 2009

when do you stop living for the moment?

28 July, 2009 at 9:19 pm · Filed under game design, quote, research ·Tagged

“Youngsters tend to live for the moment whilst older folks are more concerned about their futures.”

“A key difference emerged between participants who were aged thirteen and younger versus those aged sixteen and older, with the older group being more future oriented. There were no age-related differences among participants aged thirteen or less, or among participants aged sixteen or more, whilst fourteen and fifteen-year-olds were mixed…”
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/06/our-changing-attitudes-to-time.html

The younger age group tends to favour immediate reward, while the mid-adolescent & older age groups tend to value immediate rewards less.

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new words?

28 July, 2009 at 8:16 pm · Filed under life, quote

Influency
Knowing how to be persuasive and tell compelling stories in multiple social media spaces (each space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique)

Protovation
Fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles; the ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure

http://www.iftf.org/node/2774

 

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death by sat nav

28 July, 2009 at 8:11 pm · Filed under life

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She has the voice of authority. He tells you what to do without being in the slightest bit aware of the real situation around you. The voice grows on you, and becomes engrained friend you trust.

The sat nav voice is carefully constructed to be calm and believable. The Media Equation suggests that we happily suspend our understanding of technology’s limits and treat it like a person. A person we are willing to listen to and a person that we trust.

Sat nav at best can be said to have partial information that has no second to second live updating. Instructions to take turns happen in real time and more & more we will see people driving in to one another because sat nav told them to.

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marketing ready?

20 July, 2009 at 6:49 pm · Filed under design, game design, quote

  • Think like a marketer. If you want your content to be used as a vehicle for marketing departments (and to accept those marketing dollars), you need to start understanding the fundamentals of how marketing works. Get to know the terms and basic principles.
  • Think “in” and not “around.” Brands don’t just want to buy useless display ads around your video content, they want to collaborate with you and be worked into your content.
  • Think socially. Digital content is more compelling to advertisers and brands when you open up the interactive possibilities of being online and leverage a viewer’s social graph. Get Facebook-y and Twitter-y with your content.
  • Think about distribution. Before you pitch to potential sponsors, you need to have a distribution plan for your content that goes beyond putting it up on YouTube. How many episodes? How often will they roll out? Where will they roll out? How are you promoting them?
  • Think deeper about brands. The makers of Dove believe it’s doing more than just selling soap — it’s about female empowerment. Truly understand what those behind a brand believes it stands for, research where it advertises and figure out why and how your content could fit in.
  • Think about the specific industry. Sectors like pharma and kids will have specific laws around what and how things can be sold; if you’re going after a certain business, learn about it beforehand.
  • Think about brands early on. Don’t take something already in the can and try to shoehorn a brand in there. The integration should be as natural as possible.
  • Think celebs. Casting a web celeb who already has a fan base that can be leveraged is appealing to advertisers.
  • Think about the RFP. No one will hand you a request for a proposal until you’ve earned it. Get to know, as best you can, the agencies and companies that issue them. Show them your work and get to a level where brand creators will tell you what their business problem is.
  • Think about the ROI. At the end of the day, that’s the goal: sales. The more you can help to realize that goal, the better your chances of getting brand dollars will be.

http://newteevee.com/2009/07/14/want-to-get-your-web-series-sponsored-10-things-to-think-about/

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