Tweet (Originally posted at Transmedia Coalition) It’s 2013, and Second Screen is all around us, touted as the Next Big Thing. All of the major broadcast networks seem to have some sort of second screen sync app now, by which you can get “extra” content on your smartphone or tablet while you’re watching your favorite [...]

Tweet Well, this is the obligatory SXSW Panel Picker Post. There are lots of great Transmedia/ARG panels up for voting this year (including three by NMM partners), and here are our favorites, for your consideration: FILM: Transmedia Production: Making the New Frontier – Behnam Karbassi (No Mimes Media) Documenting your Transmedia Project: The How and [...]

Tweet From ARGNet: Our own Maureen McHugh’s no holds barred keynote, complete with a menacing lightning backdrop! Near, far, wherever you are – ARGFest 2010 in Atlanta, GA was a blast. Whether at ARGFest or its virtual Twitter counterpart #PretendARGFest, the annual…(read more)

Tweet A long time ago in an ARG far far away… …a payphone rang. Quite a few payphones, actually. As an integral part of the award-winning I Love Bees Alternate Reality Game, a War-of-the-Worlds-esque radio drama played out on payphones around the world. Players drove miles, sometimes crossing international borders, sometimes braving hurricanes and even [...]

Tweet Last month, Maureen and I were honored to be part of a day-long series of panels put on by USC and UCLA Film Schools called Transmedia Hollywood: S/Telling the Story. Now, videos of the entire day have become available. You can download our panel, ARG: This is Not a Game…. But is it Always [...]

Tweet I was thinking recently about what life was like online for me before the advent of browsers and the World Wide Web. Now, I wasn’t a hardcore hacker geek or phone phreak back in the 90′s like some people, I was more your typical casual user, a layperson, I guess. My very first email [...]

Tweet Here’s a nice @Tubefilter writeup of our Transmedia/Hollywood Panel:  Hollywood Asks ‘Are ARGs Always a Promotion?’