Archive for the ‘Grassroots Gaming’ Category

The Important Lesson You Can Learn From Foursquare Day

In: Grassroots Gaming| Social Media

16 Apr 2010

Today, 4-16-10, is Foursquare Day. Rejoice, Foursquare users! (Foursquarers? Foursquares? Foursies?) Finally, you have a day of celebration where you can attend parties filled with Foursquare users. And earn a special badge. Also, you can check in to places. And stuff.
If you’re neither a Foursquare user nor a social media news junkie, you probably have [...]

5 ways to use Twitter to improve your gaming tournament

In: Grassroots Gaming| Social Media

1 Apr 2010

We’ve been experimenting with using Twitter at live game tournaments. Already it’s proved extremely useful for delivering match results which, coupled with Livestreaming, bring real-time updates of your event to those not in attendance. Several corporate tournaments use Twitter to fantastic effect – for instance, Magic: The Gathering’s live event coverage is a thing of [...]

Here we go again

In: Competitive Gaming| Grassroots Gaming| Online Communities

19 Mar 2010

The most important rule of blogging: choose a subject.
I started this blog as more of a scratchboard. A placeholder for ideas spread across various interests, including fiction, copywriting, creative agency life, social media, online community building, and video games. The old tagline, “Writing, Gaming and Brazen Geekery” expressed this.
As a personal project, that’s fine. As [...]


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