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Interview: Brian from Mario Marathon Discusses Gaming for Charity and How to Grow an Audience
In: Community Management|Grassroots Gaming|Online Communities
14 Apr 2011An annual event going back to 2008, the Mario Marathon is an amazing example of building a community through word of mouth, relentless promotion and clever interactions with fans. It’s one of the earliest examples of a gaming marathon benefitting charity, which involves streaming gamers playing the games to a live audience over the course [...]
Video game community manager David “Historian” DeWald has a great article up on why your company needs a community manager. One key point: The launch phase of any community requires someone that is passionate and “transacting” a lot. Building communities is not about collecting as many people as possible and communities often don’t grow the [...]
Here we go again
19 Mar 2010The 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 [...]
Balancing Acts: What Nazis, Communists, Americans, Iran and Roger Federer have in common
13 Jun 2008Oh dear, I’ve gone and violated Godwin’s Law. At least I got it out of the way early, which was unavoidable as the entire point of this post is a review I read of Pat Buchanan’s new book. The former Nixon Adviser/former presidential candidate/current MSNB correspondent hops aboard the World War II revisionism short bus, [...]
