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  • From Word to Half-Life: engage and sell through story

    Here’s an excerpt from my interview with Seattle tech pioneer Monica Harrington on how she has engaged communities for decades, using storytelling to sell new products — from Microsoft Word, to Valve’s Half Life, Picnik and now the new social network Intersect.  The full episode will be available on Wednesday, December 29th, airing on UWTV…

  • Quick, more hands on keyboards!

    Last night, we hosted Open Secrets: An Open Conversation about Wikileaks and Information Transparency in America at the Seattle Public Library.  We saw this event as a community service as we all sought to dispel some of the confusion around a complex issue. I was thrilled to have a local TV station interview me about…

  • Passive storytelling is so 20th century: Elan Lee interview

    An absolutely dreadful YouTube poster frame (weak wrists Hanson!).  But a terrific interview with Elan and his innovative thinking on what comes next for storytelling, and why he had to move to LA to take his vision to the next level. As Elan says, with this new form of storytelling, you no longer have to…

  • Storytelling and the New Studio System?

    …there’s another tension, even as all this content is miraculously made freely available online. While the producers struggle to monetize their work, the content providers from the old media world are desperately trying to regain the lustre of the Golden Age of monopoly pricing — when this stuff was actually hard to create. In other…