John Porcaro, Manager of the Online Community at Microsoft’s Xbox division talks with Marketing Voices about online trends and where the world of online is headed. He bring up Facebook & social networks, hiring from the community and what it takes to walk that fine line between transparency and secrets.
Worlds In Motion is reporting that Mochi Media has launched the “Flash Rock Star Games Contest” with Gaia Online.
Mochi Media’s online games ad network MochiAds has launched the “Flash Rock Star Games Contest” with Gaia Online, hoping to recognize talent among new Flash game developers.The three-month contest will accept game submissions to be judged by a professional panel with input from the Gaia community. The contest winner receives over $25,000 in cash and prizes, and possible game development contracts with Gaia.
[Via Worlds In Motion]
I just wanted to write a quick follow up to yesterday’s launch post and mention some features of the blog.
Delicious
Our readers share bookmarks with the BandwidthCamp community by tagging them BandwidthCamp on del.icio.us (a social bookmarking tool). If you’d like to participate, sign-up for delicious and share articles you think the community might find interesting.
Weekly News
Every Saturday I’ll sit down and look at what has been tagged and create a list of news that everyone might find interesting. We won’t list everything from that week, but I’ll list as much as I can… between 5 -10 articles a week.
Events listings
UpComing.org(now owned by Yahoo.) is a great social tool to help you track events happening around the globe. I setup up a group to track all the events I can find that have a marketing track related to video games. Anyone with an UpComing.org account can join and add events. You can also check out our events page to see what the latest events are.
If you have any questions, want to submit an event or send a comment, contact us directly through the contact form. Over the weeks and months to come, I hope to add more features and helpful resources for the community.
That’s a very good question and one I plan to answer. First, welcome to the new and imported site. It has been an interesting journey to get here but the real work is only just beginning. BandwidthCamp is a blog about video games, and marketing and how you go from one side of the field to the other. In today’s crazy world, good enough isn’t just cutting it anymore. You’ve to look and go beyond the hype to really get your message out there.
BandwidthCamp is the central online hub for advertisers, ad agencies, public relation reps, entrepreneurs, and good samaritans from around the globe. We live in a global community now and those boarders that governments talk about are coming down. If you are looking to market your video game then you’ve come to the right place. And even if you are not, you just might find a great idea you can twist around and use to promote your own product(s).
Who am I? I’m Duane Brown and I use to work for DreamCatcher Games in 2005 - 2006. I cut my teeth there as their public relations to go guy and learned more then I could have even wanted to. Both in school and for the last couple years I’ve been freelancing. Everyone I know wants to get in the video game industry and it was a smart move for myself to specialize within our industry. I’ve a lot to say and decided to relaunch this as a specialized blog only covering marketing and video games and everything that would, could and should go with that (this blog use to be called Innovation+Imagination).
So what is this blog really about? BandwidthCamp is the blog about getting and staying connected to today’s gamer. Marketing doesn’t have to be a bad thing. When done right, it’s a work of art and something people love. BandwidthCamp features tips, marketing strategies, product reviews, reader questions and more. We’re not a general video game blog like my friends at Kotaku or GayGamer.net, but we still hope we can help you connect with those blogs and their community in different ways.
On the heels of yesterday’s post. NEVERDIE is hosting a MMO tournament within Entropia with a potential reality show based on the virtual entrepreneur on Spike TV’s Game Head. Should be a fun tournament and unique perspective on a reality TV show.
[Via Worlds In Motion]
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