Portfolio

This portfolio page is a collection of videos/links to press, and community videos I've done over the past year.

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Company Blog Posts
Perfect World Podcast (I hosted,produced, recorded, and edited)
Video Demos/Walkthroughs
Video Interviews
Video Q&A for GamerDNA in July 2009
Quoted on the topic of Social Media and Video Games
Quoted in TweetMyGaming coverage
GameIndustryTweet.com coverage

Company Blog Posts:

Blog posts on Perfect World blog

Blog posts on GamerDNA.com

Perfect World Podcast:

Download links for the Perfect World Podcast, which I hosted, edited, and produced

Video Demos/Walkthroughs:

Video Demo of GamerDNA.com product relaunch on September 2nd 2009:

Video Interviews:

Interview with MTV Multiplayer Blog at E3 2009, promoting TweetMyGaming.com

Video Q&A for GamerDNA in July 2009:

Segment #1 – All about the new content/comment systems

Segment #2 – Questions related to the new gamerDNA Profiles

Segment #3 – Questions about features that we have mentioned/discussed in the past

Segment #4 – Questions and Requests for new Features

Segment #5 – Townhall Wrap Up, with questions about new features, community, and gamerDNA as a business

Quoted on the topic of Social Media and Video Games:

Who gives a tweet about gaming? Uncharted 2's stumble Ars Technica – Sept. 29th 2009

"'Since Twitter is so new and changing so rapidly, everyone is still learning how best to use the service," Sam Houston told us. Houston is the community manager for GamerDNA, a site dedicated to creating and fostering communities around the gaming world. He knows a little something about how to track (and create) buzz. "There is a bit of a learning curve and I think everyone is still learning what the best practices are, and what works and doesn't work."

GamerDNA tracks who is tweeting about what games, and uses that to create a picture of what's hot in the gaming world; the Tweet My Gaming site almost looks like a stock ticker for gaming buzz. The big games at the moment? World of WarCraft, Halo 3: ODST, and Aion, among others.

What have they found users want from Twitter? Infrequent tweets, and a lack of automation. "The service is also innately personal, since a Twitter user is 'following' someone's personal Twitter stream in most cases," he explained. "Because of this, you naturally expect personal tweets from that users…not exactly automated tweets."

At GamerDNA, many users send out one automated tweet a day summarizing their gaming habits. It's a balancing act to allow users to share their information easily, without being obnoxious about it. "It's impossible to make everyone happy," Houston says. "But we try our hardest to provide a great service while respecting everyone's preferences.' "