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Once more, with feeling
| Name: | Curt Hopkins |  |
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| Date Posted: | Jul 19, 2007 | |
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Blog post
OK. I accidentally wound up with two accounts and also wound up going a bit off topic, so let's back up and take a running start at this again.
I am a new addition to the GarageGames bunch. My name's Curt and my title is Social Media Manager. I'll be editing the soon-to-be-unveiled company blog and will be working with various other GGers on social media tools and projects. I'll also be helping to create a coherent, company-wide social media strategy and policy.
What's that mean? It means I'll be using these "Web 2.0" tools (ugh, I know) to tell you about what's going on inside the company and (this is at least as important as the first thing) to listen to what you have to say about the company. What would make the products, the sites, the tools better? Where do you think we've done a great job and what needs work?
Please bear with me as I get to know GarageGames, its products and (astonishingly talented) employees, its passionate users and the community that has developed around it. I know that, like me, you are all a bunch of shrinking violets, so I encourage you to overcome your inherent shyness and speak up. (Yes, I'm kidding.) I will be listening. (That's no joke.) You don't expect me to always agree with you, right? Of course not. But I'll take every suggestion and every criticism seriously. And yes, I'll pass it on to whomever's got their finger on the appropriate button.
Alright. In addition to this GG account, you can also find me at my Great Games Experiment account. The company blog will be up and about soon enough and when it is, I'll let you know here.
Whew. OK. As Marvin Gaye once so sagely said, "Let's get it on."
I am a new addition to the GarageGames bunch. My name's Curt and my title is Social Media Manager. I'll be editing the soon-to-be-unveiled company blog and will be working with various other GGers on social media tools and projects. I'll also be helping to create a coherent, company-wide social media strategy and policy.
What's that mean? It means I'll be using these "Web 2.0" tools (ugh, I know) to tell you about what's going on inside the company and (this is at least as important as the first thing) to listen to what you have to say about the company. What would make the products, the sites, the tools better? Where do you think we've done a great job and what needs work?
Please bear with me as I get to know GarageGames, its products and (astonishingly talented) employees, its passionate users and the community that has developed around it. I know that, like me, you are all a bunch of shrinking violets, so I encourage you to overcome your inherent shyness and speak up. (Yes, I'm kidding.) I will be listening. (That's no joke.) You don't expect me to always agree with you, right? Of course not. But I'll take every suggestion and every criticism seriously. And yes, I'll pass it on to whomever's got their finger on the appropriate button.
Alright. In addition to this GG account, you can also find me at my Great Games Experiment account. The company blog will be up and about soon enough and when it is, I'll let you know here.
Whew. OK. As Marvin Gaye once so sagely said, "Let's get it on."
Recent Blog Posts
| List: | 03/14/08 - A window into the company & InstantAction 02/19/08 - InstantAction Podcast 12/07/07 - Gamer Social Media Survey Results 11/02/07 - Global Gamer Social Media Survey 09/11/07 - GarageGames' Twitter account 09/05/07 - New stories on GG co. blog 08/12/07 - Help promote GarageBlog 08/09/07 - Job openings |
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Submit your own resources!| Ed Johnson (Jul 19, 2007 at 16:50 GMT) |
| Ed Johnson (Jul 19, 2007 at 17:23 GMT) |
| Simon Love (Jul 19, 2007 at 17:26 GMT) |
The community does need a 'face' in my opinion.
I never minded the forums, but an actual 'official' blog seems like a logical step in the right direction!
Can't wait to read ya!
Simon Love
| Matthew Langley (Jul 19, 2007 at 18:26 GMT) |
| Curt Hopkins (Jul 19, 2007 at 18:32 GMT) |
| Steve Flowers (Jul 19, 2007 at 20:32 GMT) |
| Tom Eastman (Eastbeast314) (Jul 20, 2007 at 01:57 GMT) |
>Perhaps, add a visual indication to forum threads when an employee has posted.
>Bother the web guys until the search is wonderfully useful.
>Similarly, get resources more exposure. And TDN. We need cross-fertilization, people! ;)
>Dredge the forums for FAQs. If one spends a week or two in a specific forum, the same questions pop up multiple times. Take a good answer and question and put it in a stickied thread.
>Force the employees to post blogs more often. GG is growing fast and massively busy, but there should be at least one employee blog every two weeks. Or every week, but that's too hopeful.
Or, failing that, you should personally interrogate employees on a regular basis and post the results. Or, challenge some of them to matches in recent games - and tell us about them. Or get Davey to trash talk and record it like a podcast. You get the idea.
That's all I can think of right now. Glad to hear that the sites have a dedicated voicebox ;)
Good luck!
| Ross Pawley (Jul 24, 2007 at 07:56 GMT) |
| Novack (Jul 31, 2007 at 03:55 GMT) |
I have sent an email to you.
Maybe a PM system for GG is not a bad idea at all. Right now I dont if that mail I send you, isnt on your SPAM folder, or something.
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