— I'm Timothy Greig. I live in Wellington, New Zealand, and work
for Victoria's School of Information Management. I'm interested in game design, information architecture, librarianship, and transmedia storytelling. Updates? — Try the RSS.

I’ve just finished up a round of lectures for INFO525, our ‘Intro to Technology‘ course in the Information Studies Programme. Our programme has a significant distance component – which for this paper means that each lecture is given three times:

• on campus for students studying here at Kelburn (Monday afternoon),
• online via audio conferencing for students all over New Zealand (Monday evening),
• and via telephone to a group of students who meet at Auckland City Library (Thursday evening).

It’s the second time I’ve taught for this paper, but teaching in the course this time around really got me thinking about how really different the three lectures are to teach – each with their own advantages and challenges. (more…)

Of course The Matrix, Lost, and Doctor Who are EXACTLY THE SAME as Brooklyn Museum and Nottingham City Museums and Galleries! This week I’ve just given a lecture that brazenly linked ideas I’ve been thinking about for ages concerning Transmedia Storytelling with Libraries and Museums.

TV and Movies, Erik Boekesteijn from the Delft Public Library, Cats and Rabbits, Transmedia Storytelling, Natalie Tran, Henry Jenkins… just a few of my favourite topics, all smooshed into a two-hour lecture mashup.

Next week, I’ll be talking about Social Network sites specifically. It should be quite fun, especially as I’m going to use it as an excuse to play many videos of incredibly handsome men.

I’ve posted all my notes from the fantastic conference I just attended while in Melbourne – to flickr. There was a really amazing line-up of speakers, and I’m really looking forward to going back over these notes later on, and adding my thoughts and annotations. For now, though, here they are raw. Any comments and questions appreciated!

Jem and I have been visiting Te Papa on the weekends to practice our drawing skills! (I’ll get better at it soon…)

During May, I applied for a pretty amazing job at an exhibition design firm located here in Wellington, Story Inc. I took a week off work, and put together an extensive application, complete with video commentary!

Sadly, I didn’t get the “Content Developer” job I applied for – but they did like me and my application enough to invite me back for a number of conversations about other projects they were working on. Through this experience, it was really great to apply my ideas to real-world projects, to learn more about how a creative studio worked, and meet the different people that contribute to their awesome projects.

In particular, this was an important step towards finding a way to keep doing more exciting storytelling projects – like those we’ve achieved with Collective Noun – full time. I was pretty proud to list myself – for the first time – as a “Transmedia Designer” on my CV, and include Collective Noun projects as significant achievements!