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2008
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Will present a workshop on games and adaptations at the Austin Game Developers Conference in September
Presented a workshop on transmedia storytelling and demoed the GAMBIT Summer 2008 games at the ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Conference in Los Angeles
Presented a paper on toys and transmedia narratives at the 5th ITRA World Congress in Nafplion, Greece
Interviewed by the State Department's America.gov on portable video
Interviewed by CNN on online television (article; full transcript)
Emceed and co-organized the inaugural Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT, featuring Neil Gaiman
Lectured on toys and stories in the MIT Toy Design course (2.00b)
Lectured on interactive narratives in the MIT Product Design course (2.744)
Attended WorldCon 2008 in San Francisco
Attended the 2008 Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco
Served as a judge at the 2008 Sony Game Workshop at MIT
Lectured on transmedia storytelling at the 2008 Sony Game Workshop at MIT
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2007
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Launched an irregular column, "Divergences", in the MIT C3 Weekly Update
Designed a new identity for the MIT New Media Literacies Project
Turned 30
Presented on transmedia storytelling and user-generated content at the FuturePlay 2007 Conference in Toronto, Canada
Attended the 2007 Festival of Cartoon Art at Ohio State University
Helped teach the Fall 2007 Interactive Narrative course at MIT
Attended the 2007 Game Developers' Conference in Austin, Texas
Became Communications Director for the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Completed my Master's of Science in Comparative Media Studies at MIT
Completed my Master's thesis, Transmedia Storytelling: Business, Aesthetics and Production at the Jim Henson Company
Presented a paper, Radial Narrative Maps and Mike Mignola's Hellboy, at MIT5
Designed a new logo and website for LIT@MIT, the MIT Literature Section
Guest-lectured Barry Kudrowitz's Toy Design Workshop, talking about toys and transmedia narratives
Guest-lectured Henry Jenkins' CMS.400 Media Systems and Texts course, speaking about transmedia storytelling
Redesigned Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
Created the identity design for Blue Compass Executive Consulting (logo, business cards, letterhead, website)
Presented a paper, "Transmedia Storytelling at the Jim Henson Company," at the SCMS Conference
Paid a consulting visit to MTV in New York
Made a game, Conflict Diamond, with Dan Roy for the Winter 2007 Boston Game Jam
Published a short piece, "Winning the Console Wars with User-Generated Content", in the MIT C3 Weekly Update
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2006
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Survived my third semester at MIT
Published Moving Stories, a white paper on storytelling in mobile media, through C3
Designed the poster, website and other ancillary materials for the C3 2006 Futures of Entertainment Conference
Presented my thoughts on transmedia storytelling as part of a panel discussion at the Sandbox Symposium, part of SIGGRAPH 2006
Designed website and other materials for Project Good Luck
Traveled to China for a 10-day research trip (5 days in Beijing, 5 days in Shanghai)
Finished my first full novel, Bones of the Angel
Survived my second semester at MIT
Served as the teaching assistant for Henry Jenkins' Media Systems and Texts course on magic and violence
Went on consulting visits to Turner Broadcasting, the Cartoon Network, Fidelity Investments and Nickelodeon through C3
Led a team in the production of a video game pitch project, Goldworld, for a game development class taught by Bethesda Softworks founder Chris Weaver
Did design work for and assisted in the planning of the first annual C3 Convergence conference
Produced 30, a thirty-poems-in-thirty-days experiment for National Poetry Month
Created the first several chapters of an interative narrative experiment, Ghost Train
Co-wrote a collaborative story experiment, The Curtain, for an interactive and non-linear storytelling class; project included the website and a theme song
Designed, produced and built the new CMS website at comparativemediastudies.org
Screened The Big Lie That Solves Everything and Screening Process at the CMS Media Spectacle at MIT
Spent Spring Break traveling around Japan
Attended the 2006 SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas
Spearheaded a team in the 2006 Sony Game Workshop at MIT
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2005
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Survived my first semester at MIT
Co-created Zoom City, a web-enabled racing toy for boys 5-7 incorporating global social software, transmedia storytelling and individual customization as the final project for a Creative Industries class co-taught by Henry Jenkins and Brenda Laurel
Began production on my first-ever video game as a project for my Workshop class
Visited Portland, Maine on a family weekend retreat
Attended the first-ever Game Writer's Conference in Austin, Texas
Began work as a media analyst in transmedia storytelling for the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium (C3)
Created an animated proof-of-concept for a Bones of the Angel feature
Designed and produced a marketing kit for Thadeus Project, including the album design for their EP Just a Taste
Began classes at MIT
Moved to Somerville, Massachusetts (just outside of Cambridge)
Produced The Big Lie That Solves Everything, my third short film with Tohubohu Productions
Built a website for Levin Ginsburg Attorneys with Extreme Marketing and Sitelis Design
Designed, produced and built rcwphoto.com for Rob Warner Photography
Accepted into the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT
Created a trifold brochure for Borrow123.com
Created a DVD-opening animation for Thadeus Project
Designed, developed and launched thadeusproject.com for an art rock band
Created a site for HOTCHOCOLATE, a chocolatier in Chicago
Launched the full version of renhealth.net for Renaissance Health in Boston
Created websites for George Wyhinny, Allyson Voller, and Patrick Edwards
Designed the logo for the Transterpreter, a code-language translation program
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2004
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Screening Process: A Loser's Guide to Love wins Best Romance in the 2004 National Film Challenge
Developed, designed and launched web presences for Jim Robesky, Eileen Kugman, Ben Williams, Lucia Spina, and Chad V. Holtkamp
Designed and developed the website for Andy Rozsa, a trombonist with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra
Produced Screening Process: A Loser's Guide to Love, a short film with Tohubohu Productions
Developed, designed and launched web presences for Steve Crocker, Terry Murray, Barbara Marden, Matt Welton, John Bradecich, Kate Johnson, Mike Dillenburg and Stephen Marshal Jones
Designed and developed the "full version" of Medhire.com in conjunction with AvidWeb Technologies
Became a founding member of Untyped, a small collective of digital innovators and artists from both sides of the Atlantic; designed their look and feel, including nine hand-drawn+photography illustrations
Redesigned, developed and launched new websites for The PinDrop Audiobook Theatre Company, Big House Audio and Casting, and Sound Advice
Developed, designed and launched web presences for Jill Tondu, Jeff Heytow, Len Chetkin, Frances Miller, Brooks Ralston and Dan Lougheed
Composed three new songs "January Visiting", "God and Ducks" and "Secretly" and added them to Music
Packed up shop and moved to Chicago, Illinois
Produced The Schlimmer, a short film with Tohubohu Productions
Developed, designed and launched web presences for Stephanie Aaron, Barbara Figgins, and Rob Lamont
Developed, designed and launched virtualbooktour.org for Kevin Smokler's Virtual Book Tours Developed web presences for Marc Cetrone, Kimberley Reid and Shelly Stone
Developed, designed and launched jimfrazier.net for Jim Frazier, a Chicago-based audio engineer
Developed, designed and launched an interim minisite for MedHire, a health care staffing company
Redesigned and relaunched Dreamsbay.com, with extensive additions to the portfolio
Produced a four-color brochure for The Congressional Quarterly, a magazine in Washington, D.C.
Developed, designed and launched gastonlighthouse.com for Gaston Lighthouse, LLC, an inventions and consulting company
Developed, designed and launched the online presence for CollaborationTown, a New York City-based theatre troupe
Developed, designed and launched arborpl.com for Arbor Place, an Alzheimer's care facility
Served as the Online Production Editor for voiceproblem.org a position which included layout, design, coding, strategy advising and content editing
Developed web presences for Joe Gerace, Kate McClanaghan, Kourtney Vahle, Ole Riise, Gavin Johnson, Julia Merchant and Jim Marco
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2003
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Developed, designed and launched broadreachhealthcare.com for BroadReach Healthcare, LLC
Designed and launched kateerinphoto.com for Kate Erin Photography
Developed web presences for Phil O'Brien, Bob Caldwell, Lynne Magnavite, Kat Voboril, Elaine Danner, Drew Jenkins, Terry Beauchamp and Lonnie Rodriguez
Organized and emceed Fray Day 7 DC, an evening of personal storytelling
Made multiple trips to New York City for vacations and social calls
Designed presentation materials and product prototypes for Gaston Lighthouse
Participated as a host site for the first two Virtual Book Tours
Developed, designed and launched blackseacompany.com for The Black Sea Trading Company
Designed investor presentation package for Renaissance Health
Launched Summer edition of Inkblots Magazine
Travelled to Chicago, Illinois on a summer vacation
Developed web presence for Timothy Norton and Maryll Botula
Redesigned rbbsystems.com
Relaunched geoffreylong.com
Attended my second SXSW conference
Designed and built nickbastin.com
Published a short story, "The Indian Princess," in {fray}
Designed Jami Attenberg's Deli Life for So New Media
Launched Spring edition of Inkblots Magazine
Launched kkap.com for Kieth K. Annis Photography
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2002
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Moved to Bethesda, Maryland
Started work in earnest on a new novel, Bones of the Angel
Left the Advisory Board Company for self-employment as The Dreamsbay Company
Travelled to Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon for a summer vacation
Attended my first SXSW in Austin, Texas
Acquired geoffreylong.com, inkblotsmag.com and dreamsbay.net
Purchased a server and rack space, began hosting websites
Relaunched nerdup.com
Designed and built voice.meei.harvard.edu for the Voice Disorders Center at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Harvard University teaching hospital
Designed and built talonbeeson.com
Designed and built americanhealthline.com
Designed and built advisoryboardcompany.com
Spent several months on two big, huge internal website/software projects
Promoted to Web Producer at The Advisory Board Company
Published Spring, Summer and Fall editions of Inkblots
Took a weekend trip to New York City
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2001
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Designed and built hworks.advisory.com
Promoted to Web Designer at The Advisory Board Company
Moved to Alexandria, Virginia
Designed and built the website for The Milwaukee Theatre Collective
Designed and built miriamskitchen.com
Designed and built my first portfolio site, launched at dreamsbay.com/geoffreylong
Designed and built first version of nerdup.com
Made multiple trips to Boston, Massachusetts
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2000
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Went to work for The Advisory Board Company as a Designer
Began keeping a weblog
Moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland
Graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in English and Philosophy, cum laude
Created a QuickTime VR "virtual coffeeshop" for Endstop Magazine
Wrote a completely original paper on the Philosophy of Fiction to earn my Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy
Wrote a mixed-media experiment called Small States to earn my Creative Writing concentration and my Degree in English
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1999
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Went to the 6th Digital Storytelling Festival and hung out in Crested Butte, Colorado with Dad
Did poster and program design for the Kenyon College Stage Femmes
Designed and built rbbsystems.com
Returned to the United States
Visited Venice, Rome, and Paris with Jordan Moore
Visited Paris, Edinburgh and London with parents
Visited London and Oxford with Nick Bastin and Lisa Kennedy
Published the first online edition of Inkblots
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1998
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Hung out in London and Oxford
Enrolled at the University of Exeter in England for my junior year abroad
Drove from Los Angeles to Seattle and back for a summer vacation with Aurelia Flaming
Went back to New York City on vacation with Aurelia Flaming
Drove from Gambier, Ohio to Windsor, Ontario by way of Cleveland and Detroit with Aurelia Flaming, Becca Delahanty, Chrissy Steffen, Heather Ronis, Ian Millhiser, and Nick Ferraro for Spring Break
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1997
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Travelled from Ohio to Seattle and back by way of Glacier National Park as a summer trip
Started work on Dreamrunners with Devin Bowles, George Faerber and SarahScott Brett for a "Biology in Science Fiction" class at Kenyon College
Drove from Ohio to West Virginia with Mark Wilson for Spring Break
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1996
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Enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio
Went to Chicago on vacation with my folks, Jessica Avellone, Nick Bastin and Audra Abt
Graduated from Triway High School in Wooster, Ohio
Played Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof
Published Inkblots 4/5
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1995
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Played "the boy" in The Fantasticks
Played Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace
Went to New York City on vacation twice
Went to Boston on college visits
Served as co-editor of the Titan Times, our high school newsletter
Inkblots 1, 2 and 3 published
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1994
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Began preliminary founding work on Inkblots
Played Carnes in Oklahoma!
Drove from Ohio to California and back for a summer vacation
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1978-1993
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1977
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Born 8 A.M. sharp on December 6 in Wooster, Ohio
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