Posted on Friday, February 05 by Jill
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday recaps.
Young Neal declared himself, but Gam3rgurl wasn't sure.
June and Julian reconnected.
Bootywatchman was close to scoring when Brad made a discovery.
Lily went into labour.
HollingPete hauled ass toward Toronto.
And made it just in time.
Tune in today at 1:30 and 6:00 for the final episodes of Crushing It!
Posted on Thursday, February 04 by Jill
Monday and Tuesday on Crushing it.
Dave's mom embarrassed him.
Then she embarrassed him some more.
Then it really got bad.
Barb and Laurence had another wedding disaster.
Bootywatchman finally got his groove on, but Neal didn't like it too much.
Peter had a plan that Lily didn't like too much.
But why was Barb so high on the idea?
Carm started drinking and tweeting.
MJ Reid thought it was time for an intervention.
What's all this about?
Tune in Thursday for a very special all day episode of Crushing It!
Posted on Wednesday, February 03 by Jill
Tuesday February 2, 2010 on Twitter's top comedy soap opera, David and Barbara met up for coffee accidentally on purpose. If you don't know what happened Monday, read it here.
When Lily went into labour, David ended up as chauffeur.
Turned out Lily wasn't in labour, but but Dave turned things around with brownies.
Barb offered to buy Dave a drink to thank him and then she told a lie.
While the bride to be was sharing a glass of vino with Dave, groom Laurence and best man Brad were trying to pick up chicks.
Peter planned for the future of Lily's baby.
And Gam3rgurl and Neal made a new bet.
June found an old flame, which just might still be burning.
Drinks with Barb and Dave was going great... for a while.
Then Barb lied again.
But Dave was happy at last.
Until Gam3rgurl dropped the bomb shell.
That was Tuesday on Crushing It! Tune in Wednesday at 1 pm and ***SPECIAL TIME*** 7 pm to find out what will happen next.
And don't forget to help Neal and Gam3rgurl with their bet by making a donation to the Sick Kids Critical Care Waiting Room at SickKidsCCU.ca.
Posted on Monday, February 01 by Jill
Two episodes down and here's what's happened so far.
Lily got some good news.
Peter did some math.
Barbara considered calling off the wedding.
Laurence tried to be the voice of reason.
Laurence’s friend Brad might not be the best best man.
David is having a bad day.
And it looks like it may get worse.
And worse.
Lucky he has such a helpful friend in Neal.
Gam3rgurl crushed on Gary Vee.
That's what's happened on Crushing It! so far.
Oh yeah and this:
Posted on Monday, February 01 by Jill
Barbara and Laurence are supposed to be getting married on Friday.
Between now and then, Laurence will let Brad talk him into “one last fling.” Barbara will spill coffee on Dave… who promptly falls in love with her. Dave’s girlfriend, Carmella, will probably have something to say about that. Lily, the maid of honour, is 9 months pregnant and is only now getting around to telling Peter, the father. The geeky Neal will crush it with the mysterious (and equally geeky) Gam3ergurl. Dave’s mother, June, is living out loud on twitter – much to Dave’s embarrassment.
Who will hook up? Who will end up alone? That’s up to you!
Crushing It! is a romantic comedy for the twitter age, created especially for Social Media Week. It’s a week long ‘live’ semi-improvised story told by the characters themselves using the social space. And the best part? You get to decide how it all ends…
Follow Crushing It! by using the Crushing It list! on Twitter. Visit the Crushing It! website for more information. There's also a FriendFeed list.
Episode Schedule:
Links to the characters individually on Twitter and their blogs:
Posted on Monday, February 01 by Jill
Our tale is about to begin, but there’s still time for me to introduce you to our players. Meet Barbara (@barbology) and Laurence (@about2bhitched), a lovely couple. If you make friends with them, perhaps they’ll invite you to there nuptials. Yes, they’re engaged and the wedding is this Friday at 6 p.m.
Standing up with Barbara is her bff, Lily (@lottalily). Lily is very pregnant which is a wonderful quality in a bridesmaid because by comparison the bride seems slender, even if she has been binging on chocolate and bacon in the lead up to the big day.
Also attending the wedding is Laurence’s college roommate, Brad (@soon2b_single) whose marriage is wrapping up. And sending regrets is Barbara’s old pal, Peter (@hollingpete) who is too busy with work in New York to make it up to Toronto for the wedding.
Now let’s turn our attention to David (@BigD4Dave) and his gf, Carmela (@findcarm). Theirs is a turbulent relationship. David’s not the type to lay blame, but Carm thinks all their troubles stem from how much time David spends online. You see David is a Gary Vaynercuk fanatic. Gary's book Crush It is his bible and he truly believes he can use the social media tools to capitalize on what his passion… if only he knew what he's passionate about. Until he does find his passion, David’s happy to spend his evenings online, crushing it Gary Vee style.
Crushing along with David are two other Gary Vee fans, Gam3rgurl and Neal (youngneal) who Dave’s only ever met virtually. They meet online every night to talk social media and cheer each other on.
The newest member of David’s online posse is unexpected. David’s mom, June (June_H_Tetley), feeling a little lonely over in England, has just joined Twitter the better to monitor her son’s life.
If you have time, before the Twitter action begins, check out our character’s websites. Lily blogs at Babybumping, Barbara and barbology, Gam3rgurl posts at RE:thinking, and YoungNeal has a YouTube channel, but hasn’t quite gotten to posting anything on it.
The show begins Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 1 p.m. Search Twitter for our hashtag -- #cistory. Follow the Crushing It Story Twitter list. Or follow the FriendFeed list. You can also follow the story through our website Crushing It Story.
Posted on Friday, January 29 by Jill
We shot the posts for Barbara's video log this evening. And the first is already up. The amazing fluidity of working in the digital space.
Last Sunday, at the Crushing It story meeting, we realized how hard it was proving to get to Barbara's story -- Barbara being the character I'm writing and who is known on Twitter as barbology. There was really no way on Twitter to get to her subtext.
That night I decided to write her a little video blog that we could post day by day over the week. Dharini Woollcombe -- who I've worked with before and whose work I love -- agreed to play her.
I looked at my week's schedule and saw a gap of about 4 hours Thursday afternoon and evening. That was going to have to be when we'd shoot it.
I'd never met Jennifer Liao before she sent me an email volunteering to work on Crushing It. Every minute I spend with her, I'm more amazed by her skill set, her calm competence and her sly creativity. At our first story meeting, she showed us her new HD flip-style camera. And I'd seen a test web video she'd shot for her character, Neal (@youngneal). So I asked her if she would shoot Barbara's videos with it. She agreed.
Next, a location. Scott Albert's office seemed like it would suit my needs. Not just because it would look right but because Scott seems to know how to just about everything well. Bonus: Scott invited Ben Walsh who's playing Scott's character, David to join us.
What else really? Oh yeah, scripts... the hard part.
Today we shot. We met at Scott's office around 4:30. Wrapped and home by 7:30. Uploaded the first of the videos by 10. I built Barbara a little blog on tumblr and boom! Done.
Conception to distribution in less than five days.
Who loves the web?
That would be me.
Posted on Tuesday, January 26 by Jill
Cool cool stuff continues to develop around Crushing It -- the Social Media Week Story Project:
Graphic designer extraordinaire and good friend Amy Leaman has put together some very fun logos for the project.
The beautiful and talented Dharini Woollcombe has agreed to play Barbara Marks, the character I'm writing. I'm so excited. We're going to shoot her video blogs later this week!
Eli Singer has helped us organize a panel discussion on the Making of Crushing It. It will be held at the Rivoli on Queen Street in Toronto on Thursday February 4th, 2010 from 3:30 to 5:30. The deets should be up on the SMW website shortly. I'll also be making a short presentation about Crushing It at CaseCamp on Tuesday the 2nd -- also at the Rivoli. (Yes, a return engagement at CaseCamp, pray for me.)
The story has developed to include quite a bit of user participation. The characters will ask for advice a number of times through out the week. They'll @you back on Twitter if you @them. But most importantly, we're leaving the ending to one of the major storylines up to the audience. They can advise the characters on what their final choices should be. I can't wait to find out what they decide.
I am so excited about this project. It is an extraordinary example of the social media bringing people together, enabling them to collaborate and hopefully to reach an audience. Of course that's the big hurdle that lies ahead. Can we attract attention in the crowded space of the web? Will people understand how to "read" the story? Will they be able to follow it?
