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  1. Board mtg @durhamworkforce, re adopting 2012-14 strategic plan. Thanks to Denise Motley-Johson for her years of leadership!
  2. Lloyd re cultural differences: gameplay, monetizing is different between societies. Jerry talks about tailoring HIV awareness games.
  3. Phaedra: California investing in gaming for balancing budgets. Needs more research before moving toward that.
  4. Lloyd & Phaedra: advertisers moving to dialog with customers through gaming. How do customers behave, react, what do they value.
  5. Phaedra: top 2 lead generations in IBM come from games. Technology tree, how it applies to evolution of society (e.g., power grid).
  6. Lloyd: our gaming audience dips at night, on holidays. Looking at gaming as CBS shows between 8 and 11. What are people watching?
  7. Phaedra: gender & age don't affect gaming approach. Background & context much more important (engineer would approach from that perspective)
  8. Lloyd Melnick re former ventures, pivoting from value to casual to social. Mobile social gaming is next big opportunity and threat.
  9. Jerry talking abt simulation needs: goals and path to success, learning from mistakes in safe environment.
  10. Phaedra talking about helping women identify skill sets for gaming, but also needs such as scripting, issues like violence in games.
  11. Phaedra: gaming always has been structured play, but moving into areas such as what you might do at work. #TiECarolinas
  12. Jerry Heneghan: gaming used to be recreational, time-waster. Now an arena to train mission-critical skills.
  13. Phaedra Boinodiris @INNOV8game talks about experience with gaming not targeting women, deciding to starting venture in that arena.
  14. Lloyd shares story of starting "casual gaming" venture, dumping for Facebook games.
  15. Panelist @LloydMelnick sharing story of starting gaming company with angels Visa and Mastercard. Not so much angels. #TiECarolinas
  16. Good to see David, meet Alex @Datamensional. Thanks for joining @tiecarolinas!
  17. Gaming panel/dinner @tiecarolinas. Interesting talk w Jennifer Parser @poynerspruill, re EB5 visa, investment from China.
  18. Need Triangle writer for Web content, marketing (esp financial services), SEO, Google Analytics. Some work-at-home. Query now!
  19. Julia discusses language obstacles for Chinese companies working w/international customers in Hangzhou, China. twitter.com/incontextinc/s…
  20. LinkedIn Events: Dinner Event - Are you Serious or Social? Gaming as you have never known before. linkd.in/INAZC4