innovation
BECTU at BAFTA
Dean Whitbread from Talking Voices spoke today as part of the Digital Futures panel for BECTU’s Freelancers’ Fair.
Here’s an embedded player which uses content from Phreadz (a threaded multi-media social network currently in closed beta) and Qik (live mobile streaming) which contains the presentation from two different angles - plus replies to the thread as [...]
Creative Choices Campaign Launches
We’re very pleased that our carefully assembled team of “creative ambassadors” has now started working as advocates for an excellent new UK government initiative supporting our creative industries - Creative Choices.
Christian Payne has produced some excellent responses using multiple channels including Seesmic, Qik, Twitter and Skitch - this last of which was a really clever [...]
The Guardian Uses Seesmic In US Election Coverage
UK newspaper The Guardian has been using the Seesmic “video conversation” website (still in “pre-alpha” mode, and not yet public) to canvas opinion and guage reaction to the US Elections, with some very interesting use of online video via this brand new service.
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Talking Voices Video Showreel
We have a new video showreel online, demonstrating our online video production work. Online video is being commissioned much more frequently these days than when we first started Talking Voices. As 2008 begins, audio podcast production remains the majority of our production work. We expect to be producing more genuinely new media formats including video, [...]
Facebook Videos Outside The Walled Garden
One of the many issues surrounding the fast-growing social networks is that some of them operate as a “walled gardens”, that is, the content published within the networks supposedly requires you to be logged in to access messages, notes, personal details, and posted items such as video. But how secure are these free-to-join networks?
Here at [...]
Apple Backs ADM: New Podcast Metrics Body
The internet has a new association with a new acronym, the ADM - Association for Downloadable Media.
Key players from many sides of the podcasting industry, including Apple Inc., BlogTalkRadio, Kiptronic, Wizzard Media/LibSyn, NPR, Nielsen Online, Personal Life Media, Inc., Podbridge, PodTech, PodShow, Podtrac, Porter Novelli, Rev3 and Vogele & Associates have taken on the [...]
Talking Voices Social Media Seminars
Talking Voices regularly runs seminars for people interested in knowing more about social media.
With plenty of chances to ask questions and the opportunity to discuss social media in depth with experienced producers and active business users, these seminars are a priceless addition to your fund of knowledge, offering you insight and a putting [...]
Women in Podcasting
Unradio 2
Janet Parkinson searches for the women in podcasting today, and talks with Linda Mills of Podcast User Magazine, Suja, co-founder of Podbazaar, and Anna Farmery of the Engaging Brand about the issues facing women podcasters, techno-caution, the value of skills mentoring to enable communities, good reasons for making podcasts in the first place, and [...]
Unradio 1
This is a new Talking Voices project which explores and exploits the differences between podcasting and radio.
Website: http://unradio.co.uk
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Talking Voices Podcast #6
We produced and helped to promote a compilation selection of the best of British podcasting, Podcast Tasters, delivered on that most conventional of media, an audio CD, at the Internet World Expo, Earl’s Court today.
Jamie Riddell’s well received Web 2.0 keynote speech covered podcasting, social bookmarks, UGC, CRM, Second Life and Twitter.
What I really like [...]
