social media
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 [...]
Conference Podcasting - Where IT and Great Minds Meet
Brian Greene, Talking Voices’ podcasting, blogging and social media consultant in Ireland, was recently interviewed for the Irish Independent Newspaper speaking about the uses of podcasting in conferences and how the conference scene is changing.
“The recording and on-demand broadcasting of audio, is not just for those who can’t make it on the day”, he explains. [...]
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, [...]
PodCamp Boston 2007
Talking Voices’ producer Dean Whitbread travelled to Boston at the end of October to take part in PodCamp, a new media grassroots conference. The conference was attended by over 1000 people and lasted three days.
This interview was conducted by new media arts consultant evangelist Len Edgerly.
John Cleese to release new video series in conjunction with The Podcast Network
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John Cleese to release new video series in conjunction with The Podcast Network.
British actor, writer and comedian John Cleese is to release Headcast, a series of online videos, which he describes as “some humorous, some more thoughtful, giving me a chance to sound off in my old [...]
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 [...]
Web 2.0 in Supermarkets?
This is a fascinating take on the social media, social networking and Web 2.0 scene. It is very funny, but it does make you stop and wonder where it will all end.
BBC Pods and Blogs
Good to see that the pre-eminent radio magazine programme covering social media, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs, has finally gained its own podcast - and extra-pleased that the editors used the introduction provided by Talking Voices’ Dean Whitbread, who is credited BBC-style in his role as member of the UK Podcasters Association.
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