Blogs, Pods And Mad Cows
In Glasgow this morning to join a gathering of ´óÏó´«Ã½ colleagues from across the U.K as we talked about the way ahead for podcasting and blogs. I'd almost forgotten that this blog was included in the trial project which launched over a year ago. Will it survive? We wont know until May.
Today, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland's head of New Media, Julie Adair, introduced us to Ian Myatt and Will Roffey who took us through the information gleaned from the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s podcasting trial. Content producers from England, Wales and Northern Ireland chimed in with their own experiences of what had or had not worked.
We heard samples of podcasts from English regions. One included an investigation into a tunnel that is supposed to run from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle. A weekly news podcast for Rugby led with a quite harrowing story of a bloody-nosed cow running amok on a railway line.
Then Julie herself talked about ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland's Island Blogging project and introduced John Beattie who gave a passionate and entertaining account of his experience writing for the Six Nations Blog.
I was asked to speak briefly about this blog and the perceived difficulties of ´óÏó´«Ã½ managers actually revealing any information to the public! I was then asked if I would be writing about the meeting in my blog today.
What could I say?
Next thing I know, Julie had organised a group photograph. Talk about peer pressure!
