North West Fest
After the time I spent at BBC Radio Manchester last month, they asked me back to take part in North West Fest, a day of presentations for BBC English Regions staff in the North West. Richard’s blogged more about the day here.
The purpose of they day was to let staff, across all disciplines, spend half a day hearing about new technologies and developments from both internal and external people. For my part I talked about the nature of ‘attention’ and how new platforms, specifically social networks, are taking greater shares of the audiences attention resulting in audience pressures for established broadcasters. I also covered the opportunities these new platforms provide broadcasters, especially public service broadcasters and how they can use them to get closer to listeners and users.
It was a great day, and a good opportunity to here more about the challenges and new possibilities facing the BBC. It was also an opportunity to play Dr Wesch’s great video and talk about the new iPhone.