I've spent the best part of six months working part-time on Radio 4's Today programme now, and sometimes it seems as if there is not a lot to show for my efforts.
True, a lot of the progress we have made has been behind the scenes, improving the workflow, tinkering with templates and generally making web site production more efficient and pleasant for those who have to do it. We've also been blessed with the Today Generation bloggers, so that we could attempt our first baby-steps into the world of 'user generated content'.
Last week, though, we managed a couple of small but significant content breakthroughs. Today is now 'twittering' twice a day to alert people to show highlights (a badge has yet to be put on the home page, but we'll work on that).
And Mike Thomson's reports from Darfur have been enhanced with photos and diary entries and then pinned on a GoogleMap:
Hats off to broadcast assistant Tom Colls for creating this with the minimum of training and managing to do it alongside his daily schedule of web updates. This map looks even better in GoogleEarth by the way and it's great to see BBC radio content placed alongside other content sources (like National Geographic and NASA...) in such a neat and useful way.
I'm really hoping we can do a lot more 'audiomapping' like this next year - or better still - make it easy for listeners to enhance their own maps and web sites with Today audio.
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