Everyone enjoyed themselves at the BBC Backstage Networking Bashes. Its the first time we'd ventured out of London and setup a bash in Manchester. And the turn out for both were good. In total across both events we hit about 370 people which is great news. As backstage would not work without the people who engage with us and the BBC through such events.
So we decided to get some of these people on camera for the rest of the world to see. I mainly asked them the same question, what do they think would be the one thing to look out for next year. And the answers were very varied.
Dom the hodge on the near future
Tim Page on No 2 ID and the near future
Tim from Free Software Manchester on the near future
Chris on the near future
Dan from Adaptivist on the near future
Lucy on the near future
Olie on the near future
Steven on the near future
Nile on the near future
Carly on the near future
Josh on the near future
Steven on the near future
Dave Mee on the near future
Whoyang on the near future
In addition, we also have some fun clips,
The Santa Claus Invasion
Jag's orders a weird drink
Wii Mario Kart in retro low def
Light fun with Amanda and Ajaz
Many thanks to everyone who entered the Backstage logo design competition - we had some great entries and it's time to announce the winner. So without further ado I 'd like to present the winning entry by Mark Griffin.
So it was a year ago tomorrow that BBC iplayer or the streaming iplayer soft launched. Up till that day, iplayer was the project which caused the most about of debate on the backstage forums. It still causes debate but for the right reasons now, its amazing to see how much its changed. Its actually no surprise it won the .net award for best web application this year. So with all that, comes iplayer friday, which is a day when people submit photos and thoughts about iplayer. The BBC internet blog has more details.
in the spirit of all things social media, we'd like to invite everyone to take part.
Are you watching iPlayer at home, at work or anywhere else? Take a picture, and add it to our special iPlayer Day Flickr group - we'll publish the best and most interesting on our site.
Twitter legions, let us know what you think of the iPlayer, its programmes and features, by tagging your posts #iplayerday. We'll be streaming them live on the blog. Twittering BBC staff will be taking part all day too.
We hope iPlayer Day will give everyone who uses the service a chance to feed back and discuss anything about it they wish. If you have any ideas you want to get off your chest, Friday really is the day to do it.
Twitter:
Follow us at @bbccouk. We'll be twittering live all day. Tag your posts with #iplayerday, and we'll find your comments.
Flickr:
Our iPlayer Day Flickr group can be found here: www.flickr.com/groups/iplayerday. You can upload your pictures directly to it and we'll stream them on the site!
BBC Backstage sponsored a selection of the food and treats which were available across the two days of Liverpool's first BarCamp. The reaction to the BarCamp format was good and further established a link with a more diverse crowd that usual.
There were plenty of Tweets on Twitter: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=bcliverpool
Quite a few photos on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=barcampliverpool
Some after thoughts here all over the web: https://technorati.com/search/barcamp+liverpool?type=search&authority=n&language=en
And finally it even made the local paper: https://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/tags/barcamp-liverpool/
There's no evidence of BarCamp slowing down and with Sponsors like the BBC on board, we hope to reach further into communities which don't get the attention or support they deserve. Thanks to everyone who made the event happen including Katie Lips
You can check it out at - https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/journalismlabs
FM&T Journalism launched their new blog Journalism Labs today with a post outlining the results of the recent Apture trial. Journalism Labs is a sister blog to the successful Radio Labs blog and Backstage Blog. The Journalism labs blog will provide an in depth look at the design and technology that supports the BBC News's online journalism.
