The BBC "Have Your Say" comes to Seesmic!
The steam train of social media and user-generated technology continues to charge into traditional media outlets. Many major "old school" news organizations, are embracing technology at a rapid clip and the Seesmic gang is both pleased and honored that quite a few of them are knocking on our door.
We've talked about our partnership with The Washington Post, which began in recent weeks and already has garnered strong attention on their top-ranked political blog, The Fix. And across the pond our friends at Rue89 integrated Seesmic video comments a couple of weeks back and recently hosted an interview on Seesmic with actor Dennis Hopper.
Today we're thrilled that one of the world's leading news organizations, the BBC, is adding Seesmic to their user-generated content mix! For some time now, the BBC has been leveraging social media tools enabling their audience to comment, and speak out. They now want to augment that even further by bringing a true conversation to the site. In their inaugural post they explain how they'll be using Seesmic.
And in this conversation, the first one they started, they are asking for people's stories about the global economic crisis. Check it out and join in! Your comments may just make it onto TV in the UK!
This is fascinating, the BBC having its viewers 'make TV' - who'd have thought it?
Lazy broadcasters or progressive conversationalists?
I think Seesmic benefits from being in Alpha at the moment, your community is for the most part very sensible, civilised and enlightened from what I've seen so far. The regular BBC Have Your Say text comments suffer from what one blogger has called "ignorance, narcissism, stupidity, hypocrisy and bad grammar" - check out the spEak You’re bRanes blog for some hilarious examples of crowd-sourced 'wisdom' gone bad - http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/
Ooh! before I forget, i tried to use my little Asus EEEPC to record my first video today, but there are no horizontal scrollbars in Firefox on the little Linux-based machine, so on my tiny 7" screen half the page is cut off ;(
Posted by: CharlieO | October 24, 2008 at 09:19 AM