Connecting curious minds to the community, tools and resources to inspire them. This account is part of an experiment from BBC R&D in establishing a BBC presence in the Fediverse. You can read more about this experiment at https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub.
Hey folks, we’re really excited to be trying out Mastodon, starting off with this #introduction and finding out more about what’s going on and what questions and comments you have about our work! 🎉 🎉 🥳 🥳
We’re the part of @BBCRD@social.bbc that takes care of MakerBox, connecting curious minds to the community, tools and resources to inspire them: from interactive storytelling to adaptive podcasting and beyond. Explore more and let us know what you think over here: http://bbc.co.uk/makerbox
The BBC has been using and contributing to open source projects for as long as we've had a website, and you can explore all the projects that we've open sourced down below. Including more than a few from @BBCRD@social.bbc... https://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/
As well as being the biggest show on the planet, Eurovision 2023 also offered @BBCRD@social.bbc a chance to trial some of our latest audio technologies...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-06-eurovision-next-generation-audio
Sorry we've been away for a little while Mastodon, but we're back now! And wanted to share the launch of @BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc's exciting participatory research with Media Cymru and Shirish Kulkarni...
https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/2023-10-news-for-all/
We're thrilled that the Adaptive Podcasting toolset has now been open sourced. So please read more about our learnings, dig into that source code, and let us know how you get on with your experiments!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/adaptive-podcasting-open-source-release
Flexible Media, a new way to consume content, has already been deployed across several BBC platforms. And could soon become the way we experience many things, from personalised news, to iPlayer catch ups that know which episodes you’ve already seen…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f8xhj4
#technology #television #tech
Building on the work of Connected Studio and
@BBCTaster@social.bbc, @BBCRD@social.bbc has launched Innovation Labs to bring people, ideas, and technology together to continue to transform the BBC...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-10-innovation-labs
‘Does your product meet its primary intention?’, ‘Does your service feel inclusive and rewarding?’
The latest MakerBox tool helps you gain meaningful insights into the questions that matter most to your product or service!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox/tools/human-values-survey-builder
Wanting to explore ways to bring your team together? And make remote collaboration over video conferencing more fun and immersive? Then the Remote Interaction Guidelines are ready for you on MakerBox...
https://bbc.co.uk/makerbox/tools/remote-interaction-guidelines
Just a reminder that you can dig into the process behind and discoveries from some of @BBCRD@social.bbc's biggest projects with the Case Studies page on MakerBox...
Hi @edinburgh_man@mastodon.scot . We've done some work on this in the past, although not specifically for radio listeners, you can find more information here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-08-news-mood-filter-mental-health
And an interview with the project lead Alicia here: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/reasons-to-be-cheerful-ep-417/
