Charities – how to get your voice heard!
As part of Social Media Week London, Audioboo were invited to attend Barcamp not-for-profit, an unconference for people in the charity sector. It was really good to talk to people from a variety of charities, big and small, and find out more about the interesting work they are doing. I hosted a session on ‘getting [...]
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#feBooary: Final Topic Suggestions
Wow – what a month! You’ve been busy audioboo-ing your little hearts out, and what a fantastic range of stories and audioboos we’ve seen. We’re three quarters on the way through now so here is your list of #feBOOary topics for the fourth and final week! Thanks for your suggestions, it’s been lovely seeing how [...]
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#feBOOary Topic Suggestions: Week Three
Congratulations to all #feBOOary participants who have been creating some really wonderful content over the past two weeks. We’re half way there! Don’t give up now! (And if you’re new to the concept of #feBOOary, we’re trying to do a boo each day during February – if you’d like to join in, please do, it’s [...]
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#FeBOOary Week Two Topic Ideas
Stop press! We at BooHQ have just heard of a lovely initiative that is being run by (@sarcasticapple) and it seems like such a great fit for #FeBOOary that we’re taking a daring step and shaking up the topics for this week. (Apologies to @sassycat – we’re going to save your topic for week three, [...]
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#FeBOOary goes global!
Three days into the FeBOOary boo-per-day challenge and it’s been wonderful getting to know lots of new Audioboo friends. In case you haven’t already heard, we’re encouraging you to create a new audioboo each day, a bit like the NaNoPoMo month-long podcasting challenge that takes place in November. It’s been a lot of fun already [...]
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Will you take the FeBOOary challenge?
Audioboo fan Jonathan Sawyer tweeted us to tell us about his plans to make February into #FeBOOary, and record a new Audioboo each day for a month. We love the idea of regular boo-ing so we asked who else in the Audioboo family might be up for the challenge of matching Jonathan with daily [...]
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Oral history with Audioboo
We’re always thrilled to hear from our users about the interesting and innovative ways they are using Audioboo. When Liam O’Hanrahan got in touch to tell us about the oral history project he was working on, I was fascinated and invited him to tell us more in his own words: Recycling Oral Histories with Audioboo I [...]
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How to: Enrich your blog
It’s the start of the new year and if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably made yourself some sort of promise about doing more, blogging more and creating more interesting content. But let’s be realistic about this, by the end of January that initial enthusiasm may be waning and you’re only going to keep it [...]
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Audioboo loves Radio(player)
Audioboo loves radio! Of course we do, it’s a fantastically personal, creative and flexible medium – just like Audioboo! Today we’re really excited to announce we are teaming up with the nice folk at UK Radioplayer to take radio listening to the next level. Working in conjunction with the Radioplayer team, we’re enabling radio stations [...]
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It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas!
There’s not much sign of snow in Southwark, where Audioboo HQ is based, so it’s doubtful that 2011 bring a white Christmas. That doesn’t mean we can’t get into the festive spirit, and we’ve been helped along by lots of members of the Audioboo family, sharing their Christmassy audio with us. From testing out the [...]
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