Ways We Boo
#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, [...]
Tags: #FeBOOary, @poetry_night, poetry
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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 [...]
Tags: #FeBOOary, community, map
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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 [...]
Tags: #FeBOOary, audioboo, challenge, take-part
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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 [...]
Tags: archive, india, oral history, storytelling, waste-picking
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Sounds of Southwark
Audioboo has been out and about talking to a lot of journalism students about increasing importance of multimedia journalism and storytelling and how Audioboo is a simple way for them to develop both of these skills. We were lucky enough to snag journalism student Thomas Lowe from City University and have him join us at [...]
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Why Shakespeare Loves AudioBoo
We know that some really interesting people are using Audioboo in all sorts of clever ways. When we found out about the 60 minutes with Shakespeare project we invited them to write a guest post for the Audioboo blog. The following post is by Paul Edmondson & AJ Leon Paul Edmondson also took a moment [...]
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