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Content 360: how to pitch to the BBC
The Content 360 pitching competition at Milia had much in common with the BBC Innovation Labs: some of the same commissioners, some of the same briefs and even some of the same companies. And Matt...
View ArticleCrossover UK
We’ve secured support from the BBC, Creative London and Screen Yorkshire to organise a Crossover-style Lab in the UK. A collaboration with the International Documentary Festival in Sheffield, Crossover...
View ArticleGeo-Stories goes live
One of last year’s BBC Innovation Labs projects has just gone live. Geo-Stories, developed at the London Innovation Lab in March 2006, is a collaboration between the BBC, Nokia (who donated the...
View ArticleOn the road again
The BBC Innovation Labs are to continue into a third year with a series of launch days scheduled for next month. They’re being produced by Matt Cashmore and Morag Cartwright following Matt Locke’s...
View ArticleIf it’s Tuesday, it must be….
Finally a day off from the whistle-stop tour of cities to launch this year’s BBC Innovation Labs. We’ve done events in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle (again) so far. I decided...
View ArticleDistractions
It’s the penultimate day of the two week tour with the Innovation Lab roadshow. We’re at the Lowry in Salford today. It’s a striking building but one in which the interior designer has been excessively...
View ArticleThe problem with innovation
…is that the word doesn’t really mean very much. The first person I heard make this case was Curt Carlson at SRI when I went there with the BBC. He preferred to use the the term ‘value creation’ but he...
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Innovation Labs 2008
It’s pitch day at the first of this year’s BBC Innovation Labs and we’re back at Forest Hills Hotel near Aberfoyle. The Scottish Labs always seem to engage the most technically proficient, not to say...
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“hard work and deep thought”
The third of this year’s BBC Innovation Labs finished on Friday with Jason Daponte, the BBC’s Managing Editor for mobile applications, saying it was the best set of presentations he had seen in the...
View ArticleThe BBC: still no digital vision
I’ve been meaning for a while to write about a growing sense of frustration with the BBC (and, for that matter Channel 4) for their continuing failure to establish a strategy repositioning them in a...
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