RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-11 Thread Clare OLeary
hi that sounds like a cool idea, instead of what programmers say people want, get it straight from the audience. a txt voting scheme for best ideas could be integrated into the online thing too - this could also have niche interest areas catered for in some kind of self selective process...

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Roberts
How about some sort of matching service between people with the ideas and the people with a knowhow to implement them. You could for example open up the ideas section to more main stream sections of the bbc audience a kind of 'tell us what you want suggestion service'. Then based on that you put th

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-11 Thread Gordon Joly
At 15:55 +0100 10/10/06, Mr I Forrester wrote: Gordon Joly wrote: At 18:37 +0100 5/10/06, Brian Butterworth wrote: Perhaps there should be a 'tech' and 'no-tech' version of the site. You mean like "us and them"? Gordo That's certainly something we are trying to get away from - us and th

Re: Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-10 Thread gareth rushgrove
On 10/10/06, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's a gradient of abilities and goals for people when it comes to Backstage. For example, there are people who want to put relevant news on the side panel of there site and some people who just want to read the latest news in Chinese on

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Gordon Joly wrote: At 18:37 +0100 5/10/06, Brian Butterworth wrote: Perhaps there should be a 'tech' and 'no-tech' version of the site. You mean like "us and them"? Gordo That's certainly something we are trying to get away from - us and them. There's a gradient of abilities and goals f

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-08 Thread Gordon Joly
At 18:37 +0100 5/10/06, Brian Butterworth wrote: Perhaps there should be a 'tech' and 'no-tech' version of the site. You mean like "us and them"? Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscr

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-06 Thread Lizzie Jackson
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 05 October 2006 18:38 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website Perhaps there should be a 'tech' and 'no-tech' version of the site. The 'tech' version could contain all the r

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Lockwood
] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Lockwood > Sent: 06 October 2006 08:48 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website > > You can also search schedules by date, genre, keyword, title > or actor and get the results by

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-06 Thread Andrew Bowden
_ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Matthew Cashmore > > Sent: 04 October 2006 13:04 > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > Subject: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website > > > > > > > > > &g

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Lockwood
t site is a victim backstage's success! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Cashmore Sent: 04 October 2006 13:04 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website Hi all, We're seriously l

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-05 Thread Dogsbody
* Mailing list management (links to archive etc) Some people love mailing lists and some love forums. Peoples reasons are many and varied but I have seen a few really good implementations that use both and tie them together. With a good implementation this works REALLY well, you can have

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-05 Thread Oliver Jackson
Matthew Cashmore wrote: > Is there anything in particular that you guys would find useful, have we missed anything that you'd love to see. A "proper" logo, something that we could put in out blog-rolls etc and generally use to promote backstage. I realise that this is asking a lot put some k

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website I have been hereabouts for years and today was my third time at the web-site, perhaps not common, but what is It is interesting that the blog has no comments on it... yet here in the mails a variety of bril

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-05 Thread Richard P Edwards
I have been hereabouts for years and today was my third time at the web-site, perhaps not common, but what is It is interesting that the blog has no comments on it... yet here in the mails a variety of brilliant subjects have been discussed. I am therefore intrigued by the relationship

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-05 Thread Andrew Bowden
06 13:04To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website Hi all, We're seriously looking at redesigning and re-launching the backstage website - at the moment we can see these key areas * Blog * News / Announcements * Documentation * Sea

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Lizzie Jackson
, W12 Tel: 0208.225.64607 Mobile: 0780.872.5141 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan BarclaySent: 04 October 2006 17:12To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website Generally sounds good.  I agree with Gareth that a

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Lizzie Jackson
Great idea. We can represent members of the public and thereby be useful. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose-Carlos Mariategui Sent: 04 October 2006 17:54 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Jose-Carlos Mariategui
In deed, as stated before, I think it should be accessible to common people that do not have any programming skills and that may be able to mashup the feeds using some type of GUI. A sort of ning.com for dummies. on 10/4/06 2:05 PM, Lee Goddard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How would you like

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan Barclay
Generally sounds good.  I agree with Gareth that a wiki would be nice for documentation, especially as it would allow all of us to contribute.  Obviously you would have to consider how to stop wiki spam though, which could be a major problem. You might also want an area to submit suggestions f

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Matthew Cashmore
Cool... Thanks Gareth :-) m -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gareth rushgrove Sent: 04 October 2006 15:48 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website Hi Guys On 04/10/06, Matthew Cashmore

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread gareth rushgrove
Hi Guys On 04/10/06, Matthew Cashmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, We're seriously looking at redesigning and re-launching the backstage website - at the moment we can see these key areas * Blog * News / Announcements Wouldn't these two be best consolidated into one area. You could al

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Lee Goddard
> How would you like > to consume the site... Mobile / www / offline downloads? WWW, RSS, thanks for asking! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.m

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Matthew Cashmore
Title: New backstage.bbc.co.uk website ... I'll add that to the 'want' list for the new site :-)   m From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee GoddardSent: 04 October 2006 13:24To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] New backstage.bb

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Matthew Cashmore
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Chetwynd Sent: 04 October 2006 13:37 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website Matthew, I'd like the site to be accessible, and particularly to people who know nothing of it's purpo

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
Matthew, I'd like the site to be accessible, and particularly to people who know nothing of it's purpose. that means clear introduction with purpose and more all in plain English cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 4 Oct 2006, at 13:04, Matthew Cashmore wrote: Hi all, We're seriously looking at

RE: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Lee Goddard
Title: New backstage.bbc.co.uk website " … and a little later you'll also see a very fetching photo of me camping on the backstage.bbc.co.uk site.) "   Hopefully accompanied by a HOWTO for camping on web pages.    

[backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-04 Thread Matthew Cashmore
Title: New backstage.bbc.co.uk website Hi all, We're seriously looking at redesigning and re-launching the backstage website - at the moment we can see these key areas * Blog * News / Announcements * Documentation * Searchable list of all feeds and apis * Showcase and examples of proto