June 17th, 2011

Refugee Week Radio – share your content


Refugee Week takes place from 20th to 26th June – there are also several events taking place the previous weekend (18th-19th) such as Celebrating Sanctuary in London and in Bristol

If your station or media organisation is out and about at events during Refugee Week, please let Refugee Week Radio know and we’ll add your details – see:

(or whichever day you’re doing something)

Refugee Week Radio is now on Facebook, so if you like us, please click on the button in the usual way. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Refugee-Week-Radio/160093090723580

Best wishes and many thanks, Cathy Aitchison

Telephone: 020 8684 2445

Web: http://rwradio.wordpress.com

Refugee Week Radio is a project from London Link Radio – it is endorsed by Refugee Week and by the Community Media Associaton.

http://www.londonlinkradio.net

http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk

http://www.commedia.org.uk

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May 13th, 2011

Cloud record your programme on the go!


The Toolkit has incorporated Radiofeed’s Community Radio Player as part of the website for some time. The owner of the website has just released a new service and needs you to stress test it.

Vincent summarises the recorder as:

A facility that lets you schedule recordings of your favourite shows to an online audio locker, so you don’t even need to have your home computer switched on, or have any additional software installed. Take this scenario: you’re out and about, but just remembered you wanted to listen to a show on the radio. No problem! Just fire up RadioFeeds Recorder on your phone’s browser, select a station to record, then let us do the work for you to enjoy when you return home! You’re also not restricted to listening on your desktop: you can also access your recordings on your smartphone or on your standalone internet radio.

The cloud recorder details are:

  • It may be useful to community radio presenters who like to record their show
  • It’s still in beta, so the more users there are, the more likely bugs can be identified and fixed, and the sooner it can be launched
  • It may be useful to community radio presenters who like to record their show
  • No additional software is needed, and a computer doesn’t need to be switched on during a recording
  • Programmes in advance can be scheduled using a desktop machine or a smartphone
  • Simultaneous recordings of different stations can be made
  • Recordings can be listened on a desktop computer, on a smartphone or on an internet radio

You can find the beta version of the recorder at www.radiofeeds.co.uk/recorder where you can also provide much appreciated feedback about it.

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September 6th, 2010

Languages database goes live


A little while ago a discussion took place on the Community Media Association’s email list about the need to check programmes which weren’t in English.

A request went out for some sort of facility where you could search for other stations who broadcast programmes in, say, Somali, Punjabi, Mandarin and so on. Some responded to say they could offer a whole host of languages to exchange with other stations for checking.

Husain Fazel of Eclectic Productions kindly offered to code a database which could run on the web.

This week we added the database to the website – the link is on the right, below the word ‘language’ represented in different languages. The link is a work in progress and will be embedded in a full page.

Please add your station and any languages you currently broadcast in.

If a language is missing, please email using the ‘email us‘ link and it will be added.

BCFM, London Chinese Radio and ALLFM who responded to the first email have been added to start it off.

Comments are welcome!

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