Geo-stories is a BBC project that combines location and time-based content with video, pictures, and text to create narrative mobile citizen journalism stories. It aims to explore how to most effectively use these elements to inform new mobile formats. The project will develop a mobile and web experience that allows users to create stories using multimedia user-generated content tagged with location. It will also pull in BBC local news feeds and enable group storytelling from multiple perspectives.

1. Geo-stories is a BBC project exploring how content (video, pictures & text) combined with location and time information can most effectively be used to create interesting narrative or stories to help inform new formats of mobile citizen journalism . What is Geo-stories?

2. Why?

6. Images/Video Depth of content Depth of understanding? Narrative? Immediacy?

7. Listening Watching Giving money Giving time Being there Starting something For the mass, these take too little commitment to be thought of as ‘real’ participation The further up the hierarchy, the more commitment required Providing info. “ It’s easier to give than to organise” Mrs Yellow, Oxfordshire Understanding Users

8. Watching/ Listening Searching/ Consuming Voting, Tagging User Generated Content (UGC) Conversation The further up the hierarchy, the more commitment required Collective Experiences Participation in a digital age

9. Create stories using multi-media UGC on mobile Use location (search, presentation, stories, communications) Pull in BBC feeds (local news) Create a Mobile & Web experience Enable profiles Create multiple presentations of the data Enable group story telling Create perspective How…

12. Ymogen, Nokia, Brighton MA Photo journalism students

15. Online site for multimedia stories/essays

16. Gallery view of story media with maps

17. Gallery view of story media with maps

21. Next steps

23. Research & Innovation Dept About us Blue sky research Strategy Innovation Prototyping Commissioning

24. Thank you  Email: [email_address] | Innovation executive