140 characters is the brainchild of some lovely folks at The School of Communications Art 2.0.

The idea is to get a load of user generated content and tweets and make a live improv show along the lines of Who’s Line Is it Anyway? Neil Mullarkey (who is quite famous you know) is hosting the show – and he and his improv team will be working off suggestions provided by Twitter.

Follow @140characterstv

It should be rather interesting. Not sure if anyone has tried such a thing before? I was watching Frozen Planet and the twitter stream was so popular that it was whizzing down the tweetdeck – you couldn’t keep up! So that scenario is perhaps not best for mass scale social telly participation. Mind you if you just used twitter.com and not tweetdeck you manually refresh so might be easier to follow. Any how I digress – back to the main event.

They say:

“On 7th November we’re filming our pilot show as part of Internet Week Europe. There’ll be a human audience, a pixelated one on the web, a team of improv geniuses and your input to feed their funny glands.

Neil Mullarkey is one of our 450+ mentors. Our students know him as their ‘improv mentor’.Others know him for bringing improvised comedy to television in ‘Who’s Line Is It Anyway?’, or for appearing alongside his former comedy partner, Mike Myers, in two Austin Powers movies, or for performing alongside the likes of Paul Merton as a Comedy Store Player. Neil and his improv team will be working off suggestions provided by Twitter.

The event is going to be filmed and streamed live online at http://www.140characters.tv/, so anyone in the world can influence the direction of the show.

BUT ONLY 140 PEOPLE CAN WATCH THE SHOW BEING FILMED

Tickets are limited. Book now to avoid disappointment.

CAN’T MAKE IT TO LONDON? WATCH THE SHOW LIVE ONLINE

AT 7PM ON MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER

www.140Characters.tv

Tickets to watch the show being filmed are available here – http://140chars.eventbrite.com Follow @SCA2Dean for the URL to watch the show streamed online live.”

We are working with Nice Agency, Edelman and Get Additive to make this happen. Wish us luck!

It’s well worth a watch as Mr Laporte has some good stuff to say about audience habits, finding talent, video quality and bandwidth – and trends in video usage. (Yes it’s all about portability and mobile video)!

Have a look – take your time. This fella knows his stuff.

We’ve been working with PRWeek and BrandRepublic to produce a virtual conference of the very best bits of two conferences on PR and social media. Check it now at Socialmediastrategy.tv

Video and slides from presentations by speakers from facebook, Vodafone, Eurostar and more big names are all online for free viewing now. The presentations cover issues such as crisis management, reputation management, the role of content, measurement tactics etc. Hopefully lots of good stuff for your viewing pleasure!

The hastag was #prdigital if you want to post any comments.

Kinura filmed these events and built the site with all it’s rich media elements and social media widgets. Hope you like it. :)

This is “a group for people working in online TV who meet up once a quarter to network in London.”

Join it if you wish:

WebTV Group on Facebook

The discussion covers all kinds of things – creative approaches to content, audiences as creators, communities and community ‘tv’, extending the online video experience into the ‘real world’, authentic experiences. We went a bit off on a tangent from the official seminar synopsis, but hey, we’re creative so we’re allowed. Have a watch or listen to this anyway. Let me know what you think.

You can get to the rest of the videos from this conference, and others on StreamingMedia.com

I went to tuttle this week and met some new people, one of which was the lovely Penny Jackson who has just produced these fantastic videos for T.M.Lewin. I thought I’d share it here because it’s such a fantastic, effective and simple idea. Instead of going for a boring old glossy promo that doesn’t engage users so much as talk AT them, the London based shirt-makers have adopted social media, setting up  a community section on their site and providing these great video tips on ironing shirts and matching colours and patterns. Now I don’t wear shirts and rarely use an iron, but what I love about this concept is that it gives their audience some useful info in a very accessible way. So many companies and brands try so hard to be clever with their video content and forget to keep it simple and engaging, but this really ticks a lot of boxes for me. It almost makes me want to iron a shirt!

Oh – and the T.M.Lewin videos are on YouTube too.

We’re webcasting the Future TV Advertising Forum on 11th December 2009.

“This one day conference, on 11th December in Portland Place, London will bring together broadcast and advertising to analyse and debate the evolution of TV advertising.”

EMI, Unilever, Channel4, itv and Discovery will be in residence (to name just a few). So if you have a vested interested in exploring PayTV, product placement, branded content, interactive ads, etc., then get yourself a ticket, put the webcast in your diary – oh and you can keep informed via the event producers, PointZero, on twitter at http://twitter.com/pointzeromedia

Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites

Some good links! Check it out.