Posts Tagged ‘World Service’

Magic Milestones Delivers 5 More BBC Sites

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 by Nici

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The Magic Milestones team at the BBC have been working hard over the last few months alongside World Service Future Media to re-launch 12 of their language sites in 1024 format and in a new, improved Content Management System.

Following on from the launches of BBCPersian.com and BBCBrasil.com, the team have had a launch-crazy last 6 weeks, launching 5 more sites.

BBCVietnamese.com, BBCUrdu.com, BBCWorldService.com, BBCMundo.com and BBCRussian.com were all project managed by members of the Magic Milestones team, and were all run according to Agile Methodology.

The sites are mainly news sites focusing on getting cutting edge journalism to all over the world, with the exception of BBCWorldService.com which is a support site for the extensive World Service radio network.

The intensity of the project put many demands on the team, and it’s a testament to their dedication and hard work that the sites look fabulous and that they managed to keep up the pace during this busy time.

Of course the hard work doesn’t stop here, and all involved have quickly moved on to working on the next wave of language sites to go 1024. Watch this space…

World Service nominated for another Webby!

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 by Nici

ws-homepage - WebbyBBC World Service were today celebrating their nomination for another Webby Award for the newly re-designed BBCWorldService.com, for the the Best Radio Website award. The team won a Webby for the site last year, when it was relaunched in time for the 75th Anniversary of the World Service.

BBCWorldservice.com collects a whole variety of radio content, as well as podcasts, user-generated content and acting as a portal to 33 BBC language sites (many of which have also recently moved to 1024 format, including BBCVietnamese.com, BBCUrdu.com and BBCMundo.com)

The Project Management for the re-design into 1024 format and move to a new Content Management System was provided by Magic Milestones’ Christina Yeoh and the result is yet another example of the fantastic partnership between World Service Future Media and Magic Milestones.

I’m sure you’ll agree that the site is looking fantastic, so why not take 2 minutes to vote on http://pv.webbyawards.com/. Simply register, go to “websites” then scroll down to the Media category and select Radio.

Good luck World Service - we’re sure you can win again!

A Webby for the World Service!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by admin

The BBC World Service Future Media Team were today celebrating their webby award for the channel website www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice.

The website brings together live radio content, podcasts, user-generated international content as well as providing a portal to the 33 BBC localised news sites (published in as many languages). There was a demanding timescale for the project with the site being delivered in time for the 75th anniversary of the World Service.

Project Management for the project was provided by Magic Milestones, in the shape of our very own Director, Stephanie Chamberlain. The project not only delivered an award-winning website on time and budget but also a new content management system for the journalists updating it.

Kate Goldberg, Interactive Editor for World Service Future Media was thrilled saying,

“The is a fantastic acheivement and a testament to the highly professional and talented team we have here at World Service Future Media. This award makes all that hard-work thoroughly worth while.”