Over the past few years I’ve ‘live tweeted’ various conferences and events I’ve attended. Recently I’ve been doing this on BlueSky, given the Twitter/X ‘issues’, not least that you need to have an account to read, that’s before you dive into people’s views about the current ‘state’ of the platform.
I embedded the BlueSky posts of my ‘live blog’ below, so please do forgive any typos etc. Later I’ll go through and update this page with the content and images directly. So check back in the future if you want to avoid having to keep jumping into BlueSky.
The event held at the Holiday Inn, Bolton, had a theme of celebrating 100 years of Hospital Broadcasting. As it was just ‘up the road’ from me I thought it would be useful to attend and I found it a very interesting day. It has been a long time since I last attended an HBA conference, I’ve not checked my notes in depth but I suspect the last time I went was Blackpool 2009!
The HBA presented a new ‘Impact Report‘ into Hospital Broadcasting, following on from a similar research project a decade ago, which looks like a really valuable document. Many of the sessions I attended where good, though the AI session really would have benefited a longer time slot.
The evening saw the Hospital Radio Awards. I didn’t attend these, was a bit pricey for a posh dinner when there wasn’t any change of collecting an award (funny thing if you don’t enter, you don’t get nominated!) But at least it was a sit down dinner not a ‘fish and chip van’….
A more in-depth write up may, or may not, appear at some time in the future, but in the meantime here’s the post I made on the day:
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