“Ben approaches every project with diligence, leading and working pro actively with stakeholders to uncover business needs and design the best learning experiences for the BBC's employees. An expert at building rapport, he manages projects efficiently, utilising resources to achieve the best outcomes for the business. He is supportive and reliable, handling my induction into the business he mentored me through the BBC's processes, helped me expand my network and grow my skills.”
Benjamin Toone. BSc (Hons), CIPD
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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About
I design training programmes for BBC staff and freelancers with a focus on digital and…
Activity
Experience
Education
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University of York
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Activities and Societies: Awarded a York Award for extra-curricular activities. Societies: University Radio York: Presenter, Head of Music, Events Officer, Programme Officer and Officer without Portfolio Nouse (student newspaper): Features writer and listings officer World Cinema Society: Social secretary Conservation society: Volunteer Activities: Student representitive on the Biology dept academic board Guide for prospective students Staff member for the Higher Education Summer School Holiday club volunteer
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Activities and Societies: Secretary, College Student Union
Licenses & Certifications
Publications
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College of Production Roundup: Sound of 2013 and writing for online
BBC Internet Blog
Round up of new online related content on the College of Production website.
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CoP Show: natural narratives
College of Production website
Part 2 of the natural history storytelling podcasts. Self presented and produced.
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Guest blog: Storytelling with the NHU
College of Production website
Blog about my two podcasts on storytelling for Natural History programmes.
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CoP Show: natural history storytelling
College of Production website
Part 1 of the natural history storytelling podcasts. Self presented and produced.
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CoP Show: budget film making
College of Production website
Produced and edited from an hour and 15 minute recording to 22 minutes. One of the most popular CoPShow podcasts, very popular on Twitter (over 350 Bitly click throughs) and attracting a large new Twitter following.
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Guest blog: cake, Countdown and Comic Relief
College of Production website
A blog about my day producing live drop in segments from Mark Watson's 25 hour comedy marathon into BBC Radio 4, Radio 2 and Radio Scotland network programmes.
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College of Production website
College of Production website
Since October 2012 I've contributed copy around the site (for podcasts, videos and articles pages), both through original writing and subediting contributed articles. I am also the main producer of the CoP Show podcast, producing most of the episodes since October 2012 and finishing off (fine editing) several more.
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Front Row on Trial: Improving our online service
BBC Radio 4 blog
Post asking for comments for the production modernisation pilot I worked on with BBC Radio 4's Front Row. Describes some of the things we did in the pilot, such as the daily download (which has continued) and re-surfacing archive clips.
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When I'm 65 on You and Yours
BBC Radio 4 blog
Blog about You and Yours 'When I'm 65' season, for which I collated the online content (creating clips of the radio content, linking between the BBC One season).
Projects
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Data protection and cyber security
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Wellbeing for shift workers
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Created a series of knowledge guides and resources to assist shift workers to adopt healthier lifestyles whilst dealing with night shift work.
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Proteus for indies
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Carried out the learning design process including interviewing learners and building a resource based on their needs, working closely with the trainer who previously had delivered face to face training.
Worked very closely with the Proteus team to make sure we had one place to point to for training with content logically broken up to support specific tasks.Other creatorsSee project -
Unconscious bias
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Two internal courses, one for leaders and one for non-leadership roles.
Built a new online course, based partly on a face to face version but mainly new material.
Collaborated with BBC Studios, BBC diversity and inclusion and an outside consultancy.
Delivered on time and saved lots of money through reduced classroom training and reaching all BBC staff.Other creators -
Leadership resources
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Creating a page for online leadership training for the BBC, working in conjunction with the face-to-face trainig.
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Digital Storytelling: Filmmaking for the Web
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Worked in partnership with the University of Birmingham and Creative Skillset and colleagues within the BBC to produce The BBC Academy's first MooC (Massively Open Online Course) on the Futurelearn platform.
Was project manager for the BBC Academy, taking and refining the course from ideas and concept right through to production and final publication online. Co-ordinated the promotion and social aspects
Worked closely with colleague Dax Wood on co-ordinating new content…Worked in partnership with the University of Birmingham and Creative Skillset and colleagues within the BBC to produce The BBC Academy's first MooC (Massively Open Online Course) on the Futurelearn platform.
Was project manager for the BBC Academy, taking and refining the course from ideas and concept right through to production and final publication online. Co-ordinated the promotion and social aspects
Worked closely with colleague Dax Wood on co-ordinating new content production as well as working with him on our live broadcast during the first course run.
Continue to work with the University of Birmingham as the course runs again during 2016.Other creatorsSee project -
New College of Production site.
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Making editorial changes to content after the transfer of the College of Production website to a new, one BBC Academy presence where each of the colleges (journalism, production, technology) and the central BBC Academy are together on one site.
The new site is heavily image driven and really shows off the breadth of content we have so there has been a lot of work finding new images, some through local and BBC internal picture sources and some photographed by myself. There has been a lot…Making editorial changes to content after the transfer of the College of Production website to a new, one BBC Academy presence where each of the colleges (journalism, production, technology) and the central BBC Academy are together on one site.
The new site is heavily image driven and really shows off the breadth of content we have so there has been a lot of work finding new images, some through local and BBC internal picture sources and some photographed by myself. There has been a lot of refreshing of copy, including teaser links.
Plus fixing links and finding new ways to relate content across the site.Other creatorsSee project
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Elementary proficiency
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Spanish
Elementary proficiency
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