Royal Web 2.0 Christmas
Queen launches YouTube channel
As well as being broadcast on BBC as tradition dictates, this year the Queen’s Christmas Day message will be available on the Royal Family YouTube channel, with the aim of reaching younger people and those in other countries. I’m impressed that such an old and traditional institution as the Royal Family has finally grasped modern technology and used it in a simple but effective way.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept, the Queen’s Speech on Christmas Day is a national tradition – at 3pm the message (which is recorded earlier) is broadcast to millions of people around the UK who all sit down after their Christmas dinner to listen to the monarch deliver a short address to the nation. It’s one of those peculiar traditions which makes us British.
This will be my last post on Data Circle before the day itself, so I’d like to take the opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas 2.0. 
December 26th, 2007 at 2:35 am
“I’m impressed that such an old and traditional institution as the Royal Family has finally grasped modern technology and used it in a simple but effective way.”
Meh, there is something similar every year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/uk/1707903.stm
I found it useful to show my gran after the event she missed. So yay for that
December 27th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I think I missed that news item about the Queen texting her message, though I’m not sure how that would work anyway given that you only have 160 characters for SMS.