We’ve been really busy over the last few months here at Wordia HQ, heads-deep in code and production rushes, working on some exciting new developments. In that time, you’ve emailed us in your dozens, kindly giving us feedback on the current Beta site – what you like and what you hate – and we’ve responded!
Firstly, a big technical development; we’ve changed the way we produce and publish our word of the day videos. We’re now ‘theme-ing’ our Word of the Day videos, creating a week of related words by topic. This allows us to create themed content around public events (‘Christmas Week’ for example, with words relating to the festive period).
We’re kicking things off with an exciting partnership with Refugee Week, starting June 14th – a week of words, raising awareness of refugees in conjunction with a fantastic media partner (stay tuned!).
What better way to start this week long activity, than by filming at the Celebrating Sanctuary event on London’s Southbank (22K people!). If you want to come down and have some fun, support a great charity – and even meet the Wordia team and define a word of your own – then check out http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk for all the details. See you there.
On a different note, we’re still busy filming great Word of the Day content (you have subscribed, right…?); Wednesday was a real treat as we got the chance to catch up with world music legend Baaba Maal, http://www.baabamaal.tv. The Senegalese super star took us on a journey around his favourite London record store before hitting the stage to play out songs from his latest album, much to delight of the crowd.
Friday saw us whipping up a storm with the Irish indie boys, The Blizzards. We were treated to some good old-fashioned rock & roll as Niall from the band serenaded us with his melodic tones and explained his thoughts on ‘Reverie’ (coming soon!).
Saving the best ’til last we’ve just met and filmed comedy genius and living legend, Mr Andrew Sachs for Refugee Week (Andrew’s father moved to the UK from Occupied Nazi Germany). Andrew had some a truly unique perspective of the word ‘Home’.
Don’t forget to check out Andrew, Baaba and much much more from Sunday 14th June as part of our Refugee Week activity.
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Looking forward to hearing from you.
The Wordia team
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