yay!

Today propertyweek.com is celebrating another award nomination - this time Best Website in the IBP Awards 2008.

That follows our recent nomination in the BSME awars for best business website.

It shows we are heading in the right direction - although we know there is a long way to go.

In fact unlike most journeys this one has no end - that’s got to be the thing about the web.

You can keep driving forward but you will never get to the edge because the edge keeps moving.

Every week i hear about or come across some new software - or hardware - which is showing yet another potential direction the web could take.  I love it.

The constant excitement.

My favourite of recent times has to be Qik.com if you have a compatible mobile phone you can stream live video from your phone to the web - that’s right.

Not from the web to your phone like everyone is tryiong to do but the other way. You can be out on the street and see something exciting happening and you can broadcast live video from where you are standing to the www

it’s amazing - although so far all i’ve managed to record is some footage of my football injury (broken nose), and a few shots of my desk at work - oh and one of me after a few beers in my kitchen trying to impress mates in the living room who were watching the live broadcast…of my kitchen.

Surely i will shoot that elusive money-making video footage soon.

anyone got any other great new uses for the web - or just great new websites?

Comedian Sean Lock with some of the winners - i had to shoot fro the back of the room :(

Okay, so it took me a while to edit - largely because i’ve never had any Premier Elements training - but the video from last Thursday’s IAS Awards is on the site.

You can see it here 

I’m actually almost proud of it - although there is no doubt a lot of room for improvement and one day i will be acutely embarrassed by it, no doubt - but i think considering i had one camera, one mic, no editing training and a day job to do - it ain’t half bad.

We normally pay thousands of pounds to have these post-event videos produced - admittedly more professionally - but i think with a little editing training and some more equipment i could do a passable job.

And that is the great thing abou the web - it’s ideal for people who like ‘having a go’.

What do you reckon?  Be kind….please.

Tomorrow I’m going to be videoing the Industrial Agents Society and Property Week Awards at the Hilton in Park Lane…and i’m scared.

You will be able to log on to the site soon and see how i managed but right now i’m hastily scanning video editing tutorials online and borrowing lighting equipment - the bowels of the Hilton were modelled on an underground network of caves carved into limestone by millions of years of water erosion - well i think that’s what they were modelled on!

I’m using Adobe Premier Elements

to edit the video and our trusty Sony AE1 to shoot.

I’m getting better with Elements and i enjoy editing but it’s not easy.

keep an eye out for the results