The WIFT Week

Delighted it's Friday, although a lot to do with just over two weeks to our annual Awards event - a great party outing to celebrate the successes of New Zealand women working in film and television to be held at SKYCITY Theatre on Monday 11 August, hosted by Jennifer Ward Lealand.

This week we announced the finalists - a who's who of NZ's screen women including Judy Bailey, Rachel Lang, Gaylene Preston, Sima Urale, Jaquie Brown, Elizabeth Mitchell, Roseanne Liang, Annie Goldson.

Can't wait to tick off all the project management boxes and get on with the show ... why dont' you join me? Tickets are just $55 and cover Matua bubbly, wine, canapes, entertainment, film clips, goodie bags, spot prizes, music with DJ Leza Corban and 500+ industry enthusiasts. Check it out at www.wiftauckland.org.nz/wift-nz-awards-2008

In the meantime, I have some logos to chase and a pile of To Dos waiting ... enjoy your weekend.

City Gallery, Wellington: more on web 2,0 ecologies and intersectiions

I have been spending a whole bunch of time this week exploring how some heritage, museum and library places and institutions are using the web 2.0 ecology of practice to explore and extend the things they do.

I have a bunch of examples to perhaps share later, but right now my email just popped up with the latest e-mail newsletter from The City Gallery in Wellington. Now I have a bit of a soft spot for these guys for a while. Their in house cafe, ICON does the best kedgeree in the entire history of the haddock, and their exhibitions always come across as somewhere where the marketing noise is tuned way down low, the better for the visitor to hear what the works are trying to communicate on the wall.

What I hadn't actually picked up on was the extent they were using You Tube to extend the conversation outside the walls by way of a customised YouTube channel.

I recommend you head over there. However, for a quick flavour, here is an embed of one of the spots on the channel.

The Beginning