Last Friday night we went to the Revolution Awards, in the “Great Room” of London’s frighteningly expensive Grosvenor House Hotel. As I mentioned here previously, we were shortlisted for the “Best Public Service Online” award for So Safe. I didn’t hold out much chance of winning the award, partly because I know the site has many faults (although I knew the reason we had been shortlisted was far more to do with our working process than with the site: the fact that we engage young people by getting them directly involved with creating content for the site), partly because we are just a two-man band (well, three really as Gaz, who freelances for us, does much of the work) competing against behemoths such as the TUC, the Food Standards Agency and several major London web agencies.
Well, I was right, we didn’t win. But we were “commended” - effectively second place - within that category. There’s no nice trophy or piece of paper to go with it, not even a chance to go up on stage and meet the compere Jimmy Carr, but for us this was excellent news, the best we could have hoped for (we bucked the trend by going bezerk when our commendation was announced. People on the neighbouring table turned to us and said “calm down, it’s only a commendation”).
Other than that, it was the usual awards evening type of night: ultimately very shallow and depressing. I don’t think I can bring myself to go to another one of these again.
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