You would be hard pressed to find a day when nothing was going on at HKGCC. On average, the Chamber organises almost one event per day, whether it be a breakfast meeting, roundtable luncheon, subscription luncheon, seminar, cocktail or even a Happy Hour. This is in addition to regular committee meetings, and meetings with visitors.

With so much going on, it is little surprise that "Chamber in Action," the online record of public functions taking place at the Chamber, gets so many daily visitors.

The Bulletin's Editor, Malcolm Ainsworth, got the idea for Chamber in Action after getting snowed under by requests for recordings of various talks and seminars from members who couldn't make it to the actual event.

"Because I habitually record all talks that take place at the Chamber, making a copy of a tape for a few members was no bother," he said. "But when I started going through a box of cassette tapes a week, it dawned on me that we should put the recordings from our events online for members to listen to in streaming audio."

Recordings of almost all Chamber luncheon talks, seminars and conferences are now posted on Chamber in Action within the hour of an event finishing. PowerPoint presentations, and the full text of speeches (when available) are also put on the site for members to view. Closed-door or members-only talks, of course, are not recorded.

With the Chamber organising so many social functions, mingling and networking -- not listening -- is the name of the game. Therefore, "Web Album" was created as an extension of Chamber in Action. Snapshots from social gatherings, study tours and outbound missions are sorted and compiled into online photo albums. Besides being a nice record of the event, members who attended one of the functions can download high-resolution photos for their personal use.

"The photo albums are very popular, because I think people like flicking -- or in this case clicking -- through photos," Mr Ainsworth said. "As such, I guess the next step is streaming video. We do have a few streaming video clips on Chamber in Action already, but as technology has yet to make watching streaming video online a smooth process, videoing our functions is still a few years away."