This reminds of how some restaurants are beginning to use iPads for their menus, as well as certain lounges who use iPads to manage guest lists. The idea of a "Smart Home" is intriguing.
In my previous job, we used virtual conferencing on a daily basis. As a media communications company, we were seeking the best conferencing software out there, and we finally found it: Open-tok (tokbox) Please check this page out as it may change your virtual communication lives in your work or home environments!
Details:
"This is a unique video conferencing service that lets your audience (up to 200 people per conference) send you video questions, really making your virtual conference feel like a face-to-face one. Video questions can be sent in advance of the meeting, so presenters can review them and decide if they want to make the video public. Presenters can also put meeting participants on screen and move them off at any time."
PR Daily shared a list of 25 quotes regarding the power of social networking. I think this list is pretty fitting after our MPC Evening with Industry event, and with all of us looking for or landing internships.
I particularly liked this one:
"Network continually - 85 percent of all jobs are filled through contacts & personal references."
This is perhaps more relevant to our Communications theory class, or even for those of us in the Presentation class, but regardless I found this to be a really concise and interesting way of breaking down communication rhetorical strategies in the political realm.