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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."

Watch this beautiful video of Nuit Blanche 2012. It makes me regret not going this year. This got me thinking about video as a medium to build brand value. How could Nuit Blanche use this video (or video in general) to capture the imagination of Torontonians and get more people out on the street and enjoy this event?

One of my favourite websites for everything that has to do with advertising, photography, and video...Stumble helps you easily discover new and interesting stuff on the Web. Tell them what you like, and they'll introduce you to amazing web pages, videos, photos and more that you wouldn't have found on your own.

Hayley, an MPC student last year, made this resume in video format. I found it a really creative, fun way to present a document that's increasingly feeling like a product of a bygone age. Cool as it is, it must be a pain to keep it up-to-date.

This article explores how pursuasive video games are users and is interesting in light of our discussions on technological determinism. Talks about games ability to educate and inspire change/behaviour modification in users. 

Our previous VisCom class on typography and composition got me thinking about the rise of lyric videos on YouTube. Music and typography come together in an expected way. Compare the use of typography to convey the song in this and Adele's Skyfall.

Compare and contrast the mood of this song with that of Katy Perry's Part of Me and how each video employed typography differently. I love how this is bringing type back into a medium that feels driven by...non-type.

Ways in which people lie using digital technologies and also how technology has changed the ways we fib.

Applying media relations to PSY's Gagnam Style.

I think is really interesting when we look at the ways we communicate health causes and programs. Movember has turned into a really "sexy" cause as is support for a lot of other campaigns.

This article discusses high broadband costs in Canada

I mentioned Myspace a lot in the discussion for next week. Here is an example of a social media that essentially died but is trying to come back. Aggressively. The interface seems to highly draw upon Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest... Will the redesign work? Do we want a Twitter-Facebook hybrid? Or do users like having them separate? What will the new Myspace mean for communicators who use social media?