Videoconferencing & Videoblogging CV Assignment
What would you do if a recruiter or potential employer invited you to interview in Second Life? References:
1. HP Eric Kintz Digital Mindset Blog “Videoblogging from NYC” http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/kintz/archive/2007/09/10/4367.html
“Mobile Social Marketing” – How important is Mobile for Social Marketing? http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/kintz/archive/2007/09/19/4454.html Winksite and Feed2Mobile 2. TechCrunch: If A Conference Is Held In Second Life, Will Anyone Listen? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/20/if-a-conference-is-held-in-second-life-will-anyone-listen/ BizBlogReview: Is the future of global commerce in virtual worlds? http://bizblogreview.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-future-of-global-commerce-in-virtual.html 3. The Official Cisco Blog “The Platform” – Alan S. Cohen, VP Enterprise Solutions “The Next Wave of the Business Internet: The Human Network@Work” http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/09/the_next_wave_of_the_business.html 4. Online CV’s Colin Rhinesmith http://colinrhinesmith.com/cv Nova Commercial - MySpace http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=13754983 5. Tuesday, November 28, 2006 http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_diamondgeezer_archive.html#116469686556354886
Discussion Questions:
Videoconferencing: 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages? 2. How can you use the videoconference setup to engage (create rapport) the interviewer more? 3. What unexpected events can happen during a videoconference and how would you deal with them (example: split screens with more than one interviewer)? Videoblogging: 1. Referring to Eric Kintz’s “Videoblogging from NYC” (1), what are the advantages and disadvantages of using an “interview format” in a videoblog as CV? 2. Referring to Colin Rhinesmith’s online CV with video (4) – do you think this CV works? Why or why not? Do you think this form of CV is the future? What’s your reasoning? 3. If the Nova Commercial serves as a CV, what impressions can it make? Mobile Social Marketing, the Next Wave, CV’s, and the interview future: 1. After reading “Mobile Social Marketing” (1), TechCrunch and BizBlogReview (2), Cisco Blog (3), and diamondgeezer (5) – What are your thoughts? How do you see your CV’s and interview techniques evolving? 2. What would you do if a recruiter or potential employer invited you to interview in Second Life?