Welcome to August friends, and like me I’m sure you’re also overheating whilst frantically typing away to communicate through emails, sms, blogs, twitter, intranet, all other social networks….need I go on……but there’s one more hot little site to add to the list for our world of work.
Cast your eye over the handsome new www.my-ijob.com For how long have we been producing videos to enable employers to express their people brand through engaging video and audio? Yes, a while. Well this new video job site could just be the ticket. It’s early days, but awaiting their partnership with AOL’s 32million monthly users in Sept could be the i-cing (sorry!) on the cake for all the hours of filming and editing that ended up on the cutting room floor.
At a recent visit to the Association of Graduate Recruiters conference, I was told about a fab little project on YouTube called Plain English, which explains digital innovations in a delightfully old-school mash-up of collages, complete with a tremendous American Open University style voice-over. It covers various phenomena, including Twitter and RSS et al. Well worth a look, if only to see just how quaint the world could be if only we remembered to pack scissors, glue and some pens.
At university in Australia, in-between spending unnecessary amounts of time contemplating where a “multimedia” course would take me (somehow it brought me closer to coding for Internet Explorer than I would have liked), I spent much time studying and working in film/video. Now that I am confined to a world of coding hell that is necessary for making web browsers behave, I will find it therapeutic, in the coming weeks, to try and share as many strange and surreal video I come across. The internet has created all sorts of new opportunities, but I’m more appreciative of it over anything else, for providing a platform for young, passionate film makers and artists of all types to share their work.
For instance, did you see time stand still at Grand Central Station?
