Value add at Humber PR at #futurecamp

Humber PR got together this past week to discuss some issues on our minds.

Future Camp on Prezi

How do we add value? How do we stay connected? What advice to you have to future Humber PR students? And perhaps most importantly, what DID we learn this year?

There are so many platforms available to the public these days. You can tweet, blog, facebook, comment, post videos anything you little heart desires!

But how do you add value? Caitlin has compiled a collection of videos that address how some people add value!

Keeping connected in the future is also vastly important. The connections that you make, particularly in school, have the potential to benefit you in the most. Personally I think it is important to be connected and Kiel has a great suggestion for his section! This could be implemented well with 1C as well I think.

What are some of the things that you can do to ensure your contribution is not just noise?!

Well you can contribute authentically for one thing. Make sure that the things that you are saying matter.

Don't talk just for the sake of talking.
That's just silly!

This is one of the biggest things that I learned this semester, it is important to value add, not noise add. Sometimes is it hard to do, you have to be sure to remain authentic to your brand. It seems like I'm not the only one who learned these things, Andrew has some really good things to say about what he learned this year.

We learned so much this past term from our profs and from our classmates, we talked about it and made #futurecamp a trending topic. For some really great people to talk to, follow, tweet check out @shelleyburgoyne, @h_farb, @ZoyaMcGroarty @greenjenschultz or any of my fab #humberpr colleagues.

Vimeo a community for artists by artists

Vimeo is a community created for artists by artists. Enabling like minded people to share their creative juices in a cool and interactive way.

New users can chose from two account types, one that costs and one that is free. You can easily link up your Vimeo account to your Facebook account. Making the site user friendly and exciting all at the same time!

It's bright, friendly and the opening page lays it all out with Quality, Community and Plus tabs front and centre. Right away the creators invite you to take a look into their world. With tabs titled "Videos we like", "Explore" and "Right now" even your average Internet surfer will find something on here to peak their interest.

The Usability of this site, as outlined above is simple and direct. There are features that you would want to use right away that you cant find or learn about through a simple click from the homepage.

Particularly useful is the "Explore" tab. Click on it and you will see all the different communities that exist. Making reaching your target audience easier to reach. Generally they are all in the same place!! Alma won a bunch of awards and I didn't know about it before I clicked on the art link.

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

As a sharing site Vimeo increases the visibility of many different groups. There are 'communities' for artists, not for profits and on and on. Its application for business and entertainment. Use it to launch a new artist or search for new talent!!

This is a global community dedicated to sharing, though not necessarily a game changer Vimeo does provide a forum, similar to youtube in its sharing capacity but dissimilar in the content and overall goal of the people involved.

Now that you have a better understanding of Vimeo's Usability and Utility to go Jordana's Blog to see her critique of the Community itself. After all, sites like this are built on their community and can only survive if they are able to maintain a viable user base.