You’re welcome. I like what you are doing at Centennial. Anything I can do to help you and others explore the social media space, I’m happy to help. Let’s talk about the posting of video to your ClassAct blog. I’m sure we can get it going.

Omar, I agree with you. The face-to-face is best, but trying to get people in town to address students is difficult. The time and expense of travel is a barrier. That’s why we started Marcomblog and use Skype for phone conferences / interviews. It is certainly better than no interaction with PR professionals, at all.

I’m betting we’ll see more universities using these tools and tactics. It seems to be growing fast this year, alone.

All the best.

Numerous commentators have cited the Internet as one of the reasons why we are losing interactive communication in-person, but this is clearly example of how it can also put together people who are geographically spread out.

I think these objections will decrease as online communications become increasingly media rich, possibly even moving towards high-resolution video conferencing. The implications for industry would obviously be significant, especially in light of travel expenses and commuting times. Productivity of workers has shown to be increased when using telecommuting options, and maybe this is the next step for people in communication field.