Video Chat With Your Favorite Bloggers, Support a Worthy Cause

One of the best things about being a crayonista is that we get to work with really cool clients that have great products. One such client is ooVoo, a provider of internet video technology that lets up to six people chat in real time. All you need is the free software, a broadband connection and a web cam.

As a virtual company, we use ooVoo to connect with one another and our clients every day — and we love it (I’d say that even if they weren’t a client.) So we wanted to come up with a way to demonstrate just how cool, fun and useful ooVoo can be.

Enter My ooVoo Day With…

My ooVoo Day is (to my knowledge) a first-of-its-kind event that let’s twenty or so bloggers, podcasters, authors and fixtures of the digital media scene connect with their fans in a series of multi-user video conversations. Not (as the name might apply) just one day, the 20+ hosts will hold dozens of 6-person sessions over the course of a two week period beginning this Sunday, February 10th.

To be clear, these aren’t meant to be conversations about ooVoo (that would be sooooo 2007) – these are meant to be great, informal conversations covering just about anything the hosts and participants are passionate about, simply made possible by ooVoo and it’s latest generation of video technology. Whether you’re into business, social media, advertising or technology, are interested in parenting, politics or publishing, or just want to chat with someone cool, there’s sure to be a session for you.

The hosts are:

Internet “it” girl iJustine
Steve Hall/AdRants
Ad critic Bob Garfield/AdAge & On the Media
Author, blogger, podcaster & crayonista Joseph Jaffe/JaffeJuice
John Wall & Christopher Penn/Marketing Over Coffee
Mitch Joel/Six Pixels of Separation
Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb
Irina Slutsky/GeekEntertainment.tv
Connie Reece & Susan Reynolds Every Dot Connects / Boobs on Ice
Chris Thilk/Movie Marketing Madness
BlogHer’s Erin Kotecki Vest/Queen of Spain
Parenting podcaster Dave Delaney/Two Boobs and a Baby +
Jack Myers & Friends/Media Village
David Meerman Scott/The New Rules of Marketing & PR
Geoff Livingston/Now Is Gone
Business author Allan Cox/Your Inner CEO
George Parker/Madscam
Horror author and podcasting pioneer Scott Sigler
Relationship builder extrordinaire Chris Brogan
Social media maven C.C. Chapman
Business presentations expert Laura “Pistachio” Fitton

But wait, there’s more! To thank everyone for their time, ooVoo will be donating money in the hosts’ names to the charities of their choice. ooVoo and most of the hosts have chosen to pool their money to support the Frozen Pea Fund, a fund established to support the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer campaign, in honor of blogger and cancer patient Susan Reynolds (who is one of the My ooVoo Day participants.)

So whatchuwaitingfor? Surf to MyooVooDay.com to get the details, download the latest ooVoo client for PC or Mac, and sign up to chat with one of our hosts.