The other day, I had trouble sitting all through a long meeting with a client, who wanted to discuss their future project. Our discussions hovered over a few files full of text that the client had prepared for this meeting. I was too scared to yawn, and dozing off would have certainly been the end of a long relationship with this client. So all I could do was to keep nodding, and blinking my eyes frequently, and desperately swallowing all the yawns before it gets too obvious. Of course, there was no productive outcome to this meeting, since on that particular day I was just not into it. Late that evening, I wondered if I was losing my touch with the professional world.
A few days later, a prospective supplier made a presentation at my office. This meeting just took my breath away. Their presentation comprised of all the prevailing tricks that multi-media has to offer. There was a bit of text, some images scattered around the text, a few videos every now and then, and the videos had excellent audio quality. There was also a bit of animation as well as some interactivity in one of the sections. You’re right, I was wide awake throughout this meeting, and we even got down to the level of moving to the next stage with their proposal, all in just one meeting. This meeting made my day, and dispelled all my doubts that had crept in after the previous meeting with our client.
Multi-media has now arrived to add all the excitement to our work. Pages full of plain text now need to exist only in contract documents. All other activity can easily happen through employing all the tricks that multi-media has to offer. Technology has allowed the use of multi-media by all people irrespective of their qualifications. One need not be a geek or a nerd to handle multi-media. Just a bit of orientation is enough to get anyone started on the route to making not just great presentations, but add new meanings to the manner in which work is done.