Consulting

Whether you are a university, corporation, trade association, not-for-profit, or a
small business trying to grow, our award-winning multimedia strategies and
implementation will give your organization the edge it needs in the increasingly
crowded landscape of modern media messaging. We will put you ahead of the
curve by taking your story to an ever-increasing number of potential and existing
clients, industry leaders, students and professionals. Using a broad range of digital
distribution platforms, our proven strategies and execution will enhance your
industry visibility, audience awareness, AND reduce your communication
budget.

Services include the following:

FOR CORPORATIONS, TRADE ASSOCIATIONS, NOT-FOR-PROFITS,
AND SMALL BUSINESSES

  • Review current messaging content, distribution strategies, and performance
    goals, measured against competitors, industry norms, and audience acceptance.
  • Evaluate current internal multimedia story telling capability and effectiveness for
    particular target audience demographics.
  • Adjust content strategies and oversee creation of new content using best
    practices of multimedia storytelling to reach audience segments.
  • Recommend tools, workflow, and vendor solutions to support communications
    strategy,and then create tool kits/templates for multimedia storytelling across
    media platforms.
  • Facilitate interaction/dialogue with audience, using blogs, podcasts,
    social networks, mobile apps, Twitter feeds, email blasts, wikis, to distribute
    multimedia story content.
  • Extend multimedia storytelling strategies to improve internal communication
    between departments.
  • Recruit, organize, train and build corporate or freelance multimedia
    storytelling team.  Review story messaging effectiveness and clarity
    regularly to measure progress against defined metrics.

FOR MULTIMEDIA TEAMS AND INDIVIDUALS

  • Evaluate existing multimedia content, as well as team structure, productivity, and
    workflow in light of corporate culture, strategy, and goals.
  • Evaluate multimedia production tools and recommend upgrades or adjustments.
  • Evaluate individual skills of multimedia team members and suggest paths for
    career development. Develop plan for improving team performance, and provide
    coaching support.
  • Perform as freelance editor/producer, creating multimedia content with
    internal teams.

FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

  • Review visual journalism and multimedia curriculum against academic
    objectives. Recommend changes based upon an industry perspective about
    future employment trends.
  • Develop new visual journalism, digital media, and multimedia storytelling
    courses and coursework assignments to build student skills.