A Few Thoughts on Managing Multimedia Projects

Living in a digital globe, we are becoming more and more digitalized the way we live, and the way we work.

For journalists, today's industry is getting digital by the minute. Print or broadcast media are all becoming digital ones.

The New York Times, for example, has a wonderful website: you can read the news stories, listen to and watch its podcasts, free, day and night, in the air or on the beach. It is a multimedia platform to engage with both editor, journalists and the audiences!

That is why I am taking this multimedia course at Georgetown University, and other courses with focus on multimedia techniques.

From the first class on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, I learned a bit more about the teaching plan, and I must say, I like it very much. And I would be honest with myself, this is the most pleasant first class I have even taken in years - relaxing, and interactive, and eye-opening!

I like Professor Carlos Roig's "Big Idea" in managing multimedia projects, as I've always feel like to see a forest rather than a tree over the years. Of course, I realize that with so much in detail to achieve before any multimedia projects can be done successfully.

Having said that, I am expecting to gain not only strategic mindset in initiating multimedia projects, but feasible management skills that I can apply to my journalistic work,and beyond.

Of course, to take on any multimedia project will require team work, ideally with expertise on sound, video and still image management, as projects are getting more and more complicated.

With my years of practicing journalism in both traditional broadcast media and website, blogging, and twittering, along with newly-acquired skills in video production, I am confident that the "Managing Multimedia Projects" class will be very productive in spring 2010.

Here are some of my favorite websites that show excellent multimedia ideas:

http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/
http://www.virginia.edu/
http://web.mit.edu/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/