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Delivering Your Message: Interactive and Internet

It's no secret that interactive content on the Internet is the delivery medium of choice for a vast range of messaging reaching a huge swath of the populace on a 24/7, always-on basis. The Internet allows text, images, surveys, tables, animations, video, audio, games, quizzes -- just about any form of information imaginable -- to coexist in navigable sections that, if done correctly, can inform, connect, entertain, and energize. Web sites can be living entities, growing and feeding off user-generated content and discussions. Web sites can support online learning for credit and online treatment of debilitating conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder. And most of all, Internet-based communications will only improve over time, becoming more cost-effective, useful, and relevant as technologies and bandwidth expand and mature.

We at Visuality see the upward trajectory described by the Internet's past, present, and future. We are immensely excited about what is possible today, and what will be possible in the very near future. With an unbroken experience curve dating back to the earliest days of the World Wide Web, we've progressed from first-generation static HTML sites to now-generation dynamic sites with full database support and online content management systems. We've created and delivered rich media ranging from downloadable audio files to fully interactive online games. We've designed, coded, and placed countless static and Flash-based Web ads on both national and local sites. We continue to explore the useful boundaries of viral and big seed messaging. And for those with limited or no access to broadband connections, we can place Flash-based interactive content on CDROMs or DVDROMs for a full rich-media experience -- no Internet required.

Of course, none of our interactive and Internet work is ever created in a vacuum. We include all Web-based components as part of a broader media mix whenever possible and work with our clients to define specific goals for online content. We also take great pains to ensure that technology serves a greater communications strategy, not the other way around. And we track and report online metrics over time so we can learn what is effective -- and what is not.

If your needs turn to interactive content and the Internet, or if you just want to see what's possible, contact Visuality today.

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