We're Androcom, an Ottawa-based firm active in new media consulting and content development since 1990. Our focus: helping clients in many sectors use interactive media such as the Web, Intranets, CDs, DVDs, and teleconferencing to meet the information and training needs of employees, clients and stakeholders.

Content Consulting & Architecture
Androcom works mainly at the "front end" of the interactive media development cycle - a content consultant and architect specializing in strategic planning, audience consultation, information capture, site and program mapping, instructional design, and the writing of detailed production scripts.

When our front-end work is complete, we work with production companies - the builders of interactive programs - to ensure that communication and training objectives are met in the finished product. An important dimension of this follow-up is focus group testing at the prototype and finished product stages to ensure that audiences understand how to use the program and that learning or communication objectives are being met.

Why Interactive?
Adults and children learn many things best from highly visual, self-paced, interactive forms of information and instruction. This approach enables them to acquire knowledge and skills in their own environment, along their own path, at their own pace. Interactive learning of this kind complements, rather than replaces, other effective delivery methods such as on-the-job training, seminars, presentations, and classroom-based courses.

Androcom's expertise in consulting and content architecture - supported by a reliable, systematic approach to development - ensures that interactive media are used to full advantage. It all adds up to the more effective use of resources to meet the challenges of communicating and training effectively.