Innovative Tools

To help organizations solve their big challenges, Next Agenda can employ a suite of web and video tools. These range from interactive ways to display and frame video content to graphical products that can be put behind videos to visually illustrate big ideas. Each of these tools can be tailored to the needs of individual clients, and we are always exploring and developing new tools that can help with new web and video demands. See below for some of the tools that we use, all of which serve different purposes in helping solve big challenges.

Interactive Whiteboard

Our whiteboard can be used to present and put into context many different videos. Organizations can use the whiteboard for many different purposes, including to connect the events at a conference, or to interactively explain ideas within videos. Click through each circle to get a nuanced look at some big ideas that emerged from the Breakthrough Institute's conference on "Modernizing Liberalism," and watch in-depth interviews and standups with experts.

Prezis

Next Agenda can use Prezis to help visually illustrate complex ideas. In their most basic form, Prezis are essentially embeddable slideshows that users can interact with to get insights on ideas through the use of graphics. We also have extensively worked with Prezis as backdrops for video interviews - in which the Prezis illustrate the ideas being articulated in the video. Please go here to see recent examples of this sort of Prezi implementation.

Google Wave

Next Agenda was selected as one of the very earliest and very few web developers working closely with Google on their cutting edge web collaboration tool, Google Wave. We pushed the boundaries of what could be done with this tool well before it was ever made public, and we were selected by them to be showcased as one of the most interesting companies using that tool in the most interesting ways, just before senior management decided to discontinue the tool in late July 2010. We feel that Wave represented a huge step forward in web collaboration tools, and we've been applying what we learned from it to other tools.

Jive

Jive is a robust, highly customizable web collaboration platform. It has many built-in features that can be adapted for a huge variety of needs, including polls, discussion groups, and wiki functionality. The NextAgenda team can expertly set up, design, and even moderate a Jive installation that's customized for individual needs. In some cases, we can work with clients to integrate Jive into their existing web platforms.

Video Collaboration Tools

The importance of video cannot be understated. The amount of information video conveys, and how easily it's understood by people make it an indispensible communication form. As technologies improve, robust video collaboration is becoming a real-life possibility. We have expert experience creating and adapting this new field of burgening video collaboration tools for the needs of a variety of different clients.