The Hyde Park Trail System in Hyde Park, NY has plentiful compelling stories to tell. Impact was excited for the opportunity to produce an interpretive tour series to share these stories in a manner that is engaging and exciting to a wide variety of visitors of the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites.

Impact’s talented content developers, audio engineers, producers worked to deliver 46 compelling audio stops about horticultural item, species, architectural structures and people.  This audio tour encourages exploration, giving visitors control to guide their journeys through the trails, focusing on areas of greatest personal interest and appeal without disturbing the integrity and feel of the environment.

Impact also produced trail markers and brochure cards for the project.

Click here to access the Hyde Park Explorer podcast series on the National Park Service website.

Impact Communications recently aided KeyCorp in the creation of three web-based demos for KeyBank’s Global Treasury Management Group (GTM). This series of next-generation service technologies includes Key Business Online, Key Capture and Key Total Treasury. KeyBank’s GTM pairs cash management expertise, resources, state-of-art technology and financial products and services businesses need to maintain close control of cash functions.

Key Business Online is a tool designed for small business to better manage their account information. An online demo is used to show ease of use and highlight features and benefits. Impact designed a multimedia demo of the program. This demo guides viewers through the application using screen grabs of the actual program. Impact also incorporated “try-it” sections that allow users a real-time glimpse of how to use the program.

Key Capture is a deposit  management service that allows Key’s small business clients to save time and money by depositing checks remotely using a scanner. Key Capture allows clients to deposit those items to their bank via a secure internet connection. Impact developed a microsite demo using a combination of video, stock photography and screen grabs from the program. The demo is used by Key’s sales team to show potential clients how the software works.

Key Total Treasury is a cash management system that delivers the tools to effectively manage receivables and payables by providing comprehensive funds management and information reporting. For the launch of this system, Impact’s content developers and multimedia programmers created an online demo that provides an interactive overview of Key Total Treasury. This demo combines video, narration, stock images and screen shots with interactivity and appealing design to showcase the features and benefits of the system.

Diabetes, the fifth leading cause of death by disease in the United States, impacts more than 330,000 children and adults living in Northeast Ohio.

Impact Communications was proud to support the American Diabetes Association and this year’s “Tennies, Tuxes & T-Shirts: Shoot for the Cure” event. The fundraiser was be held Friday, July 9, 2010 at Quicken Loans Arena. The event welcomed guests of Northeast Ohio for an entertaining evening of high stakes fun through celebrity gaming, fine dining, and fabulous live and silent auctions.   WTAM Sports Director, Mike Snyder served as Master of Ceremonies.

Impact partnered with Global Strategic Directions to produce a series of testimonial videos for the Hybelec Bicycle.

To see the other videos in this series, visit Hybelec Bicycle on Vimeo.

Impact Communications was commissioned to create a permanent exhibit that demonstrates the importance of steam as the sole source of power for the USS Midway aircraft carrier and its crew of 4500 during its active duty.

The immersive exhibit includes video-based scenarios with actors in the roles of commanding officers. It provides visitors the unique opportunity to become sailors in charge of steam distribution, interacting with the program and to make learning-based decisions about allocating the flow of steam to different parts of the ship.

Components of the content were developed to satisfy middle school math and science standards established by the California State Board of Education. A combination of video, historic imagery and animated steam-flow data is used in the program, displayed on a large-screen monitor. To navigate, visitors interact with authentic ship hardware including brass valves and gauges.

The USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA is one of the leading tourist destinations on the San Diego waterfront, attracting a broad range of visitors from around the world. The museum’s vision is to become America’s living symbol of freedom.

Click here to see a video of this program in action!

Aspen Dental encouraged dental professionals to “Rethink Your Dental Career” at the Greater New York Dental Meeting, with the debut of its new exhibit booth and video brochure produced by Impact Communications, in partnership with Benchmark Craftsmen. Designed to mimic the façade of an Aspen Dental office, the new exhibit provides a glimpse into the modern, professional and welcoming Aspen Dental environment, while a video brochure that also premiered at the meeting gives potential recruits a taste of the organizational culture. The Greater New York Dental Meeting, which ran from November 29 – December 2 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, is one of the largest dental congresses in the world, with more than 30,000 health care professionals in attendance.

The newly-designed exhibit and video brochure are intended to introduce doctors and other dental professionals who may not be familiar with the company to the limitless opportunities for growth and development at Aspen Dental. The video brochure, which can be viewed at www.rethinkdentaljobs.com, features an overview of how Aspen Dental builds partnerships with its dentists, while Bob Fontana, the company’s CEO, shares the model for success centering around five core tenets — Access to Care, Comprehensive Care, Quality Service, Training and Teamwork. The video also includes a tour of a typical Aspen Dental office, bringing viewers all the way from patient registration to exams and X-ray to consultation to check out. Another portion of the video details a look at Aspen Dental’s Practice Support Center, which provides more than 350 affiliated dentists with the business, operational and marketing services they need to grow thriving practices.

Be sure to visit these sites to learn more:
www.aspendent.com
www.aspendentaljobs.com
www.rethinkdentaljobs.com

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From 1958 to 1971, Miss Barbara played a special part in the daily routine of Cleveland’s young children. This interview, produced by Impact Communications several years ago, features Barbara Plummer as she relives a few of her most memorable experiences as host of the popular children’s show, Romper Room.

Barbara Plummer passed away at the age of 80 following a long illness.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History with the help of the production team at Impact communications is proud to have recently completed the production of CMNH’s first Online Annual Report. Themed “Making a Difference through Science and Education” this departure from the traditional printed reports reveals an attractive, interactive, web-based user experience that helps existing and potential constituents understand the current standing of the museum while sharing its goals and ambitions. The report, through video, text, and interactive elements reviews a year of effective programming, innovation, discovery, and community engagement.

To view the report, click here.

Impact recently completed the installation of an interactive multimedia experience created for American Greetings in order to present forthcoming greeting cards to its retail partners.

Impact worked with engineers at Spyeglass (Minneapolis) to create a unique presentation platform. The multimedia program is rear-projected onto a chic, custom-fabricated 80-inch touchscreen panel that is suspended in midair by two thin, brushed-metal beams. This screen system complements the overall design of the presentation room. The simple yet futuristic multimedia program consists of greeting cards displayed across a black background.

Presenters touch the screen to slide through, select, open, interact with and close the greeting cards. Impact’s designers and programmers created interactive 3D animations of each card and its unique innovative features, allowing the audience to experience the cards as close to reality as possible. The program is dynamic, allowing it to be tailored for various uses.

American Greetings is the world’s largest publicly owned creator, manufacturer and distributor of social expression products.

For the twenty-second consecutive year, Impact Communications produced the annual Managers’ Meeting for Sterling Jewelers Inc., operator of more than 1,394 retail jewelry stores in all 50 states, and trading as “Kay® Jewelers,” “Jared® the Galleria of Jewelry” and a variety of regional names. Kay Jewelers is the number one specialty retail jewelry brand in the U.S. Each year, over 1,800 managers gather at the Coronado Springs Resort, Walt Disney World, Florida for this annual event designed to motivate, train and prepare managers for the upcoming holiday sales season.

Sterling has consistently chosen to partner with Impact in the development of this important strategic event. According to Jody Wolf, Director of Group, Business and Incentive Travel, “Year after year, Impact responds to our needs by offering us affordable, creative and strategic programs that effectively deliver our company’s key messages to our national management team. This is a long-term partnership in which Sterling benefits from Impact’s years of experience in developing targeted event, meeting and session programming.”

For example, this year Impact’s creative team helped produce five general sessions filled with high-end production value and motivating educational Executive speeches.

The opening general session delivered the key business messages, motivation and confidence in preparing for the Holiday Season. This session also introduced the theme of the meeting, featuring an original song written by Impact with an accompanying video featuring hip-hop dancers and many Sterling store employees from across the country. As the video concluded, the audience was treated to live beat poetry and dancing by Superstars of Dance winners, The Groovaloos.

Other meeting highlights included a general session that celebrated Sterling’s upcoming eleventh year as a corporate charity partner with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and a general session that featured an update on the Open Hearts by Jane Seymour™ jewelry collection. The Open Hearts session included a guest appearance by actress, artist and humanitarian Jane Seymour. You can learn more about Open Hearts by Jane Seymour™ collection by going to www.kay.com.

Impact provided meeting services for this event including Meeting Theme Development, Set Design, Staging, Speechwriting, Speaker Support, Logo and Graphic Design Development, Original Music Production, and Video Production.