The company is focused on two areas—Publishing
and Production. Sky Media publishes interactive multimedia
products
for distribution through wholesale and retail channels and through
its joint venture with
Discovery
House Publishers (product line—Discovery Interactive).
The production side of Sky Media is focused
on providing services for our ministry partners—such as developing
new multimedia titles, customizing existing titles for a ministry's
private label, various consulting services related to large multimedia
projects, project management services, and systems integration.
A very valuable and unique resource that Sky Media also makes available
to its client ministries is the
Sky Media
Resource Pool.
The
Staff and Associates
Group of Sky Media includes industry-recognized leaders in the
areas of: instructional design, instructional technology, art direction
and production, graphics design, animation and virtual reality,
multimedia systems programming, interface design, video and audio
production, Internet and World Wide Web systems, and broadband multimedia
information services systems.
Virtual Teams—Combining
the Specialties of Sky Media,
its Associates, and Ministry Staff
Sky Media utilizes a "Virtual Team" concept
to apply the ideal blend of talent to a
multimedia
project. This concept is in response to a major problem that
many ministries face—not having the appropriate type and level of
resources available for a project. Simply put, the concept combines
the resources of the Sky Media staff and the ministry staff, along
with a group of specialists to form a team that is optimized for
the tasks at hand. Currently, Sky Media has over a dozen specialists,
known as
Sky Media Associates, that
are available for project assignments. This Virtual Team approach
has been used successfully by Sky Media over the last three years
in the creation of its multimedia titles. Sky Media has also developed
the skills needed to manage this type of team concept. This Virtual
Team approach allows Sky Media to offer its client ministries the
best resources available, at the optimal staffing level, on a demand
basis, and at the lowest possible overall cost.