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In this new digital high tech computer age slideshows/slide shows/photomontages/photo montages/video albums are becoming very popular. But I have found when I do a web search I get multiple titles. So what’s the difference between a slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album? After doing some research of my own, dictionary searches and web site reviews, I have come to this ultimate mind numbing conclusion – are you ready? – There is no difference in the name! I know that this may be a cause of disagreement between many, but I dare you to do the same research. Ultimately, I believe that you too will come to the conclusion that whether you call it slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album they are all one and the same. However, a bit of trivia for you, I have discovered that in the Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, the only one word or phrase of these five that can be found is “photomontage”.

So, if there is no difference in the name is there a difference in the product? The truth is whether you order a slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album the difference is only with the company. Every slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album creating company has their own individualized way of creating what I will call a slideshow production. - You can replace the word “slideshow” with “slide show”, “photomontage”, “photo montage”, or “video album”. It’s really a personal decision. And it is highly possible that as I am writing this article a new word or phrase is being created at this very moment to replace any of the above five words. Such as… moving pictures, pictures in motion, memories in motion (that one kind of makes you dizzy) albums that move, photo movements (there’s a phrase that will really move you!) – You try. I give you five minutes to come up with some of your own phrases. Go ahead be creative!

So what’s my point here, or do I really have one? I guess the point is this. When you are doing a web search for – are you ready, here we go again - slideshows, slide shows, photomontages, photo montages, or video albums – type in each of these different keywords separately each time you do a web search and you will have more choices because each keyword will bring up a new search and ultimately a new company that you haven’t seen before. In addition, try using specific key words. If you are planning a wedding place the word “wedding” or “wedding reception” before any of the above words. Do the same thing with a graduation slideshow, birthday slideshow, anniversary slideshow, reunion slideshow, memorial slideshow, or so on. You can also add words after the keywords listed above such as “production” or “productions” (yes, adding an ‘s’ makes a difference). And why let Google be your only search engine. Try other search engines such as my favorite MSN. You will get more choices because each search engine has their own way of categorizing web sites.

After you’ve found a new company view their samples. In this way you will be able to decide which company offers more of what you are looking for in a slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album. And finally look not only at the price but also at the package. What do you get for the price you are willing to pay? And is the company willing to work with you in creating your own package with your own needs? The more willing a company is to satisfy your individual needs, the happier you will be with the end results. And as with anything in life, the same rule of thumb applies with slideshows, slide shows, photomontages, photo montages, or video albums – you get what you pay for! If the price seems too good to be true, it usually is! Keep in mind that your memories are unique and should be treated as such so stay away from the ‘cookie-cutter” slideshow presentations and look for something unique and creative. Sands of Time Multimedia Creations - experience the difference!

Sandra Clukey, lead slideshow creator for Sands of Time Multimedia Creations, has years of experience and an intense passion for turning still pictures into beautiful, sentimental slideshow video albums for people everywhere! sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/ sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/ See her “12 Steps to a Successful Slideshow Production” sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/articles/12Steps.htm sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/articles/12Steps.htm View some of her samples: sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/index-1.html sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/index-1.html Experience the difference!

Data and information both usually use as alternatives to one and another but information is more active term as compared to data, which is more passive in nature. That is the reason why information is also termed as “processed data”. The same holds true for information and knowledge where knowledge is more active as compare to the term, information.

Beside the fact, which is more active and more passive, we are living in an age where these three terms have revolutionized the world. Organizations now a day has no survival if they really don’t understand and respect the three terms. Although for organizations to be remaining in the field of their respective game, the clear understanding of these terms is mandatory. Information Technology is what the outcome of human’s respect for the term, information. In any organization you will find an IT department, what is this?

Organizations need Information technology, which has proved itself as one of the must for them. The need of IT is increasing rapidly and more and more organizations are moving toward the serious deployment of it. Information technology staff is not cheap at all. They are costly, which shows that organizations now seriously thinking about getting the competitive advantage on others by using IT infrastructure.

Originations, those already have IT, now moving toward some other newly emerging technologies and paradigms coming out of it. Many are important and have proved themselves as the must for organizations and enterprises. Like Enterprise Resource planning Systems, Customer Relation Management Systems, Workflow Automation Systems and many more.

WAS (Workflow Automation System) is a new ingredient in IT infrastructure. Many vendors are now coming in the market of WAS. It is getting popularity and hope we will see some serious generic implementation in the near future. WAS, as implemented by many organizations, has proved itself as an excellent replacement of manual workflow systems of organization. Organization now moving toward WAS because many of them really don’t want paper full offices. In fact they want paperless offices. WAS has many advantage over manual workflow systems but before describing its advantages let me define the two terms, workflow and automation.

Workflow is defined as the flow of documents in any organization from one member of the organization to the other or from one member to group of peoples or may be between departments and usually it is.

For example if I am the manager of production and my company has two departments only. Suppose our company’s sales department got an order from customer. Sales department needs to forward this order to production department. Now sales department have a choice, they can forward the order to production department with out wasting of time or may be they wait for a whole day, collect all orders from different customers, complied them in a file format and at the end of the day forward them to production department.

Are you feeling that companies don’t like this? Yes you are right. This is a latency in the production. Company has got the order and why it is waiting to start the production.
Now at this stage I, as the production manager really don’t want to waste my precious time. I want some thing automated. I want to start the production as soon as I get the order.
Now at this stage we need the definition of second term, the Automation. Automation can be defined as the process of taking a manual process and applying technology to it. We take the process of organization ‘s workflow and try to apply technology to it. What is required? Yes you are right. Only a computer software which enables production department staff (in our example) to see that an order has been received with the following specification plus all the required information needed by the production department to start work on it and that’s it. Now u can fell how efficiency will improve by the company. Their production will increase which definitely will increase its revenue.

It is really a very small example of WAS capabilities. In actual WAS contains enormous capabilities which every organization wish to have.
As mentioned before WAS generic implementations are coming in the market and vendors are taking serious interests in it but we hope organizations will realize the importance of time also take hurry to deploying this emerging and exciting technology.

Muhammad Faheem Zafar
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Karachi
Pakistan

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