Here are a few common use cases for an Interactive Timeline:
The Interactive Timeline feature in T1V Story brings your organization’s history, milestones, and future vision to life in a visually compelling way. Whether you want to present a product roadmap, share your company’s founding story, or highlight key historical moments, Interactive Timeline offers a structured, interactive experience for any audience. Here are a few ways you can leverage this feature:
1. Tell Your Organization’s Story
With Interactive Timeline, you can create a dynamic narrative that takes your audience through the early days of your organization, from inception to present day. Each point on the timeline can contain rich media like images, text, or videos that give context to important moments in your company's journey.
Example: A startup might use the timeline to showcase its growth from humble beginnings to a global presence, including key moments like the founding date, major product launches, and pivotal partnerships.
2. Highlight Key Historical Events
For organizations with a long history, Interactive Timeline is perfect for presenting key milestones alongside historical events for added context. By mapping your company’s achievements within the broader industry or world events, you can paint a complete picture of how your organization evolved over time.
Example: A technology company could present a timeline that highlights its innovations alongside major industry shifts like the rise of the internet or mobile technology, helping the audience understand the company’s role in shaping the future of its field.
3. Create a Future Vision Timeline
Looking forward, you can use the Interactive Timeline to map out your organization's vision for the future. Whether you're outlining a 5-year growth strategy or a product development roadmap, the timeline provides a clear and engaging way to visualize future goals.
Example: A manufacturing company could use the timeline to show their sustainability roadmap, detailing goals for reducing emissions, increasing energy efficiency, and launching eco-friendly products over the next decade.
4. Deep Dive into Key Milestones
With the Interactive Timeline, users can explore significant moments in your organization’s history in greater detail. By clicking on specific dates or events, users can unlock additional content like images, videos, and text that explain the significance of each milestone.
Example: A healthcare provider could use the timeline to highlight medical breakthroughs and new facility openings, allowing the audience to dive into videos showing the impact of each milestone on patient care.
5. Showcase Your Product Roadmap
Interactive Timeline is also ideal for product-driven organizations looking to visualize their development process. By organizing product iterations, feature releases, and key updates along a timeline, you can present a comprehensive view of your product evolution and future enhancements.
Example: A software company could create a timeline of its product roadmap, showing each phase of development, upcoming feature releases, and expected launch dates. Videos of beta tests or images of prototypes could be embedded at key points to enhance the presentation.
6. Contextualize with Filters
One of the standout features of Interactive Timeline is the ability to apply filters to navigate different time periods or phases of your story. For instance, you can divide your timeline into decades, project phases, or any other blocks of time, allowing your audience to focus on specific segments of your organization’s history.
Example: A nonprofit could use filters to show different phases of its growth—early development, expansion, and long-term impact—giving the audience a more organized way to explore the organization’s evolution.
7. Pair with ThinkHub
To enhance the collaborative component, pairing Interactive Timeline with ThinkHub opens up new possibilities for real-time engagement. For example, an architectural firm could present their company's timeline, highlighting key projects and milestones, and then transition to ThinkHub to dive into a specific client's project. The team could pull up project designs, blueprints, and other relevant materials on the ThinkHub Canvas, allowing for interactive discussions, markups, and brainstorming—all on the same interactive wall. This combination of storytelling and collaboration makes the meeting more dynamic, keeping clients engaged and actively involved in the conversation.