Multimedia secara umum merupakan kombinasi 3 elemen yaitu suara, gambar dan teks. Beberapa contoh penerapan teknologi multimedia adalah Internet, multimedia di internet siaran langsung TV, video streaming, melihat animasi bagaimana cara kerja sesuatu (tutorial) dan mendengarkan musik. Presentasi, multimedia memungkinkan seorang pembawa presentasi beralih dari overhead projector yang menampilkan gambar dan teks yang kaku kepada gambar bergerak, suara dan animasi untuk menghidupkan presentasi yang dibawakan. Tutorial, multimedia dengan cepat telah menjadi dasar pelatihan berbasiskan komputer, sebagai contoh perusahan menyediakan tutorial yang interaktif bagi karyawan baru untuk mempelajari prosedur-prosedur di perusahaan atau tutorial yang titujukan untuk masyarakat umum. Dan banyak lagi penerapannya.

Tujuan dari penggunaan multimedia di antaranya, Multimedia dalam penggunaannya dapat meningkatkan efektivitas dari penyampaian suatu informasi, penggunaan multimedia dalam lingkungan dapat mendorong partisipasi, keterlibatan serta eksplorasi pengguna tersebut, aplikasi multimedia dapat merangsang panca indera dan perasaan penerimanya, karena dengan penggunaannya multimedia akan merangsang beberapa indera penting manusia, seperti : Penglihatan, pendengaran, gerak maupun suara. Dalam pengaplikasiannya multimedia akan sangat membantu penggunanya, terutama dalam hal belajar. Dalam hal ini secara khusus bagi masyarakat awam.

Semakin berkembangnya teknologi, semakin berkembang juga ilmu dan cara berpikir kita sebagai pengguna teknologi itu. Dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, Internet telah memberikan banyak manfaat bagi masyarakat dunia. Pada umumnya semua yang terdapat dalam kehidupan kita terdapat dalam internet.

Iklan internet mendefinisikan ulang arti dari iklan dalam tulisan biasa. Iklan internet merupakan media kaya, dinamis, orang ke orang, interaktif dan dapat menjangkau sejumlah besar orang dengan biaya relatif murah. Iklan yang membayar operasi layanan web, seperti halnya iklan yang menutup biaya siaran televisi sehingga kita dapat menonton televisi tanpa membayar.

Multimedia mengubah cara orang berbelanja. Daripada lelah menelusuri toko ke toko lain untuk memperoleh barang dengan ukuran dan corak yang anda inginkan dan kemudian anda harus antri di kasir, dengan layanan teleshopping atau home shopping memungkinkan anda berbelanja dari rumah.

Dari mulai anak – anak SD, SMP, SMA, Mahasiswa hingga masyarakat yang belum terbiasa menggunakan Komputer pun mau tidak mau harus ikut belajar. Dengan berbagai macam tujuan dan hal ingin di ketahui, entah itu mencari pekerjaan secara online,melihat TV, transfer uang, mencari uang, belanja, sekedar main game, download ratusan video, file Mp3 hingga pendaftaran sekolah semuanya tersedia di Internet.

Multimedia mengubah cara kita membaca koran dengan menghapus kebutuhan akan kertas dengan menawarkan keunggulan multimedia, termasuk penelusuran full-teks, grafik, audio dan video. Menurut artikel di Internet, lebih dari 2700 surat kabar mencoba penerbitan elektronis ini, sedangkan pada tahun 1989 hanya 42 surat kabar. Penerbitan elektronis juga berdampak pada industri pendidikan. Banyak Sekolah mulai menginvestasikan anggaran buku kedalam teknologi multimedia. Misalnya dengan melengkapi komputer di perpustakaan dapat mengakses internet.

Internet merupakan sarana penyaji informasi Multimedia terlengkap dari yang lainnya. Inilah dampak untuk menghasilkan SDM yang Up-to-date, kemudahan penyampaian informasi membuat multimedia di intregasikan dalam segala hal, termasuk HP. Melalui piranti kecil ini  setidaknya masyarakat satu langkah lebih maju untuk belajar selain melalui Komputer.

Internet bersaing dengan televisi memperebutkan waktu luang masyarakat. Orang lebih banyak waktu yang dihabiskan pengguna internet untuk melakukan surfing di internet dari pada waktu yang dihabiskan untuk menonton televisi.

Maka dari itu penyajian berbasiskan teknologi MULTIMEDIA terus berkembang di kalangan masyarakat. Selain dorongan zaman, teknologi multimedia sudah menjadi gaya hidup masyarakat sekarang. Semua penyampaian informasi terbentuk dalam sebuah implementasi digital.

Kelebihan dari multimedia adalah menarik daya imajinasi dan menarik minat, karena merupakan gabungan antara gambar, suara dan gerakan. Mudahnya pemahamaan akan hal yang di sampaikan, membuat teknologi merubah cara hidup kita, dari cara konvensional hingga modern.

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	One, the Worker — an intense, hard working, focused perfectionist.
	Two, the Helper — an empathetic, service-oriented, flattering rescuer.
	Three, the Motivator — an image-oriented, accomplished, efficient performer.
	Four, the Individualist — a self-absorbed, sensitive, creative overanalyzer.
	Five, the Observer — a noncommittal, deliberate, reflective loner.
	Six, the Networker — a responsible, opinionated, community-oriented moralist.
	Seven, the Visionary — an analytical, entertaining, self-indulgent visionary.
	Eight, the Activator — a competitive, practical, passionate maneuverer.
	Nine, the Universalist — a secretive, unemotional, affable problem solver for others.

ONE:  THE WORKER

  If you are a One, it is likely that you:

  If are a Two,  it is likely that you:

  If you are a Four, it is likely that you:

  If you are a Five, it is likely that you:

  If you are a Six, it is likely that you:

SEVEN:  THE VISIONARY

  If you are a Seven, it is likely that you:

  If you are an Eight, it is likely that you:

  If you are a Nine, it is likely that you:

Why Learn the Enneagram?People make relationships, and personality makes people what they are. That's why understanding your personality and others' can enhance relationships and promote healing.

Of all the tools available to understand personality, the Enneagram is the easiest to grasp and make use of. Describing nine personality types, in the hands of Kathi Griffin the Enneagram is easy to learn, fun and interesting. The Enneagram describes how personality affects our journey through life with all its ups and downs, and it offers practical suggestions for improving our success and satisfaction.

While the Enneagram acknowledges that every person is unique, it also says that one of the nine personality types described above has become your "operating type." This is the foundation of your way of dealing with the world. Each person's uniqueness is the result of the many other factors that are a part of our formation, such as genetics, education both formal and informal, birth order, body type, cultural influences, etc.

Understanding Yourself
Some people feel that acknowledging one type as their own is limiting. Actually, the opposite is true. By seeing oneself through the "lens" of one Enneagram type, people finally understand aspects of themselves that have been mysteries for years. Qualities and habits they dislike but thought were innate now are seen as changeable. Most importantly, a path for improvement, relief from self-destructive patterns, change and growth becomes clear. Each of the nine types has its own unique path to fulfillment!

Also, the core of each Enneagram type is a gift to be discovered — a surprise delight at the core of our beings. Often in daily life we don't see it or only have glimpses of it because we are preoccupied with responding to life's cares and anxieties. Taking time to learn about oneself through the Enneagram reveals this gift and the joy associated with it.

Understanding Others
The Enneagram describes nine different ways of being in the world. Your way is only one of them. Others are different, and the Enneagram makes those differences understandable. With understanding comes the possibility of communication, compassion and improved effectiveness. There are nine different sets of values people live by; nine different ways they evaluate what is good and bad, right and wrong, pleasurable and distasteful; and nine different sets of needs people expect others and life to fulfill. The Enneagram makes sense out of all the impressions of people you have gathered over your life.

Each type describes a limited good which the person who espouses it claims is absolute. Therein lies the core difficulty people have in enjoying life completely. Mistaking a limited good for complete wholeness means the reality of a satisfying life will always elude us. Until the clear mirror of the Enneagram shows us our faulty perception, we can't see our problem and not seeing it, we don't even know we can solve it.

What Are the Benefits of Learning the Enneagram?By using the Enneagram, you can:

How Does the Enneagram Work?

Why Is the Enneagram Gaining Popularity?

One: the Worker — an intense, hard working, focused perfectionist. Ones experience life as a struggle in which they are expected to make a contribution and improve the world. Mostly active and on the go, they are energetically dedicated to their work and responsibilities, however they define them. Their need to feel "right" is the motivation behind several common characteristics like researching how to accomplish a project before doing it and working overtime to meet their responsibilities. 

One: the Worker. Ones are highly focused and intense people who measure everything — especially themselves and their own performance — by perfectionistic standards. Often presenting the smiling, sociable side of their personalities to the world, they experience great interior pressure to work hard and to be fair, moderate, just, kind, and amiable in the process. They keep a tight reign on all their emotions, especially anger, in order to attain the perfectly acceptable response. An insistent mental voice criticizes them if they do not live up to all these standards; often it causes them to criticize others as well. Ones feel caught in imperfection and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel perfect. 

Ones lead with the Doing Center and are focused on responding, achieving. Their support Feeling Center causes them to take their doing personally and want to do things right. Their Thinking Center is underactualized, which means they can’t get the big picture, focus on details, and are opinionated — the underactualized Thinking Center is the critical voice in their minds

Two: the Helper — an empathetic, service-oriented, flattering rescuer. Often warm and relational in type, Twos experience life as a succession of situations that need their energy and input. They pride themselves on responding to people and situations to meet needs and often keep busy — even hectic — schedules as a result. However, most people wouldn’t know how pressured Twos feel. Able to make others comfortable almost instantly, they draw others out while keeping their own thoughts and feelings to themselves. 

Two: the Helper. Twos have an extraordinary sensitivity to human feeling and need. They focus their attention on responding to the needs of others and are blind to any needs or shortcomings in themselves. Being both perceptive and responsive, they disarm others by creating a safe atmosphere that invites people to be open, honest, and vulnerable. Twos both easily create dependent relationships and come to depend on others' gratitude for their sense of well-being and worth. This emphasis on the interpersonal can easily lead to unfinished projects and/or broken deadlines. Twos feel caught in their own personal needs and so strive to avoid them; they want to feel needed. 

Twos lead with the Feeling Center and are focused on the world of feelings and needs, especially in others. Their Support Doing Center orients them to responding to those emotions and needs. Their underactualized Thinking Center causes them to have difficulty planning their day and their lives and instead focus on the human problem right in front of them.

Three: the Motivator — an image-oriented, accomplished, efficient performer. Threes experience life as a series of tasks to be accomplished and use their drive, focus and energy to complete them. Coming across as competent, confident and capable is important to these high energy workers. Often outwardly personable, they can remain internally detached from people as they focus on completing tasks. They often find other people’s feelings and questions slowing them down in their quest for achievement.

Three: the Motivator. Threes are active, goal-oriented, future-oriented, and work-oriented. Whether or not they themselves are aware of their inner world of feelings and ideas, they usually reveal only the most pleasant and ingratiating aspects of their inner life; thus, they are personable without being personal. Possessing an uncanny ability to read other people's motives even from afar, they use this political ability to find their way around or through other people's needs and agendas in order to secure their own success. Being naturally optimistic, they walk away from negative people and situations. Threes feel caught in failure and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel competent, capable, and successful.

Threes lead with the Feeling Center but it is also underactualized in them. Leading with Feeling gives them their focus on image and their personable approach to people. Underactualized Feeling makes them aloof and difficult to know personally or intimately. Most of their personality comes from the other two centers. They are known for all they can accomplish — evidence of the Doing Center. They have goals and plans, can organize and be efficient — evidence of the Thinking Center.

Four: the Individualist — a self-absorbed, sensitive, creative overanalyzer. Fours experience life as a series of interpersonal encounters, even as they feel overwhelmed by life’s practical necessities. For them, life is a highly personal experience that demands an authentic response. They feel intensely about anything or anyone important to them and feel compelled to express their feelings. Analyzing situations and their own experience occupies much of their time as they search for creative and artistic means of expressing themselves. 

Four: the Individualist. Fours are emotionally sensitive people — first toward themselves, and then toward others. Emotions, both positive and negative, are the lens through which they view the world. This focus on emotions is both a strength and a weakness. The strength lies in their creative sensitivities which lead them to initiate new and original programs and/or innovative ideas that will enhance existing programs. The weakness lies in their tendency to take everything personally and to identify everything that could go wrong with a project before they are able to give their wholehearted support. When their emotions are balanced with objectivity, Fours excel in communication and relational skills. Fours feel caught in their own ordinariness and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel unique.

Fours lead with the Feeling Center and so are hyper-aware of the world of emotions and human needs, especially their own. Their Support Thinking Center encourages them to analyze and ponder feelings and needs. Their Doing Center is underactualized, and so they do only what feels good, lack self-confidence, and withdraw from the world.

Five: the Observer — a noncommittal, deliberate, reflective loner. Fives experience life as a series of ideas and experiences to be absorbed and analyzed. Reluctant to commit themselves to other people and their projects, they often spend their free time by themselves pursuing things that interest them. Easily bored, they enjoy the adventure of learning and will extend themselves to gain new knowledge. They can hold fast to their idea in the face of opposition or criticism because they consider themselves the expert on the topics they have studied. 

Five: the Observer. Fives are emotionally distant and reserved people who strive for a dispassionate perspective. While they can feel deeply about life, they detach themselves from their feelings to attain the higher goal of objectivity; thus, their first love is knowledge and information, and their great desire is to distill knowledge into wisdom. By separating feeling from fact they pierce to the core of an issue; consequently, their mental acuity is often matched only by their tactlessness. They approach life as experts whose dry sense of humor supports them as they connect with a social world in which they feel uncomfortable. Fives feel caught in their own emptiness and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel full of knowledge.

Fives lead with the Thinking Center and so see the world as an endless source of information. Their Support Feeling Center causes them to discover how that information relates to them personally. Their underactualized Doing Center causes them to over plan, lack self-confidence, and observe the world.

Six: the Networker — a responsible, opinionated, community-oriented moralist. Sixes experience life as a series of responsibilities which they are never quite sure they are fulfilling. Often energetic and lively, they enjoy having full schedules and keeping busy. Loyalty and commitment are virtues they value and they find it difficult to deal with people who do not share their values. Highly dedicated, they devote their energy to the group or groups that mean the most to them and need back from those people their affirmation and respect. 

Six: the Networker. Sixes are responsible people who are driven in their activity by an underlying sense of anxiety as well as a desire to be included. Often in a sociable and gracious way, they express these needs as desires for personal contact and reassurance. Sixes have deep needs for group relationships; thus, family and/or a professional, community, or social group become the recipients of their dedication and loyalty. They are information-oriented people who seem always to need one more fact, one more view point to feel confident. They are team players who find independent decision making difficult. Sixes feel caught in personal anxiety and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel secure.

Sixes lead with the Thinking Center but it is also underactualized in them. Leading with Thinking makes them want information. Underactualized Thinking makes them gather too much information, sort it through endlessly, and come to many conclusions. Most of their personality comes from the other two centers. They are responsible, active, energetic — evidence of the Doing Center. They are sociable, networkers, and want to be liked — evidence of the Feeling Center.

Seven: the Visionary — an analytical, entertaining, self-indulgent visionary. Often enthusiastic and funny, Sevens experience life as a banquet whose every delicacy must be savored. Their attitude is, if you don’t enjoy something why bother doing it? There are too many valuable experiences that can be enjoyed. Easily engaged in new interests, Sevens have active minds that rarely slow down. They may need support in following through on difficult tasks because their multiple interests easily distract them. 

Seven: the Visionary. Sevens are optimistic, happy, and fun-loving idealists who can't admit of problems that can't be solved or situations that can't be fixed. These are often mentally creative people with overactive minds who have difficulty following through on their plans and ideas without the support of others who are more practical. Sevens, who are enthusiastic communicators and socially charming, need to balance their idealism with a heavy dose of realism, focused effort, and fortitude. Their love for others is most evident in their loyalty and thoughtfulness as they generally avoid any direct communication of intimate emotion. Sevens feel caught in the pain of life and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel happy. 

Sevens lead with the Thinking Center, and so their minds are overactive with ideas, plans, and humor. Their Support Doing Center propels them to do something about what their ideas and become involved in the world. Their Feeling Center is underactualized, and so they have difficulty expressing emotion directly and in relationships are protective of their freedom.

Eight: the Activator — a competitive, practical, passionate maneuverer. Eights experience life as a series of obstacles to be overcome. They disdain weakness and rely on their strength, although they rarely feel as strong as they appear to others. Often known as vital and engaging, they prefer to deal directly with most situations. Taking a stand is easy for them while backing down, even when they are wrong, is difficult. They intend to get the most from life and to let little if anything or anyone stand in their way. 

Eight: the Activator. Eights concentrate on their own abilities to make things happen; thus they come across as forthright, blunt, firm, and full of life and strength. Some are loud and raucous, others are reserved and proper, but all are direct in communication. They have clearly defined ideas on what is just and use their considerable strength to make the world conform to their ideas, first for themselves and then for others. Eights are organized people who are determined to be in control whenever possible. A tender side lies within them which their own family can tap into, along with anyone they consider to be oppressed. Eights feel caught in their personal weakness and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel strong.

Eights lead with the Doing Center, which makes them dynamic, power-oriented people who have great presence. Their Support Thinking Center allows them to plan their actions, making them maneuvers; or to justify their actions. Their underactualized Feeling Center makes them oblivious to the world of emotions, insensitive to other’s feelings, and unaware of their own feelings and emotional needs.

Nine: the Universalist — a secretive, unemotional, affable problem solver for others. Nines experience life as a series of pressures to be held at bay. They accomplish this goal by being pleasant, indirect and friendly. Their harder edges are seen only by people who know them well. Often proficient at technical projects that challenge their perceptive minds, their personal lives can suffer from lack of focus or attention to detail. They tend to put in a fair day’s work for a fair day's pay and then keep their private time for their own interests and enjoyment. 

Nine: the Universalist. Nines are easygoing, affable people who are professionally and socially respected. They recoil from conflict of any kind and withdraw into the passive power of silence to ward off what they experience as emotional upheaval. Professionally, these unflappable people prove to be practical, deliberate, and resourceful. They have the resilience to deal with situations that others find too stressful. Because Nines expend nearly all of their energy in the public forum, their private world tends to be neglected both emotionally and physically. In both worlds, they use silence and affability to get along with others. Nines feel caught in turmoil and so strive to avoid it; they want to feel peaceful.

Nines lead with the Doing Center but also repress it. Leading with Doing makes them both fun loving and hyper-aware of energy output. Underactualized Doing makes them inactive and/or unfocused in their activity. Most of their personality comes from the other two centers. They are known for their intricate minds that thrive on details — evidence of the Thinking Center. They are affable, friendly, and want to be liked — evidence of the Feeling Center.