Forum Discussion
Content Library stinks
I have the same experience as Steve. My searches for "meeting", "office", "business casual", "manager", "employee" , "professional" give me such poor results I feel that the Content Library is simply not intended or designed for people creating training for the typical, modern corporation.
I need images of people working in an office, having meetings, talking together, on a variety of computers (not just apple); not in a coffee shop, or walking in an alley, or with only part of their body showing (I will crop the image if I need to).
I need images that reflect things that happen in actual offices such as interviews, 1x1 conversations, talking on a business phone, hallway conversations, chatting in a break room, greeting someone in an office, etc.
I need images of people in business casual dress. Of typical offices, with cubes and offices that don't look like a loft in New York designed by a high end interior designer. I have yet to find an image of a man in a polo shirt simply smiling, facing forward with a generic office background (or at least an ambiguous indoor background).
I find it troubling that the designers of the content library were so deeply out of touch with what happens in business today and the images we would need in order for this to actually be useful. It is rare that I find a great image that applies to extremely basic needs I have for a project.
Today Arlyn did a webcast where he searched for oranges in the Content Library. I was stunned at how many images there are of oranges, and yet, I cannot find a single good image of an employee working late in an office.
Lastly, the hipster male model in the suit with the long beard seems to be the main representation for business images, and that guy is not remotely close to what I could use for any corporate organization I have ever created training for. I need images of employees who represent the individuals in the organization or the people I am training. I cannot imagine why this model was used for more than one or two photos. It's a highly specific look that fits very few businesses and yet he is in the majority of images I find, thus, rendering them useless.