Macromedia Director is the premier animation tool for creating digital multimedia for
distribution on CD’s and on the Web. The strengths of Director are its Lingo
object-oriented programming language, its capacity to incorporate a variety of
multimedia resources, and its integration with Shockwave for distribution on the
Web. This paper proposes that Macromedia Director has the potential to be used
as a knowledge management system. The possibility of using an avatar as the
building block of a knowledge management system architectures is explored.