WELCOME	This is going to sound much like a pep talk, but then you've just enlisted!! You've signed up for the role of producer and project manager. Multimedia seems or better yet screams "daunting!" when you first face the prospect, but you've made it here so you've already overcome the most difficult obstacles: - fear of the unknown - lack of support or "buy in" in the overburdened world of visual journalism and editorial management.
MISSION	The assignment is still to tell the story just as it is in paper but the goal is a new medium. In this new arena you are to enrich the experience, supplement the paper and give this story longevity or shelf life.
KEEP IT IN PERSPECTIVE	You are not a two-man MSNBC, USA Today, Washington Post, NYTimes. These are great inspiration to us all but most of us don't have a separate department and dedicated staff for multimedia. You are still producing for in-paper and adapting and enhancing for web more akin to the efforts of Seattle Times, L.A. Times, News and Observer.
APPROACH	You have your assignment. You know how you would normally approach this. Now you just need to reconsider how you take those same steps with a view to what you might need for that new medium. You have the same amount of time to gather your material yet all the additional stuff to generate to "enrich" that package. And in all likelihood, you'll have no new resources in the way of staff and/or much equipment. But don't loose heart your best tools are cheap and under control -- your planning skills and efficiency. Look at it as an Evolution!