Cole becomes Seybold affiliate

In an effort to "strengthen and diversify" its offerings in both conference and publication content, Seybold Seminars -- a division of Softbank Expos of Foster City, Calif. -- has announced a new program for organizations that will affiliate with Seybold.

The first Seybold Affiliate is The Cole Group, publishers of The Cole Papers.

"Whenever I've heard the name 'Seybold' any time in my career, it has always been associated with quality products," said David M. Cole, proprietor of The Cole Group and editor and publisher of the newsletter. "It will be an honor to be associated with Seybold Seminars."

Cole, a frequent speaker at past Seybold Seminars' events, will become a contributing editor to the Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, writing a monthly column on the newspaper industry. He will also continue to be a program director for newspaper-oriented seminars at conferences presented by Seybold Seminars.

Seybold Seminars described affiliates as independent organizations that will become partners in providing editorial coverage in an industry segment important to the Seybold community.

The goals of the affiliates program are to trade content, share columns, combine efforts for special interest seminars during Seybold Seminars' events, trade space on respective World-Wide Web sites and collaborate on marketing efforts.

"Affiliates must perform a function integral to the community they serve, and be highly regarded in the industry as an organization with strong impartial opinions based on fact," Seybold officials said in a statement.

Additional organizations will be added to the affiliates program in coming months.

Bit bucket ...

Real bits: At the Times Publishing Co. of Erie, Pa., James Dible has been named general manager; he'd been director of the New Horizons Group (a division of the Pottsville Republican in Pennsylvania), makers of the InfoConnect audiotext system. ... At the Tribune Publishing Co. in Chicago, Robert Palermini has been named manager/publishing technology; most recently, he'd been technology director at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ... Also in Chicago, Jeff Scherb has the newly created job of veep and chief technology officer of Tribune Co.; previously he'd been with Dun & Bradstreet Software. ... At the New York Post, Jill Telesnick has been named retail sales manager; she'd been technology-electronic manager. ... At the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, the new vice president of operations is Louis Franconeri, formerly of Texas' San Antonio Express-News. He was vice chairman of the '96 NEXPO conference and will chair the '97 event. Before going to San Antonio four years ago, Franconeri was vice president of operations at The Sun of Baltimore. ...

Society news: At the Society of Newspaper Design, which will ask its members to vote on changing its name to the Society for News Design, Neal Pattison of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the incoming president. First vice president is Lynn Staley of Newsweek, second VP is Ed Kohorst of the Dallas Morning News, treasurer is the Kansas City Star's Jean Moxam, and secretary is Lucie Lacava, a consultant with Publication Design Inc. ...

Inside the insiders: At Seybold Seminars of Foster City, Calif., Craig Cline has been named vice president of content development and editorial director of Seybold Publications. Cline, who has worked for the Seybold organization for nine years, will supervise content not only for the domestic Seybold sessions, but also new international ventures as well. Taking Cline's place as director of content development is Arlene Karsh, a 24-year veteran of the publishing industry. Also promoted at Seybold Publications is Mark Walter, who has been named editor of the new Seybold Report on Internet Publishing, and Pete Dyson, who's been named on-line editor. And also at Seybold Seminars, veep and general manager Terri Holbrooke has announced she's leaving the company to become senior vice president of marketing at Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. of New York; she'd been vice president and general manager. Replacing Holbrooke is Michela O'Connor Abrams, most recently vice president/group publisher at McGraw-Hill, responsible for Lan Times and other computer trade publications. She joined Softbank Expos in April 1996 as veep of on-line development and was named president of WebSource in June (a job she retains). ... At Editor & Publisher of New York, Hoag Levins has been named editorial director of the new media division; Levins has been an author, syndicated columnist and newspaper reporter. Also at E&P, Kim McGalliard has been named webmaster of the E&P web site (http://www.mediainfo.com/) and Seth Zupnick has taken over CD-ROM technical development. Martin Radelfinger has left E&P Interactive to become vice president of market development for MMD of New York, a division of Publicitas. Lastly, Stacy Jones has become an associate editor at the magazine; most recently she'd been a reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island. ... At the Newspaper Association of America in Reston, Va., Judith Burrell has been named senior vice president of communications. Burrell comes to the NAA from the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she was special assistant to Secretary Federico Peña. ... Melinda Gipson has been named director of new media at the NAA; she had been manager of new media analysis for the last 18 months. ... Other new NAA directors include Tom Croteau (he's now director of newspaper services; he'd been pre-press manager) and Dave Beck (he's now director of media technology; he'd been manager thereof previously). ...

Vendor vikings: At CE Engineering Publishing Systems Inc. of Loomis, Calif., Joe Giannone has been named executive vice president for service and software development; previously he'd been veep of operations. Jim Wilson has been named chief financial officer; he'd been general manager. And lastly, John Ferra has been named general manager; previously he'd been the service center manager. ... At Freedom System Integrators Inc. of Wichita, Kan., Terry Borchers has quietly resigned as vice president and general manager to live and work in New Zealand (a lifelong ambition); marketing chief Deanna Hall and technology chief Don Blecha are now co-general managers. ... At Mission Critical Technologies of Concord, Mass., Steve Rosenfeld has been named senior director of national accounts; he'd previously handled the west and Latin American territories. ... At Tribune Media Services of Chicago, Mark Mathes has been named editor; previously he'd been managing editor of the syndicate. Mathes replaces Michael Silver, who has been named vice president for electronic information services at TMS and general manager for Tribune Interactive Services. Also, Douglas Page has been named sales manager for news & features; previously he'd been assistant sales manager. ... At Sysdeco Media Group of Bedford, Mass., Randy Parsons, Doug Baldwin and Bob Engberg have joined the company as sales executives. ... Also at Sysdeco, Patrick McGinnis has joined the company in a research and development management job; previously he'd been with System Integrators and before that, Atex. ... At Xitron of Ann Arbor, Mich., Jim Thrush has been named vice president of sales and marketing; previously he was sales manager for the Midwest territory. ...

Confabs: The Media Tech Centers (sponsored by Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, Agfa, Encad, Lanman Lithotech, Pantone and Star Graphic Arts) will have training sessions in this month and next in both Florida and California. "Getting Connected" -- which discusses dial-up image databases, remote and soft proofing and more -- will be Nov. 5 and Dec. 3 in Orlando and Nov. 19 and Dec. 10 in San Francisco. "Pre-press Workflow Solutions" will be held Nov. 7 and Dec. 5 in Orlando and Nov. 14 and Dec. 12 in San Francisco. "Internet Overview" will be Nov. 14 and Dec. 12 in Orlando and Nov. 21 and Dec. 5 in San Francisco. "Intermediate Internet" will be Nov. 15 and Dec. 13 in Orlando and Nov. 22 and Dec. 6 in San Francisco. "Fundamentals of Desktop Scanning" will be Nov. 19 and Dec. 10 in Orlando and Nov. 7 and Dec. 11 in San Francisco. For more information, call (888) 682-7737. ... Decus, the conference and trade show highlighting Digital Equipment Corp.'s products as well as products, services and technologies for multiplatform environments, will be Nov. 9-13 in Anaheim, Calif. Point your browser at http://www.decus.org/ or send e-mail to information@decus.org. ... Comdex/Fall, the big, big U.S. computer show, will be Nov. 18-22 in Las Vegas. For more information, point your browser at http://www.comdex.com/ or send e-mail to staff@comdex.com. ... Deadline is Dec. 1 for applying to the Poynter Institute's first "Online Design" seminar, to be held Feb. 5-7, 1997. (A second offering is planned for later in the year.) For more information, call (813) 821-9400, ext. 300. ... The IFRA Asian Newspaper Conference 1996 will be Dec. 2-4 in Hong Kong. Topics will include "Future Directions in Pre-press," "Cutting Costs" and "Newspaper Electronic Publishing." Send e-mail to 101472.2112@compuserve.com. ...

Errors & Omissions: Last time we said that Ralph Imhof was the new production director of the San Diego Union-Tribune; in fact, Imhof's title is director of operations, which encompasses both production and computer services; we regret the error. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, November 1996, Copyright © 1996, All Rights Reserved.