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Seybold does Manhattan

Moving from its traditional Boston home, the spring Seybold Seminars will be April 22-25 in New York City.

Conference sessions highlight issues regarding publishing, media and technology. More than 50 sessions are planned across the three-day meeting.

In addition, there will be a number of full-day courses, including one sponsored by Microsoft ("Web Design Seminar: Strategy and Issues") and one sponsored by Macromedia ("Macromedia Day").

A three-day trade show will feature products from more than 280 suppliers.

Here are our favorite conference session descriptions:

  • Fast Track: Any Media Publishing. In a series of quick, visual presentations, six industry leaders talk about solutions and share their vision.

  • Subscription-Based Web Publishing: Getting Paid for Content. Subscriptions -- a proven model for commercial print publishing -- are turning out to be a viable model for making money on the 'Net as well. Today, on-line subscriptions are paving a profitable alternative to ad-supported sites. Speakers include Neil Budde of Wall Street Journal Interactive and Laura Fillmore of Open Book Systems

  • Authoring/Editorial Systems: Does Off-the-Shelf Software Cut It? Many publishers must now decide how to replace aging legacy editorial systems, while new requirements for creating for web-based publications are causing others to evaluate the technology. Can off-the-shelf software be an effective approach? Speakers include Michael Gold of CNI Corp., consultant Richard Patterson, and the editor and publisher of this journal.

  • News Media: Adapting to the New Media. After "ripping up the front page" and "replating to get in the news," how do modern news organizations react to on-line, audiotext and fax-on-demand? Speakers include Leah Gentry of Excite Inc., Sara Glines of New Jersey Online and Rich Jaroslovsky, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.

  • Magazine Publishing: From Print to New Media. Not to be left out, magazines are rushing to the Web. But does the economic model work? The focus will be on what the challenges are, what works, what doesn't -- and what's in store for tomorrow.

    Seybold Seminars, (415) 578-5900, http://www.seyboldseminars.com/.

    -- dmc

    Bit bucket ...

    "We'd make it run on a Sunbeam toaster if that's what the customer wants."
    -- Rich Young, TVData

    Real bits: It somehow slipped under our radar, but last fall Knight-Ridder Inc. of Miami named Stephen Dempsey as chief information officer and assistant vice president/technology; previously he had been assistant vice president/information systems. In earlier lives, Dempsey had been a computer operator at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., as well as information systems director at the San Jose Mercury News. ... At The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., Olaf Rove has been named information systems manager; previously he held a similar position with Ralston Purina Co. ... At the Dallas Morning News, Frank Tyler has been named vice president of production; previously he was production director. ...

    Inside the insiders: At the Newspaper Association of America of Vienna, Va., Jim Currow has been named senior vice president and chief marketing officer; previously Currow ran his own newspaper management consulting firm, Currow and deMontmollin Inc. and was president and CEO of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ... At the American Press Institute of Reston, Va., Phil Nesbitt has been named associate director. Nesbitt, the former assistant managing editor for photography and graphics at the Chicago Sun-Times, has most recently been a newspaper redesign and technology consultant in Adelaide, Australia. ... Also at API, Laura Hutchison Grant has been named communications and Internet manager; previously Grant had been the assistant city editor at the Winchester (Va.) Star. ...

    New media mavens: At the Dallas Morning News, Dale Peskin has been named AME for new media; previously Peskin was deputy managing editor for graphics and design at the Detroit News. Peskin replaces Mark Weinberg, who had left in November to go to the Knight-Ridder New Media group in San Jose. Also at the Morning News, John Cranfill has been named managing editor of the web site; previously Cranfill had been director of publishing technology at the paper (somewhere back in his career he had been a reporter and editor). ... At Cox Interactive in Palm Beach, Fla., Mary Kate Lemming has been named programming director for South Florida in charge of content; previously she had been assistant managing editor for information services at the Palm Beach Post. As part of Lemming's leave-taking from the paper, Sammy Alzofon has been named library director. ... At the Boston Herald, Mary Helen Gillespie has been named vice president and executive editor of Jobfind, the Herald's on-line service; previously she had been assistant managing editor of the paper. ...

    Vendor victories: At Advanced Technical Solutions Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., Sandra Kynes has been named marketing communications manager; previously Kynes held a similar position with Cascade Systems Inc. of Andover, Mass., and in a previous life had been a project manager at ATS. ... At Autologic Information International Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., President Alden Edwards has resigned to "move on to new challenges." Edwards, who had been president of Information International Inc. before its 1996 merger with Autologic and before that was president of System Integrators and vice president of Atex, will remain on the AII board of directors. Taking Edwards' place: Dennis Doolittle, AII's vice chairman and chief operating officer, and the longtime head of Autologic. ... At FutureTense Inc. of Acton, Mass., Ronald Matros has been named president and chief executive officer; previously Matros was executive vice president and chief operating officer at WSI Corp. in Billerica, Mass., and before that held several management positions at Atex Publishing Systems Corp., including vice president and general manager of the commercial publishing division. ... At InfiNet of Norfolk, Va., Robert Gilbert has been named chief executive officer; previously Gilbert had been executive vice president of the newspaper on-line company and before that had been an executive with Knight-Ridder (a partner in InfiNet), including editing and systems jobs at the Miami Herald. ... MediaStream Inc. of Philadelphia and Reston, Va., has announced three appointments: Hal Cohen, director of technology, was promoted to president and chief executive officer, replacing Rich Cates, who is leaving the company; Joe DiMarino, vice president of sales and marketing, was promoted to executive vice president of MediaStream, and Julio Pinera, senior financial analyst on Knight-Ridder's corporate financial staff in Miami, was appointed chief financial officer of MediaStream. ... At Mission Critical Technologies Inc. of Concord, Mass., John Lagasse has been named a support engineer; previously he was with Elpakco Electronics. Also at MCT, Marie Strandberg has been named a support engineer; she had worked at MCT in 1994, leaving to finish her college degree. ...

    Confabs: The Society of Newspaper Design Quick Course visits a handful of cities over the next few months, including Eugene, Ore., on April 7; Austin, Texas, on April 12; Evanston, Ill., on April 14; Lexington, Ky., on April 30; San Juan, P.R., on May 2-3; St. Petersburg, Fla., on May 5; Baltimore on June 7, and Albany, N.Y., on June 9. In addition, most meetings have a Mac Lab the day before. The organization also is sponsoring its Selling by Design seminars for advertising design, in Madison, Wis., on April 11 and in St. Petersburg on May 6. For more information on any of these sessions, point your browser at http://www.snd.org/ or call (401) 276-2100. ... Search '97, sponsored by Verity Inc., is April 6-9 at the Hyatt Regency at San Francisco Airport. Speakers include Philippe Courtot, Verity chairman and CEO; David Coursey, editor and publisher of coursey.com; John Kunz of Adobe Systems, and Judy Jalbert of Lotus Development Corp. To satisfy your search for details, call (408) 399-4338 or go to http://www.verity.com/Search97/. ... Folio:West, the conference and trade show for magazine publishers, is April 9-10 in Los Angeles. For more information, call (203) 358-3751. ... Modern Newspaper Archives, a seminar sponsored by IFRA, will be held April 22-23 in Barcelona, Spain. Sessions will cover text and photo archives, and editorial and advertising systems. For more information, call {011} (49) 6151-733 6 or send e-mail to 100632.2116@compuserve.com. ... #

    From THE COLE PAPERS, April 1997, Copyright © 1997, All Rights Reserved.

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