Poynter pointers

The Poynter Institute of St. Petersburg, Fla., is sponsoring a five-day seminar on on-line design, to be held Oct. 4-9.

The session will be limited to 12 participants and will be taught by Poynter faculty members Mario Garcia, Pegie Stark Adam and Ron Reason.

Also teaching will be visiting professional Andrew DeVigal and "guest experts," among them Ty Ahmad-Taylor, the creative director of the @Home Network, and Mark Holmes, editor-in-chief of nationalgeographic.com.

Instructors will demonstrate successful techniques for organizing information as well as using type, color and architecture on the World-Wide Web. The session will utilize the Poynter Macintosh laboratory and will feature full critiques of the participants' web sites.

Deadline for applications is Aug. 1.

For more information, contact Jennette Smith at (813) 821-9400, ext. 300, or send e-mail to jnette@poynter.org.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"The battery dies in the year 2000."
-- Adobe Business Development Manager Gary Cosimini and Acrobat demo-er extraordinare, on giving away a watch won in an after-demo raffle.

Names in the news: At the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Ernie Kuenzli has been named director of technology and systems. Previously Kuenzli was the paper's manager of technology. ... At the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., Garth Hospers has been named operations director; previously Hospers was production director at the Monterey County Herald in California and before that he was with The Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minn. ... At Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. of Columbia, Mo., Len Bruzzese has been named deputy director. Previously, Bruzzese was editor of The Olympian in Olympia, Wash., and also has served as a reporter or editor at The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., USA Today, Gannett News Service and the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal. ...

Vendor victories: At CareerPath.com of Los Angeles, Anne Gregor has been named to the newly created post of managing editor. Previously, Gregor had been with CareerExperience.com, a New-York based Internet company, where she served as producer and lead writer. Concurrent with that position, Gregor also held the position of contributing editor for technology at Child Magazine in New York and wrote for the magazine's Parents.com web site. ... At Getty Images Plc. of London, George Sinclair has been named vice president of asset management. Sinclair has had a long and colorful career in the publishing systems industry. Most recently he was with Integrated Pre-Press Solutions Ltd. and before that had been with Parascan Technologies, Sinclair Communications, Muirhead, Crosfield, Hell, Atex and Monotype. ... At Management Process Integrators Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., Norman Guadagno has been named vice president, marketing and business unit manager to head the JobChooser program. Previously Guadagno had been senior director of marketing for Internet products at Oracle Corp. and also held senior positions at Internet Profiles (I/PRO) and GO Corp. ... At Media Passage Inc. of Seattle, Robin Ingle has been promoted to vice president, national sales manager; in this job she will manage the company's sales team and will be based out of the New York office. Previously she was the director of display advertising at the Chicago Sun-Times . ... At Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., Greg Reynolds has been named sales executive for the Midwestern district. Previously Reynolds was the Midwest sales manager for Raster Graphics and also had worked for Screen and Hell/Linotype. ... At System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, Gregory Rotelli has been named to the new position of vice president of marketing worldwide; previously Rotelli was a founder of ClassiFind Network, and before that, was with Politizen.com, an Internet content and political e-mail communications site. ... Also at SII, Mike Lee has been named executive vice president of worldwide sales. Lee will continue to be the president of European operations for the company, but will "coordinate global services." ... At Thomson Technology Services Group of Rockville, Md., David Lipsey has been named sales executive for the Thomson Editorial Asset Management Solutions product; previously Lipsey was an executive with Publishing Business Systems and before that, Data Sciences. ... Tribune Media Services of Chicago reports promotions and hires aplenty. Fred Schecker has been named creative director for syndicate news and features; previously Schecker was executive producer for TMS's Tribune Interactive division (which is now a separate company) and before that was managing editor for electronic media at the Kansas City Star. Jay Fehnel has been named director of business development; previously he was general manager of the electronic services department and before that had worked in marketing for NBC and the Walt Disney Co. Jay Brodsky has been named director of technology; previously he had served as product manager for web syndication at TMS, technology development manager at Tribune Interactive and TMS, and technology and operations coordinator for TMS' Voice News Network. Before those stints, Brodsky had been with the The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Barbara Bradley has been named Southeast account executive for news, features and KRT; previously she was a sales account manager at the Chicago Sun-Times . Rhonda McClintock has been named Western account executive for news, features and KRT. McClintock previously had been an account representative for the Detroit Newspaper Agency and before that had worked at the Los Angeles Times and the Arizona Republic in Phoenix. ...

Confabs: Siggraph '98, the 25th annual conference on computer graphics and interaction, will be July 19-24 in Orlando (ugh). Speakers and panelists include representatives from Alias | Wavefront, Artificial Reality Corp., Digital Domain, DreamWorks Animation, Hasbro Interactive, Industrial Light & Magic, Intel Corp., Interval Research Corp., Microsoft Corp., MIT Media Lab, Pacific Data Images, Rhythm & Hues, Sony Development, Tippett Studio, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Imagineering and Xerox Parc. The keynote speaker is Jim Blinn, graphics fellow at Microsoft Research. For more information, call (312) 321-6830 or send e-mail to siggraph98@siggraph.org. ... The Online Directories & City Guides Conference will be July 22-24 in Boston. Speakers will include Charles Conn of CitySearch, Jonathan Glick of New York Times Electronic Media, Cella Irvine of Microsoft Sidewalk, Michael Moran of KOZ Inc., Dave Morgan of RealMedia and Marc Teren of WashingtonPost.com. For more information, call (609) 921-7200 or send e-mail to tkg@kelseygroup.com. ... The North Carolina Press Association's annual meeting will be July 23-26 in Chapel Hill. For more information, call (919) 787-7443 or e-mail ncpateri@aol.com. ... The National Center for Database Marketing will hold its 21st national conference and exhibition July 29-31 in Seattle. Keynote speakers include Walter Forbes of the Cendant Corp., Regis McKenna of the McKenna Group and David Weisman of Forrester Research Inc. For more information, call (203) 358-3751. ... An Snpa Foundation Seminar, "Classified Advertising: The Year 2000 and Beyond," will be held Aug. 2-5 in Baton Rouge, La. Speakers will include Bill Horton, formerly of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, Jim McNelly of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Free Press, Steve Stocks of the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate, Jim Hollenbeck of the Huntsville (Ala.) Times and Beth Wardlaw of the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. For more information, call (404) 256-0444. ...

Errors & Omissions: In last issue's NEXPO preview, we inadvertently stated that West Coast Computer Systems' WinCMS "looks remarkably like the old Classified Management System sold by DEC in the '70s and '80s." This is not true; WinCMS has a thoroughly '90s look-and-feel. The Cole Papers regrets the error. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, July 1998, Copyright © 1998, All Rights Reserved.