New users join APSU session

The Association of Publishing Systems Users, universally known as APSU, will hold its annual meeting Sept. 29-Oct. 3 in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

APSU brings together users of systems from a variety of suppliers, including Advanced Technical Solutions (ATS) of Wilmington, Mass., Agile Enterprise Inc. of Nashua, N.H., Atex Media Solutions Inc. of Bedford, Mass., Autologic Information International (AII) of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Unisys Publishing Systems of Blue Bell, Pa. This year, users of products from Edgil Associates Inc. of North Chelmsford, Mass., also will be represented.

Sessions include meetings with supplier representatives as well as closed-door meetings where suppliers are prohibited.

ATS session topics will include remote advertising management (AdFax, AdFast and AdsOnTime), AdVisor and MediaDesk.

Agile sessions will cover an update on the company, a bug discussion, web publishing issues, "Confessions of a pack rat" (it's about archiving), system administration tools, customization, SQL and page production issues.

Atex users will discuss Ads Online, DewarView, 50-inch web conversion, accounts receivable, the Prestige editorial front-end, support, ClassPag and Architect, SQL, Quark tips and tricks, contact management, migration, ad workflow services, editorial redesign, Enterprise, Prestige-to-Web, the J-11 Swap Meet, database recovery techniques and web success stories.

On tap for AII users will be sessions on support and customer service, RIPs, Oman, implementation schemes, Ad Manager 5, Apscom, Page Manager and Plateroom Manager.

Unisys users will hear about revenue generation, event handling, the Supervisor product, ad rating, 50-inch web conversion, advertising production direction, editorial support, report generators, editorial tips and tricks, accounts receivable, editorial features, functions and enhancements, user ideas, advertising upgrades, Internet access in the newsroom and remote access.

There will be receptions, breakfasts, lunches and a Tuesday night banquet.

Association of Publishing Systems Users, (206) 448-8078, e-mail: jimbeatty@seattle-pi.com.

-- dmc

"If you screw with a service [as opposed to a product], you're screwing with someone's property. Most people who have been doing security research for a while wouldn't have done what Brian [West] did. Most people would know that the first thing you should do is get a waiver to verify the vulnerability."
-- Elias Levy, moderator of the Bugtraq e-mail list since 1996, in a Salon.com story about West's incursion into the web site of Oklahoma's Poteau Daily News & Sun.

Bit bucket ...

New media mavens: At the San Diego Union-Tribune, Chris Jennewein has been named director of Internet operations; he will be responsible for the 70-person SignOnSanDiego.com enterprise and will serve on the paper's executive committee. For the last decade Jennewein has been with Knight Ridder of San Jose, helping with the start-up of the San Jose Mercury News' Mercury Center and eventually becoming vice president of operations at Knight Ridder Digital. Jennewein helped develop a bulletin-board system at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in the 1980s, and earlier in his career was a reporter and editor. ... At New Directions for News at the University of Minnesota, Dale Peskin has been named executive director; previously Peskin was a vice president at Belo Interactive of Dallas. In earlier lives, he had been an editor, art director and new media guru at a variety of newspapers, including the Detroit News. ...

Vendor vibrations: At CCI Europe of Denmark and Kennesaw, Ga., Glenn Reinemund has been named a sales executive; previously Reinemund was with Open Pages Inc. of Westford, Mass., and in an earlier life was in charge of international sales at System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento. ... At Graphic Enterprises Inc. of North Canton, Ohio, Les Beyeler has been named interim president and chief executive officer. Previously, Beyeler -- a 26-year veteran of the company who started out as an account representative -- had been corporate vice president and executive vice president. Beyeler replaces Richard Jusseaume, who stepped down from the presidency in May. Jusseaume remains chairman of the board. ... At Mactive Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., Don Rogers has joined the company as controller. Rogers has had a long and colorful career in publishing systems; most recently he had been general manager of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. (Hpsc) between 1997 and 2000. From 1992 to 1997, Rogers was general manager of Harris subsidiary Baseview Products Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. Earlier in his career, Rogers was a co-founder of Deucalion, a typesetting software firm, and in the 1970s was president of Computype, a publishing systems supplier. Further at Mactive, Jud Edwards has been named sales manager; previously Edwards had been with Hpsc for 12 years. Also at Mactive, four implementation specialists have been hired: George Smith, who was formerly with TAP Publishing and Hpsc; Jewel Fox, who was previously a computer specialist with The Citizen of Laconia, N.H., a Foster's Publishing Co. paper; Monte Shambaugh, who had been with Dictaphone, and Rudy Sierra, who had been with Nextel Communications. ...

Confabs: The biggest printing show is Print01, to be held Sept. 13-16 in Chicago. While there will be sessions -- Anne Mulcahy of Xerox Corp., Frank Romano of the Rochester Institute of Technology and William Davis of R.R. Donnelley & Sons will discuss the "state of the industry" for printing and graphic arts -- it will be the thousands of booths that will bring 'em in. For more information, e-mail info@gasc.org or call (703) 264-7200. ... NetWorld+Interop 2001 will be Sept. 9-14 in Atlanta. Speakers include Donald Peterson and Karyn Mashima of Avaya Communication, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Eric Schmidt and Darin Richin of Novell, David Dorman of AT&T and Nancy Li of Ican. For more information, e-mail register@key3media.com or call (781) 433-1516. ... Macromedia Web World will be Sept. 17-20 in San Francisco. Speakers will include Kevin Lynch and Jeremy Allaire of Macromedia, Jim Heid of the Los Angeles Times, Patti Schulze of Dallas' Digital Training & Designs and Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering. For the latest on Flash, call (650) 833-7100 or e-mail conferences@fawcette.com. ... Seybold San Francisco will be held Sept. 24-28 in, of all places, San Francisco. Speakers will include Juergen Kurz of Quark Inc., Mark Anderson of Strategic News Service, Bruce Chizen of Adobe Systems Inc., Dick Brass of Microsoft, Roger Fidler of Kent State University, Dave Winer of UserLand Software Inc. and Phil Schiller of Apple Computer (Steve Jobs will weigh in via satellite). In addition, there will be special daylong sessions devoted to PDF for print publishing, digital rights management, wireless, content management systems and XML in publishing. For more information call (888) 886-8895 or e-mail register@key3media.com. ... The 2001 World Forum on Newspaper Strategy will be held Sept. 27-28 in suburban Paris, France. The session is called "Convergence: Fact or Fiction?" For more information, contact the World Association of Newspapers at {011} (33-1) 47 42 85 00 or e-mail contact_us@wan.asso.fr. ... The Annual International Newspaper Group Conference will be Oct. 2-4 in Dallas; the theme of the meeting will be "Newspapers: Better/Faster/Cheaper." Sessions will include "How Does The Dallas Morning News Do It?" "How Does General Motors Do It?" "How Do Newspapers Use GE Type Process Improvement?" and "How Newspapers Did It -- 50 Proven Cost Savings Ideas." For the scoop, call (845) 735-2033 or e-mail mdonner@att.net. ... The annual convention of the Society of Professional Journalists will be Oct. 4-6 in Bellevue, Wash. Speakers will include Geneva Overholser, formerly of the Washington Post and Iowa's Des Moines Register, Eric Nalder of the San Jose Mercury News, Michael Kinsley of Microsoft's Slate, John Morton of Morton Research, Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group, Roger Oglesby, editor and publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Frank Blethen, publisher and CEO of the Seattle Times. For more information, call (317) 927-8000 or spj@spj.org. ... The Society for News Design will hold its annual meeting and conference Oct. 19-20 in Phoenix; details next time, or you may e-mail snd@snd.org, or call (407) 276-2101. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, September 2001, Copyright © 2001, All Rights Reserved.