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New media mavens: At the Baltimore Sun's SunSpot web site, Bill Yoegel has been named director of interactive sales; previously, Yoegle was on-line sales manager and has worked for the paper since 1992. Also at SunSpot, Tim Windsor has been named director of product development and marketing; Windsor was part of the SunSpot launch team in 1996 and has served as Web production manager and executive producer. ... At Cox Interactive Media of Atlanta, Khadeeja Sherrell has been named director of human resources; with the company for less than a year, Sherrell previously was in human resources at Otis Elevator in New York. ...

Vendor victuals: At Digital Art Exchange of Boston, Ryan McIntyre has been named manager of business development; previously, McIntyre was with MCI WorldCom. ... At Geac Publishing Systems of Tampa, Fla., Billie Smith has been named U.S. operations manager; previously, Smith was the publisher of the Aberdeen (S.D.) American News and had been in the technology department of Knight Ridder corporate. In an earlier life, Smith was the information systems director at the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. ... At Harris Publishing Systems of Melbourne, Fla. and Baseview Products of Ann Arbor, Mich., John MacEwen has been named vice president of sales. Previously, MacEwen was national sales director for Baseview, and had owned his own pre-press service bureau. Sometime in the deep, dark past, MacEwen was also a Baseview assistant editorial product manager. ... At I.M.A.G.E. Inc. of New York City, John Hoover has been named director of financial services; previously, Hoover worked as a consultant. ... At OpenPages Inc. of Westford, Mass., Mark Hardardt has been named vice president of worldwide sales; previously, he was vice president of sales for the North American market at Lotus Development Corp. and was with CommVault Systems, Chase Manhattan and IBM. Also at OpenPages, Craig Muzilla has been named vice president of marketing; previously, he was with Bowstreet.com, InStream Corp., Samsung Electronics, Lotus Development Corp. and Eastman Kodak. Lastly at OpenPages, Scott Sullivan has been named vice president of professional services; previously, he was with Data General Corp., RenderView Software and Coopers & Lybrand. ... At Software Consulting Services of Nazareth, Pa., William Bader has been named director of research and development, a new position; Bader has been with the company for 18 years. ... At Vio Worldwide Ltd. of Watford, Herts, United Kingdom, Ian Ehrenberg has been named chief executive officer of Vio North America LLC; previously, Ehrenberg was vice president of sales and marketing for Scitex America and worked for Scitex for 13 years. In an earlier life, Ehrenberg was with Quantel, Dainippon Screen and Sun Chemical. Also at Vio, Miranda Clegg (formerly Tivey) has been named managing director and chief marketing officer. The company's founding marketing director, Clegg spent 14 years with Crosfield Electronics and Fujifilm Electronic Imaging. Another new appointment at Vio is James Gregory, who has been named chief operating officer in addition to his job as director of finance; previously, he was with BT Global Communications, Cable & Wireless, Coopers & Lybrand and the National Westminster Bank. Lastly at Vio, Flemming Rasmussen has been named director of sales and customer support; previously, he was with Heidelberg Asia Pacific. ...

Confabs: The Digital Ad Lab will be June 13 in Boston; the meeting is sponsored by the Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publication Association. For more information, send e-mail to hanapole@shore.net. ... Macromedia Web World will be June 19-23 in Seattle. Billed as "the only conference that addresses the full spectrum of Macromedia Web tools and solutions," speakers include Roger Black of Circle.com, Author Sandee Cohen and Author Olav Martin Kvern. For more information, call (206) 285-0305 or send e-mail to tlp@thunderlizard.com. ... The Dallas Show 2000 will be June 22-24 in (where else?) Dallas. The Southwestern Graphic Arts Conference and Expo will have Graphic Arts Technical Foundation seminars as well as standard conference fare. Call (214) 630-8871 or point your browser at http://www.piatexas.org/. ... Directions 2000, the 12th annual Heidelberg Digital Imaging Association ( Hdia ) Conference & Expo is June 25-28 in Las Vegas. Speakers include Bernhard Schreier, chairman of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Author David Biedny, Writer Steve Hannaford, Consultant Hal Hinderliter, Writer Brian Lawler and Consultant and Writer Thad McIlroy. In addition, more than 40 companies will exhibit, including Apple, Adobe, Heidelberg, Presstek and WAM!Net For more information, call (518) 373-1225 or point your Web browser at http://www.hdia.org/. ... The Sports Photography Workshop will be June 25-30 in Colorado Springs, Colo. Instructors include Steve Fine, director of photography of Sports Illustrated ; Maureen Grise, associate picture editor of Sports Illustrated ; Porter Binks, associate picture editor of Sports Illustrated ; Brandon Lopez, managing editor of Allsport USA; Mike Powell, chief operating officer of Allsport; Bill Eppridge, staff photographer for Sports Illustrated ; Heinz Kluetmeier, staff photographer for Sports Illustrated ; Jim Gund, free-lance photographer; Jamie Squire, staff photographer for Allsport; Dave Black, free-lance photographer; Joey Terrill, commercial and illustrative photographer and Rich Clarkson, longtime contract photographer for Sports Illustrated. For more information call (800) 745-3211. ... The Computer-to-Plate Forum will be June 26-27 in Louisville, Ky. Sponsored by the Graphic Communications Association, for more information call (703) 519-8166 or point your Web browser at http://www.gca.org/. ... Digital Photography to Pre-press will be a Rochester Institute of Technology workshop, June 26-28 in upstate New York. For more information, call RIT at (800) 724-2536, ext. 31. ... The 31st Panpa Annual Conference & Pantech, the Panpa Newspaper Technology Expo, will be July 17-20 in Sydney, Australia. For more info, send e-mail to panpa@panpa.org.au. ... #

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