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Cole co-sponsors new media seminarA day-long seminar devoted to new technologies for newspapers, co-sponsored by The Cole Papers, will be held this fall in conjunction with Seybold San Francisco. The Newspaper & New Media Seminar will be Monday, Sept. 29. The main Seybold conference starts on Tuesday, Sept. 30, and the trade show opens Wednesday, Oct. 1. At the Cole/Seybold Seminars' session, newspaper executives will learn how to use new techniques to publish better print products and how to make new media projects more profitable. Preliminary seminar topics include:
The sessions will be moderated by the editor and publisher of The Cole Papers, who is a Seybold Fellow. The Cole Papers is a Seybold Affiliate. Seybold Seminars is part of the Softbank Exposition and Conference Co. To get the current agenda for the Newspaper & New Media Seminar, write Seybold Seminars, Softbank Expos, 303 Vintage Park Drive, Foster City, Calif. 94404, or visit the web site at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/ or http://colegroup.com/. Seybold Seminars, (800) 488-2883. -- dmc Some things you should know(The following is reprinted from the July 1991 issue of The Cole Papers, which was the first paid issue.) In a scene early in The Greatest Movie Ever Made (Citizen Kane), neophyte publisher Charles Foster Kane (portrayed by Orson Welles) earnestly scribbles down a statement of principles for his newspaper. Neither scribbled in crayon nor remotely resembling a statement of principles -- and destined never to see a hot-lead composing room -- here are a few things about The Cole Papers I think you should know:
In the end, Charles Foster Kane proved something of a rogue. I intend no such role for myself. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I see that the principle thing I have in common with him is girth. But, to quote an infamous UPI story, "now you know." -- dmc Bit bucket ..."We always end up at these shows with at least one engineer under the table." -- A marketing drone from Cybergraphic, the last time NEXPO was in New Orleans, 1993. New media mavens: Excite Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., reports a number of changes, including the departures of Managing Editor Betsy Richter and Assistant Managing Editor Leah Gentry. Also at Excite, moving from editorial to marketing is legendary newspaper editor Jim Bellows (New York Herald-Tribune, Washington Star, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner). ... Real bits: At Times Mirror Eastern Newspapers (Long Island's Newsday, The Sun of Baltimore, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., The Advocate and Greenwich Time in Southern Connecticut), Robert Zikias has been named general manager of CoOpportunity Center, which has been designed to study and oversee technology and systems used to handle various financial and benefits administration processes for these newspapers; previously Zikias was chief financial officer at The Advocate and Greenwich Time. ... At The Sun of Baltimore, Charles Fertig has been named publishing systems manager; he was previously the pre-press superintendent at the News-Press in St. Joseph, Mo. ... At Ottaway Newspapers of Campbell Hall, N.Y., Ronald Regan has been named vice president of information services; previously he was a consultant. ... At the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Russell Leseberg has resigned as data services director; he plans to return to consulting. ... Vendor visuals: At AdOne Classified Network of New York, a bunch of new hires: Isaac Sacolick (director of software development), Alex Ravvin (senior software developer), Colin Rand (software developer), Matt Hennessy (system administrator), Jason Robinette (web services manager) and Beth Modlin (manager of administration and human resources). ... At Advanced Technical Solutions Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., Joanne Rennie Angell has been named training programs manager; previously she had been with Sun Microsystems. ... At Autologic Information International Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., Al Brunner has been named vice president for Americas operations; previously he had been director of commercial sales. Also at AII, James Hanger has been named vice president of sales administration; previously he had been vice president of business development. ... At Bitstream Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., Charles Ying has been named chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Ying, a co-founder of Atex, most recently was the chairman and chief executive officer of Information International Inc., before it was merged with Autologic. ... At CText Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., Anthony Peri has been named president and chief operating officer; most recently Peri had been general manager of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. of Melbourne, Fla. Also at CText, Michael Pearson, the chief information officer of Blade Communications Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been named to the board of directors. ... At Freedom System Integrators Inc. of Wichita, Kan., Ed Slattery has been named vice president of sales; previously Slattery was director of sales at Publishing Partners International. ... At ECRM of Tewksbury, Mass., Gil Green has been named western regional account representative, based in Los Angeles; previously Green had been with Polychrome. Also at ECRM, Gregory Paterson has been named Canadian account representative; previously he was with Ilford Anitec Canada Ltd. ... At Optronics International Corp. of Chelmsford, Mass., Jeffrey Rapson has been named director of sales for the Americas; previously Rapson was president and COO of Highwater Designs Inc. of Salem, N.H. ... At Printware Inc. of St. Paul, Minn., Timothy Murphy has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing; previously he had been director of sales and marketing. ... At Tribune Media Services of Chicago, Donald Kraska has been named vice president of finance and syndicate operations; most recently he had been director of finance. He has been with the Tribune Co. since 1986. ... Confabs: Mactivity, the conference for Macintosh managers and webmasters, is June 15-20 in Santa Clara, Calif. Speakers include Marc Andreesen of Netscape, Don Crabb of Macweek and author Danny Goodman. For the details, point your browser at http://www.mactivity.com/ or call (408) 354-2500. ... WebInnovation, a conference about the World-Wide Web, will be June 17-19 in San Jose, Calif. Speakers include Simson Garfinkel of Wired, Dan Shafer formerly of Salon Internet, John Duhring formerly of Wais and Roger Fidler, currently of Kent State University but formerly of Knight-Ridder New Media Lab. For the webinformation, call (415) 372-7074 or browse to http://www.webinn.com/. ... "Everything you need to know about Asynchronous Transfer Mode" is the kicker for ATM Year 97, June 23-27 in San Jose, Calif. Speakers include a bunch of people you've never heard of, but Scott Adams ("Dilbert") will make a "special presentation." For information, call (310) 394-8305 or send e-mail to custserv@tticom.com. ... Connections '97, the Newspaper Association of America's annual new media conference, is July 18-20 in San Francisco. Speakers include Lawrence Ellison of Oracle, Anthony Ridder of Knight-Ridder, Pattie Maes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab and John Seely Brown of Xerox Corp. For registration details, call (703) 902-1950. ... Errors & Omissions: In last issue's coverage of Seybold New York, we misspelled the name of the founder of Marimba Inc.; correctly, it is Kim Polese. Also, in last issue's Bucket we got Richard Norbraten's title wrong at the New York Times; he is staff assistant in the newsroom technology office. We regret the errors. ... # From THE COLE PAPERS, June 1997, Copyright (c) 1997, All Rights Reserved. |
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