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National Editorial Conference

Sessions, speakers announced

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Conference devoted to print and digital, including exclusive how-to sessions on the Magazines and Web Site of the Year

One can’t get away from the hue and cry these days about job satisfaction, leadership, and job training. Many print and digital publications are talking about it. Even our keynote speaker, B2B blogger Paul Conley, has been at the center of the job training issue.

ASBPE’s National Editorial Conference, July 24–25 in Kansas City, will address these issues with networking and interactive, how-to sessions to help editors juggle their increasing print and digital responsibilities.

As we have done previously, the conference will be broken up into a digital day on July 24 and a print day on July 25.

Interactivity is being designed into many sessions. During the “Art of the Interview” session, a Kansas City Star reporter will conduct a mock interview; during the “Rebuilding Poorly Written Articles from Industry Experts” session, two editors will show how they have reworked an article.

Editors can also network with colleagues at special-topic roundtable discussions during one of the luncheons.

Here is a sampling of what to expect from the conference at the Intercontinental Hotel on the Country Club Plaza.

Keynote
Paul Conley, a B2B media consultant and blogger, on:

  • Web-first publishing: Getting a news story online as soon as possible.
  • Journalism: Web and print ethics.
  • Service journalism for the Web.
  • Training staff in multimedia.

Editorial Multi-Tasking in the Digital Age
John Frank, managing editor, Realtor
Bob MacArthur, senior vice president, Penton Media
Katy Tomasulo, deputy editor, Building Products, EcoHome, and ebuild.com

  • Staffing your publication for print and Web.
  • Handling quality-control issues.
  • Getting more done with fewer resources.

How to do a podcast
Craig Erpelding, community manager for Reel-Exchange.com and special projects editor, Digital Content Producer, Millimeter, and Sound & Video Contractor

How to do video
Brad Erpelding, senior online audience development manager, Penton Media

Web home page critiques
Jason Scott, co-owner of Di Interactive, a Kansas City Web development firm.

Case Studies:
ASBPE Magazines and Web Site of the Year, and Multi-Platform

Editorial leadership
The results of exclusive research by Heather Onorati, managing editor, Dermatology Times, Advanstar, cosponsored by ASBPE

Roundtable discussions
Informal discussions on topics such as editorial leadership and working with small staffs

The emerging international B2B press
Natalia Thomson, managing editor, NOW Media
Louise Marsland, editor, Bizcommunity.com, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Paul Heney, president of Trade, Association and Business Publications International

  • International market for English-language B2B publications.
  • How the mobile revolution affects B2B internationally.
  • Working with publishers in other countries.
  • Creating e-newsletters in other languages.

The Art of the Interview
Mike McGraw, reporter, The Kansas City Star

  • Probing, asking tough questions.
  • When to ask open-ended and closed-ended questions.
  • Getting information from e-mail, instant messaging, face-to-face, and phone interviews.
  • Doing background research.
  • Recording interviews, the law; taking notes.
  • Getting the interview, making the interviewee comfortable.
  • What to ask for business/trade magazine readers.

Rebuilding Poorly Written Articles from Industry Experts
Rob Freedman, senior editor, Realtor
Ellen Parson, senior managing editor, Electrical Construction and Maintenance

  • How to root out self promotion when industry professionals write articles.
  • Ways to transform a poorly written article into a readable and usable story.
  • How to work with industry experts to help them to turn in more effective articles.
  • How to edit a technical article without losing its meaning.

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