ASBPE 2008 Northeastern Region Awards Banquet

Winners have been announced.

2008 Northeastern Region Awards of Excellence were presented July 9 at a banquet at Trattoria Dopo Teatro restaurant in Manhattan.

See a list of the winners.

National winners were announced July 24 in Kansas City as part of the ASBPE National Editorial Conference.

See who won nationally.

Previous Events

Make Your Job Indispensable:
Tales from Four ‘Survivors’

How to develop the multitasking skills you’ll need as an editor, reporter or freelancer to keep from being voted off the B2B multimedia island.

At our June 2008 event, attendees heard from four experts about the skills editors need to develop to stay relevant — and survive! They found out how:

• Today’s B2B editors are going beyond magazine editing to manage a multimedia platform including print, web news, metrics, e-newsletters, live events, webinars and other “franchise” products.
• Enterprising freelance editors and writers are enhancing their multimedia skills and nabbing opportunities to do online slide shows, podcasts, video, blogs, and more.
• B2B editors can manage their time more efficiently and balance priorities using quantitative analysis techniques in an environment where they must increasingly multitask.
• Publishers can develop in-house training programs to provide B2B editors and freelancers with the expertise they need in a Web 2.0 world.

Get Social (Media, That Is)

From online communities to social networks to virtual worlds, learn how to harness the power of social media.

At our March 2008 event, we explored how to extend an editorial brand into the world of Web 2.0. A panel of digital content experts who have successfully integrated social media into their publications’ reader-engagement activities explained how to

• build reader interaction and grow circulation.
• facilitate networking among peers and aid readers' professional development.
• recharge existing e-products and print products.
• track trends in social media and stay ahead of the curve.
• plan, launch, and integrate social media into editorial plans and reader-interaction strategies.

Dare to Be Digital: Part II

Attendees learned how B2B publishers are gaining a competitive edge by digitizing their print publications.

At our November 2007 event, we explored ways to extend editorial brands into the digital realm. A panel revealed how each successfully launched digital magazines to supplement or replace their print products. Afterward, we met representatives of top industry vendors and saw firsthand how their software worked.

Attendees found out how to:

• find the right fit for a digital magazine within overall content strategy.
• harness the latest software to retain the tactile experience of a print publication while allowing for innovative packaging and presentation.
• incorporate a range of functionality, including media sharing, archiving, widgets, links, blogs, and personal pages into digital publications.
• select the best vendors to meet their needs.
• launch their own digital publications — and get a leg up on the competition.

Spreadsheeting Your Way to a Scoop

At our first-ever webinar, editors learned how Excel tools can improve your financial reporting. Missed it? Purchase a CD.

Stock analysts do it…so can you! From calculating profit margin and earnings per share to graphing P/E ratio, you can learn how to use Excel’s powerful number-crunching capabilities to get the news behind the financial statements at the companies you cover.

ASBPE’s first webinar helped writers extend their reportorial savvy into the world of company financial statements. If you missed it, don’t worry — you can order a copy on CD. Learn about Excel tools that top-tier investigative journalists use to enhance the breadth and depth of their financial reporting, uncover hidden problems in company performance, estimate market share — and beat the competition in disclosing the next corporate scandal. To purchase a copy, contact us at info@asbpe.org.

What You’ll Learn from the CD

• What the key business indicators are and how to analyze them when reviewing firm performance;
• How to use Excel spreadsheets to calculate key business indicators such as profit margin, earnings per share, price-earnings (PE) ratio and market value; and
• How to convey to your audience the significance of these indicators as you report on financial issues.

Watch this site for exact dates on upcoming seminars.

Read a recap of the Dec. 14 seminar.

Chapter Discussion Group

All editors and writers, particularly those based in the New York area, are invited to join the chapter’s discussion group, hosted by Yahoo. The group’s home page is groups.yahoo.com/group/NY-ASBPE. Forums like these are great opportunities to network and share ideas with your peers.

Past Chapter Events

• Readers, circulation, and audience development
  Today readers have more media options available to them than ever before. Attendees learned strategies to capture — and keep — readership.
• Award-winning journalism: Reporting the story that gets recognized
  What are the elements that make a story exceptional? And once you've taken the top prize, where do you go from there? Winners of several prestigious journalism contests told the answers.
• Surviving in today’s tough B2B editorial environment
  Editorial consultant outlines how editors can add value for their publishers.

New York Chapter Officers

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