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President to Nominate Bob Tapella to be Public Printer

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

In an announcement from the White House today: The President intends to nominate Robert Charles Tapella, of Virginia, to be the Public Printer. Mr. Tapella currently serves as Chief of Staff of the United States Government Printing Office. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the United ...

Webinar: Profitably Implementing Value-Added Services

Monday, May 21st, 2007

On Wednesday, there will be a free webinar (thanks to Printable for their sponsorship): Profitably Implementing Value-Added Services The one hour event will will describe the various options and alternatives for leveraging hosted services, often called Application Service Providers (ASPs) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Barb Pellow will host and ...

Fundraising Success Magazine Highlights pURLs

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

An article in Fundraising Magazine by Christen Gruebel introduces their readers to personalized URLs. It's a basic read for those more familiar, but a good overview for those who are not. The takeaway for me: According to Bill Schick, principal at full-service integrated marketing agency Bill Schick Design, this ...

Dvorak on Murdoch and New Media

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

He gets it. He really gets it. That's John Dvorak's claim over at pcmag.com. But can Rupert save newspapers?: He may actually see the trends in the newspaper business and be the only one capable of correcting the spiral dive now being experienced by many dailies. At least ...

Postal Rates and Reform - the Experts Offer Solutions

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Yesterday's webinar at WhatTheyThink on postal rates and reform drew over 500 registrations and was a very active discussion of the topic. I know because I fielded the question emails and was flat busy for over half the webinar with just that! I encourage everyone to connect with the archive ...

Transcontinental’s Desjardins: The Myth of an Endangered Industry

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

You may have noticed this at WTT earlier in the week: Transcontinental CEO addresses the Web Offset Association I wanted to point you to the full text of the speech as well, and point specifically to this part: a new technology does not make the previous ones disappear: radio did not eliminate newspapers, ...

Record Number of Visitors to Newspaper Web Sites in First Quarter

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

(via MediaPost) According to custom analysis by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America, more than 59 million people (37.6 percent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper Web sites during the first quarter of 2007, a record number that represents a 5.3 percent increase over the same period a ...

April Fools: A WhatTheyThink Tradition

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Sadly, April 1st fell on a Sunday this time around so we weren't able to get you. It fell on a Saturday last year! Trust me, we enjoy getting you. Since we decided to do an April Fools edition in 2003, our writers have had a ton ...

Tonejet to launch next-generation digital printing process

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Tonejet, a developer of digital printing process based in the UK and a part of TTP Group, has announced that its next-generation digital printing process is soon to be launched into the market.Tonejet will initially be targeting its patented technology at the industrial and commercial printing industries to offer a ...

Print of a Printer

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Thanks to Historial Print Shop (www.historicalprintshop.com), you can now get that classic historial print you've always wanted. Maybe it's a portrait of Johann Gutenberg, his print shop, or possibly even a print of a Renaissance Book-Wheel - some say a precursor to today's hypertext. From the web site: We are ...