Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Yesterday's post, e-LYNXX Patent – What’s Next?, generated a lot of interest, a number of comments, and a several phone calls. In response, e-LYNXX Director of Communications, Joe Patterson, sent a number of points of clarification. He also provided a summary of the patent as a small PDF for those ...Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Google is hosting an image archive of LIFE photos: Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. More at the Google Blog. Some great historical ...Monday, November 17th, 2008
I had first started working with TrendWatch (later TrendWatch Graphic Arts, even later The Industry Measure, and now just late) back in 1999, even before its acquisition by That Which Shall Remain Nameless, and one of the first projects I had worked on was a 2000 forecast of the graphic ...Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A new video by Kodak's Graphic Communications Group and the Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF): A new video entitled The Pathway to Prosperity, Choosing a Career in the Graphic Communication Industry, designed to promote the advantages of a career in the field, features Ben Franklin (played by well known Franklin ...Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
PIA/GATF Government Affairs is soliciting feedback to help shape its advocacy agenda for the 111th Congress: In advance of the 111th Congress, PIA anticipates much legislative activity in the following policy areas: employment benefits and labor policy, tax policy, environmental policy and postal policy. As such, we hope you will share ...Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has article in their European edition on the state of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The article sums up what most of us in the industry already know, but does provide some insight into the strategy the company is using to offset the effects of the global economic ...Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Here's the text of a thread we've started in The Lounge at PrintPlanet. We'd love to get your input there or in responses to this post. Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most ...Monday, September 22nd, 2008
My recent post on The Recruitment Crisis sparked some good discussion on the topic. Dr Joe Webb points to the numbers and say there is no crisis, "There is no recruiting crisis, and why the myth persists is beyond me. Just look at the payroll data and the wages. If there ...Sunday, September 7th, 2008
The Small Business Times has report on declining employment numbers within the printing industry in Wisconsin. The industry has lost about 5,000 jobs since it peaked in 1999 at 39,444 people. The report touches on many of the factors printers across the US are dealing with: difficulty finding employees interested in ...Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
AdvertisingAge has published the Pay Packages For Trade Association Leaders in its DataCenter. Here's the data for the Printing Industry related associations: COMPENSATION ($1000s) NOT-FOR-PROFIT GROUPEXECUTIVETITLEBASIC COMP.OTHERTOTALGROUP'S REVENUE ($ MILLION) Newspaper Association of America John F. Sturmpres-CEO9291611,09031.7 Magazine Publishers of AmericaNina B. Linkpres-CEO6697274116.8 Printing Industries of AmericaMichael Makinpres-CEO295433387.7 The data comes from a Ad ...
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