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Because some 90% of attendees could not get to Montana when their flights
were cancelled at the last moment, this conference had to be canceled.
Several people jumped in their cars and drove, only to learn of the
cancellation upon arrival. Others found themselves stuck at various
locations, unable to complete their flights. IRMA appreciates this loyalty
and commends the efforts of all these people. Just as appreciated are the
tremendous efforts of our wonderful host, Montana Magazine.
Our president and conference host arranged an emergency conference
telephone meeting of the Board of Directors during which the Board decided
to hold next year's 2002 conference in Montana. The planned conference in
Virginia will be postponed until the following year: 2003.
Even though next year's conference agenda is likely to change, the 2001
conference program remains here to provide an idea of what may be offered
next year. |
2001 Annual Conference
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September 15-19, 2001
Montana Magazine, Host
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Everybody was
there…come from everywhere for the purpose of learning something…and
for the further purpose of having a good time.
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For this was a
convention, the autochthonous folk festival of the Americans that is part
professional forum and exchange, part vacation, and part debauch.
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--Bernard
DeVoto |
Contents
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Optional Before
and After Conference Events
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Conference Program
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Things You Need to
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Guest Speakers
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IRMA Round-table
Organizers |
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Thank You, Sponsors
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Optional Before and After
Conference Events
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Extend your fun with one of the three pre- and post-conference adventures
recommended by Montana Magazine. By choosing one of these, you can
stretch your conference experience for the same flight time and cost that you've
already spent. Be sure to make your reservations by filling out the Individual
Preferences Form. |
1. Guest Ranch Adventure
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Treat yourself to daily horseback riding, a birding afternoon, trout
fishing, wildlife viewing, hot tub soaking, swimming, photographic
opportunities, and hiking in one of Montana's most pristine high-mountain
valleys, a true Rocky Mountain gem that few know about and at a price that is
unbelievably low. Meals, local shuttle transportation, and three night's lodging
are included.
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Before-conference Dates:
September 11-15.
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After-conference Dates:
September 20-24.
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Cost:
$300 per person (with shared rooms).
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2. Fly-fishing Trip
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When you're in the land of milk and honey--in this case, fly-fishing
heaven--seize the opportunity. This adventure includes expert guided
fly-fishing, wildlife viewing, SUV rental, three breakfasts, and lodging. IRMA
anglers will share a guide and a sleeping room with two beds for three nights
Here are two days of fishing--one with a fishing guide and the second day
fishing on your own.
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Before-conference Dates:
September 12-15.
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Cost:
$475 per person with double occupancy or
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$950 per person with single occupancy and your own private
fishing guide.
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$325 additional for a guide and boat the second day.
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3. Glacier National Park and Lewis & Clark Adventure
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Travel on your own or with a fellow IRMA member in an included SUV. This
experience includes an SUV rental, three nights lodging, wildlife viewing, four
breakfasts, and lodgings.
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After-conference Dates:
September 20-23.
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Cost:
$315 per person with double occupancy or $630 per person with single occupancy.
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Conference Program
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Friday, September 14
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All Day
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Arrivals & Check-In for Board of Directors & Presidents
Council
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Place: Conference Center |
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Saturday, September 15
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All Day |
Arrivals & Check-In/Registration |
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Place: Conference Center |
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9:00 a.m.
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Board of Directors & Presidents Council Meeting
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Place: The Wine Cellar
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4:00 p.m.
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Hospitality Suite Open (until 1:30 a.m.)
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Place: The Broderick Room
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6:00 p.m.
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Dinner
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Place: The Knowles Room
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9:00 p.m.
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Live band
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Place: Chico Saloon
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Sunday, September 16
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8:30 a.m.
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Welcome and General Orientation
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Targeted to: Everyone
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9:15 a.m.
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Session: Around the World (Wide Web)
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: Constructive critique of sampler of IRMA Web sites. Emphasis
on leveraging your on-line presence and improving presentation.
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Targeted to: Everyone
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10:00 a.m.
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Hospitality Suite Open (until 1:30 a.m.)
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Place: The Broderick Room
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10:30 a.m.
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Free Time
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Optional Activities: Church, horseback riding, fishing, unpacking,
mountain-gazing, floating in hot springs pool, massage.
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12:00 p.m.
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Lunch
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Place: Chico Dining Room
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1:00 p.m.
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Concurrent Sessions (See Sessions A, B & C, next)
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Session A: Defining the Empire
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Place: The Board Room
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Description: Valuing your business, private or state-owned. Nuts-n-bolts
of positioning your magazine for sale or merger or justifying its existence to
the governor; acquisition of new magazines; key questions; timelines; process
involved in arriving at a successful transaction.
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Targeted to: Publisher staff, Financial staff
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Session B: 2C or Not 2C: Clarity and Consistency
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Place: The Knowles
Room
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Description: Page layout for consistency, type, color, and image
scanning. Pacing and spacing, eliminating visual jams. Separation of ads from
editorial. Image size, color use, why you place photos and where.
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Targeted to: Design staff
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Session C: Demystifying the Production Puzzle
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Place: Townsend Hall
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Description: For advertising and other staff who haven't been directly
involved in production but need to know more about how it works. Magazine
production, start to finish: the jargon, the processes, the essentials for
speaking knowledgeably to your advertisers and getting the right materials the
first time. Hands-on knowledge guaranteed to make your relationship with the
production staff much happier.
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Targeted to: Advertising staff, any new staffers
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2:15 p.m.
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Break
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2:30 p.m. |
Concurrent
Sessions (See Session A & B, next)
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Session A: Go with the (Work) Flow
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: Printers are gearing up to have everyone Computer-to-Plate
(CTP) within five years. Step-by-step, planned conversion to CTP targeted to
each department. Staffing, techniques, negotiating costs. Ad traffic and
production consequences of digital ad submissions. Setting file specs. Proofing,
pre-flighting, and quality control. What to keep in-house and what to outsource.
Negotiating CTP time savings with your printer. Evaluating Digital Media
Management systems.
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Targeted to: Production staff, Editorial staff, Design staff, Advertising
staff
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Session B: Bypassing the Post Office
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Place: Townsend Hall
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Description: Postage rates are a major cost in circulation promotion and
one that's out of your control. Can on-line promotions help? In this session,
we'll discuss the web and e-mail for new business promotion, renewals, and
billing. We'll cover strategy and planning, privacy and security, creative,
logistics and execution, analysis and response rates vs. traditional efforts.
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Targeted to: Circulation staff
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3:45 p.m.
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Break
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4:00 p.m.
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Session: Five Things I Hate About Surveys
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: Why should I spend hard-earned revenue on research? And what
the heck do all these numbers mean? Forms and formats of conducting research,
from traditional written surveys to on-line surveying. Top five pieces of
information you should acquire from your readers. How the research can be used
by each department: increase ad sales revenue, increase circulation/newsstand
revenue, gain insight for editorial ideas, target your marketing efforts.
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Targeted to: Everyone
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5:15 p.m.
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Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails
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Place: The Broderick Room
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6:30 p.m.
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Dinner
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Place: The Knowles Room
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7:30 p.m.
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Entertainment: The IRMAtones
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Monday, September 17
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8:15 a.m.
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Session: Ask and Ye Shall Receive
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: How to set up focus groups of subscribers and of
nonsubscribers to get information applicable to each department. From
bikini-sized budgets to the full monte, learn from those who fit your reader
demographics--where you're right on the mark and where you're missing the point.
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Targeted to: Everyone
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9:15 a.m.
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Break
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9:30 a.m.
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Concurrent Sessions (See Sessions A, B, C, and D, next)
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Session A: The Key Elements of Circulation
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Place: The Board Room
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Description: Circulation management and marketing is complicated and
extremely detailed. Especially now, with postal rates rising and the audit
bureaus' definition of paid circulation changing, it's important to know which
pieces are crucial to watch. In this session, we'll identify eight areas that
are critical and discuss why they're important and what they'll tell you about
the health of your magazine.
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Targeted to: Circulation staff, Publisher staff
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Session B: Giving
& Taking. Print Contracts & Liability, part 1
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: First of a two-part session. Negotiating printing contracts,
new or renewing. What contracts should, and should not, include, with the
bottom-line impact of terms and conditions, and win-win price escalation
provisions. Assuming and avoiding risks, plus seven standards for evaluation
damages. Learn about printer liability, actual and consequential damages,
negotiating makegoods, and clarifying liability fairly, as well as liability
changes that arise from a digital workflow.
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Targeted to: Publisher staff, Production staff
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Session C: You Did WHAT? Editorial Debacles, and Policies
that
Fixed Them
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Place: (To Be
Announced) |
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Description: IRMA round-table editorial discussion. The
"Oops!"--sticky situations that crop up from left field and force us
to make policies and rules. Real-life examples of what happened and why, and how
we corrected them. What the Internet and cyber-publishing, etc. are doing to
copyright law and practices. Bring pertinent examples and stories.
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Targeted to: Editorial staff
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Session D: Breezing Out of the Doldrums
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Place: The Broderick Room
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Description: This informal round-table advertising forum will help you
find strategies for resuscitating your off-season issues. Bring examples.
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Targeted to: Advertising staff
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10:00 a.m.
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Hospitality Suite Opens (until 1:30 a.m.)
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10:30 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m.
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Concurrent Sessions (See Sessions A, B, C, and D, next)
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Session A: Typography for Regional Magazines
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Place: Townsend Hall
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Description: Getting all those columns of words to enhance all those
pictures and ads. Varying column width, paragraph indents, image runarounds, bad
typography, correct point size and leading for a given measure. Proportions of
type face for column width. Clarity and simplicity of text types. Readability
versus distracting type styles. How to select type for the feeling you want to
project, criteria for looking at types that fit, and filtering through the
options. Tricks for positioning subheads without losing overall text alignment,
and maintaining visual consistency across text columns.
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Targeted to: Design staff
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Session B: Still Giving and Taking: Print Contracts and
Liability, part 2
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: See details for previous Session B, above.
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Targeted to: Publisher staff, Production staff
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Session C: Eating Humble Pie
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Place: The Board Room
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Description: IRMA round-table editorial discussion. You mean The Editor
doesn't know everything readers need to read? Real-life confessions of
recovering from humiliation in the face of facts, and planning editorial content
based on data gathered from surveys and focus groups.
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Targeted to: Editorial staff
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Session
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Reviving and Renewing Renewals
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Place: The Broderick Room |
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Description:
Bring your magazine's complete renewal series with
information on how many notices, your strategy on timing, and other efforts for
pre- and post-expire.
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Targeted to:
Circulation staff
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12:00 p.m.
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Quick Change
(Choice of Hike or Tour. Dress and get your gear
for Hike, Bus #1, or Tour, Bus #2, next.)
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12:20 p.m.
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Box lunch
on the bus to Yellowstone National Park. "It
Was A Dark & Stormy Night" contest begins.
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Bus #1 (Hike):
Don your hiking clothes and boots, and put
water, camera, and raincoat in your daypack. Binoculars are fun to have along.
Three-hour, 4-6 mile, moderately strenuous hike on a good trail to Hellroaring
Creek.. Great views, time to relax by the water, modest elevation changes (that
means you should expect some uphill and downhill). |
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Bus #2 (Tour):
Don your park-tourist clothes and walking
shoes. Bring along a camera, binoculars if you like zooming in on the world, and
raincoat or umbrella just in case. Scenic tour of Grand Canyon of the
Yellowstone, Tower Falls, short walks to scenic overlooks.
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5:45 p.m.
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Optional:
Leave for Rosh Hashanah 7:00 p.m. service in Bozeman.
Box dinner provided on van.
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5:45 p.m.
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Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails
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Place: The Broderick Room |
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6:30 p.m.
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Dinner
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Place: The Knowles Room |
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7:30 p.m.
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Speaker:
Christie the Wordsmith
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Place: The Knowles Room |
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Description:
This master of words will entertain us by decoding the
magazine jargon we throw around daily.
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Targeted to:
Everyone
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Tuesday, September 18
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8:15 a.m.
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Session: Hits and Misses
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: By popular demand, IRMA's perennial favorite of sharing
triumphs and tragedies and what we learned along the way.
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Targeted to: Everyone
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9:30 a.m.
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Break
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9:45 a.m.
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Session: Stroll the Magazine Midway
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: Have your palm read and fortune predicted, in addition to
1:1 short, private consultations with the speakers and sponsors (no sales
pitches permitted). Sign up to trouble-shoot a particular area, and ask advice,
get feedback, and, FINALLY fix that nagging problem about print, circulation,
Web site, prepress, surveying, design, business value, fulfillment, list
management. Bring your questions for direct, effective problem-solving keyed to
your magazine.
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Targeted to: Everyone with a problem to solve and a sense of humor
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10;00 a.m.
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Hospitality Suite Opens (until 1:30 a.m.)
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12:00 p.m.
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Lunch
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Place: Picnic on the Lawn
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12:45 p.m. |
Concurrent
Sessions
(See Sessions A and B, next)
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Session A:
Turns Out, You CAN Please Everyone
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Place: The Knowles
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Description:
Please your reader and the bottom line. Seven
production decisions editorial and art must make to fine-tune specifications for
your particular readers and advertisers. Cost-effective techniques for
evaluating trim size, paper stock, bindings. Cost analysis formulas, paper
attributes from a technical and perceptual basis. Make the strategic choices
that won't diminish quality.
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Targeted to:
Production staff, Editorial staff, Design staff
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Session B:
Just the Facts, Ma'am
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Place: Townsend Hall |
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Description: IRMA round-table advertising and circulation discussion on
selling with research. Apply survey results to shape your advertising and
circulation campaigns. Use cover lines to best advantage. Use your research in
sales pitches. Check out examples of actual reader/advertiser surveys with
timetables, plans of attack, costs of implementation, and ideas.
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Targeted to: Advertising staff, Circulation staff
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1:45 p.m.
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Quick Change. Get into your park-tourist garb with camera,
binoculars, and raincoat/umbrella just in case.)
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2:00 p.m.
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Bus to Yellowstone National Park for a tour of geothermal
features around Norris Geyser Basin and Mammoth Hot Springs. Many short walks,
time for watching geysers and bubbling mud pots.
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7:00 p.m.
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Dinner at historic Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone
National Park, overlooking steaming travertine terraces and cavorting (or at
least napping) elk.
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9:00 p.m.
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Winners of "It Was A Dark & Stormy Night" contest
announced
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Place: The Broderick Room
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Wednesday, September 19
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9:00 a.m.
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Concurrent Sessions (See Sessions A and B, next)
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Session A: You Want It WHEN???
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Description: Editorial workflow: story concept to page release. Compress
cycle time while maintaining editorial quality. Practical approaches to
maintaining oversight and integrating multiple departments toward a common goal.
Look at real-world production cycle times with staffs from two to ten. Evaluate
the division of labor between art and production, and learn how best to recover
from delays.
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Targeted to: Editorial staff, Design staff, Production staff
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Session B: Gotcha!
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Place: Townsend Hall
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Description: IRMA round-table advertising discussion. Value-added ideas
for enticing advertisers, the costs and benefits of specific campaigns. Bring
examples of ideas that worked, and those that flopped.
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Targeted to: Advertising staff, Publisher staff
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10:00 a.m.
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Break
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10:00 a.m.
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Hospitality Suite Opens (until 1:30 a.m.)
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Place: The Broderick Room
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10:15 a.m.
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Concurrent Sessions (See Sessions A, B, and C, next)
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Session A: This Is Not Your Grandfather's Adverbial Phrase:
An
Examination of the Evolved Comma
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Place: The Board
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Description: IRMA round-table editorial slugfest on Grandpa's commas,
semicolons, and other real-life punctuation dilemmas. Can we violate rigid,
hidebound rules in favor of readability and clarity?
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Targeted to: Editorial staff and Pugilistic Spectators
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Session
B: Circulating Ideas |
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Place: The Knowles Room |
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Description: IRMA round-table discussion on circulation. What's working
and what's not, trends. Your best new-customer and renewal promotions: direct
mail, Web services, gift subscriptions, newsstands, overall circulation,
customer demographics, staffing, fulfillment processes. Please send or bring 10
copies of each example of your best and worst promotions. |
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Targeted to: Circulation staff, Publisher staff |
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Session C: Swapping,
Chopping, and Belly Tanking
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Place: Townsend Hall
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Description:
Looking to increase circulation or add a visual punch to your magazine
without a complete redesign? Then don't overlook creative layouts for
subscription cards and contents pages. Here are three new ways to hop-up
designs. |
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Targeted to: Design staff
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11:30 a.m.
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Lunch and Business Meeting, followed by Quick Change: This
time
change into river clothes: shorts, sunscreen, brimmed hats, camera, flip-flops
or shoes that can get wet, binoculars for birdwatchers, and as always, a
raincoat just in case.
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Place: Chico
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12:30 p.m.
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Scenic flatwater rafting on the Yellowstone River, through
Paradise Valley
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5:30 p.m.
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Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails and IRMAtones entertainment
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Place: The Broderick
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6:15 p.m.
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Group Photograph (unless we already took it on the river)
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6:30 p.m.
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Gala Awards Dinner
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Place: The Knowles Room
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Thursday, September 20
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5:15 a.m.
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Breakfast Buffet begins (and lasts until 9:00 a.m.)
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6:15 a.m.
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Free shuttle (one hour) from Chico to Bozeman Airport
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8:00 a.m.
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Free shuttle (one hour) from Chico to Bozeman Airport
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11:45 a.m.
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Free shuttle (one hour) from Chico to Bozeman Airport
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(Additional shuttles available for $80 per van with advance reservation.)
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Things You Need to Know
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Conference Registration
Deadline
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August 10, for the
discount registration fee (Absolute Deadline: August 30, though you may not be
able to find a room at Chico that late.) |
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Conference Site
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Chico Hot Springs:
PO
Box 29, Pray Montana 59065, USA
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To Book Your Room: Call 1-800-HOT-WADA (1-800-468-9232). Pssst: Give them
the top-secret code for booking rooms by saying you are with the IRMA
conference. (Be sure to book your room early!)
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Conference Registration
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Please complete the Conference
Registration Form and an Individual Preferences Form for each attendee included
with the Conference Registration Packet that was mailed to your magazine or
company and return it with payment or purchase order to the address shown
on the forms. If you are a member of IRMA and no one at your magazine or
company has received the packet, email
the executive director and request that the forms be faxed to you. Be
sure to include your name, magazine or company, and fax number in the
message. |
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Shipping Materials
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Please ship magazines,
promotional materials and other items for display and/or distribution to... |
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ATTN: Catherine Cranston
Chico Hot Springs Lodge
1 Chico Road
Pray, Montana 59065, USA |
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Clearly label each package: "Hold for IRMA Conference." |
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Weather and Clothing
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September in Montana is, in a
word, perfect. Sunshine and cobalt blue skies are the norm. Daytime temperatures
will likely rise to the high 60s and 70s from the night-time great-sleeping 30s
and 40s. Rain is unlikely, but if we get an afternoon thunderboomer you'll be
very glad you brought a raincoat or umbrella because it can pelt down with
extraordinary vigor in these mountains. |
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Business wear in Montana means ironing a crease in your jeans and picking the
lint off your pile jacket, so come with your comfy clothes for sessions, and
bring good walking shoes or hiking boots for our outings into Yellowstone
National Park. Remember your bathing suit--the large, natural hot springs pool
is one-of-a-kind and can't be resisted, with additional hot tubs available.
Also, bring a sunhat, shorts, and shoes that can get wet for the float trip. Of
course, we'll get spiffed up for the annual awards dinner. |
| Travel Details
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Bozeman, Montana, has
the nearest airport to the site. Arrange your flight to arrive here by Saturday
evening, September 15 (Board of Directors and Presidents Council should arrive
by Friday evening, September 14).
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Northwest/KLM/Continental Airlines are the preferred airlines for the 2001 IRMA
Conference.
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Complimentary one-hour-long shuttles to Chico Hot Springs will be available to
and from the airport in Bozeman at the following times…
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1.
Friday, Sept. 14 at 1:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 11:45 p.m.
2. Saturday, Sept. 15 at 1:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 11:45 p.m.
3. Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6:15 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 10:30
a.m., 11:45 a.m.
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For Thursday's return trip (item 3), allow at least an hour to reach the
airport in Bozeman.
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If you cannot meet the complimentary shuttles at the above
times, the cost is
$80 per one-way trip (with seating for up to nine people). Advance reservations
and payment are required.
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| Accommodations |
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Chico Hot Springs lodging ranges from $45 per night for a private room
with a shared bath in the historic, wonderfully-authentic main lodge to A-frame
and rustic cabins for $80 to accommodations with two beds, kitchenette and
private bath for $189 in the brand-spanking-new lower lodge. These are all room
rates, not per-person rates, allowing you to double up to save money.
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To make reservations, first visit the Web site (www.chicohotsprings.com) for
room information. Then contact Chico Hot Springs (1-800-468-9232) directly to
reserve your room.
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| Conference
Registration Fees |
Absolute
Deadline for Conference Registration is August 30, 2001
(Register by August 10 to get the lower fee) |
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Active, Provisional
and Associate Member Participants |
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Full Conference $395 US,
postmarked by August 10, then $440 US
Additional attendees (including spouses) $295 US, postmarked by August 10,
then $330 US
Partial Conference per day $150 US, postmarked by August 10, then $170 US |
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Honorary Members and
Sponsors |
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Full Conference (1st attendee) No
Fee
Additional attendees (including spouses) $295 US, postmarked by August 10,
then $330 US |
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Nonmember Magazine
Publishers |
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Full Conference $800 Us,
postmarked by August 10, then $900 US
Additional attendees (including spouses) $600 US, postmarked by August
10, then $670 US
Partial Conference per day $300 US, postmarked by August 10, then $345
US
Full Time Students per session (meals, transportation not included) $35 US |
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Guest Speakers
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Jeffrey Conger, graphic design professor,
spent many years as an art director before moving into higher education, earning
his M.F.A. from the University of Utah. His award-winning graphic design has
been exhibited in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York and at
the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. His photography focusing on the American hot
rod has been exhibited alongside Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and at the annual
High Octane Art Show in Wichita. Last March, Salt Lake City's Cordell Taylor
Gallery featured a solo exhibition of his Bonneville Salt Flat photographs. His
work can also be found in the premier issue of the hot rod and music magazine, Car
Kulture Deluxe, and in forthcoming issues of Hot Rod. |
Eric
Czechowski is survey czar for Rodale Press (Runners World, etc.),
Pace Communications (magazines for Delta, US Air, United, etc.), and Texas
Parks & Wildlife. He has a keen interest in what people really think,
and knows how to get them to say it.
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Jeffrey Dearth is partner in the media investment banking firm of DeSilva
& Phillips, Inc.; member of MPA's Small Magazine Advisory Committee and
MPA's New Media Advisory Committee; and founder of Electronic Newsstand in 1993,
one of the first e-commerce sites on the Internet. He actually makes dry
material interesting!
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Nina La France is vice president of consumer affairs for Red Herring and
former publisher of Arizona Highways. She has all-around knowledge of
IRMA magazines and is full of information about on-line magazine circulation
efforts that can be adopted by regionals. She will always be pure IRMA at heart.
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Steve Renick is Professor of Graphic Design at The California College of
the Arts and Crafts; recipient of the Victor Hugo Prize, awarded by
Internationale Buchkunstellung in Leipzig; a teacher of magazine design; writer
of articles on typography in The American Institute of Graphic Design Journal;
and author of books on typography. He is enthusiastic, personable, and full of
ideas.
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Dedra Smith joined Printmark in 1993. Her previous production supervision
included a semiweekly newsmagazine at Reed Travel Group, two monthlies at
Murdoch Magazines, and dozens of annuals and semiannuals for a subsidiary of
Pactel Publishing. She has led numerous seminars for Folio:, FMA, and the
MPA, as well as serving on the Magazine Week educational advisory board.
Her columns on production appear in Folio:. Dedra is highly energetic and
entertaining--and knowledgeable to boot. |
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IRMA Round-table Organizers
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| JJ Coggeshall,
Reader Services Director, Montana
Magazine |
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Susan Ebert, Publisher & Editor, Texas Parks & Wildlife |
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Tom Hughes, Publisher, Adirondack Life |
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Bryan McGill, Editor, Beautiful British Columbia |
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Tim Sayles Editor, Chesapeake Bay Magazine |
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Larry Sem, Advertising Director, Montana Magazine |
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Tom Slayton, Editor in Chief, Vermont Life |
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Thank You, Sponsors
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PO Box 130, Burlington, VT 05402, USA
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609 E. Sherman, Coeur D'Alene, ID 83814, USA
Phone: (208) 667-3593. Fax: (208) 667-3131
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Phone: (513) 271-8834. Fax: (513) 527-2173
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