tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45932608227237383272009-10-17T04:00:02.113+02:00Beyond the Printed Word is the annual World Digital Publishing Conference dealing with all aspects of cross-platform publishing from the newspaper publisher's point of view. This blog is their platform for exchange of thoughts and ideas. The posted articles represent the author's opinion. We reserve the right to delete comments that have inappropriate content.Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-82920051284815870962007-12-06T13:31:00.000+01:002007-12-06T13:37:11.427+01:00

Yahoo! India has launched a new Hindi news and current affairs site with the publishers of India's most-read newspaper and news site.The deal with Jagran Group, whose Dainik Jagran news site accounts for 80 per cent of India's online audience, will combine news and current affairs content from the media group with Yahoo!'s messenger, mail and search features on the rebranded Jagran Yahoo! India

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Someone asked me at the Beyond conference if I could point to a recent success story from our multimedia publishing strategy. One that i forgot to mention had to do with some very poignant videos a reporter shot of the grieving parents of some of the six cheerleaders killed at the beginning of last summer in Fairport, NY. That's some of the best, most sensitively done and touching news video I

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The Financial Times Digital Business has its podcast since November 28. The first edition has a 'funny' commentary from Nicholas Carr on the contrast between formal business software applications and informal social networks like Facebook and MySpace. "It seems increasingly clear to me that the social networking phenomenon will, in some yet-to-be-determined form, invade corporations. If you

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I just read that the e-reader from Amazon is already sold out. Either people really love the device and the idea of paying 399 dollars plus 9.99 dollars each book, or they didn't have many available in the first place.Update: There are some interesting viewpoints in the comments on Dan Kennedy's article.

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As most of you will know, Amazon has launched its e-reader device "Kindle" on Monday, which gives you the opportunity to directly download books, subscribe to newspapers, magazines and even blogs, without the need of a hotspot as it uses the high-speed data network EVDO. Newsweek took the opportunity to publish an article on The Future of Reading, which is worth reading, just like the comments on

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A research study conducted by the German association for telecommunications and new media called Bitkom, has revealed that 21 percent of the Germans are reading news online. The study further showed that until the end of 2007 the 20 most visited news web portals will record about 4 billion hits. This is an increase of 25 percent compared to the previous year (see left side of graphic). Amongst

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Ifra's magazine, "newspaper techniques," will be presenting an article in its next edition about the "perfect website," with tips and services that any good website should have already, and a few case studies from newspapers that have also managed in their own way to present a perfect site to their audiences and community, much like those at Beyond the Printed Word. The question we have presented

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Good news for developers (and users, in the long run): Google has released the first version of their SDK for Android, the open-source mobile operating system planned to be launched next year. To raise the motivation, Google has set up the "Android Developer Challenge", where the best applications will be awarded a total of 10 million dollars. A very good first look is provided by Engadget. Click

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This post goes especially to participants of the Beyond the Printed Word 2007 Conference. We aim to provide the best conference of its kind, so please help us get better. Choose one of the answers below and use the comments to tell us what you liked and also what could be improved for BTPW 2008 in Budapest. Thank you. Poll Survey - Take Our Poll

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President of Sanoma Digital in Finland, Liisa Kotilainen, was presenting the digital strategy of her company and gave examples of platforms they created to give more service to their users, like a price comparison service.This presentation was the last of the show, if you wish to reflect on this year's "Beyond the Printed Word" conference, you can do that in different ways: review the blog posts

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Mark Lawlor, Managing Director of The Independent from Ireland, spoke about digital citizens and how his company is trying to reach them by recreating their brand and transferring it from print to the digital world.

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Melinda Gipson, Director of Internet Publishing at GateHouse Media, USA, is talking about how her company is buidling partnerships to create Web 2.0 services. GateHouse specialises in buying local newspapers, where they put in practice a web first strategy with a high level of user participation, including ideas like local advertising based on recommendations. Being one of our authors here on

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Hooi Chong Ooi, General Manager of the web portal Sinchew-i.com, showed examples of the different ad models they use. The website belongs to the Sin Chew Media Corp. from Malaysia, which publishes one of the largest chinese newspapers outside of China.

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Michael Heipel (on the photo) continued with a presentation of the winners of the 2007 Ifra XMA Cross Media Awards, honouring the efforts that newspaper operations undertook to build communities online, via mobile and print. He handed over to the Director of Content at PrisaCom from Spain, Mario Tascon Ruiz who explained El Pais' winning project.

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Michael Heipel, the first speaker today and Ifra Director of Exhibitions, started his presentation with a quick poll via SMS provided by MINDS asking the audience if they had carried out community projects last year. Only 70 percent answered yes ... I bet Elan Lohmann was one of them.

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Elan Lohmann and Meredith Artley just kicked off the second day by summarising the conclusions from the presentations of yesterday. newspaper techniques is providing summaries of these presentations here.

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We have just returned from the Guinness Storehouse, where we had a tour through the exhibition followed by dinner and a few drinks with the most impressing night view over the city of Dublin. Very nice event and chats with interesting people.

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Ole A. Werring, TV Manager of the newspaper group Dagbladet from Norway was showing several examples of TV and video clip integration on their website dagbladet.no. His presentation was the last for the first day, summaries will be available from tomorrow morning on. We hope you enjoyed our posts today and will hopefully be back tomorrow, as Ifra has organised an evening event at the Guinness

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Atsushi Sato, the Deputy Manager of the digital media division of Asahi Shimbun, the second largest newspaper in Japan. The market seems to be a bit different there, as they sell around 12 million print copies each day. Nevertheless, the sales are decreasing and they have discovered the mobile as a means to extend their reach.

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Coffee break time at the conference is commercial time on the Beyond blog: newspaper techniques, Ifra's print and online magazine, is reporting with a realtime ntmultiblog from the conference halls. ntmultiblogs are a development based on the moblogging idea, featuring short interviews with and videos of participants and speakers. On the photo you see Editor in Chief Dean Roper (right) and Ifra

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Start of the second session about the diversification of news: Ian Davies, Director of Business Development, Archant, UK, is explaining the importance of localness for society and in consequence users - despite the globalness of the web.

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Rowan Barnett is talking about Second Life and the virtual newspaper project "The Avastar", which is only published there. He is giving a lot of background information explains the benefits and why Bild.T-Online.de is exploring this medium. Barnett (picture above) is Editor in Chief of The Avastar. Below: Meredith Artley and Elan Lohmann listening to his presentation.What do you think about

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Petar Pavic, Director Research and Development of Europa Press Holding in Croatia just finished presenting the case study of his company's Web 2.0 initiative - very illustrative and funny presentation.

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Participants and speakers using the lunch break for discussions and exchange of ideas.

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If you are interested in seeing the slides of his presentation - Matthew Buckland has put them up on his blog matthewbuckland.com.

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