WEBINAR - Next Generation Digital Editions

During the Digital Edition University course, publishers have been
treated to a historical perspective on the industry as well as given a
sneak peek into revenue generation strategies currently being utilized
to drive hard profits to the bottom line. For our final course, we’ll
learn what trends are coming and where the category is moving from some
of the brightest minds covering the space.

Speaker 1:

Steve Paxhia
Director, Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice
The Gilbane Group
In the past ten years, Steve has worked with more than 30 companies by
helping refine their strategic plans, raise capital, devise
go-to-market plans, and make and integrate acquisitions. He is the
co-author of studies covering Digital Magazines and Newspapers and on
Collaboration and Social Computing. Steve served as Chairman of Rovia -
A start-up that developed secure fully featured e-books for the college
market. He also has considerable experience with custom publishing,
licensing of intellectual property, electronic publishing workflow and
technology, and EDI. During his 15 years in College Publishing, Steve
founded the publishing industry’s Pubnet e-commerce and information
system. He was also CEO of Inso Corporation and under his leadership,
Inso grew from a 35-person division of Houghton Mifflin Company to a
1000 person public company with sales of $100 million dollars. Now as
director of publishing strategy & technology practice for The
Gilbane Group, Steve Paxhia assists small publishing technology
companies in turning their ideas into profitable businesses as well as
helping larger companies to assess their strategy and current
performance in order to help them accelerate their growth.

Speaker 2:

Nick Hampshire

mediaIDEAS

Speaker 3:

Tammy Wise
Owner
Wise Group
Tammy Wise is the owner of Wise Group Inc., a Midwest communications
firm that thinks strategically and designs purposefully. Tammy knows
first hand that you can’t be everything to everybody. That’s why she
says any creative process must begin by identifying appropriate
audiences—only then can you craft truly effective communication that
delivers success. A graduate of Ohio University, Tammy brings 25-plus
years’ experience in the industry to benefit Wise Group clients as well
as national audiences, including the Society of National Association
Publications and American Chamber of Commerce Executives

To view the archived webinar, click here.