Ifra Conference: Beyond the Printed Word 2007 8-9 November, Citywest Hotel, Dublin, Ireland 427 participants from 43 countries —————————————————– http://ifra-nt.com/multiblog/beyond Friday, 9 November full Session Comments by XMA Cross Media Awards Winner Angel Mario Tascon Ruiz, Director of Content PrisaCom, Spain “We believe in the power of the people,” began Ruiz. “One brand, two media. [...]

Ifra Conference: Beyond the Printed Word 2007 8-9 November, Citywest Hotel, Dublin, Ireland 427 participants from 43 countries —————————————————– http://ifra-nt.com/multiblog/beyond Thursday, 8 November Afternoon Session Let your audience create the dialogue Petar Pavic, Director R & D, Europa Press Holding, Croatia Pavic explained that the decision was taken to launch an innovative national daily in [...]

Ifra Conference: Beyond the Printed Word 2007 8-9 November, Citywest Hotel, Dublin, Ireland 427 participants from 43 countries —————————————————– http://ifra-nt.com/multiblog/beyond Thursday, 8 November Morning Session Opening comments Reiner Mittelbach, Ifra CEO, followed by Co-chair Elan Lohmann, publisher, News24.com Mittelbach started by welcoming the participants, segueing neatly from the theme of Beyond into the importance of [...]

I arrived in Dublin yesterday to attend this year’s Ifra Beyond the Printed Word conference; an annual conference aimed at digital media practitioners. With me are fellow countrymen and nemeses, Elan Lohmann from news24.com and Matthew Buckland from mg.co.za. Elan is co-chairing the conference and Matt will be speaking on Web 2.0 tools and strategies [...]

Summaries by Steve Shipside The new Web 2.0 players: MySpace, YouTube, Flickr — What can we learn? Robert S. Cauthorn, CEO, City Tools, U.S.A. Robert Cauthorn, creator of the first profitable newspaper web site, said this is the third-greatest news period ever (the others being WWII and the 1960s), and there are things to do [...]