A packed house here at the Westin Times Square. The ABM Digital Veloctiy event definitely shows that emedia remains the hot topic for B2B publishers today. Great job, ABM! Listening to the Organizational Development session and Chuck Richards from Outsell going over their recent organizational research. Interestingly his setup slides talk all about revenue. Many of the CEO comments are about how revenue isn’t as strong online as in print. I actually agree with this statement … to a degree. There will be those companies who set themselves apart and really establish strong revenue models...

I can’t give myself any more extensions and still feel good about this challenge. The reality is that I’ve just simply been travelling too much recently (every week for the past 7 weeks) and trying to finish off strong here at Penton to give my own site much attention. I’ve had maybe 4-5 hours total to spend on my own site since I began this challenge. I guess it’s kind of like a mechanic who spends so much time working on other people’s cars that his own car gets neglected. I’m removing the challenge countdown to take the pressure off, but I’m not giving up....

I’ve created a PDF that should be a very good tool for anyone selling emedia. It is 100% free for anyone to download and use as long as it stays in tact with all of the copyright text and links. Feel free to give this to your sellers for their own reference and have them give it to their customers … excellent customer service and education tool for them as well. BTW, if you’d like a customized version of this with your company’s logo on it, I’d be happy to provide that. Please contact me via email. To download the PDF, right click on this link and choose “Save...

Never thought I’d be the headline story of anything, but my thanks to Jeremy Greenfield for a well-written and classy article on my departure from Penton in today’s Min’s B2B. I think it shows just how critical online media is to publishing today. The real story, though, is not my departure from Penton, but the beginning of two brand new chapters both for Penton and for me. I’m excited to see where Penton will go from here in emedia. The new company has some of the best emedia talent anywhere and I expect to see them continue to innovate and push the boundaries of B2B...

Time goes by so quickly. It doesn’t seem as if so much time could have passed since 1995 when I first took a job with a small IT publisher in Loveland, Colorado called Duke Communications. I was interviewing for a newly created position to start the internet efforts for a new publication, Windows NT Magazine. Little did I know that interview would turn into a 12-year career in emedia with the same company where I would experience a media revolution, two acquisitions (Penton acquired Duke in 2000 and the recent Prism/Penton merger), a new position and set of challenges every couple years, and a...

You’ll notice that time has run out on my challenge to build a full publication web site in under 30 days and for less than $1000. I’m happy to report that I’m getting closer, but two things happened that put me a couple weeks off pace. First, we moved to a new house. This consumed an entire week of vacation time plus every evening and weekend for the next week after that. Right afterward, I had to travel to New York for various meetings and to speak at the Publishing Executive conference. And remember I still have a full-time job with Penton that takes priority. So technically I...