By Steven Roll and Spring Suptic After launching our Ethics Advisory program last week, the new ethics initiative has caught the attention of FOLIO:, Paul Conley, the Pulse (BusinessJournalism.org), MinOnline($), and MediaBistro.com’s FishbowlDC. The way the program works … read more
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McCracken On Media: A Digital Media Blog That Goes Against the Grain
By Steven RollASBPE President Harry McCracken, former editor-in-chief, of PC World, and editor of the recently launched personal technology blog Technologizer, recently started another blog featuring his observations on the media business. It’s called McCracken On Media. McCracken … read more
Boost Your Productivity with These Tips from Lifehacker
By Steve RollASBPE President One of my favorite blogs is Lifehacker.com. Every day it offers an abundance of productivity tips. While some of the tips are aimed at the technically proficient, there are still plenty left over for … read more
What the Scoop of the 2008 Presidential Election Says
By Steven RollASBPE President The biggest scoop of the presidential race was broken by a b2b blog: Democratic nominee Barak Obama’s selection of running mate Joseph Biden. [Hat tip to b2b press blogger Paul Conley for his Aug. … read more
New Leader Takes the Helm of Reinvigorated Ethics Committee
By Steven RollASBPE President Spring Suptic, Kansas City ASBPE Chapter President, was named chair of ASBPE’s Ethics Committee last week. Formerly heading the committee was ASBPE’s Immediate Past President Roy Harris. One of Roy’s primary accomplishments during his … read more
Thinking About Starting a Blog? Me Too!
By Steven RollASBPE President Like many editors nowadays, I too am thinking about starting a blog. I vowed to familiarize myself with the blogosphere after attending ASBPE’s national conference in Chicago in 2006. It took a little while … read more
Save the Date: ASBPE’s 2008 National Editorial Conference
By Steven RollASBPE President Start making plans to attend the American Society of Business Publication Editors’ (ASBPE) annual conference, July 24-25, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. Each year, the ASBPE conference brings its members together … read more
Paul Conley Links-In to Another B2B Ethical Debate
By Steven RollASBPE President B2B Blogger Paul Conley questioned the propriety of CIO magazine’s decision to embed hyper-text links to the Linked-In profiles of the people and companies that are mentioned in its online stories. In his April … read more
Getting Things Done
By Steven RollASBPE President Like most people, I begin each year by making several resolutions relating to productivity. I often resolve to get more exercise by doing my morning run at 5 am. This year I did it … read more
ASBPE’s National Blog: The Antidote to Future Shock
By Steven RollASBPE President When I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock in high school, I scoffed at his premise that the pace of technological change would accelerate so rapidly that people would someday be unable to keep up. … read more