At today’s Publishing Point Meetup, David Young (CEO, Hachette Book Group) spoke about the major changes in the publishing industry. Here are some highlights. 1. Changes in Bookselling “Last year 50% of our revenue came from companies not directly invested in our business (e.g., Walmart, Costco, etc.)” – this is a big change from the [...]

At the NYC Digital Asset Managers Meetup tonight, the speakers gave some great advice for dealing with DAM Users. The speakers were Leala Abbott, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Content Management and blogger at Off the Shelf – The Musings of an Information Science Professional and Henrik de Gyor, Digital Asset Manager at K12 Inc. and [...]

Dennis Crowley spoke at NYU Stern School of Business today about how he went from being laid off in 2001 to CEO of Foursquare. About 400 people were gathered outside the auditorium, because the session before Crowley’s was running late. The crowd was getting very loud. There were business school students and NYU alums, and [...]

I am looking for publishing app. case studies for Premedia Spectrum (1/18-1/21, in Naples, FL http://bit.ly/ddhnih) e-mail me at ksandler1@gmail.com, subject: Tablet Story. Premedia Spectrum is a conference that brought together two leading industry conferences: the GAA Premedia Conference and IDEAlliance Spectrum. GAA is the Gravure Association of America, a trade association for gravure printing. [...]

Stephen P. Anderson gave a great talk tonight to the NY Chapter of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He spoke about using psychology to achieve great user interface and design. He showed a ton of examples of great design, analyzed why it worked, then spoke about the psychology behind it. He sells a card deck [...]

Ad Age has a brilliant post on the limitations of social media at http://tinyurl.com/262x6g2. The author talks about un-social social media. Excerpts below. Fav quote: “At the end of the day, social media should be a relationship vitamin and sweetener, not a destination.” I once heard @garyvee at a social media conference lament how insane [...]

Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai spoke at Publishing Point meetup about developing fun (+ getting > 2 million users in 17 months). Questions he asked: How do we do better at living at a city? They created Foursquare so you could get info. from friends about cool places, find things to do in your city and [...]

“Social is the new search,” per Gail Horwood, EVP Digital Programming & Strategy for Martha Stewart at 6/10 Publishing Point meetup. Highlights: Successes of Martha Stewart Social Media Strategy Facebook Fans: In 6 months, when they started actively programming on the Facebook page, fans have organically increased 1,275%. And this is without any contests, just [...]

5 lessons learned in iPad app. design per Jennifer Brook, Info. Architect, NY Times, speaking at Interaction Design Assn. yesterday: 1. Start Simple There is an inverse relationship between feature count and user satisfaction. Start simple, evolve and improve over time. “Applications should do one or two things really, really well,” she said. The more [...]

Kudos to the MPA for top-notch content at yesterday’s technology summit. Here are my 5 unanswered questions about digital magazines: Is the Workflow Sustainable? Engagement is the key to compelling content for edit and ads. I am encouraged that magazines like Wired are using their print staffs to do the tablet edition (per Creative Director [...]