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Agenda

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Time Place Event
MONDAY, JUNE 30
MORNING SESSIONS
8:00 a.m.-10:00 Matterhorn Ballroom New User Info | Welcome | Keynote
An overview of how the user group works and welcome to our 2008 conference. Followed by keynote address.
Patrick Cassidy; Don Oldham
10:30 am - Noon Matterhorn Ballroom Software Demos
DTI provides a high-level look inside 7.X and beyond.
Tony Hake, DTI
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:15 - 2:30 pm Davos Project Management
We all have projects, we don't all manage them to our best advantage. Patrick Cassidy of Cox Ohio points us in the right direction.
Patrick Cassidy, Cox Ohio
Grindelwald Managing User Preferences
Up-to-date user preferences are critical to the consistent and efficient creation of stories and pages, but management has its challenges. Sites that push out these preferences tell you how.
Allen Maroney, St. Petersburg Times
Matterhorn Ballroom AccountSpeed
A discussion of the AccountSpeed application.
Mary Freiberg, Swift Communications; Matthew Pecsok, Pat Kneeland and Louise Cliche, DTI
Monterosa Adobe Tools For Working With Video
Adobe demonstrates their solutions for working with video.
Kevan O'Brien, Adobe
St. Moritz Tansa Systems
Tansa Systems software is used to reduce typographic, style and spelling errors in published materials (for both print and online) and help reduce the time publishers spend on editing text. Tansa corrects spelling, including proper nouns, style and word usage (AP and local), punctuation and hyphenation.
Chris Grimm, Tansa Systems
2:45 - 4:00 pm Davos OSX System Management
Mac administrators discuss ideas for administering this OS.
Rafi Guroian, Cox
Grindelwald AdProof / AdReady
DTI has done fresh work on these applications and reviews the improvements.
Tony Hake, DTI
Matterhorn Ballroom What's The Big News With CS3?
New features and new ways to do common tasks headline Adobe's CS3. Here are some of the things you can do with CS3 that you couldn't do in CS2.
Tom Petrillo, Adobe
Monterosa InSight: Database reporting
What does the future hold for DTI customers from a Business Intelligence and management dashboard perspective? Learn how Io Intelligence Systems currently utilizes the InSight (Cognos) product to provide trend and analysis reporting with PBS's Ad Management system and how InSight can be applied to the DTI's ClassSpeed Advertising product. Bring your questions and come see a vision for your reporting future.
Jim Williams, IO Intelligence
St. Moritz Search Engine Optimization
Your website is competing with sites large and small across the world, but there are ways to make your content move to the top of a search result. Gordon Short explains.
Gordon Short, DTI
4:15 - 5:30 pm Matterhorn Ballroom AP's New Web Feeds
Aaron Kuehn of The Virginian-Pilot and Blaine Sundrud of DTI discuss what AP's new delivery method looks like and how DTI is going to work with it. An Associated Press representative talks about workflow and technology considerations.
Dwayne Desaulniers, AP; Aaron Kuehn, The Virginian-Pilot; Blaine Sundrud, DTI
TUESDAY, JULY 01
MORNING SESSIONS
8:00 - 9:40 am Matterhorn Ballroom Site Reports
Sites who have done new installs or upgrades in the past year report on their experiences.
Various
9:45 - 11:00 am Davos Apple, Inc.

Alan Felgate, Apple, Inc.
Grindelwald Getting More Out Of ClassSpeed
Fielded data expands the possibilities for Classified presentation and enhancement. Sites that have exploited the potential explain what they have done and the benefit to their organizations.
Scott McNall, Morris Technology Services
Matterhorn Ballroom Workflow Enhancements From The London Telegraph
A review of some of the custom solutions that the Telegraph has created for InCopy story cleansing, page tracking and more.
Paul Jones, London Telegraph
Monterosa Perspectives On Customer Support
Kirk Smith talks about how to play nice with customer support.
Kirk Smith, DTI
St. Moritz Ensemble Interface Development By Sites
Ensemble is the basis for interface creation in the Cache environment. How does it work? What are its benefits? What skills are needed to use it? Explore the possibilities and constraints of the tool.
Joe Oldham and Scott Wallace, DTI
11:15 - 12:30 Davos eArchive
eArchive has undergone a major rewrite to take advantage of core technology in Cache.
Blaine Sundrud, DTI
Grindelwald Audience Database
The Audience Database integrates third party systems for email marketing, web site analytics, user behavior tracking, data analytics and lifestyle analytics.
Don Oldham, DTI
Matterhorn Ballroom Register-Guard: How WebSpeed Worked For Us
The Eugene, OR, enterprise just went live on Turin and is publishing on line via WebSpeed. He shares the experience via WebEX.
Carl Davaz, Register-Guard
Monterosa Electronic Tearsheets
Great efficiencies can be gained by providing electronic tearsheets to advertisers, but the details of communication and conversion are key to success. Those who have done it successfully tell you how.
Debbie Ferreira, The Virginian-Pilot
St. Moritz Crystal Reports
How can reports help your operation? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Crystal Reports? A site that has made use of this tool tells you how.
Steve Hoffman, Bend Bulletin
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:45 - 3:00 pm Davos Build Display Ads: DTI and AdLizard
AdLizard is one option for building display ads on line, and a representative of the production services company explains how it works.
DTI and AdLizard
Grindelwald Managing third party applications in WebSpeed 7.0
You can use third-party best of breed applications alongside WebSpeed, which can see data in other systems and allow the site to manage all of their data from one point. Russ Hanson of DTI explains.
Russ Hanson, DTI
Matterhorn Ballroom Taking Advantage Of Listener Scripts And Other Automations
Using listener scripts can automatically create styles, check frame usage and tagging, and more.
Ted Stetzel, SourceMedia
Monterosa Building A Site In Escenic (Part 1 of 2)
What does it take to bring up a Website using Escenic? How do you start, what skills do you need, what are the possibilities and the pitfalls? A site that has done it tells you how.
Ed Nicholson and Bill Higgins, St. Petersburg Times
St. Moritz Custom Budget Tool
Patrik Pada will demonstrate the comprehensive tool that HSS Media has developed to handle myriad aspects of budgeting and contact management. It is fully integrated with DTI, runs on a MySQL database, uses SMS messaging and integrates into the company's e-mail system.
Patrik Pada, HSS Media
3:15 - 4:30 pm Davos Newsroom Bull Session
a non-technical brainstorming session by and for newsroom types. Topics might include remote story filing, local dictionaries, story assignments, story notes and ideas files, surfing the wires for local story ideas, convergence, online, graphics, agate, layout tricks, copyfitting tricks, etc. Bill Harper from the Tulsa World will lead.
Bill Harper, The Tulsa World
Grindelwald Newsroom Management And Budgets
eBudget replaces the old Budget Center, and Blaine Sundrud explains how it works now and explores enhancements available in 7.x.
Blaine Sundrud and Byron Oldham, DTI
Matterhorn Ballroom Web Order Entry
Louise Cliche of DTI provides an update on the new application.
Louise Cliche and Shawna McClanahan, DTI
Monterosa Making the most with Escenic (Part 2 of 2)
Grant Keele and Gordon Short of DTI provide the basics on creating a premier site using Escenic.
Grant Keele and Gordon Short, DTI
St. Moritz WireSpeed Tips And Tricks
Back due to popular demand: How to get the most out of WireSpeed translations.
Eduardo Bueno, DTI
WEDNESDAY, JULY 02
MORNING SESSIONS
8:00 - 9:40 am Matterhorn Ballroom DTUG Business Meeting
Members only.
Patrick Cassidy
9:45 - 11:00 am Davos Shared Database Environment
Different newspapers in different locations with a desire to share content. How is it done, what are the challenges involved in newspaper group clustering?
Patrick Cassidy, Cox Ohio
Grindelwald

Matterhorn Ballroom Automated Image Correction
Automatic toning can save money and time, with third-party software available to serve a variety of imaging needs. How is this done? What are the advantages and the technicalities? Sites that have effectively integrated this process into their workflow tell you how.
Aaron Kuehn, The Virginian-Pilot; Ed Stansel, Florida Times-Union
Monterosa Media Pool
Think of it as Total Content Management, a continuation of the Liquid Media concept. An overview and demo of the potential inherent in a system that is publication agnostic. Auto-categorizaton and auto-keywording will be covered as well.
Byron Oldham and Blaine Sundrud, DTI
St. Moritz ClassSpeed Web
Browser-based ClassSpeed eliminates the need for desktop client software and provides remote capabilities. Louise Cliche of DTI explores the ins and outs.
Louise Cliche, DTI
11:15 - 12:30 Davos Productivity Tips and Tricks For InDesign
Whether you work in News or display advertising, there are practices that can make your work easier and more efficient. Sites share their tips and tricks.
Sara Skinner, COXnet
Grindelwald Remote Training
DTI gives some background on the popular Webinars they've been doing. Easy, cost-effective training…online!
Jim Dangerfield, DTI
Matterhorn Ballroom Embed SQL Queries In Your InDesign Files
Aaron Kuehn from The Virginian-Pilot will demonstrate techniques for embedding SQL statements that can return custom, dynamic information on your pages or ads - for example, volume number, issue price based upon day of week, custom folios.
Aaron Kuehn, The Virginian-Pilot / DTI
Monterosa WebSpeed 7.0
From DTI, you can project data to WebSpeed or Escenic. How do you get WebSpeed and Escenic to work together?
Byron Oldham and Gary Moe and Gordon Short, DTI;
St. Moritz Upgrade / Conversion Strategies
So you plan to move from 5.5 to 6.5 or from 6.5 to 7.x, with an upgrade to Cache thrown in for good measure.
Fran Gonzelez, DTI and Panel
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:45 - 3:00 pm Davos

Matterhorn Ballroom Stump The Chumps
Open season on DTI engineers!
DTI's engineering team
Monterosa WebSpeed: Technical Look And Architecture
The WebSpeed discussion continues with a look under the hood courtesy of DTI's Gary Moe.
Gary Moe, DTI
St. Moritz

3:15 - 4:00 pm Matterhorn Ballroom Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
Patrick Cassidy