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Kelly will discuss Zillionics: Self-Assembling Knowledge in a World of Ubiquitous Publishing. His address will examine the future of online searching when everyone in the world is a publisher... when documents and images are generated ceaselessly and ubiquitously. Kelly will explore the question of what will happen when there are a zillion more texts and objects than we all--even collectively--can index, read, or catalog. He will share his theories about how we will move to a zillionic world of self-assembling and self-indexing documents and "objects."
As the Executive Editor of WIRED, Kelly helped create what has been called the "Rolling Stone of computers". As a part of this launch 1994, WIRED won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, a rare honor for a first-year publication. Currently his new book, Out of Control: The Rise of NeoBiological Civilization, examines new models of how to organize and compete in the new world of business.
The ONLINE WORLD Conference & Expo is a conference targeted at information professionals who use online/Internet business resources. Conference sessions cover a variety of online information topics including Trends & Technology, Practical Searching, Resource Management and Electronic Publishing. Over 150 exhibitors will showcase the newest online products and services.
Kelly was the publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, and the Whole Earth Catalog, the first non-industry publication to report on virtual reality, ecological restoration, the global teenager, Internet culture and more. A founding board member of the WELL, a Sausalito-based teleconference system, and a co-founder of the annual Hacker's Conference, Kelly has monitored the online industry for over 10 years. His writings have also appeared in Harpers, Esquire, GQ and other publications. Kelly is a member of the Global Network, a consulting group that creates scenarios of the future for global businesses.
ONLINE WORLD is sponsored by Online Inc. Information Access Company is an associate sponsor and Industry Sponsors are the Special Libraries Association, and the American Library Association's Library & Information Technology Association. Media Sponsors are The Washington Business Journal, ONLINE, DATABASE and EMedia Professional magazines.
Media Contact:
Hillary Dietz
800/248-8466, 203/761-1466, ext. 521
hillaryd@onlineinc.com
Browning's analysis is now available on the Web in accord with a promise to update readers of Electronic Democracy: Using The Internet To Influence American Politics on the online forces that shaped the 1996 election campaigns. Full text of the update, which reveals how both major parties, lobbyists, and grass-roots organizations used the Internet in their political strategy, can be read and downloaded at no charge at: www.onlineinc.com/pempress/democracy.
Highlights include:
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Media Contact:
John Bryans
Tel: 800/248-8466, ext. 513
Fax: 203/761-1444
Email: pr@onlineinc.com
In EMedia Professional's April Issue
The April issue of EMedia Professional also offers a field guide to the compact disc family and its evolutionary paths. Guenette and Contributing Editor Dana J. Parker discuss the famous books of standards for CD, the latest specifications for CD-RW, and the next generation, DVD, with the perspective and authority that make the Special Feature, "CD, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RAM: The Family Album," a valuable score card and prognostication utility. "Any new technology must offer some benefits over old if it is to become successful," writes Parker. "The big mistake is in assuming that because DVD has the potential to deliver on the supposedly unmet promises of compact disc, that it automatically will do so. A related false assumption is that DVD has the built-in forward compatibility to accommodate any and all needs that may arise in the future."
Also in April, Dana J. Parker reviews the seven rules of successful CD recording, Richard Shulman reveals a surprising source of CD-ROM publishing innovation -- the Feds, and Enigma's Insight Into Information 3.5 and Young Minds' CD Studio for NT are reviewed. And then, of course, there is the best monthly news department--EM News--covering electronic media for publishing and data storage.
EMedia Professional is the technology and business magazine for electronic media producers and users. Readers are both producers of commercial multimedia products, and corporate users who archive, network, distribute, and publish company information. EMedia Professional covers the tools, standards, and technologies necessary for digital publishing success. For more information on EMedia Professional, visit their website at http://www.onlineinc.com/emedia.
Editorial Contact:
Ilene Rosenberg
649 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617/492-0268
Fax: 617/492-3159
ilener@onlineinc.com
Despite Windows 95, PCs Remain Too Complex for Consumer CD-ROMs
"It Is to Wonder," EMedia Professional's March installment of "The Editor's Spin," the monthly column by Guenette, chronicles his experience with a Microsoft-produced Game Demo disc that behaved badly. "Unfortunately, poor install procedures and system conflicts are far too common," reports Guenette. As a trade publication for electronic media professionals, the magazine regularly looks at many titles and finds that poor install software remains the norm. "QuickTime for Windows finally wrote an install that looks for previous versions," notes Guenette. "What, it took only six years of inconveniencing users with version over-writes to make this change?"
Impolite title behavior, although a topic of industry complaint for years, continues to make using consumer CD-ROM titles a frequently unpleasant experience. "There's some irony in the current situation, where publishers decry the low number of titles consumers are buying, yet seem to design their titles as if they expect them to be the one and only title in the user's universe. Excessive system demands such as hard disk space requirements, for example, or brutish install procedures that make co-existence with other titles hard for the user to manage have the practical effect of discouraging consumers from building CD-ROM title libraries. Of course, Guenette says, "if a publisher really wants to turn would-be multiple title buyers away, a good system crash caused by a sloppy multimedia title install goes a long way."
Highlights of the March 1997 issue of EMedia Professional include the Special Feature, "Digital Video Editing Essentials," which tells professionals all they need to know about approaching digital video editing successfully. "Too many magazines only talk about software and hardware, and too few ever try to tackle the practical process," remarks Guenette. "Jan Ozer, contributing editor and one of the very top writers on digital video topics, has written the definitive feature that gives the readers a clear sense of how to think about digital video editing, illustrated throughout by running examples of leading software applications like Adobe Premiere and Ulead's MediaStore."
EMedia Professional is the technology and business magazine for electronic media producers and users. Readers are both producers of commercial multimedia products, and corporate users who archive, network, distribute, and publish company information. EMedia Professional covers the tools, standards, and technologies necessary for digital publishing success. For more information on EMedia Professional, visit their website at http://www.onlineinc.com/emedia/.
Editorial Contact:
Ilene Rosenberg
Phone: 617/492-0268
Fax: 617/492-3159
ilener@onlineinc.com
"We are extremely fortunate to have someone of Marydee's caliber take on the assignment of DATABASE editor," commented Publisher Jeff Pemberton. "We value her online experience and expertise highly. She is definitely the right person at the right time and we are confident that DATABASE will grow and prosper as she develops her vision for the magazine."
Prior to accepting the position with DATABASE, Marydee spent ten years as a successful independent information professional, both in the U.S. and Europe, researching a wide variety of business topics for corporate clients. She also provided consulting services to library and information centers in the U.S. and Europe and gave seminars on information management topics.
In addition to business research, Marydee wrote frequently for the information industry press, publishing not only in Online, Inc.'s publications ONLINE, DATABASE, and ONLINE USER, but also in Business Information Alert, Information World Review, Special Libraries, Searcher, and Library Management. Ten years of progressively more responsible positions at Bank of America's Research Library & Information Center, culminating as an Assistant Vice President, preceded her establishing her own company. She has also been an adjunct professor for both the University of Missouri and University of California, Berkeley. Most recently she served as a mentor to graduate library school students taking "Teleworking 1996," a course offered by the Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark and the Communication and Information Studies Department of Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Marydee is a member of the Special Libraries Association, the Association of Independent Information Professionals, the American Library Association, and the Utah Information Technology Association. She can be reached at P.O. Box 70, 1790 Bonanza Drive, Suite 219, Park City UT 84060. Her phone is 801/649-7652, fax is 801/658-1169. Her e-mail address is 71571.43@compuserve.com or sjo@xmission.com.
Online Inc. is the publisher of ONLINE, DATABASE, and EMedia Professional magazines, and sponsor of the annual ONLINE WORLD Conference & Exposition.
Media Contact:
Hillary Dietz
Tel: 800/248-8466, ext. 521
Fax: 203/761-1444
Email: hillaryd@onlineinc.com
"On the one hand, we love our privacy. On the other, we want information, and we want to find it as quickly and conveniently as possible. However, if we can uncover the details of other people's lives, they can just as easily intrude into our own secrets. If personal information exists on the Internet, it can be found by anyone who is interested enough to go looking for it... each week, information becomes easier to obtain, and this trend will continue for the foreseeable future."--Helen Burwell
Information broker, publisher, and noted expert on online public records research; from the foreword to NAKED IN CYBERSPACE
NAKED IN CYBERSPACE, How to Find Personal Information Online, by Carole A. Lane, will debut in bookstores on June 2, 1997. The $29.95 book is an in-depth guide to the databases available on online services, the Internet, and CD-ROM that contain information about people--much of it readily available for public consumption, at little or no cost, and easily searchable with a personal computer and modem.
"There is good reason for people to be concerned about privacy today, especially given how easy it is to put information on the Internet," Lane said, "but there are compelling and ethical reasons why people and businesses search databases for personal information. Employers, landlords, and lending institutions, for instance, need to be able to conduct background checks in order to protect their investments, while journalists, medical professionals, law enforcement officers and the courts have pressing reasons to find and investigate people."
Lane, who said she wrote NAKED IN CYBERSPACE as a guide for those who want to conduct personal research online, believes that "many people who don't even own a computer will find the book helpful in clarifying what others can find out about them."
Over three years in the writing, NAKED IN CYBERSPACE is encyclopedic in scope. Section I, "An Introduction to Personal Records in Cyberspace," includes a primer on online database searching, some useful sample searches, a discussion of the Internet and personal records, and a look at privacy issues. Section II, "How Personal Records Are Used," includes chapters on locating people, pre-employment screening, recruitment and job searching, tenant screening, asset searches, competitive intelligence, identifying experts, prospect research (fundraising), and private investigation.
Section III, "Types Of Personal Records," covers a broad spectrum of record types available online including:
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Section IV, "Where Can I Find More Information?," identifies books, periodicals, and organizations for further study, and the book concludes with over a dozen appendices listing hundreds of databases and contact information for the companies and organizations that offer them.
Excerpts from the book, links to related Internet sites, and email access to author and publisher are being made available through the publisher's World Wide Web site at: www.onlineinc.com/pempress/naked, in conjunction with the publication of NAKED IN CYBERSPACE at no charge.
Carole A. Lane, after earning a bachelor's degree in psychology, spent over a decade designing database systems in the medical and consumer credit fields. Formerly a senior systems analyst with leading national credit agency TRW, she is currently president of Technosearch, a research firm specializing in market competitive intelligence and personal records research. She has served on the advisory board of the Special Libraries Association and on the board of directors of the Association of Independent Information Professionals, and is a frequently-requested speaker, teacher and author on the topic of personal information online.
NAKED IN CYBERSPACE is the newest title in the CyberAge Books series from Pemberton Press (an imprint of Online Inc.). Other recent titles include SECRETS OF THE SUPER NET SEARCHERS, FINDING IMAGES ONLINE, ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY, THE ONLINE DESKBOOK, and THE ONLINE 100. Online Inc. is the publisher of ONLINE, DATABASE, and EMedia Professional magazines, and sponsor of the annual ONLINE WORLD Conference & Exposition.
Media Contact:
Meryl L. Moss
Tel: 203/226-0199
Fax: 203/226-0256
Email: merylmoss@aol.com
"Top industry writers--Dana Parker, David Pushic, and Debbie Galante Block--dug deep and delivered," Guenette reports, explaining that the authors' assignments were to investigate pipeline plans, disc replicator capabilities, and title release schedules. "It became clear in the fall of 1996 that the optimistic plans on the part of some of the biggest companies behind DVD were just plain unrealistic.," Guenette says. "You wouldn't know it from the many claims being made at the time, but looking into the sales channels and at the DVD mastering not yet available from the vast majority of disc manufacturers, there was no other possibility than a major DVD product delay past first quarter 1997."
CD-ROM Professional's name change to EMedia Professional was the result of publisher Online Inc.'s recognizing the expanding landscape of electronic media, noting both the leap forward in CD-ROM's connectivity--for example, CD-ROM/online hybrids and CD integrated into LANs and Intranets--and the new technologies growing out of the compact disc family, such as DVD, CD-Recordable, and CD-Rewritable. For more information on EMedia Professional, please visit the Web site at http://www.onlineinc.com/emedia/.
Ilene Rosenberg
EMedia Professional
649 Massachusetts Avenue, Ste. 4
Cambridge, MA 02139
Telephone: 617/492-0268
Fax: 617/492-3159
ilener@onlineinc.com
"This year's event marks a milestone for the ONLINE WORLD Conference & Expo," commented Chairman Jeff Pemberton. "The demographics of this market are changing rapidly as increasing numbers of business professionals use online information on the job. We saw a significant leap in attendance of these online users at the show."
A major theme by this year's exhibiting companies was the move of traditional online services to the Web. Knight-Ridder Information announced its DIALOG service will be accessible via the Web in early 1997 and other companies such as Information Access Company, Dow Jones, Amulet, Reuters, EBSCO, and IBM Internet Division also demonstrated Web-based business information products.
In his Keynote Address, David Churbuck, Editor of Online Services at Forbes, Inc., offered his insights on electronic information in the 20th century and his experience putting Forbes magazine online. Other conference sessions focused on Intranets, Internet Trends & Technologies, Electronic Democracy, Using Online for Competitive Intelligence, plus a CEO roundtable on New Paradigms for Content Delivery. The popular IBM CyberSalon offered 20 PC's with T1 lines for surfing the Internet and viewing the latest video and audio technology.
"We are very pleased with the attendance and enthusiasm this year," continued Mr. Pemberton, "and we look forward to an even larger show next year when we move to the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC from September 15-17, 1997."
ONLINE WORLD is the content conference and expo for
professionals who use online/Internet business resources. More
information can be obtained by visiting Online Inc.'s Web site at
http://www.onlineinc.com.
For more information:
Heather Pemberton
Online Inc.
800/248-8466, ext. 521
203/761-1466
The online researchers interviewed for the book describe their first-hand experiences searching for information on the Internet, reveal their personal search strategies, and offer a wealth of tips, techniques, and pointers to Internet resources available through World Wide Web (WWW) and gopher sites, newsgroups, and more. In addition to the "nuts and bolts" of Internet searching, they discuss the reliability of Net-based information, finding experts online, keeping up-to-date on new information sources, relative strengths of WWW search engines, intellectual property rights in the "Cyber Age," and how to avoid "Internet overload." While the author's questions were designed largely to draw out tested, practical advice for the benefit of anyone interested in using the Internet for research purposes, interviewees were also asked to offer their visions for the future of the Internet and its likely impact on the library and research professions.
In interviewing a virtual "Who's Who" of Internet experts, author Reva Basch a highly-respected online searcher herself was able to encourage frank and revealing discussion on a wide range of issues important to current and would-be Internet researchers. She said, "The interview process was a revelation for me, personally. I came to it as a skeptic, and came away convinced of the value of the Net as a serious information resource."
John Bryans, book publisher at Online Inc., said, "Like the author's previous book, SECRETS OF THE SUPER SEARCHERS--in which she interviewed 23 searchers of professional online services--SECRETS OF THE SUPER NET SEARCHERS will undoubtedly stand as a landmark work in the literature of online research." He said, "We have worked with hundreds of writers in our twenty years of publishing books and magazines for online information professionals, but Reva Basch is the only writer we know of who could get the world's leading Internet researchers to talk openly and specifically about their search strategies. This has a lot to do with the respect Reva commands in the Internet community at large, but I think her ultimate success with this book can be attributed to her brilliance as an interviewer." According to Bryans, the book is "not only an extremely practical resource for Internet searchers, but a fascinating look at the growing professional segment of the new cyberculture."
In addition to the 35 interviews, the book includes an introduction by the author, a directory of Internet sites and resources referenced by the interviewees, a glossary, index, and a foreword by Howard Rheingold, bestselling author of THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY. Excerpts from SECRETS OF THE SUPER NET SEARCHERS, including the Table Of Contents and several complete interviews, can be found on the Internet at www.onlineinc.com/pempress/super.
Media Contact: John Bryans
Tel: 800/248-8466, ext. 513
Fax: 203/761-1444
Email: johnb@onlineinc.com
According to author Paula Berinstein, an independent research professional and writer, "Every imaginable type of imageillustrations and photographs of all kinds, maps, charts and diagrams, backgrounds and textures, logos and trademarks, engineering and patent drawings, medical and scientific images, and fine art reproductions, just to name some broad categoriesis now available to anyone with a computer and online access." She said, "Until now, the one thing that has stopped organizations and individuals from really taking advantage of these resources is the lack of straightforward guidance. It is a formidable challenge for anyone to find the right image from among the millions that are now online." She continued, "After learning how to do it the hard way myself, I decided to write a complete and easy-to-follow guide."
The publisher described Berinstein's book as the first to provide step-by step instructions for finding images on all the major online systems. In addition to coverage of the Internet (World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, and Usenet), chapters explain image searching on the "Big Three" consumer online services, America Online, CompuServe, and Microsoft Network; online services for graphics professionals including the Eastman Exchange, Kodak Picture Exchange, Publishers Depot and Muse, and professional online information services including Knight-Ridder's DIALOG, LEXIS-NEXIS, Questel╫Orbit, and STN. The book covers image content and search strategy, and includes a glossary, directory of resources, bibliography, back-of-book index, and a unique "Subject Index To Online Resources" that directs readers at a glance to primary sources for specific types of images.
John Bryans, book publisher at Online Inc., said, "FINDING IMAGES ONLINE is one of the first of a new breed of consumer reference products to fully integrate the strengths of print and digital formats." According to Bryans, "New image collections are going online every day, and system features are constantly changing. To make FINDING IMAGES ONLINE an ever-current resource that gains rather than loses usefulness over time, we have created a dynamic Internet site that includes timely information on new online services, image databases and graphic resources, hotlinks to important Internet locations, and the latest tips and techniques from the author and other experts."
In announcing the URL for the site at http://www.onlineinc.com/pempress/images, Bryans said that links and excerpts were already available on the Internet, and that the first full update would be posted in January 1997, followed by a new update every three months.
Author Paula Berinstein is founder and principal of Berinstein Research, an independent research firm that has catered to the information and image needs of writers and the entertainment industry since 1987. She has a Masters in Library Science from UCLA, with a specialization in information science, and is the author of one previous book, Communicating With Library Users (SLA, 1994). She lives in Woodland Hills, California.
FINDING IMAGES ONLINE is the newest title in Online Inc.'s Pemberton Press line of books. Other recent book titles include ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY, THE ONLINE DESKBOOK, and SECRETS OF THE SUPER SEARCHERS. Online Inc. is the publisher of ONLINE, DATABASE, ONLINE USER, and CD-ROM Professional magazines, and sponsor of the annual ONLINE WORLD Conference & Exposition.
Media Contact: John Bryans
Tel: 800/248-8466, ext. 513
Fax: 203/761-1444
Email: johnb@onlineinc.com
"We've been around since the early days," commented Adam C. Pemberton, President of Online Inc. and Publisher of CD-ROM Professional. "We've covered CD-ROM as it emerged from corporate and academic libraries, exploded in the multimedia market, and now approaches an installed base of 100 million CD-ROM drives world-wide."
That market growth continues, Pemberton noted, with the Internet and the advent of connected PCs that combine the strength of CD-ROM with the Web and integrated network data storage and retrieval systems. "The new name for the magazine and its tagline, 'The Magazine for Electronic Media Producers and Users' simply reflect the wider role new technologies and practices are playing today in electronic publishing and data storage," he said.
The magazine's feature stories, news, nor graphic design will not change with the name change, Pemberton assured readers and advertisers. "Our own coverage has been expanding to reflect changing markets, and the name change is largely a matter of reflecting the expanding sets of technologies and practices that are now available to our readers in their professional capacities." But as for the core content, Pemberton said the magazine isn't going to change its practical business and technology focus.
Editor-in-Chief, David R. Guenette, added, "CD-ROM represents the first significant digital publishing infrastructure but the real emphasis should now be on electronic media, and how professionals can succeed using it. This is what CD-ROM Professional has always done best and will continue to do as EMedia Professional."
CD-ROM Professional is published monthly by Online Inc.
Selected feature articles are available on the Web at
http://www.onlineinc.com/cdrompro. For subscriptions, call 1-800/806-7795.
Media Contact: Heather Pemberton, Marketing Manager, 800/248-8466, ext. 521
. Visitors can obtain conference registration information on this Web site and view an exciting schedule of events, speakers and exhibitions. ONLINE WORLD Conference & Expo will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC on October 28 - 30 and is the largest Internet content event in the country.
"This is a very user-friendly Web site . Visitors will be able to explore the various conference sessions on unique business and research opportunities available over the Internet," stated Heather Pemberton, Marketing Manager of Online, Inc.
Visitors can navigate through the Web site 's colorful, interactive daily schedule page for an overview of the conference or point and click on a conference session such as 'Recruiting on the Internet' and instantly view a screen describing that particular session. They can also explore the large exhibition hall and product showcase displaying the newest online products and services.
Other program features on this Web site include:
Current ONLINE WORLD Exhibitor list as of July 17, 1996:
Alert Publications, Inc.
American Economic Association
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
Amulet Incorporated
ASEC International, Inc.
Association of Independent Information Professionals--AIIP
Axxess Information Solutions
BIOSIS
CAPCON Library Network
Chemical Abstracts Service
Chris Olson & Associates
Community of Science, Inc.
Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
CorpTech
Database Promotion Center, Japan
DataTimes
Derwent North America
Disclosure, Incorporated
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
EBSCO Subscription Services
Elsevier Science
Engineering Information, Inc.
F-D-C Reports, Inc.
Gale Research, Inc.
Global Securities Information
IEEE/INSPEC
IFI/Plenum Data Corporation
IMS Global Services
Information Access Company
Information Professionals Institute
Information Today, Inc.
Inmagic, Inc.
Institute for Scientific Information
The Investext Group
Knight-Ridder Information (Dialog)
Knowledge Express Data Systems
LEXIS-NEXIS
Medical Data Exchange
Merck and Co., Inc.
Moody's Investors Services
NewsBank inc.
NewsNet, Inc.
NewsWare, Inc.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun America
NTIS
OCLC, Inc.
O'Hara Consulting, Inc.
Online Inc.
Ovid Technologies, Inc.
Profound
PsycINFO
Quest Technology, Inc.
Questel-Orbit, Inc.
Reed Information Services
Reed Reference Publishing
Research Information Systems
Responsive Database Services, Inc.
SandPoint Company, L.L.C.
SilverPlatter Information
SIRS, Inc.
Sociological Abstracts, Inc.
Special Libraries Association
Standard & Poor's
Thomas Register Online
UMI
H.W. Wilson Company
Online World is produced by Online Inc,
publisher of Online User, ONLINE, DATABASE, and CD-ROM Professional magazines
as well as the Pemberton Press line of books.
(Wilton, CT, July 1996) With both national conventions and the 1996 presidential election looming directly ahead, Online Inc. will publish Graeme Browning's unique and practical ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY on August 1st. Subtitled, "Using the Internet to Influence American Politics," the 200-page "hands on" guide for individuals and organizations is a down-to-earth look at an increasingly important area of U.S. public life. This timely and sensible account by a savvy congressional correspondent of the prestigious National Journal will sell for $19.95.
As more and more Americans in every walk of life and political belief move to active participation in the political direction of the nation, Graeme Browning's literate and easy-to-use book provides concise, comprehensive tips on online politics. Reflecting her extensive career as a journalist, ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY shows what works and what doesn't online and how to do it better.
Free of partisan bias, the book is based on extensive interviews with those who have combined the Internet and practical politics for both major parties as well as for a variety of non-governmental organizations. Browning, an award-winning journalist, has united the expertise of a wide range of professionals and grassroots activists to make a road map for any American who wants to participate electronically in local or national government.
"With the geometric expansion of the Age of Cyberspace" Browning notes, "lobbying isn't just for the well-connected or the Washington insider anymore. Whether you're 15 or 95...an independent or a party traditionalist, if you're online you're inside the Beltway. You're in the process. And the private citizen's impact will continue to grow as more people use electronic means to keep track of legislation, to monitor Congress and federal agencies, and to correspond with the White House as well as state and municipal officials."
Browning's book provides both methods and electronic addresses for reaching a broad range of public officials. It also delivers invaluable guidance on how to research databases to support your position. With millions of young Americans tuning into computers, ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY is a book that will be important for decades.
As an added feature, Browning will offer readers of the book a unique and expert online analysis of the role the Internet played in the 1996 elections. This online update will be featured on the publisher's World Wide Web site (www.onlineinc.com/pempress) beginning in February, 1997.
ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY is the newest title in Online Inc.'s Pemberton Press line of books. Other recent book titles include The Online Deskbook, The Online 100, and Secrets of the Super Searchers. Online Inc. is the publisher of ONLINE, DATABASE, Online User, MultiMedia Schools, and CD-ROM Professional magazines, and sponsor of the annual ONLINE WORLD Conference & Exposition, held this October 28-30 in Washington, DC.
Media Contact:
Walter Wager
Tel: 212/595-8139
Fax: 212/769-2725
Online Inc.
462 Danbury Road
Wilton, CT 06897
800/248-8466
203/76101466
booksales@onlineinc.com
Only a few years ago, the ability to record your own CD was an expensive dream that required technical expertise. With the price of CD-Recorders now under $1000 and continuing to fall, many people want to get in on the desktop recording revolution. The new CD-RECORDABLE HANDBOOK guides readers through the process of publishing, distributing, and archiving images, audio, software, and multimedia with CD-R. This book will be of interest to many professionals including print and electronic Web publishers, training specialists and educators; corporate records managers; artists and photographers; advertising, sales and marketing professionals; musicians and music producers; and many more.
Pemberton Press, an imprint of Online Inc., publishes books and tools for the information age. To learn about additional titles available including CD-ROM FOR SCHOOLS, THE ONLINE 100, ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY, and Editor's Choice titles such as CREATING INTERACTIVE CD-ROM and THE CD-ROM DIRECTORY, visit Pemberton Press on the Web at http://www.onlineinc.com/pempress.
Price: $34.95; 272 pages
Editorial contact:
John Bryans, Pemberton Press, 203/761-1466, ext. 513; Email: johnb@onlineinc.com
Customer contact:
Pemberton Press, 462 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897; 800/ ABCD-ROM; 203/671-1466, Email: booksales@onlineinc.com.
(Wilton, CT, April 1996) Online Inc. announced today ONLINE WORLD, a major new expo/conference for knowledge workers, online professionals, and people in business, media, technology, and the professions who buy and use electronic information.
The focus of the show will be on the practical use of online and Internet content by business and professional users. ONLINE WORLD will feature sessions especially designed for Online Users, Information Managers, and Information Professionals, as well as Industry Announcements and Demos, Keynote and Endnote Speakers, half-day Management Briefings, and Pre-conference Seminars.
Stressing the management and use of information content resources is what distinguishes ONLINE WORLD from conferences for developers and infrastructure insiders, according to Conference Chairman Jeff Pemberton. "This is a business consumers' show, and the emphasis is on internal and external business information solutions--what to buy and how to use it. With the Internet rapidly expanding the options, it's important to understand how to buy information for your organization."
ONLINE WORLD, successor to the 18-year-old ONLINE conference, will be held October 28-30 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. Seven thousand attendees are expected. Registration fees range from $125 for a half-day session to $400 or $600, depending on sessions chosen.
Key sessions will address practical topics such as:
Keynoting the show will be David Churbuck, Forbes' Senior Editor of Computers and Communications, who will analyze the new information landscape in terms of business applications.
ONLINE WORLD is sponsored and managed by Online Inc., publisher of Online User, ONLINE, DATABASE, CD-ROM Professional, and MultiMedia Schools magazines. ONLINE, launched in January 1977, was the world's first magazine about online databases and services.
For further information contact: Nancy Garman 606/331-6345 Fax: 606/331-7261 ngarman@well.com
(Wilton, CT, April 1996) Online Inc., publisher of the world's first magazine devoted to using the first generation of online services celebrates its 20th anniversary this April, 1996. Founded in April, 1976 by husband and wife team, Jeffery and Jenny Pemberton, the company has grown to over 40 employees including three of the Pemberton children: Adam (President), Heather (Marketing Manager) and Andrew (Webmaster and Vice President of sister company, Hotwire Technologies).
"These days many people don't realize that the online business is really a quarter century old; they think it started two or three years ago when America Online began handing out millions of disks or when Web browsers were introduced," reflects Online Inc. CEO Jeff Pemberton. "But the first online services, such as DIALOG and LEXIS-NEXIS, go back to 1970-72. They were used chiefly by librarians," he explains.
Magazines for the Information Age
Online Inc. launched its first publication, ONLINE magazine, in January, 1977 to cover these growing online services. A sister publication, DATABASE, was launched in 1978 to cover online databases in more depth.
In 1987, as CD-ROM began to evolve into an information storage medium, Online Inc. launched CD-ROM Professional magazine with son Adam Pemberton as Publisher. The magazine quickly became the key trade journal in the multimedia field. In 1994, Online Inc. expanded into the educational market with MultiMedia Schools magazine to cover the growing use of technology in K-12 classrooms.
Witnessing the effects of the Internet and consumer online services on information retrieval, Online Inc. launched ONLINE USER magazine in October, 1995. This controlled-circulation magazine targets the new generation of corporate and professional online searchers, called "knowledge workers." Articles cover everything from doing your own trademark search to finding graphics for business reports on CompuServe.
Online World Conference & Expo
Following the early success of its magazines, Online Inc. launched the first online industry conference -- Online '79 -- in 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia with 900 attendees and 53 exhibitors. Now in its 18th year as the premier conference and exposition for users of electronic information, the conference, re-named Online World, will be held October 28-30, 1996 in Washington, DC. Over 200 exhibiting companies and 7,000 participants are expected to attend this year's show.
Pemberton Press
Online Inc's book imprint, Pemberton Press, has also expanded over the years, with eight new titles planned for 1996. These include Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, by Reva Basch; Naked in Cyberspace, How To Find Personal Information Online; and Electronic Democracy, Using The Internet To Influence American Politics.
Advanced Technology
Online Inc.'s use of technology in the publishing production process has kept pace with its coverage of information services. Each magazine is stored on individually recorded CD-ROMs for easy archival access. Fully composed magazine pages, created in Quark XPress, are sent to the printer with high resolution color files for film separation on HFS CD-R discs or DATA DAT tapes. In addition, each of the magazine's editors telecommutes from a remote location via the company WAN and the Internet.
"The difference in production and distribution in 20 years is striking," Jeff Pemberton recalls. "Then we pasted up galleys with rubber cement; now we electronically transfer digital files to our printer. Then we distributed only print copies. Now we're distributing digitally over the Internet."
For more information or to schedule an interview with founder, Jeffery Pemberton, contact Heather Pemberton, Online Inc., 203/76101466, ext. 521; email-- heatherp@onlineinc.com.
(Wilton, CT, April 1996) Online Inc. has named Susanne Bjørner Editor of ONLINE magazine. Nancy Garman, former ONLINE editor, will become Editor-in-Chief of ONLINE, and will also edit ONLINE USER, the company's new magazine for knowledge workers in business and the professions. Reva Basch has been named News Editor for ONLINE, its sister publication DATABASE, and ONLINE USER.
Susanne Bjørner, ONLINE's new editor, has been Principal of Bjørner & Associates, a firm providing research, editorial, and consulting services to the information industry. She has served as Technology Consultant at the National Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark and as Senior Information Specialist, Computerized Literature Search Service, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Susanne is the author of Output Options, a column which has appeared bimonthly since 1989. She is the compiler and editor of Newspapers Online; A Guide to Searching Newspapers Whose Articles Are Online in Full Text (BiblioData, 1995) and has been a regular and frequent contributor to many leading trade and professional publications.
Susanne earned a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College (Boston) and has worked in school, public, academic, and special libraries. She also has a Master's in Education, concentrating on Training in Information Literacy, from Antioch University. She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), American Society for Information Science (ASIS), and Special Libraries Association (SLA), and is a member and past president of Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP).
Reva Basch, the new News Editor for ONLINE, DATABASE, and ONLINE USER, is president of Aubergine Information Services, an online research and consulting firm based on the northern California coast. Prior to starting her own company in 1986, she was Vice President and Director of Research at Information on Demand. She has designed front end search software for major online services, written and consulted on technical, marketing, and educational issues for both online services and database producers, and published extensively in information industry journals. She is a frequent speaker on topics related to information retrieval, the Internet, and the World Wide Web.
Reva won the 1990 UMI/Data Courier Award for a two-part article in ONLINE and was the 1993 recipient of the Dun and Bradstreet Online Champion Award. She is author of Secrets of the Super Searchers (Pemberton Press, 1993), Electronic Information Delivery: Evaluating Quality and Value (Gower, 1995), and the forthcoming Secrets of the Super Net Searchers (Pemberton Press, 1996). She is contributing editor of the Information Advisor newsletter, and writes the monthly Cybernaut column for Computer Life, as well as The Compleat Searcher column in ONLINE USER.
Like Susanne Bjørner, Reva is a past president of the Association of Independent Information Professionals. She is a member of the Northern California Chapter of the Southern California Online Users Group (SCOUG) and a founding member of Information Bay Area. She received her Masters in Library Science from UC Berkeley in 1971, began her career as a corporate librarian, and has been an online searcher since the mid-1970s.
Nancy Garman is Vice President of Publications and Conferences for Online Inc., and has been Editor of ONLINE since 1988. She has been Editor of ONLINE USER since its inception in 1995. Nancy also has assumed the editorial management responsibility for DATABASE magazine. She is the chief organizer for ONLINE WORLD, the newly-renamed ONLINE conference sponsored by Online Inc., which will be held this October in Washington, DC.
Nancy was DATABASE Editor from 1986 to 1988. Prior to that, she operated an information research service and worked in corporate and academic libraries. She received her Master's degree in Library Service from Columbia University and is a member of Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Computer Press Association. She has been an online searcher since the early 1980s.
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