In This Webinar: There is a well hidden-feature in InDesign called “Data Merge”, this is not new. In fact, PageMaker had it and it has gotten better. No matter what version of InDesign you are using, you can automate certain page building with this amazing feature. Car ads? Yes, you can get the images and the text on the pages faster using data driven design. Same with real estate ads. But what about those graduation pages we build this time…

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Old habits die hard. When it comes to working faster and getting better results, it's time to try to break the old production habits and learn new ways. Photoshop has so many improvements that we are often surprised by how to rethink the way we work on photos.   Russell Viers wants us to put the past behind us and look at new ways to get better results and start using the new versions of our old friend Photoshop. MNA…

Instagram has quickly become a medium to share impactful, visual stories around the world. What began as a friendly photo-sharing app is now the way 1 in 10 Americans first hear about breaking news (Pew, 2020). In this session, we'll give you some tips and tools to best share stories on the Instagram platform as well as lots of examples of accounts to follow who are using it well. If you already have an Instagram account, bring your phone and…

With resources stretched thinner than ever, it's never been more important for newsrooms to focus on automation, wherever possible. In this session, Matt will describe some of the turnkey ways publishers are automating marketing and content creation on WordPress. He will discuss the plugins used to create recurring subscriptions, automate newsletter marketing, and auto post article links to social media.  Matt will also present case studies from publishers using computer generated audio content to automatically turn their newspaper into a…

ARCHIVED WEBINARS SPOTLIGHT Old habits die hard. When it comes to working faster and getting better results, it's time to try to break the old production habits and learn new ways. Photoshop has so many improvements that we are often surprised by how to rethink the way we work on photos. Russell Viers wants us to put the past behind us and look at new ways to get better results and start using the new versions of our old friend…

ARCHIVED WEBINARS SPOTLIGHT Instagram has quickly become a medium to share impactful, visual stories around the world. What began as a friendly photo-sharing app is now the way 1 in 10 Americans first hear about breaking news (Pew, 2020). In this session, we'll give you some tips and tools to best share stories on the Instagram platform as well as lots of examples of accounts to follow who are using it well. If you already have an Instagram account, bring…

   Email newsletters are a key component of any business' marketing toolkit.   Unlike social media marketing, which uses top-secret algorithms to distribute content, the email newsletter allows you to control the communication with your audience.  Learn more about the strategies that newspapers are using to harness the power of the original “push notification”. This webinar will cover techniques to automate the process of creating newsletters, growing your subscriber lists, and monetizing that audience. This session will be presented by Matt Larson,…