Contributors
The Digital Nirvana blog features authors from WhatTheyThink, prominent industry analysts and other thought leaders.
Adam Dewitz
Adam is Director at WhatTheyThink and Managing Editor of Print CEO. He is a research fellow in the Open Publishing Lab at the School of Print Media at Rochester Institute of Technology. Adam holds a masters degree from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Print Media and a Bachelor of Science degree in Graphic Communications Management from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Adam runs PrintWiki, an open-source knowledge base of information on the printing and graphic communication industry.
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Elizabeth Gooding
Elizabeth Gooding is a visionary innovator in the area of relevant, personalized communications that drive positive business results. Currently, she conducts research on trends, technology and opportunities related to integrated, closed-loop transactional marketing (aka Transpromo), shareholder communications and social media. Committed to driving innovation in communications, she has launched a series of business networking communities for communications professionals on Linkedin and at SCS-Central.com and FCF-Central.com. Previously, Elizabeth founded Art Plus Technology, which provides design and communications strategy to the financial, insurance, and healthcare industries. Elizabeth is the former editor of E.bill Magazine and is a frequent speaker at industry events such as AIIM, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) General Meeting, On Demand, NAVA Operations Conference (now IRI), the Gilbane Conference and Xplor.
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Andy Gordon
Andy Gordon manages the Océ North America Production Print Division’s business intelligence activities. In this role, he looks for new opportunities for the company by monitoring and understanding key industry trends, competition, and customers’ requirements. Andy has worked in the graphic arts industry for 20 years in a wide range of segments. These include photojournalism, newspapers, photofinishing, display technology, offset and digital printing. His experience includes managing production facilities, developing new technologies, leading market research programs for major technology vendors and serving the industry as a senior consultant at InfoTrends focused on the digital printing market.
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Skip Henk
Skip Henk is President and CEO of Xplor International, the international association for the electronic document industry. Mr. Henk has held senior level positions in sales, marketing and support for such companies as Kodak, Scitex Digital Printing, Delphax Systems and Xerox. As a 30 year industry veteran Skip has served the industry as both and end user and vendor. He is a frequent speaker at regional, national and global events and contributes to several industry magazines, newsletters and blogs.
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Harvey Hirsch
Hirsch is President and Creative Director of Direct Marketing agency, Media Consultants, located in Lyndhurst, NJ. With over 30 years experience utilizing Direct Mail for new business development programs, Hirsch, using 1:1 tactics has achieved documented response rates in the 80% range. In 2006, one of his programs received a First Place PIXI Award in Variable Marketing from Xerox and Best in Show from the Philadelphia Direct Marketing Association.
Hirsch is a sought after consultant/change agent for print providers, creative firms and B2B companies that must compete more effectively and transition into 1:1 marketers in this age of product and service commoditization.
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Michael Josefowicz
Michael Josefowicz spent 30 years at Red Ink Productions, a boutique print production brokerage he co-founded which served New York-based design studios and non-profit organizations. He came out of retirement to teach production at Parsons The New School for Design for the next 7 years. He is now Managing Partner of Josefowicz Associates LLC. and blogs about print at Print in the Communication Ecology and about the digital printing industry at Tough Love for Xerox
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Duncan Newton
Mr. Newton has an extensive background in electronic and digital publishing stretching back to the early days of DTP while at Apple Computer. He has held a series of progressively more responsible international positions at Aldus, Adobe and Xerox. His current role at Océ North America is as the Manager, Client Development for the Graphic Arts and the Transactional printing industries. In this capacity he provides industry knowledge, technical expertise and an understanding of the industry from an insider’s perspective.
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Heidi Tolliver-Nigro
Heidi Tolliver-Nigro is an industry analyst specializing in digital, one-to-one, personalized URL, and Web-to-print applications. Her Marketer’s Primer Series, availalbe through Digital Printing Reports, includes “Digital Printing: Transforming Business and Marketing Models,” 1:1 (Personalized) Printing: Boosting Profits Through Relevance,” “Personalized URLs: Beyond the Hype,” and “Web-to-Print: Transforming Document Management and Marketing.”
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Bryan Yeager
Bryan Yeager is a Senior Research Analyst for InfoTrends’ Production Workflow & Custom Communications Service. He is responsible for conducting market research and analysis on topics such as production workflow, process automation, and publishing technology. Mr. Yeager has co-authored several InfoTrends Ultimate Guides on topics such as Web-to-print, multi-channel communications, and variable data publishing. He graduated with honors from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Print Media, and is currently a Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) board member.
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Noel Ward
Noel Ward has over 25 years experience in digital printing and marketing communications and research. Noel provides strategic marketing consulting to print providers and technology vendors and produces white papers, case studies, and corporate videos for industry leading companies. He has been editor-in-chief of Desktop Publishers Journal, Print on Demand Business and Print on Demand Solutions magazines and has edited On Demand Journal and the Digital Printing Resource Center for WhatTheyThink.com. He has written hundreds of articles and columns on industry trends and how print providers can develop strategies for applying digital technology in their businesses. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and customer-focused events put on by vendors. Regardless of the media or venue, Noel’s primary focus is on communicating how companies can use digital printing as a driver for business growth, productivity and profitability.
