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2015 Users Conference - Tampa Bay Embassy Suites, Tampa Bay, FL
Empowering Our Future Through Collaboration
Sunday, April 12
TIME
3:00 pm - and
on
6:00 - 8:00
Hotel Check - in
Welcome Reception - 4th floor poolside
2015 Users Conference - Tampa Bay Embassy Suites, April 12-15
Preliminary Agenda
Monday, April 13
TRACK
TIME
All Sessions
NCS Circ
SAXO Circ
MediaPlus
NCS Content & Digital
Bayview
Skyway II
Campbell
Boardroom
Demo Room 3
Skyway I
Special Unlimited
MediaSpan
Other
AdBase
(Advertising)
Demo I
Demo 2
Franklin
Gandy II
AdBase (Finance) AdBase (IT Users)
7:15 - 8:15
Registration
8:15 - 8:30
Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements — Jill Van Hoesen, Carol McCotter (Bayview)
8:30 - 9:30
Keynote Address: NEWSCYCLE Solutions CEO Preston McKenzie (Bayview)
Demo Room 4
Demo Room 5
Break
9:30 - 9:45
9:45-10:45
Gandy I
AdBase
(Production)
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
Purpose, Introductions, Purpose, introductions,
new things people are new things people are
doing -Christopher
doing, pain pointsBerdahl
New Features in
8.14.1/8.14.2 and
upgrade process in
MediaPlus: Sylvie
Therrien
Special meet with techs
on JazzBox, DTI,
Hermes,
NEP in a Digital World
What's new in NCS (old MWC print and online
Lightning/Content
Ken Freedman and
platforms) Speaker: Mark Jump
Publisher, other
Geoff Kehrer
products (will
coordinate list with Mark
Jump)
Analytics: Tracking
numbers that matter
from your dashboard.
Presenter: Steve
Hoffmann of The
Bulletin.
NEWSCYCLE Advertising (AdBase) Roadmap - Speaker: Donna Beasley
10:45-11:00
11:00-12:00
Lunch set up
Special Edition
Strategic Partner
Pricing(Premium Days) Facebook and beyond:
Growing Revenue the transition to
news content
Program Updates New Employee Profile: Is there a way to publish digital magazines via Making
and other Revenue Promoting
Vacation No Credit,
Unified: Demo on NCS
via FB's ad tools.
Loyalty and Rewards - Bundled Subscriptions Accesses and Schemas NCS without investing huge dollars in Adobe
Generating
for print production
Presenter: Steve
DPS? Mark Jump getting speaker
e-Commerce Single
Sylvie
Therrien
Opportunities
Ken
etc. Kelli Nowak
Speaker: Mark Jump
Hoffmann of The
Sales - Dana Midby
Freedman and Geoff
Bulletin
Kehrer
Lunch breakdown
Circulation Revenue
Blurring the line between NCS content and
Growth -From Rating
Retail Account
online. What functions should you be able to do
options to Premium
Management - Draw
Making the transition to
in both? Batch prio editing in MWC? Taxo
Billing Order Group:
Days Find out what
Predictions, Pads,
Unified: Demo on NCS
searches on MWC? What are you doing in
Grouping
Multiple
other users are doing to Prompt Pay Discounts,
OnlineUI that could be done in MWC? You tell for online production.
grow revenue.
Late Fees, Delayed Late Invoices Sylvie Therrien NCS what you want. Discussion led by Teresa
Speaker: Mark Jump
Roundtable discussion.
Sales Kelli Nowak
Schmedding and Mark Jump
- Jon VanZomeren
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
Implementing E-Billing
for your operation Jean Englund
The Pros and Cons of
Introduce Google
using Oracle and SQL
Repository, Google
Server. Facilitator:
Groups. Share upgrade
Greg Walker.
test plans. Facilitator:
Newscycle Solutions
Carol McCotter
Person: Tapas Mishra
Newscycle Solutions
and Tim Downie
Person: not required
Commercial Delivery
Partners - Account
XSLT for
Circ Pro 5.3 Key
Pervasive Publishing Content Creation. Speaker: Mediaspan - Circ Pro
Managementt, Draw, Proofs/Reports/Stateme
Features Ken Freedman
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
2014-2 Preview
Billing and Reporting
nts Sylvie Therrien
and Geoff Kehrer
Kelli Nowak
Core Session: AdRater
IT Session: What are the
Setup: Attendees can
Cloud Solutions/Hosting
send question and
AR Session: Using
that Newscycle
Production Session:
situations in advance AdBase AR Tool, Cash provides? NewsCycle Using PGL, PGL Folios
that they need
Receipts and Bad Debt.
lead all attendees
and PGL Upgrades.
assistance with.
Facilitator: Shannon
session. Facilitator:
Facilitator: Gary
Facilitator: Jennifer
Roberts from
Betsy Barefoot,
Underhill, BH Media
Lisch from North Jersey Albuquerque Publishing. Chronicle of Higher
Group, Newscycle
Media Group (NJMG),
Newscycle Solutions
Education. Scott
Solutions Person, Maria
Newscycle Solutions
Person: Anna Carson.
Caddell or the
Ahlm-Smith
Person: Vanessa
NewsCycle VP of
Alcuaz.
Hosted Solutions.
Break
3:45-4:00
4:00-5:00
Setup and
configuration of the Deferred Revenue – new
Internet Tab: Facilitator: in 2014 – 1. Facilitator:
Facilitator: Jennifer
Betsy Barefoot,
Smallwood from AH
Chronicle of Higher
Belo, Newscycle
Education. Newscycle
Solutions Person:
Solutions Person
Vanessa Alcuaz
Break
2:30-2:45
2:45-3:45
Production User
Discipline - Day one:
Introductions, identify
challenges, new trends
and create agenda of
discussion points.
Facilitator: Gary
Underhill, BH Media
Group.
Lunch (Bayview)
12:00 - 1:15
1:30-2:30
Advertising User
Finance User
IT User Discipline Discipline - Day one:
Introductions, identify Discipline - Day one: Day one: Introductions,
Introductions, identify identify challenges, new
challenges, new trends challenges,
new trends
trends and create
and create agenda of and create agenda of agenda of discussion
discussion points.
discussion points.
points.- Facilitator:
Facilitator: Carol
Facilitator: Carly Kelso,
Greg Walker, TAP
McCotter, U-T San
Denver Post.
Publishing
Diego.
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
What's new in Digital?
From the paymeter to
the day pass, learn the
ins and outs - NCS led
AMP for your Your Sales
Output to web: How to
NCS Digital session:
Team create an XML file for NCS admin center training refresh old and new
Better use of CCE
ContentPublisher: Best
NCS speaker coming from Mark Jump
extraction Sylvie
Speaker: Mark Jump will Practices for Maximum
Therrien
find
Efficiency. Speaker: Kirk
Smith.
5:00-5:15
Beginning Analytix:
User Groups Board
Session to discuss
Meeting. AdBase and
Analytix for those who
“Self-Service:
AR Session: Using
iConnect all board
have never seen it
advertising trends and
Adjustment Tiers.
members meeting.
before or are just
customer benefits.
Facilitator: Ruth
getting started. Issues, Discuss how things are
Facilitator: Rob Bradley,
Sensabaugh, The
going and what
good ideas, etc.
Newscycle Solutions Denver Post. Newscycle Facilitator: Jackie Goor, improvements/changes
Person: Ron Arthur
Solutions Person: ???? San Diego , Newscycle could be made for 2016
Conference. Faciliator:
Solutions Person:
Carol McCotter
?????
‘AdBase User Group Wrap-up’
5:15-6:00
(iConnect User Group Board wrap up)
6:00-8:00
iConnect cocktail gathering at hotel happy hour
2015 Users Conference - Tampa Bay Embassy Suites, April 12-15
Preliminary Agenda
Tuesday, April 14
TRACK
TIME
All Sessions
NCS Circ
SAXO Circ
MediaPlus
NCS Print and Digital
Special Unlimited
MediaSpan
General
AdBase
(Advertising)
AdBase
(Finance)
Bayview
Skyway II
Campbell
Demo Room 3
Skyway I
Demo 1
Demo 2
Franklin
Gandy II
Gandy I
7:15 - 8:30
Registration/contintental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30
NEWSCYCLE Solutions Talin Bingham roadmap (Bayview)
9:30 - 9:45
Break
9:45-10:45
Trends in Media 2015: Peter Marsh (Bayview)
Lunch set up
Deeper Dive-How is the
conference going?
How is NCS planning for the future of mobile? What users are doing with
Have your questions
Deeper Dive - How is Deeper Dive - How is What can customers expect in the future to help
Mediaspan Pro Line Road
DTI users on their
been answered? Still the conference going? the conference going?
Map Discussion Ken
increase user experience on mobile devices
websites. Presenter:
need some support?
Kelli Nowak
Sylvie Therrien
Freedman and Geoff Kehrer
without adding work? Speaker: NCS TBA
Manny
Mellor
of
NCS
Let's connect. -Christopher Berdahl
Lunch breakdown
Ask the Expert. Have a
burning question that
you can't ever get
answered? Get your
answer here, from the
source and from your
cohorts. NCS Experts
Automating with Job
Streams Kelli Nowak
Advertising
IT
Production User
Finance
User Discipline User Discipline - Discipline - Day
User Discipline What some users Day two: Discuss Day two: Discuss Day two: Discuss two: Discuss and
and document
and document
document detail
are doing outside
and document
NCS with their detail description ofdetail description ofdetail description of description of
challenges/trends. challenges/trends. challenges/trends. challenges/trends..
websites
Facilitator: Carol
Facilitator: Greg
Facilitator: Gary
McCotter, U-T San Facilitator: Carly
Walker, TAP
Underhill, BH Media
Kelso, Denver Post
Diego
Publishing.
Group.
Mobile (Media
How to auto-ingesting wire content into NCS
Spectrum/Salesforce):
online without it looking like you're
How to import external
auto-ingesting content. Speakers: Teresa
Data to MediaPlus Sylvie
Schmedding, Mazyar Yazdani
Therrien
ContentPublisher: Best Shopper/TMC Publications &
Practices for Maximum How to Compete with Direct
Efficiency. Speaker: Kirk Mail Ken Freedman and Geoff
Smith.
Kehrer
Advertising
Session: CRM
Solutions. Adbase
CRM (previously
Oneview) and
AdSales 3.5 &
above. Software
enhancements to
AdBase products
since last year,
CRM business
trends and
challenges. What
sites are doing to
motivate
salesperson usage.
Facilitator: Jada
Scarbrough, San
Diego. Newscycle
Solutions
Core Session:
Using AdBase
Configuration
Workflow. Multiple
ways you can use
parallel approval.
Facilitator:
Shannon Roberts,
Albuquerque
Publishing.
Newscycle
Solutions Person:
Vanessa Alcuaz
IT Session:
Advanced Analytix: Using Medialink
How to work
and also interfacing
around issues, tips to other production
& tricks.BI
systems with
collaboration tools
Medialink:
for use between
Facilitator: Gary
sites. Facilitator:
Underhill,
Jackie Goor, San
Newscycle
Diego , Newscycle Solutions Person:
Solutions Person: Maria Ahlm-Smith
?????
Core Session:
Challenging Rate
Card Structures.
Complex rates,
packages or
custom contracts.
Attendees should
bring samples,
workshop format.
Facilitator: Ruth
Sensabaugh, The
Denver Post,
Newscycle
Solutions Person:
Vanessa Alcuaz
Contract Manager
and using Contract
Renew Utility,
modifying
contracts, levels,
etc - Facilitator:
Shannon Roberts
from Albuquerque
Publishing,
Newscycle
Solutions Person:
????
IT Session:
Integration
Technologies Webservices.
Overview of 2-way
Salesforce
Interfaces, other
uses with Adbase
(AdPay, Geo
graphic data). Facilitator: Nanette
Secor, Newscycle
Solutions Person:
Jamie Fuller
Break
2:30-2:45
2:45-3:45
Demo Room 4 Demo Room 5
Lunch (Bayview)
12:00 - 1:15
1:30-2:30
AdBase
(Production)
Break
10:45-11:00
11:00-12:00
AdBase (IT)
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
All you need to know
about Combos - how
to, what works,tips and
tricks. Bring your
Combo challenges to
get feedback from
others. - Richard Pettey
What is in your
Toolbox? - NCS led
Automating Complex
Automating Complex
Hosted Order Page (for Digital workflow, social media integration in NCS
Processes: Budgets,
Processes: Budgets,
PCI compliancy): How
7.3 and beyond. How to efficiently maximize
to configure the Hosted your social media publishing from inside your Barcodes, Folios, Custom Barcodes, Folios, Custom
Fields,
Autoslotting,
Page
Fields,
Autoslotting, Page
Order Page Sylvie
CMS. Speaker: Mark Jump?
Imposition and more.
Imposition and more. Ken
Therrien
Aaron Kuehn
Freedman and Geoff Kehrer
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:00
Closing Day 2: Marcel Badowski (Bayview)
5:00-5:15
AdBase User Group Wrap-up
Night Out On Your Own
Advertising
Session: Beginning
Packages. Share
package setup
samples. How
using packages
affect the rating
tree. Facilitator:
Jennifer Lisch from
North Jersey Media
Group, Newscycle
Solutions Person:
?????
2015 Users Conference - Tampa Bay Embassy Suites, April 12-15
Preliminary Agenda
Wednesday, April 15
TRACK
TIME
All Sessions
Bayview
NCS Circ
SAXO Circ
Skyway II
Campbell
MediaPlus
Demo Room 3
NCS Print and
Digital
Other
MediaSpan
General
AdBase
(Advertising)
AdBase (Finance)
Skyway I
Demo 1
Demo 2
Franklin
Gandy II
Gandy I
AdBase (IT)
Demo Room 4
AdBase
(Production)
Demo Room 5
8:00-9:00
IConnect board meeting, elections, Q&A (Bayview)/ AdBase board meeting, elections, Q&A in
Gandy I
8:15-8:30 Announcements: Carol McCotter - NAUG President and User Group Board Location Gandy 1
9:15-10:00
NEWSCYCLE Solutions Bob Mason (Bayview)
8:30-10:00 Newscycle Advertising (AdBase) UG Board Meeting: 2015 Conference Changes How did it go? Discuss voting items identified last year and vote. Election for new VP and
Secretary positions. Collaboration Tools with new Google Components. Customer Enhancement
Forum (CEB) and Existing Feature Challenges working with User Discipline content.
Customers/Members Only. Location: Gandy I
Break
10:00-10:15
10:15-11:15
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
What is missing in your
Circ System? What do
you want from your
System? Share what is
working and what you
need NCS to do - Kerry
Jones
What did you learn?
What did you learn? Did NCS Layout geometries
What NCS online
What did you learn? Did you get what you came v. article templates v. developers can expect Did you get what you
you get what you came for? Were connections Adobe libraries Speaker: in transition from Savis
came for? Were
for? Were connections made and questions
connections
made and
Greg Newell (NCS
to Amazon hosting. questions answered?
made and questions
answered?
Sylvie
digital
session
in
NCS
speaker:
Mazyar
answered? Kelli Nowak
Ken Freedman and
Therrien
Franklin)
Yazdani
Geoff Kehrer
Break
11:15-11:30
11:30-12:30
Book a tech session
NCS techs avail for 20
min Q&A sessions; Post iServices and Auth
signup sheet with areas Control in API-how to
of expertise. Run from set it up-how to use it11:30-5 pm
all the how to's. Chad
Coordinating with
Hasenohrl
Marcelle and Jenna
Riffer
Maximizing use of
Dynamic Export and
Import Kelli Nowak
NCS Member
Is there any
eBilling: How to send Exchange?
we explore sharing
email for
pages between
Statement/Etearsheet/in content,
users? Leaders: Mark
voice Sylvie Therrien
Stallings and Ronnie
Wilson
"Book a tech session:
NCS techs avail for 20
Task
min Q&A sessions; Post Management/Reporting
signup sheet with areas Dual Session -NCS Led
of expertise. Run from
10:45-5 pm)
Tokenizing your
Circulation Data Kelli
Nowak
Hosted Order Page (for
PCI compliancy): How
NCS Digital: Taking
to configure the Hosted Five time savers to take your website to the Roundtable Discussion
Order Page Sylvie
home Speaker: Richard
next level with
- Circulation Pro
Therrien MediaPlus Job Hicks, Scripps Central, respnosive design and Users Ken Freedman
Numbering: New
and Greg Newell
asychronous ads.
and Geoff Kehrer
process for Job
Philippe Hall
Assignment
IT Session: XML
WebExporter/Fielded
Data. How to get the
most out of your data
feeds. Facilitator:
Kevin Steverson,
Worcester Telegram &
Gazette.
Core Session: Preprints
Interfacing with outside
Vendors. Roundtable
Discussion: Facilitator:
Jonathan Kramer, StarLedger, NJ
Advertising Session:
Best Strategies for
Training Users. Share
Training best practices
and materials. Facilitator: Jennifer
Smallwood, AH Belo.
IT Session:
IT session:
Troubleshooting AdBase
XMLAdImporter: Multiple Webservices. Adbase
uses-Reverse
webservices tips and
publishing, AdPay, POS introduction to using
with Tips & Tricks.
Charles troubleshooting
Facilitator: Rob Bradley, tool. Facilitator: Nanette
San Diego; Newscycle
Secor, San Diego;
Solutions Person:
Newscycle Solutions
?????.
Person: Vanessa
Alcuaz.
Production Session:
Building Internet ads in
MediaLink. Facilitator:
Gary Underhill, BH
Media Group.
Newscycle Solutions
Person: Maria Ahlm Smith.
Break
2:45-3:00
3:00-4:00
MediaPlus Job
Numbering: New
process for Job
Assignment Ken
Freedman and Geoff
Kehrer
AR Session: Installment
Advertising Session:
Billing. New feature in
Advanced Packages. 3.7 and later. Monthly
New Features. Tips and Installment billing as
to get the most
opposed to what
DTI users collaborate: tricks
out of your packages published that month.
Tips, tricks and timeand changes to
How revenue posts with
savers. Sheila Timony,
packages coming in this feature. Facilitator:
Carl Davaz
2014-1 and later.
Betsy Barefoot,
Facilitator:Jennifer Lisch Chronicle of Higher
from North Jersey Media Education; Newscycle
Group.
Solutions Person:
?????.
Lunch with comments (Bayview)
12:30-1:45
1:45-2:45
Advertising User
Production User
Finance User
Discipline - Day three: Discipline User Discipline Discipline: Day three:
Day three: IT Day
Con't discuss and
three: Con't
Con't discuss and
Con't discuss and
document detail
discuss
and
document
document detail
document detail
description of
detail description of
description of
description of
challenges/trends.
challenges/trends.
challenges/trends.
challenges/trends.
Review deliverable list. Review deliverable list. Review deliverable list. Review deliverable list.
Facilitator: Carol
Facilitator: Greg
Facilitator: Gary
Facilitator: Carly Kelso, Walker, TAP Publishing. Underhill, BH Media
McCotter, U-T San
Denver Post.
Diego.
Group.
"Book a tech session:
NCS techs avail for 20
Beyond print: How to
AAM-The always
Report Plus: How to
min Q&A sessions; Post changing rules and
publish newsletters and
signup sheet with areas
Five time savers to take create personalized
eblasts via NCS (both
reports and how to build automated or custom
of expertise. Run from reports. Learn what is
home Kelli Nowak
new and what is needed
a template for Classified edited). Speaker: Ryan
10:45-5 pm)
-NCS and Jill Colosky
Ads Sylvie Therrien
Engleman
Five time savers to
take home Ken
Freedman and Geoff
Kehrer
IT Session: Advanaced
IT Session: Ad Serving
AdBaseE.
BI Session: Advanced.
Integration
Using
ASI.
Redesign using AJAX
Adding NCS Circulation
AR Sessions: Best
is ASI, overview of
and JQuery web
tables/data to AdBase Practices for Month End What
how this works and
development tools to
BI. Discussion of other Closing and AR Tools. what's new with Internet modernize your site!
advanced concepts
Facilitator: Ruth
Tab fielded data and
Demo of updated site
sites have implemented.
Sensabaugh, The
rating: Facilitator:
and overview of what it
Facilitator: Jackie Goor, Denver Post. Newscycle Jennifer
Smallwood.
takes to do this.
San Diego , Newscycle Solutions Person: Anna Newscycle
Solutions Facilitator: Rob Bradley,
Solutions Person: Anna
Carson
Person: Vanessa
San Diego; Newscycle
Carson.
Alcuaz.
Solutions Person: Ron
Arthur
Newscycle Advertising (AdBase) CEF and Feature Challenges: Review & Prioritize
Deliverables/Closing Ceremony
4:00-5:00
Go home and be brilliant