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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
5:30 - 7:30
Hotel Check - in
Welcome Reception @ Hotel Happy Hour Sponsored by Your User Group
2015 Users Conference - Tampa Bay Embassy Suites, April 12-15
Preliminary Agenda
Empowering Our Future Through Collaboration
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)
9:30-9:45
Break
9:45-10:45
NEWSCYCLE Solutions Talin Bingham roadmap (Bayview)
Lunch set up
How can we help?
Introductions and what Purpose, introductions,
you are looking to learn new things people are
at the conference. Dana
doing, pain pointsMidby Christopher
Berdahl
New Features in
8.14.1/8.14.2 and
upgrade process in
MediaPlus: Beatrice
Russo
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.
Advertising User
Discipline - Day one: Finance User Discipline IT User Discipline - Day
- Day one:
one: Introductions,
Introductions, identify
challenges, new trends Introductions, identify identify challenges, new
new trends
trends and create
and create agenda of challenges,
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.
Production User
Discipline - Day one:
Introductions, identify
challenges, new trends
and create agenda of
discussion points.
Facilitator: Gary
Underhill, BH Media
Group.
Lunch sponsored by Virtual Paper (Bayview)
12:00-1:15
Lunch breakdown
Setup and
I.T. Session:
Production Session:
Strategic Partner
Special Edition
Deferred Revenue – new
Background server
Using PGL, PGL Folios
Update: How are things
Pricing(Premium Days) Facebook and beyond: configuration of the
in 2014 – 1. Facilitator:
Growing Revenue Promoting news content Internet Tab: Facilitator:
applications and
and PGL Upgrades.
Is there a way to publish digital magazines via Making the transition to
progressing with our
New
Employee
Profile:
and
other
Revenue
Betsy
Barefoot,
Vacation No Credit,
Unified: Demo on NCS
via FB's ad tools.
Facilitator: Jennifer
process monitoring
Facilitator: Gary
NCS without investing huge dollars in Adobe
Single Sale eGenerating
Chronicle of Higher
Bundled Subscriptions Accesses and Schemas
for print production
Presenter: Steve
Smallwood from AH
tools. Facilitator: Greg
Underhill, BH Media
DPS? Mark Jump getting speaker
Commerce and
Beatrice Russo
Opportunities Ken
Education. Newscycle
etc. Kelli Nowak
Speaker: Mark Jump
Hoffmann of The
Belo, Newscycle
Walker, Tapp
Group, Newscycle
Loyalty/Membership
Freedman and Geoff
Bulletin
Solutions Person: No Solutions Person: Anna Publishing. Newscycle: Solutions Person, Maria
projects?
Kehrer
Carson
NCS Representation.
No NSC Representative.
Ahlm-Smith
Break
2:30-2:45
2:45-3:45
Demo Room 5
Break
10:45-11:00
1:30-2:30
Demo Room 4
Keynote Address: NEWSCYCLE Solutions CEO Preston McKenzie (Bayview)
8:30-9:30
11:00-12:00
Gandy I
AdBase
(Production)
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
Exploring new revenue
Blurring the line between NCS content and
streams; what to
Retail Account
online. What functions should you be able to do
expect, success stories
Management - Draw
Making the transition to
in both? Batch prio editing in MWC? Taxo
and lessons learned.
Billing Order Group:
Predictions, Pads,
Unified: Demo on NCS
searches on MWC? What are you doing in
Review new options Prompt Pay Discounts,
Grouping Multiple
for online production.
available for billing Late Fees, Delayed Late Invoices Beatrice Russo OnlineUI that could be done in MWC? You tell
Speaker: Mark Jump
NCS what you want. Discussion led by Teresa
Premium Days in
Sales Kelli Nowak
Schmedding and Mark Jump
advance. Jon
VanZomeren
IT Session: NCS Cloud IT Session: NCS Cloud
Core Session: AdRater
Hosting Solutions.
Hosting Solutions.
AR Session: Using
Features: AdRater for
NewsCycle Presentation NewsCycle Presentation AdBase AR Tool, Cash
users that don't use
NCS Circulation
Newscycle VP w/Q&A. Newscycle VP Receipts and Bad Debt. AdRater every day.
Analytics - See where w/Q&A.
of Hosted Solutions,
of Hosted Solutions,
Facilitator: Shannon Know what it can do to
Circulation Insight can
Bob Mason.
Bob Mason.
Roberts from
help support business
take you today.
Attendance: Betsy
Attendance: Betsy
Albuquerque Publishing.
decision making.
Presenter: Jim Williams Barefoot, Chronicle of Barefoot, Chronicle of
Newscycle Solutions
Facilitator: Jennifer
Higher Education.
Higher Education.
Person: Anna Carson. Lisch from North Jersey
Location: Gandy I & II Location: Gandy I & II
Media Group. No NCS
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:00
AR/Adv Session: Using
Using Medialink and
Adjustment Tiers.
also interfacing to other
Commercial Delivery
Facilitator: Ruth
Audience Analytics - production systems with
Partners - Account
OutXSLT for
Circ
Pro
5.3
Key
Sensabaugh, The
Pervasive Publishing Content Creation. Speaker: Mediaspan - Circ Pro
Taking the Mystery out Medialink: Facilitator:
Managementt, Draw, Proofs/Reports/Stateme
Features
Ken
Freedman
Denver
Post. Customer
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
2014-2 Preview
of NCS Audience.
Gary Underhill,
Billing and Reporting
nts Beatrice Russo
and Geoff Kehrer
Expert: Jada
Presenter: Jim Williams Newscycle Solutions
Kelli Nowak
Scarbrough. No
Person: Maria AhlmNewscycle
Smith
Representative.
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
Implementing E-Billing
for your operation Jean Englund
5:00-5:15
Beginning Analytix:
Session to discuss
Analytix for those who
have never seen it
before or are just
getting started. Issues,
good ideas, etc.
Facilitator: Jackie Goor,
San Diego , Newscycle
Solutions Person:
Nathan Douthit
IT Session: Best
Practices for Purging. Review Purging Utilities.
Determine what
procedures to adopt for
your site. Facilitator:
Carol McCotter
Newscycle Solutions
Person: Anna Carson
‘NCS Advertising (AdBase) User Group Wrap-up’. Location: Gandy I & II
5:15-6:00
(User Group Boards wrap up)
6:00-8:00
Newscycle sponsored Cocktail gathering at hotel happy hour
2015 Users Conference - Tampa Bay Embassy Suites, April 12-15
Preliminary Agenda
Empowering Our Future Through Collaboration
Tuesday, April 14
TRACK
TIME
All Sessions
NCS Circ
SAXO Circ
MediaPlus
NCS Print and Digital
General
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
Trends in Media 2015: Peter Marsh (Bayview)
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
Digital Engagement Where are you at with
monetizing digital?
Progress Results for
Paywall settings, pricing NCS Circ - Learns the Output to web: How to
and marketing
basics of this report
NCS admin center training refresh old and new
strategies that work writing tool to use with create an XML file for
NCS speaker coming from Mark Jump
extraction Beatrice
best. Open forum for
your NCS Circ data.
Russo
sharing and learning
Presenter: Richard
and understanding
Pettey
opportunities for
success.
Lunch set up
NEWSCYCLE Advertising (AdBase) Roadmap - Speaker: Donna Beasley.
Location: Gandy I & II
Lunch (Bayview)
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
Mobile (Media
Spectrum/Salesforce):
How to import external
Data to MediaPlus
Beatrice Russo
How to auto-ingesting wire content into NCS
online without it looking like you're
auto-ingesting content. Speakers: Teresa
Schmedding, Mazyar Yazdani
Advertising
Session: CRM
Core Session:
Solutions. AdSales
Workflow Manager.
3.5 & above.
Multiple ways you
Enhancements to
can use parallel
AdBase CRM
ContentPublisher: Best Shopper/TMC Publications & What some users
approval.
products since last
Practices for Maximum How to Compete with Direct are doing outside year.
Facilitator: CRM business
Efficiency. Speaker: Kirk Mail Ken Freedman and Geoff NCS with their
Shannon Roberts, trends and
Smith.
Kehrer
websites
Albuquerque
challenges.
Publishing.
Facilitator: Jada
Newscycle
Scarbrough, San Solutions Person:
Diego. Newscycle
Anna Carson.
Solutions: Jamie
Fuller.
Self-Service
BI Session:
Advanced Analytix: Solutions: NCS
Macros and set systems and other
systems sites are
analysis in
using. Advertising
Qlikview, tips &
trends and
tricks. Facilitator: customer benefits. Jackie Goor, San
Facilitator: Rob
Diego , Newscycle Bradley, Newscycle
Solutions Person: Solutions Person:
Nathan Douthit
Ron Arthur
Break
2:30-2:45
2:45-3:45
NCS online: Users
AMP for your Your Sales
bring suggestions
Team - ContentPublisher:
Best Practices for Maximum for key changes to
NCS digital.
Efficiency. Speaker: Kirk
Session presenter:
Smith.
Philippe Hall
Maximizing your
Advertising
IT
Production User
Finance
Distribution Self-Service
User Discipline - User Discipline - User Discipline - Discipline - Day
Portal - Explore
The latest in digital Day two: Discuss Day two: Discuss Day two: Discuss two: Discuss and
How is NCS planning for the future of mobile?
underutilized
Deeper Dive - How is Deeper Dive - How is What can customers expect in the future to help What users are doing with Mediaspan Pro Line Road
news trends.
and document
and document
document detail
DTI users on their
functionality and learn the conference going? the conference going?
Map Discussion Ken
Speaker from the detail description of and document detail description of description of
increase user experience on mobile devices
websites. Presenter:
about new features for
Kelli Nowak
Beatrice Russo
Freedman and Geoff Kehrer Poynter Institute on challenges/trends. detail description of challenges/trends. challenges/trends..
without adding work? Speaker: NCS TBA
Manny
Mellor
of
NCS
challenges/trends.
carriers, agents and
Media Studies
Facilitator: Carol
Facilitator: Greg
Facilitator: Gary
Facilitator: Carly
distributors. Christopher
McCotter, U-T San Kelso, Denver Post
Walker, TAP
Underhill, BH Media
Berdahl
Diego
Publishing.
Group.
12:00 - 1:15
1:30-2:30
Demo Room 4 Demo Room 5
Break
10:45-11:00
11:00-12:00
AdBase
(Production)
Break
9:30 - 9:45
4:00-5:00
AdBase (IT)
Kelli Chmielorz NCS
Freshen up how you
All you need to know communicate with your
about Combos - how audience - Learn more
Automating Complex
Automating Complex
Order Page (for Digital workflow, social media integration in NCS
to, what works,tips and about transitioning to Hosted
Processes: Budgets,
Processes: Budgets,
PCI compliancy): How
tricks. Bring your
HTML emails, using to configure the Hosted 7.3 and beyond. How to efficiently maximize Barcodes, Folios, Custom Barcodes, Folios, Custom
your social media publishing from inside your Fields, Autoslotting, Page Fields, Autoslotting, Page
Combo challenges to
Communication
Order Page Beatrice
CMS. Speaker: Mark Jump?
get feedback from
Preferences and the
Imposition and more.
Imposition and more. Ken
Russo
others. - Richard Pettey
new CRM Email
Aaron Kuehn
Freedman and Geoff Kehrer
functionality
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:00
Closing Day 2: Marcel Badowski (Bayview)
5:00-5:15
Contract Manager IT Session: AdBase
Advertising
Core Session:
and using Contract
Webservices.
Session: Beginning
Preprints
Renew Utility,
Overview of 2-way Packages. Share
Interfacing with
modifying
Salesforce
package setup
outside Vendors. contracts, levels,
Interfaces using
samples. How
Roundtable
etc - Facilitator:
AdBase
using packages
Discussion:
Shannon Roberts webservices. How affect the rating
Facilitator:
from Albuquerque to setup AdBase
tree. Facilitator:
Jonathan Kramer,
Publishing,
webservices.
Jennifer Lisch from
Star-Ledger, NJ.
Newscycle
Facilitator: Nanette North Jersey Media
No NCS
Solutions
Person:
Secor.
Newscycle:
Group. No NCS
Representation.
Anna Carson
Jamie Fuller.
Representation.
AdBase User Group Wrap-up
Night Out On Your Own
2015 Users Conference - Tampa Bay Embassy Suites, April 12-15
Preliminary Agenda
Empowering Our Future Through Collaboration
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)
8:15-8:30 Announcements: Carol McCotter - NAUG President and User Group Board Location Gandy I & II
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 & II
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?
did you learn? Did NCS Layout geometries
What NCS online
What did you learn? Did What
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.
made and questions
questions answered?
answered?
Beatrice
digital
session
in
NCS
speaker:
Mazyar
answered? Kelli Nowak
Ken Freedman and
Russo
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
How to leverage
signup sheet with areas funtionality
and tools for
of expertise. Run from
gaining efficiencies.
11:30-5 pm
Chad Hasenohrl
Coordinating with
Marcelle and Jenna
Riffer
Maximizing use of
Dynamic Export and
Import Kelli Nowak
NCS Member
NCS Circulation
MediaPlus Job
Exchange? Is there any
eBilling: How to send
Analytics - See where
Numbering: New
we explore sharing
email for
process for Job
content, pages between Circulation Insight can
Statement/Etearsheet/in users? Leaders: Mark
take you today.
Assignment Ken
voice Beatrice Russo
Presenter: Jim
Freedman and Geoff
Stallings and Ronnie
Williams
Kehrer
Wilson
A review of new
"Book a tech session:
reporting options,
NCS techs avail for 20 getting
the most of your
min Q&A sessions; Post
InSight data and
signup sheet with areas
of expertise. Run from learning what others are
doing for KPIs and
10:45-5 pm)
Financial reporting.
Tokenizing your
Circulation Data Kelli
Nowak
Core Session:
Core Session:
Rate Card
IT Session:
Advertising Session: Challenging
IT session:
Hosted Order Page (for
Challenging Rate Card
Structures. Complex
Troubleshooting AdBase
Best
Strategies
for
Multiple Webservices. Adbase
PCI compliancy): How
Structures. Complex
rates, packages or XMLAdImporter:
Training Users. Share
uses-Reverse
to configure the Hosted Five time savers to take NCS Digital session: Roundtable Discussion rates, packages or
custom contracts.
Training best practices
publishing, AdPay, POS webservices tips and
Order Page Beatrice home Speaker: Richard Better use of CCE
- Circulation Pro
custom contracts.
Attendees should bring with Tips & Tricks. introduction to using
and materials. Russo MediaPlus Job Hicks, Scripps Central, Speaker: Mark Jump Users Ken Freedman Attendees should bring
samples, workshop
Charles troubleshooting
Facilitator: Jennifer format. Facilitator: Ruth Facilitator: Rob Bradley, tool. Facilitator: Nanette
Numbering: New
and Greg Newell
will find
and Geoff Kehrer
samples, workshop
Smallwood,
AH
Belo.
San
Diego;
Newscycle
process for Job
format. Facilitator: Ruth
Sensabaugh, The
Secor, San Diego;
Newscycle: Joyce
Solutions Person:
Assignment
Sensabaugh, The
Denver Post.
Newscycle Solutions
Madden
Vanessa Alcuaz.
Denver Post.
Newscycle: Anna
Person: Jamie Fuller.
Carson
Break
2:45-3:00
3:00-4:00
Session: Installment IT Session: Creating
Advertising Session: AR
Billing. New feature in
Data Feeds: Fielded
Advanced Packages.
and later. Monthly Data. XML WebExporter. Production Session:
New Features. Tips and 3.7
Installment billing as
Transforming AdBase Building Internet ads in
tricks to get the most
opposed to what
XML using XSLT
DTI users collaborate: out of your packages published that month. transformation to meet MediaLink. Facilitator:
Tips, tricks and timeand changes to
Gary Underhill, BH
How revenue posts with vendor requirements. savers. Sheila Timony,
packages coming in this feature. Facilitator:
Media Group.
Facilitator: Kevin
Carl Davaz
2014-1 and later.
Newscycle Solutions
Betsy Barefoot,
Steverson, Worcester
Facilitator:Jennifer Lisch
Person: No NCS
Chronicle
of
Higher
Telegram
&
Gazette.
from North Jersey Media Education; Newscycle
Representative.
Newscycle Solutions
Group. Newscycle:
Solutions Person: Anna Person: Jamie Fuller. Joyce Madden
Carson
Location:
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:
Facilitator: Carly Kelso, Walker, TAP Publishing. Underhill, BHGary
McCotter, U-T San
Media
Denver Post.
Diego.
Group.
"Book a tech session:
AAM - the always
NCS techs avail for 20
Beyond print: How to
changing rules and
Report Plus: How to
min Q&A sessions; Post reports.
newsletters and
Learn what is Five time savers to take create personalized publish
signup sheet with areas
new and what is
reports and how to build eblasts via NCS (both
of expertise. Run from needed. A joint session
home Kelli Nowak
automated or custom
a template for Classified edited).
10:45-5 pm)
Speaker: Ryan
the NCS and user
Ads Beatrice Russo
Engleman
community
Five time savers to
take home Ken
Freedman and Geoff
Kehrer
Advanaced
IT Session: Ad Serving IT Session:
BI Session: Advanced.
AdBaseE.
Adding NCS Circulation
AR Sessions: Best Integration. Whatofis ASI? Redesign using AJAX
tables/data to AdBase Practices for Month End howOverview
and
JQuery
web
this works and
BI. Discussion of other Closing and AR Tools.
development tools to
what it takes to get
advanced concepts
Facilitator: Ruth
modernize your site!
setup: Facilitator:
sites have implemented.
Sensabaugh, The
Demo of updated site
Jennifer Smallwood. and
Facilitator: Jackie Goor, Denver Post. Newscycle Newscycle
overview of what it
Solutions
San Diego , Newscycle Solutions Person: Anna
takes to do this.
Person:
Vanessa
Solutions Person:
Carson
Facilitator: Rob Bradley,
Alcuaz.
Nathan Douthit.
San Diego. No NCS
Representation.
CEF and Feature Challenges: Review & Prioritize Deliverables/Closing Ceremony. Location:
Gandy I & II
4:00-5:00
Go home and be brilliant