Haven't been on this site in years and looked just now and saw I'm in the picture with the Brisquemobile sent in by Stan Najmr! Loved the photo of Graph Expo '99 too! Wow, a lot of great memories for me.....Now, I am mom to 7yr old triplets and an 8yr old. We have a small farm in Stow, Ma with 40 chickens, some goats and whatever else we can collect. I started a newspaper for our town 3 years ago, and it now goes to 3000 people every week, with a staff of 6, 20 pages per week and full color on 4-8 pages. The prepress dept of our printer has some very very old Scitex and Agfa equipment, but I like to think there is a bit of Scitex in every issue we put out! Would be happy to hear from anyone. Hope you are all doing well. You can reach me at news@stowindependent.com |
Ron Roszkiewicz (STA, 1987-89) recently formed Leucadia Software in San Diego to sell and support the metadata management tools in Metatag+. In addition to this, a new book, To Turn the Perfect Wooden Bowl, The Lifelong Quest of Bob Stocksdale" was also published by Fox Chapel Publishing. The Library Journal says it is "Valuable for those who make of love crafts." (July 9, 2009). Ron spent two years involved in the Visionary and VIP programs, two adventures worth books of their own. |
Seeing the story and picture of Efi brought back some great memories. When I was there, during the early 80's, Efi was still very much involved. He was one of those people that you knew entered the room, before they did! Amazing personality, wonderful person, remarkable mentor! I wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and a properous New Year. "The future is so bright I have to wear shades", but I don't want to lose the emotions of the past. Best Wishes, Rick Littrell |
Looks like a BEAUTIFUL day for the event...
1st Strategic Marketing Beach Bash
Date: Friday, July 11, 2008
Begins at High Noon and lasts until…there is no reason to stay anymore.
Salisbury Beach in Salisbury, MA (go .3 miles past Salisbury Beach Reservation, turn right on Railroad Street (Whilley's Candy & Ice Cream on corner), then go 0.55 miles to intersection and find a place to park...enter at Public Beach Access #2 and look for Hawaii shirts and smiling faces)
Bring all that you need to enjoy a day at the beach. You should include beach chair, blankets, food, drink, and SUN SCREEN, at the very least.
Don’t forget your “Burning” Question" or “Great” story to share with the group.
Whatever is a ‘Strategic Marketing Beach Bash” you may ask. Magicomm came up with this idea and is organizing this event for three reasons: (1) The second quarter was extremely busy for us and we got the opportunity to work in some new areas and learn new things. It was fun, but many questions were raised as we drove ahead with developing interactive components and strategies of a direct marketing campaign using viral techniques, variable data print, dynamic emails, personalized url’s and variable video’s. We would like to meet others that are working or interested in these areas and technologies that work out of the Boston/Southern New Hampshire. (2) Meeting on a beach, feeling the sand in your toes, and enjoying the warmth of the sun on your body, would not present an enormous burden on any of us, and (3) We all deserve a break from the normal, day to day chaos of work and life. Besides, it’s summer time and most of us work inside all day and only get to look at the sun through of windows, if we have windows at all (We are lucky at Magicomm because we are in an old Mill building, with HUGE windows that look over the Pow Wow River. It’s not so shabby!)
Salisbury (http://www.salisburychamber.com/) is on the Atlantic coast between Newburyport, MA and Seabrook, NH. We will be on the beach by noon time. Once we all set up our “best spot”, we can begin our discussions with you on YOUR (or Ours) burning question. Oops, I forgot to tell you that you had to bring a “burning” question or a great story to share with the group. All topics relating to marketing and media are on the table for discussion. I expect a lot of discussion on personalized communications, integrated marketing, viral marketing, and social media. Of course, leveraging the internet while not completely abandoning the traditional mass media and print will be looked at from all angles.
But, you may ask yourself “What day is it going to be?”. Legitimate question, but that is the tricky part. We are planning to have it sometime the week of July 7th. But, we will not finalize the date until we are SURE that the weather will be good for a superior beach experience. Therefore, we will continue to watch the weather and will make the call when the weather picture becomes clearer. At this time, it appears that the end of the week is going to best the best weather. So keep an eye on our calendar page for the final determination. We will update daily, at least, as we watch The Weather Channel (http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/sports/tenday/USMA0361?from=36hr_topnav_sports). Right now, Friday, July 11th looks like the best day. Definitely not promising for the first of the week.
Looking forward to it and I hope to see you there.
“See” Ya Later,
Rick Littrell |
