October 7, 2009
2 – 4 p.m.
Dimdim.com

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Who Should Attend

• Publishers & general managers
• Editors & managing editors
• Graphics editors
• Designers

The Program

Can design save your newspaper?
Serve your readers better with these practical tips

Designer Kevin Dilley will discuss a wide range of topics from basic concepts of legibility to more advanced editing techniques that will make your newspaper a useful product for your readers.

This session will include lots of contemporary examples from newspapers large and small. You’ll pick up seven tips you can use in your shop immediately!

This session will include ample time for specific questions from participants.

The $30 registration fee is per location, so you can assemble as many staff at your location as you wish to include in this instructional webinar (see instructions on back panel).

The Instructor

Affiliated with the consulting firm Creative Circle Media, Kevin Dilley is a 19-year newspaper veteran with varied writing, design, editing, photojournalism, management and teaching experience.

In 2001, Dilley joined Creative Circle after a two-year stint at The Providence Journal where he was a photo editor, assignment editor and designer. His previous experience includes five years at The Monroe Evening News in Michigan where he was a staff photographer, photo editor, designer and copy editor.

Dilley received numerous state and national accolades while at this newspaper, including twice helping the paper win AP’s “Photo Member of the Year.” He coordinated and led a complete redesign of the newspaper and helped with the transition to new color presses. Dilley has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Master of Arts degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University.

Dilley has played a role in most Creative Circle projects over the past six years and was the lead designer and project manager for The Newport (R.I.) Daily News and The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H. His redesigns include the North Jersey Community Newspaper group, Recorder Community Newspapers, Staten Island (N.Y.) Register and Florida Catholic.

Creative Circle Media Consulting
Creative Circle Media Consulting is a unique consulting firm, drawing much of their talent from top working media professionals. They can put together a team of specialists to help you with a wide range of design, content, workflow, management, production, advertising or technical needs. The result is guaranteed — top-quality training, management and design services.

The group is led by Bill Ostendorf who founded CCMC in 1984. He has helped redesign more than 200 publications and Web sites, led consulting and training projects in 23 countries on three continents and has been a featured speaker at more than 400 workshops. He worked as a part-time consultant and full-time newspaper editor for 16 years before devoting all his time to Creative Circle beginning in 2000.

Creative Circle is based in Providence, R.I.

In addition, more than 20 other consultants with diverse and extensive backgrounds worked on CCMC projects in the past year.

Among Creative Circle’s range of services are market research, branding, convergence, interior design, niche and new product ideas.

Online Instructions
Based on an open source platform, and used in over 185 countries around the world by more than 1 million people, Dimdim allows anyone to experience live web meetings using just a browser. Dimdim — the world’s easiest web conference — lets anyone deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and webpages while sharing their voice and video over the Internet — with no download required.

After attendees register for the training session, they will receive webinar log-in information for Dimdim.com. Attendees will click the “Join Meeting” button on Dimdim’s front page and simply enter their names and the name of the meeting room. It’s that simple!

Training session questions?
Susan Bazzoli, Manager of Administrative Services:
sbazzoli@ohionews.org