Annual Conference

Digital Conference

San Francisco Nov. 6, 2009


Sessions at the Nov. 6 Digital Symposium in San Francisco included:

  • Leveraging the power of B2B social communities
  • Organizing print & online B2B editorial teams
  • Writing for search, navigation & the B2B reader
  • ASBPE Web Site of the Year case study

Plus, the Digital Azbee Awards of Excellence Luncheon.

National Editorial Conference

The National Editorial Conference for print publications took place July 15–17, 2009, at the Marriott Washington in Washington, D.C. The Print Azbee Awards of Excellence banquet were held during that conference, on July 16.

Watch this five-minute video for highlights from the conference.

Sessions at July’s National Editorial Conference examined:

  • Innovative responses to today's troubling times
  • How to use social media to advance your brand, generate editorial leads, and increase readership
  • Ways to sell your ideas to company executives
  • How to keep your print publication relevant in a digital age
  • Print and digital workflow strategies
  • Alternate ways to present content using visual journalism techniques
  • ASBPE Magazine of the Year winner case histories.

Full conference agenda.

About the Conference

Each summer, ASBPE holds a two-day National Editorial Conference in a different U.S. city. The conference is an opportunity for editors to meet their colleagues from across the country and to keep up with the latest on topics like doing editorial research, improving readership, and more. As part of the conference, the annual Azbee Awards of Excellence are presented at a dinner banquet. In addition, up to five U.S. and two international editors each year can attend the conference for free through our Young Leaders Scholarship.

Starting in 2009, ASBPE will hold two conferences: a two-day summer conference that focuses on print and the intersection of print and web, and a one-day fall conference devoted entirely to digital media. The digital conference will feature its own awards program.

Young Leaders Scholarship

Each year, ASBPE’s Young Leaders Scholarship pays the conference and hotel room costs for five U.S. and two international applicants to attend the National Editorial Conference. (Transportation to and from the conference, any nonconference meals and other incurred costs are the responsibility of the winners or their individual publishing companies.)

Scholarship winners will also attend the ASBPE National Awards Banquet and will receive a free one-year membership to ASBPE if they are not already members.

These scholarships are open to all business editors under the age of 30, including print and Web.

Applicants must meet the following qualifications:

  • Must be 30 years of age or younger.
  • Must have worked at least two years as an editor of a business magazine or the magazine’s associated Internet publication.
  • Candidacy must be sponsored by their publication’s Chief Editor.
  • Must plan to continue in the business press as a career.
  • May not be a past ASBPE Young Leaders Scholarship winner.

This year’s application deadline was March 2.

Read about the 2008 scholarship winners.

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