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Selling the Dream – Live Event with Me

April 26, 2010

Tomorrow (April 27th 2010) I am presenting a talk about selling the dream for the Milwaukee PHP User Group. The meeting is open to all interested parties and will be held at the very cool new home of Bucketworks. Since I don’t believe in coincidences, I knew there was a reason Justin Kownacki posted this [...]

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Five W’s Twitter Presentation

January 26, 2010

My presentation as a member of the social media panel at the Wisconsin Publishers’ Production Club. I was asked to speak on Twitter. The slides just provided talking points but should give you a flavor of the conversation. During the presentation I also addressed the following list of bullet points I scribbled throughout the morning. [...]

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Life at a Conference the Real, Authentic and Sustainable way…

January 20, 2010

If you follow me on Twitter you know that recently on a moment’s notice I spoke to about 150 people on the topic of social media…what follows are my speaking notes…. 1. I am Jim Raffel and most of you know me as a “color guy,” after all, my company ColorMetrix does sell the best [...]

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SpotOn! & ColorMetrix – Day 1

December 2, 2009

I almost titled this post “The Morning After,” but this is a new beginning not an ending so it seems more appropriate to write in the present and future tense. Yesterday SpotOn! and ColorMetrix announced a technology collaboration agreement.  As a result of the response to our “media blitz” the reality is I don’t have [...]

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Hard Work: A Year In the Making

November 30, 2009

Tomorrow morning a press release will announce that ColorMetrix and SpotOn! Press have agreed to work together on a project to provide enhanced interoperability between our two products. There will be lots of flowery prose and 50 cent words in the release so I will spare you the sales talk here. Tonight I will write [...]

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#75: PMA09 Here I Come

February 28, 2009

Sunday afternoon I will travel to the PMA show for the balance of this week. I decided to ask myself what I really want to get out of the show this year and share the resultant thoughts with my readers. First and foremost, for a whole host of reasons, we have been going fast and [...]

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#70: Ink Jet Print for Pay vs. Proofing

September 25, 2008

Not too long ago I attended the IRgA annual conference and continued to see a growing trend I first saw at an ISA show several years ago in Las Vegas.  Ink jet printers that many in the traditional graphic arts (commercial and publication printing) have viewed as proofing devices are competing increasingly for commercial print [...]

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EXTREME Color Management Conference Update

September 17, 2008

It has really been too busy to write something each day.  I do have some topics rolling around in my head and will write more when I get back to the office.  So far it has been a good conference with many excellent speakers. During lunches and other networking opportunities I did pick up a [...]

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EXTREME Color Management Conference

September 14, 2008

New Orleans, LA – As part of ColorMetrix’ sponsorship of the EXTREME Color Management Conference I will be in New Orleans the rest of this week (9/14-9/18). The week is actually comprised of 3 conferences; starting with a G7 Summit all day Monday; then a day and half of EXTREME the second day of which [...]

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#69 IDEAlliance Proofing Summit in Review

March 18, 2008

Recently I attended the IDEAlliance Proofing Summit held in conjunction with the Publishing Business Conference and Expo at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. During the one day summit I managed to take three pages of notes focused on the meeting’s key topic of Virtual Proofing to the Numbers. During the initial industry panel [...]

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