Follow Us on Twitter!

Well, as promised...here is the URL for our new Twitter page:
http://twitter.com/NYUPublishingMS

Our "tweets" (that is, short posted messages) are made fresh daily for your reading enjoyment!

Happy Twittering,
~Karen

Hello Fellow NYU-Pub Alumni!

I'm honored to be on the board and to be part of the outreach/get-together efforts for the publishing alumni/students of the MS program...

And, I'm happy to announce that we're now on Twitter! I'm working on completing our group's profile. Once that is done (hopefully, by end of today), I'll blog the URL (and will email it, as well) so that you'll be able to follow announcements, industry articles, and, of course, job postings.

Until next time,
~Karen


klivecchia@cosimobooks.com
212.989.3616, x109

Welcome to our new board member

Karen Livecchia has joined our board and we're sure her knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm will benefit future meetups/events and our group. If you don't already know Karen, she will be at the meetup on Monday so be sure to say hi.

Hope to see you all there and have a great weekend until then.

PS It's not too late to RSVP or to send round-robin ideas.

Revised Date for Next Meetup: 3/16

Please adjust your calendars since the next meetup will be on Monday 3/16 instead of 3/23, but will still be held at The Chill Lounge and begin at 6:30.

Thank you and hope to see you there,
Karina, Joanne, and Ania

Next Meetup: 3/23

We're having our next NYU Publishing meetup on 3/23 at The Chill Lounge, and hope to see you there (see details below). We decided to postpone having the NYU-sponsored event until we got a better sense of the kind of speaker you'd enjoy most, so besides our usual round-robin question, please come with suggestions for speakers as well.

And as always, if you have an inudstry-related question you'd like to pose to the group, either let me know ahead of time via e-mail, or just bring it to the event.

So save the date:

Monday 3/23
The Chill Lounge
329 Lexington Avenue @ 39th Street
6:30 p.m.

We'll be creating a Facebook event for you to rsvp to, so if you're on Facebook but not in the group, just ask us to join; if you're not on Facebook, just RSVP by responding to this e-mail.

And until then, stay warm.

Karina, Joanne, and Ania

PSA Mentoring Program

The Publishing Students’ Association organizes a mentoring program every semester. It’s a wonderful way to get to know others in the program and industry, network, and just have someone to answer questions. It is a very casual program; there are no mandatory meeting dates. Pairs will decide what kind of meeting frequency works for them. Mentors must have been in the program at least 1 year. Alumni are welcome!

If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please submit the following information to Kimberly Bayley at kjb320@nyu.edu by February 13, 2009.

• Name:
• I want to be a (mentor or mentee):
• What was your focus in the program? (books, magazines, digital, other)
• What are your hobbies and interests outside the classroom?
• Where do you work?
• Phone number/email address

January Meet-up Recap

As the lay-offs continue and magazines continue to fold (I’m personally saddened by the loss of Conde Nast’s Domino), our round-robin discussion at January’s meet-up focused on how our industry can withstand this current economy.

If you were CEO of the company you work for, what would you do to make your organization recession-proof? What can the industry do to make itself recession-proof?

Maybe the solution lies in the midst of the NYU Publishing alumni! There were plenty of ideas and lots of interesting answers. Some recognized that lay-offs are necessary in order to keep companies lean. Other ideas included making your product more relevant to consumers and taking a step back to think about quantity versus quality: perhaps publishers should publish fewer books?

Several people noted that the industry needs to change its mindset and not see itself as “publishers” but rather as “content providers,” thus broadening the opportunities. Print on demand was brought up as an efficient, cost-saving and, some argued, necessary technology that isn’t used as often as it can or should be.

Do you use POD at your company? What would you do to recession-proof your company? Do you have ideas on how the industry could recession-proof itself? Post your answers here. We’d all love to hear from you.