Magazines West unveils a day chockful of professional development

Magazines West in Vancouver is a collaborative event, combining a day of professional development seminars on June 18 sponsored by the British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers and the Western Magazine Awards on June 19. Both events at the Renaissance Hotel Vancouver Harbourside.

Details of the seminars have just been released:

• Keynote luncheon speaker is Bruce Grierson, a multiple National Magazine Award-winning freelancer, who has written about human-powered travel and private rocketeers for Popular Science, genomics and recovered memories for The New York Times Magazine, anthrax and the insurance industry for Scientific American, religious deconversions and human failure for Psychology Today, and particle physics and conservation biology for Vancouver magazine. In none of these areas is he is an expert.

• Just Your Type -- a workshop on typography by typographer, designer and educator Dr. Shelley Gruendler, the founding director of Type Camp and head of the advanced typography program and the communication and ideation design program at Langara College Continuing Studies in Vancouver.
• Upselling in the Downturn -- a panel discussion of sales professionals, moderated by Rebecca Legge, the director of online sales for Canada Wide Media Limited. Panel members are: Allison Bauman, the advertising director for The Tyee; Jessica Malach, director of business development for Teldon Media Group, publishers of alive magazine; Janet Macdonald, director of sales for Western Living, Vancouver and GuestLife Vancouver.
• Spinning the Web -- a workshop by Martin White, talking about monetizing the web. come from a print background (TIME and Toronto Life) but in 2003, established Online Magazine Marketing, a company that provides senior management with strategic and tactical consultation focusing on print and online business issues.
• Mark My Words: Copy Editing Best Practices Catheryn Keegan, who works both for Institutional Investor and Vogue, talks about what a well-run copyediting process looks like in a workshop focussed on best practices.

More information will be available next week on the Magazines West website.