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October 26-27, 2006
The Grand Hotel
2100 Baltimore Avenue
Ocean City, Maryland 21842
Phone: 800-447-6779 | 410-289-6191 | Fax: 410-289-7591

"Congratulations MidAtlantic Region on Our 25 Year Anniversary!"

Agenda

To Print or Not To Print
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Wednesday, October 25th

Time
5:00pm - 7:00pm Mid-Atlantic Xplor Regional Board of Directors Meeting - [Castaway Room]
7:15pm - 9:15pm BOD Dinner - [TBD]

 

Presentations available for downloading

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There are links to download speaker presentations, for those speakers that made their presentations available to us. There is an indicator of the total byte size for each presentation, powerpoint icon [6.0 MB]. If you do not have PowerPoint software on the computer you are using, you can download the free PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft.

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3:30 - 4:00
Presentation - [Grand I]
Ted Matthews, Senior Account Executive, Anchor Software, LLC
Great Message. Wonderful Piece. GET IT DELIVERED!powerpoint icon[0.2 MB]
This session focuses on the importance of address hygeine and move update processing in any direct marketing/mailing effort. It is geared towards the creative marketing people who designs the mailpiece and message and may not understand that all their time and efforts may go to waste if the piece does not actually reach its intended recipient.


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Thursday, October 26th

Time
8:00 - 10:00 Registration - [Grand Terrace]
8:00 - 9:00 Continental breakfast - [Grand Terrace]
9:00 - 10:00 Vendor Setup - [Grand II and III]
  8:30 - 8:45 Welcoming address, General business, & Meeting logistics - [Grand I]
Diana Hillman, President, MidAtlantic Region Chapter
General business, including brief Committee Reports, & Announcements. Volunteers Neededpowerpoint icon [.2 MB]
8:45 - 9:30
Keynote Speaker
Ron Stott, Account Executive, Mail+Gard - [Grand I]
After The Hurricanes – Print-to-Mail Continuity Lessons Learned powerpoint icon [1 MB]
Print and mail productions processes remain an often over-look aspect of business continuity and recovery. If print and mail disaster recovery efforts are not planned for or carefully executed, the results can mean no billing, no income... no business. Learn what happened to four companies that were impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma.


  9:35 - 10:15
Panel Discussion -- Bob Wert, moderator -- [Grand I]
Ron Stott, Account Executive, Mail+Gard
Bill Sanders, NearStar
Casey Clarke, National Account Manager, USGPO
Barry Lietuvnikas, Senior Systems Analyst, City of Baltimore
Disaster Recovery - Document, Print and Mail Solutions
There are many aspects to disaster prevention, planning and recovery. And, there is no "cookie cutter" disaster recovery plan that accommodates the needs of every company. This will be an informal panel discussion providing vendor and user perspectives for disaster planning and recovery focusing on document recovery solutions. The purpose is it provide in-sight on key elements for maintaining a well prepared plan.
Casey Clarke: Disaster Rcovery & Document Management for the Federal Governmentpowerpoint icon[2.5 MB]
10:15 - 10:30
Morning Break
10:30 - 11:00
Presentation - [Grand I]
Skip Henk, President & Chief Executive Officer, Xplor International
Xplor International Updatepowerpoint icon[1.7 MB]
  11:00 - 11:30
Presentation - [Grand I]
Bill Sanders, President, NearStar
Take the risk out of your print - managing data in a secure manner with Disaster Recovery processes powerpoint icon [0.5MB]
NearStar has provided centralized output management software and consulting to many fortune 500 based companies and large government entities, which has helped streamline their printing process as well as provide security and redundancy in the print environment. This session will provide information on customer case studies for "best practices," requests specific to managing data in a secure manner, redundancy in the print shop and a short overview on products used to accomplish this.
11:30 - 12:00
Presentation - [Grand I]
Robert Moffitt, President, RHM Marketing Group & Sales Management Systems
Higher-Payoff Sales & Marketing Approaches
This seminar delivers a bird's-eye view of more profitable sales activities: -reduce attrition by up to 50%; get customer revenue at 1/5 cost of new accounts, 6- times faster; double transactions; lead you to more fertile hunting grounds; fine-tune distribution; accelerate your acquisition of superior prospects; manage sales process with simpler tools.


12:00 - 1:00<
Lunch: served in [Grand Terrace]
1:00 - 3:00
Vendor Exhibits - [Grand II and III]
[Dessert will be served to attendees in this function area.]
3:00 - 3:30
Presentation - [Grand I]
Paul Hudrick, Business Development Manager, Eastman Kodak Company
Leveraging Technology in Today's Communicationspowerpoint icon[5 MB]
Paul will speak about the tie-ins between printing and the Internet and how important it is in today's world to leverage all of the communications technologies available to get your messages across.


 
4:00 - 4:30
Presentation - [Grand I]
Sue Locke, Vice President, Director of Consulting, Coaching Solutions
The Four Agreements
Based on the book by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements embrace commitments to yourself and others as a way of being. Learn how becoming aware of how we relate to each other has a lot to do with how accountable we are to our own excellence. Leave with a powerful tool for eliciting positive, proactive solutions to office problems.
4:30 - 5:00
Presentation - [Grand I]
Casey Clarke and Jerry Sherman
Graph-Expo Updatepowerpoint icon[0.5 MB]
7:00 - 9:00 'Getting to know you' dinner
Newcomer? EDP? Vendor? On your own tonight? No matter, don't spend the night in your room alone. Join us at 7 p.m. in the hotel lobby. We'll break into restaurant groups for dinner or eat in the hotel's restaurant. Or you can check out the pool/ocean for a leisurely swim. [Payment by individuals, not Xplor.]
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[updated: 11/5/2006]