The Evolution of Publishing in the Information Age

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The Evolution of Publishing in the Information Age
 

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GENERAL INFORMATION

RESEARCH AND CONSULTING

  • Internet Opportunity Studies
  • Electronic Commerce/USA Projects
  • Technology Audits
  • Executive Education Programs
  • Competitive Analyses
  • Project Monitoring
  • Feasibility Study/Demonstration Systems
  • New Project Brainstorming
  • Litigation Support

EDUCATION PROGRAMS

  • Public Conferences, Seminars and Workshops
  • Private Executive Education

GENERAL INFORMATION

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

The International Informatics Institute (in3.org) is a technology research and consulting organization with offices in Brooklyn, New York and Hadlyme, Connecticut. Founded as the Graphics Research Laboratory in 1982 by director Jack Powers, the firm’s research associates consult with users and vendors of information and communications technologies, electronic commerce strategists, and interactive media firms.

Director Jack Powers serves as Conference Chairman of Penton Media's INTERNET WORLD events, the largest Internet business expositions and conferences in North America. He develops the curriculum and picks the speakers for the U.S. shows and supports 27 international INTERNET WORLD events in 26 countries.

Working for corporate clients, government agencies and industry associations, the firm publishes the results of its research in numerous books, journal articles and video programs.

For commercial, corporate and government clients, the International Informatics Institute's user engagements fall into four broad categories: 

  • Internet Opportunity Studies explore a client’s informatics    options in Internet, intranet and extranet development and help build online strategies that fit each organization's markets, expectations and competitive needs;
  • Electronic Commerce/USA Projects offer a comprehensive package of consulting, executive education and research supporting non-U.S. firms that want to do business in the North American online marketplace;
  • Technology Audits provide extensive in-depth analysis of   equipment, personnel and procedures, reviewing current production operations, recommending new systems and techniques, and anticipating future needs; and
  • the Executive Education Programs teach working professionals about the evolution of the digital age and keep them up-to-date on technologies and practices.

Clients range in size from the Children’s Television Workshop to Brazil’s Editora Abril and in application from United Stationers to the Associated Press, from PC World, Black Enterprise and Folio to the National Academy of Sciences, the Federal Reserve, the Central Intelligence Agency.

For systems vendors, GRL’s primary focus is marketing and strategic planning, especially for opportunities bridging the conventional and interactive media fields. The firm provides strategic planning services, market research, dealer network development, industry-specific sales training, product development, market analysis and acquisitions consulting for equipment manufacturers and software developers. A special focus in 1999 is the emerging amrket for Internet devices and appliances that extend IP connectivity beyond the desktop PC.

Vendor clients range in size from multi-nationals like Apple, AT&T, IBM Europe and Xerox to smaller organizations like the Associated Press, MicroPro and Polychrome to young companies and start ups like Advanced Pen Technologies.

In addition to technology and operations consulting, IN3.ORG technologists have created demonstration systems in database design for catalog publishers, hacked unique interface solutions for PC typesetting, produced production-line software for electronic manuscript handling and provided systems integration for corporate and commercial clients.


GLOBAL CONFERENCE
AND SEMINAR SPONSORS

As one of the industry’s leading technology research firms, the Graphics Research Laboratory produced seminars and conferences for a broad range of publishing and media associations around the world including:
American Business Press Editors | American Consulting Engineers Council | Asia Print | Association of the Graphic Arts | Berlin DTP Congress | Binders and Finishers Association | Bookbinders Guild | Business Forms Management Association | Canadian Business Forms Distributors Association | Canadian Printing Industries Association | Chicago Book Clinic | Comdex | Computer Graphics/NY | Direct Marketing Association | Directory Publishing Conference | Federal Office Systems Expo | Folio Magazine Publishing Conferences | Florida Magazine Association | Graphic Arts Marketing Information Service/GAMIS | Graphic Arts Technical Foundation | Government Computing Conference | Government Publishing Seminars | Graph Expo | Graphic Trade/Canada | IEEE | Imagerie Electronique | Inplant Management Association | Institute for Graphic Communications | Interact/Paris | International Business Forms Industries | International Prepress Association | Japanese Electronic Publishing Association | Japanese Federation of Printing Industries | Montreaux Direct Marketing Conference | Multimedia Canada | National Association of Printers & Lithographers | National Business Forms Association | National Composition Association | National Computer Graphics Association | Network Publishing Conference | Northeastern University | Northwestern University | Norwegian Publisher's Association | On-Demand Printing Conference | Philadelphia Book Clinic | Polytechnic University | Prepress Asia/Singapore Master Printers Association | PrintFest | Printing Expo | Printing Association of Florida | Printing Industries of America | Printing Industries of New England | Print Production | Quark Users International | Queen’s Printers Association/Canada | Quick Printing Conference | Rochester Institute of Technology | SIGGRAPH | Smithsonian Institution | Society of National Association Publishers | TypeWorld | Typographers Association of New York | Typographers International Association | VideoExpo | Washington Book Club | XPLOR Digital Printing Association | Xyvision Users Conference


SELECTED CLIENT LIST

A representative sample of Interactive Informatics Institute and Graphics Research Laboratory consulting, publication, video and seminar clients include some of the smartest companies in the world:
Agfa Corp. | Associated Press | American Oil Chemists Society | Ameritech Publishing | Apple Computer | Arbitron | AT&T | Bantam Doubleday Dell | Bell Atlantic | Black Enterprise | Boehringer-Ingelheim | Boeing Computer Services | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Bureau of the Census | Business Week | Capital Holdings | Central Intelligence Agency | Children’s Television Workshop | Citibank, N.A. | City University of New York | Congressional Quarterly | Cowles Business Media | R.R. Donnelley & Sons | Editora Abril, Brazil | Federal Reserve Board | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Folio/Hanson Publishing | Gama Communications | General Electric Company | George Washington University | Goldman Sachs & Company | Gordon Publications | Harvard Business Review | Hell Graphic Systems | IBM Europe | InterConsult | Lebhar-Friedman Publications | Library of Congress | Maryknoll Publications | Marshall & Swift | McGraw-Hill | Mead Data Central | Merck & Company | MicroPro Corporation | MONY Financial Services | National Academy of Sciences | National Association of Retailers | National Business Forms Association | National Education Association | National Labor Relations Board | National School Boards Association | Naval Research Laboratory | North American Publishing | NYNEX | Ogilvy & Mather | Ohio University | Oxford University Press | PC World | Perry Printing | Polychrome | Queen’s Printer, Canada | Rand McNally | Readers Digest Association | Renaissance Printing | Robert Lombardi Advertising | Salomon Brothers | St. Martin’s Press | Senate Computer Center | Seton Hall University | Smithsonian Institute Press | State of Arizona | State of Maryland | Temple University | Texet Corporation | Thomas Publishing | Time Inc. | Times Mirror | Toppan Printing | United Stationers | Varityper | Waverly Press | Weight Watchers International | WHERE International | Whittle Communications | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | Xerox Corporation | Young & Rubicam