[Asis-l] NFAIS Webinar: Portable Devices and Mobile Users

[Jill O'Neill]

NFAIS Webinar: Portable Devices and Mobile Users: A New Era for Information
Delivery and Access.

One of the hottest areas in R&D today is the development of personal reading
devices that serve an increasingly mobile population. This highly
competitive arena is driving innovation in both the format and delivery of
information resources, offering publishers an opportunity to be creative and
breathe new life into even the most traditional information tools for a new
generation of users.

NFAIS will hold a 90-minute informational Webinar, Portable Devices and
Mobile Users, on May 3, 2011 at 1:00pm EDST.  Maureen Kelly, Principal,
Content Kinetics, will open the meeting with a brief history of book
technology.  Jill O' Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning,
will then discuss the reading experience, including an overview of today's
established user interfaces and navigational approaches and how users can
customize their own experience. The meeting will then take a look at the
development of e-reader technology, from first to third generation and
beyond, current content delivery channels, and the markets for e-readers and
e-publications. And in closing, the meeting will focus on why all
information providers need to pay attention to the development of portable
reading devices so that they can re-shape their content to offer an
enjoyable and satisfying user experience - on any platform, anywhere!

If you want to learn more about today's portable reading devices register
for the NFAIS webinar today.  NFAIS members pay $75, Sister Society members
pay $85, and non-members pay $95.  An unlimited number of staff from an
NFAIS member organization can participate for a group fee of $225. The group
fee for an unlimited number of staff from a Sister Society is $255, and from
any non-member organization is $285. The registration form can be accessed
at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/309-portable-devices-and-mobile-users.

For more information contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax);
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/.

NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community

Jill O'Neill
Director, Planning & Communication
NFAIS
(v) 215-893-1561
(email) jilloneill at nfais.org