Internet Media Review and SWEPA merge to form the Mequoda Library.Two of the publishing industry's leading membership websites, Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Media Review and the Subscription Website Publishers Association (SWEPA SWEPA Subscription Website Publishers Association ), merged earlier this month to create the Mequoda Library, an interactive resource for building better websites. "The rapid growth of online marketing and publishing has created an almost desperate need for shared industry best practices," said Don Nicholas Nicholas, Russian grand duke Nicholas (Nikolai Nikolayevich) (nyĭkəlī` nyĭkəlī`əvĭch), 1856–1929, Russian grand duke and army officer; first cousin of Czar Alexander III and grandson of Czar , editor and managing director of the Mequoda Group LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , formerly Digital Media Advisers LLC. "At every conference I attend, every conversation I hear and every publisher I meet, I am assailed by an unfulfilled desire to understand where online publishing and marketing are going. "The merger of SWEPA and IMR IMR - Internet Monthly Report fits both our constituencies well. Between us, we offer users more than 300 articles, reports and reviews that chronicle chronicle, official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. the state-of-the-art, as we know it today, of website publishing," Nicholas said. Under the merger agreement, Peter A. Schaible, formerly director of SWEPA, becomes the Mequoda Library's editor-at-large. Kim Mateus, formerly managing editor of Internet Media Review, becomes managing editor for Mequoda Library. Over the coming weeks, Mateus and Schaible will launch the Mequoda Forum and the Mequoda Commentaries. These new features will allow Library members to interact in real time, on a peer-to-peer basis, with the Library's 15 expert authors, in consultations designed to improve members' websites. Those authors include many well known to readers of NL/NL: * Don Nicholas, * John Alexander, * Micah Baldwin, * Robert W. Bly Robert W. Bly -- often referred to in the trade as "Bob Bly" -- is an authoritative writer on the subjects of copywriting, freelance writing, and other marketing/writing subjects. , * Alexandra K. Brown, * John Clausen, * Terri Edmonston, * Fred Gleeck, * Larry Kerstein, * Stephen Laliberte, * Robin Nobles, * Roxanne O'Connell, * Roger C. Parker, * Jim Sinkinson, and * Jane Zarem. Mequoda Group LLC, 215 High Street, Bristol, RI 02809, 800-901-3556, 774-201-1301 Don Nicholas, 121 Boston Post Road The Boston Post Road was a system of roads from New York City to Boston, Massachusetts, containing some of the first major highways in the United States. It began as a path to deliver the post using post riders (the first ride to lay out the Upper Post Road starting January 22, ,, Sudbury, MA 01776, 978-440-8037, fax 508-881-5604, www.mequoda.com RELATED ARTICLE: Don Nicholas, the go-to online guy Don Nicholas, managing director of the Mequoda Library, was one of the most popular and sought-after speakers at the recent NEPA conference in Washington. After studying hundreds, probably thousands, of websites, he has come up with website design and navigation models superior to most now being created. Future issues of NL/NL will feature him, his models, and his advice for increasing online profits. |
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