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Tuesday, November 24, 1998 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Golden Books Announces Executive Change Golden Books Family Entertainment, Inc. has announced the resignation of Eric Ellenbogen as President of the Company and a member of the Company's Board of Directors. The Company said that Mr. Ellenbogen would not be replaced. "We want to thank Eric for his invaluable stewardship of the Entertainment Group, and we wish him every success in his future endeavors," said Richard E. Snyder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The Company also announced that it would be finalizing its senior management team in the next several weeks. "Achieving success in 1999 will require a company structure with fewer layers, less complexity and reduced overheads," said Mr. Snyder. "It will also require a top-level management team that provides focus on the core children's book business. While the Entertainment Group is a vital and successful part of our portfolio, it is imperative that we streamline our organization and lay a solid foundation of profitability in the children's book business." The Company is the leading publisher of children's books in North America and owns one of the largest libraries of family entertainment copyrights. The Company creates, publishes and markets entertainment products for children and families through all media. Robin Leach to Honor Cool Site Winners Every day for the last 365 days, C Notes Interactive, Inc., owner of the coolsiteoftheday.com website, has been selecting the coolest websites on the Internet. On January 21,1999, the coolest sites will be honored at an awards bash hosted by Robin Leach at Webster Hall. "For the last year, coolsiteoftheday.com has selected the coolest sites on the Internet, now we're taking the voting to the on-line streets and letting anyone who visits coolsiteoftheday.com pick the coolest sites of the year," said Mike Corso, president of C Notes Interactive, Inc. "Visitors will vote on the sites with the best content, design and utility and on January 21st, we'll honor the winners," continued Corso. The Cool Site of the Year awards will be given in categories such as music, news, finance and sports with a grand Cool Site of the Year Award going to the site with the most votes overall. Starting December 1, 1998, visitors to the coolsiteoftheday.com site will be able to vote for their favorite website. Visitors can also enter a sweepstakes powered by Webstakes where they have the chance to win prizes that total over $20,000. The Grand Prize, awarded to two separate winners, is a two-night trip to New York City including hotel, airfare and $500 spending money. First prize is an autographed Ibanez guitar from Lee "Captain Fingers" Ritenour and the 100 second prizes are 10-CD packages featuring the best from Motown, V2 Records and Elektra Records. Visitors can enter the sweepstakes daily. Pete May Named Publisher of Network Magazine Miller Freeman announced that Pete May has been named Publisher of Network Magazine. May, currently in charge of Miller Freeman's Geneva, Switzerland subsidiary, returns to start with Network Magazine February 1, 1999. May noted, "I'm excited to come back to the technology marketplace with Network Magazine. Miller Freeman has invested heavily in the past two years, doubling the circulation and enriching the editorial product of this magazine and its website. The product is excellent, but needs to be more aggressively marketed in the current competitive environment. My job will be to make sure the market understands the valuable role that this title and its readers play in the purchase of networking products." May brings to the title 12 years of experience in high-tech publishing. From 1983 to 1992 he built the International Marketing division for M&T Publishing, which was acquired by Miller Freeman in 1993. May then ran the International Marketing division for Miller Freeman from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 he became Managing Director of Miller Freeman's Geneva, Switzerland, office. Steve Schneiderman, vice president of Miller Freeman's Voice/Data Group, said the naming of May sends a strong signal to the marketplace about Miller Freeman's ongoing commitment to the Communications category. "Network Magazine started its approach to a client-focused model of service under the stewardship of Bill Howard, who has been promoted to the position of vice president of sales and marketing for Miller Freeman's high technology properties. As one of Miller Freeman's most customer-oriented executives, Pete May is sure to take this approach to the next level. We're confident that Pete and his staff will communicate the great value of Network Magazine to the networking market." ParentPartners.com Launches ParentPartners has launched an Internet-based service designed to help parents and other family members better understand their child and better participate in their learning, growth and development. The site is located at: http://www.parentpartners.com. Don Burton, ParentPartners Founder and President, explains that he wants "to make it easy for parents to get new levels of personal attention and support from the world's best sources. Every child is unique and ParentPartners centers on individual children, helping parents to better understand and to better participate in each child's unique learning, growth and development." The ParentPartners website takes advantage of the Internet's interactive features to highly personalize information, advice and services parents need to actively participate in their children's learning process. The personal information products are based on research commissioned by ParentPartners and developed by researchers at the Brazelton Center, Columbia University, Umass at Amherst, and Harvard Project Zero. The research categorizes early childhood development in the first five years into ages and stages in six distinct categories - - emotional; social; logic; language; visual and spatial; and movement. Parents can input information about their child and will receive back reports about where their child is in their development. NewsDirectory.com Debuts A pioneering Internet directory of news links has changed its name to better reflect its purpose and content. Ecola Newsstand, online since March 1995, has announced it is now named NewsDirectory.com. Ownership and management remain the same. NewsDirectory.com presents over 8,000 categorized links to English-language news and media worldwide, including over 1,900 United States newspapers. Users can browse by location or subject, and can search by title. "This site is known for its simplicity and completeness," states Bob Poulsen, President of NewsDirectory.com. "That won't change. Other than our redesigned opening page, the big difference will be the new name -- NewsDirectory.com defines exactly what the site has always been." Verified by human editors, each newspaper and magazine site listed at NewsDirectory.com must be maintained by a paper-printed publication, and must offer current English-language content online. About 300 new links are added each month; a summary page shows new listings for the current day and week. A guide to U.S. television broadcasters gives even more access to regional and local news. Bonus guides offer handy links to travel resources and U.S. colleges. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. 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