ELGIN, Ill., Oct. 11, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- On the first day of the 2007 ACCE (Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, the largest organization serving U.S. Chambers) conference this past August in Sacramento, an executive director from a Kansas Chamber stopped by the Village Profile booth to ask if the publisher could convert the files from her just-printed community guide into converged digital form -- publication website, eBooks, mobile business directory and locator map.
Convergence publishing allows Chambers to maximize communications with their members across multiple media. Print, internet, and mobile applications reach members and prospects where they do so much of their business today: in cyberspace.
Many Chambers of Commerce have the resources and staff to produce their own printed publications in-house, but don't have access to the technology to convert them into digital media. Village Profile's Convergence Publishing Program, however, delivers a bundled digital package that includes publication website; downloadable New View eBook; publication CDs; and mobile membership directory that members, the community-at-large, and Internet users worldwide can access via their computer desktops, web-enabled cellphones, smart-phones, and most wireless devices.
Village Profile, which will observe its 20th anniversary in 2008, has produced publications for nearly 1,400 Chambers and communities in 45 states. The content of these publications is featured on the Community Profile Network at www.villageprofile.com; the site gets upwards of two million hits a month from all over the world.
Innovative Chamber communication technology is the dynamism of Village Profile's preeminence in the Chamber publishing industry today. In 2004 the publisher introduced eBooks (now interactive NewView eBooks) and in 2003 debuted its patent-pending Convergence Publishing Program which bundles print, internet and wireless media into one communication/promotional package for Chambers of Commerce and their members. Convergence components include a publication website; the aforementioned eBooks which are available free for download to computers and wireless devices; publication CDs; and membership directories available 24/7 worldwide via cell phones and wireless devices at www.vpmobile.us
For program information contact Joe Nugara, E.V.P. at jcn@villageprofilemail.com or 800-600-0134, ext. 220
*For electronic links, please click http://www.vp-mobile.com/webpromos/reps/wireless.html
For press information, contact: Juli Schatz, Executive Editor 800-600-0134, ext. 219