What does a decade in digital publishing teach us?
Reasons to Celebrate 2020 is certainly a year that will live in infamy. But even the shadow of pandemic and unrest, there are reasons to celebrate. This year, ZEEN101 observes …
Being A Newspaper In The Digital Era: Lessons From the 2019 NYPA Conference
A Rough Season Newspapers are caught between a rock and a hard place. That’s the takeaway from this year’s New York Press Association Spring Conference. We had the honor of …
Don’t Get Stuck In The Banner Ad Suck
A Tricky Battle The verdict is in: digital advertising is a bit of a disaster. Most online ads are irritating to the reader and only mildly profitable for everyone else. …
Sell gift subscriptions for the holidays
Join the festivities The holidays are coming and with them comes a slew of decorating, wassailing, and gift-giving. For every business also comes the dilemma of how best to become …
Focus On The Users: Technology Lessons From ‘WordCamp For Publishers’
What’s Good For the Tech… WordCamp for Publishers was a treasure trove of information for the publishing space, both on the marketing and technical side. In terms of marketing, ZEEN101 …
Subscriptions, Not Ads: Lessons Learned At ‘WordCamp for Publishers’
A Learning Experience This August, WordPress held the first ever WordCamp for Publishers in Denver, Colorado. Hosted at the Denver Post building and attended by publishers of every size and …
Meet us at Denver’s WordCamp for Publishers!
Twenty years ago, I was a publishing student in Emerson College’s Writing, Literature, and Publishing program. I loved books and print, but—truth be told—I attended the program’s print publishing classes …
Introducing Anvil…
We’ve got exciting news. For the past few years, the ZEEN101 team has been hard at work in our super-secret underground laboratory planning, sketching, building, and refining the first all-in-one …