WASPAA'93: Publicity chair notes

Harinath Garudadri <garuda@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca>
Wed, 3 Nov 1993
relating to the IEEE 1993 Mohonk Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Acoustics and Audio

I have put together some points with respect to publicity.

If I remember any thing more, I will post it again.

I guess the difficulty in getting CFP ready before ICASSP-94 is getting the conference committee together.

hari.

1993 IEEE WORKSHOP ON APPLICATIONS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TO AUDIO AND ACOUSTICS

Notes on Publicity

Harinath Garudadri (garudadri@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca)

1. Full page ads in journals and magazines.

   • I have a file with addresses and telephone numbers.
   • This should be ideally done in August / September as some journals are only quarterly and we don't want to miss the December / January issue.
   • This service if free in all IEEE journals and magazines. For 1993 workshop, we exchanged full page ad with AES. By putting AES ad in the workshop proceedings, we saved $800. Try this again with AES (and others).
   • Computer Music Journal says they charge $450. They never billed us for 1993 workshop. Apparently, they didn't charge for the 1991 workshop also.

2. Notification in Calender sections of Spectrum, etc.

   • I have a file with addresses and telephone numbers.
   • Judging from the enquiries, IEEE Spectrum was the most valuable source. But Spectrum announced the meeting for only 3 months (I have to check this again) prior to the workshop. We should check to see if we can get more exposure through Spectrum. Perhaps a full page CFP?

3. Distribution of CFP at conferences and workshops.

   • This is an inexpensive and efficient source of publicity. For the 1993 workshop, about 200 CFPs were distributed at the IEEE SP workshop on statistical signal & array processing (Victoria, B.C., Canada, Oct. 92) and the ICSLP conference (Banff, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 92).
   • If we can put together a CFP or at least a Preliminary CFP before April 1994, we can distribute it at ICASSP-94.

4. Individual mailings.

   • Schuyler has a file with addresses to whom CFP was mailed.

5. News groups.

   • We didn't do it for 1993. The potential groups could be
     • comp.speech
     • comp.dsp
     • alt.sci.physics.acoustics
     • comp.compression.research
     • etc.

One last point. We should have the IEEE logo nice and big on the CFP.

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