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Who's Who in the Leadership of the U.S. :

The following individuals are listed in the News Media Yellow Book and The Leadership Library® on the Internet.



David Steck, CNN
Craig Stedman, Computerworld
Bill Steiden, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jana Steiger, CQ.com
Paul Steiger, The Wall Street Journal
William Steigerwald, The News Journal
Tom Steighorst, Sun Sentinel
Valerie Steiker, Vogue


Copied from The American Press Institute: (The caps are mine.)
CQ.com goes from automated to custom made

While BaltimoreSun.com has migrated to the use of a shared database, CQ.com, the Web operation of Congressional Quarterly, has evolved from an almost entirely database-driven subscription service to a robust site that more resembles other newspaper-based Web sites.
"Because we first came from this database background, when we first went on the Web, we had a tradition of having everything being 100 percent automated," said JANA STEIGER, editorial product development director. "No editors touched content that was on our front page. We evolved from that and have a little more editorial control."
But while its home page has evolved, STEIGER pointed out that because of CQ.com's heavy emphasis on e-mail delivery, much of its audience remains oblivious to any home page changes.
"When we were going out to gather information from customers [in response to a redesign] we talked to people who had no idea we had redesigned the site. They thought we still had frames, because all they would do is click their email. [They would say] 'Oh, I never click through.' Because our customers are paying us, we're not ad-driven. We have the luxury of not being wedded to whatever gets the most [Web] traffic."


From the CQ Masthead:

Editorial Masthead

Editorial Product Development Director: Jana Steiger
Senior Editors: George Codrea, Camille Kurtz, Kit Unger
Federal Information Editors: Jorge Banales, Betty Richardson, Brendan Spiegel, Yee Ling Woo BillTrack: Jon Lewallen, Neil Ripley


Jana will be making a presentation at the September 29th meeting of the Washington D.C. chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association:

Congressional Quarterly Case Study
Date and time:September 29, 2005 (Thursday)7:00-9:00 p.m.

ProgramDinner: 6:00-7:00 p.m. at Meiwah for those who would like to join us (directions below)

Location: Congressional Quarterly, Inc1255 22nd Street N.W.Washington, D.C. 20037

Description:E-mail alerts are a handy way to let users know when new content has been added to your web site. But how do you make sure every piece of mail you send users is something they really want? How do you control the volume of mail and the pertinence of the content? Where is the boundary between giving users control over their own parameters, and making alerts easy to create and manage? And what about the special needs of BlackBerry users?

Congressional Quarterly has been addressing these issues since 1998, when it launched its first e-mail alert service. Now, after experimenting with many different approaches, our speaker, Jana Steiger, will share what she's learned along the way. In this case study, you'll learn the top seven usability problems of e-mail alerts, and the strategies one development team has taken to correct—or at least diminish—them.

Speaker: Jana Steiger is the Director of Editorial Product Development for Congressional Quarterly, where she oversees the development of new Web products and design prototypes, as well as ongoing improvements to CQ's market-leading online news and legislative tracking service, CQ.com. In her 14 years at CQ, Jana has filled a number of roles -- product editor, interface developer, newsroom operations manager, usability specialist, and product requirements writer. This broad range of experience gives her a multi-faceted understanding of product development, allowing her to balance the needs of users, developers, and product owners against project deadlines and cost.

Jana graduated from the University of Michigan. She has presented at Comdex and the Online News Association, and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Virginia. She's excited about swapping stories with DC usability professionals, and looks forward to this event!
Registration: Advance registration is recommended.