{"id":2896,"date":"2012-09-20T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2012-09-20T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:44:44","slug":"between-the-lines-my-dinner-with-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2012\/09\/between-the-lines-my-dinner-with-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: My Dinner with Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_01391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-192\" title=\"IMG_0139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_01391-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s been a couple of years since I last attended a Cannata Dinner. Always an enjoyable time and always for a good cause, Frank\u2019s dinner remains one of the must-attend industry events and one of the few functions that bring together all the major players from the industry in the same room. It\u2019s a schmooze fest for sure and with the awards turning into a roast more often than not, it\u2019s a good time even though manufacturers had better show up with a thick skin and a sense of humor. \u00a0I had the good fortune to be invited by Frank to present <em>The Week in Imaging\u2019s<\/em> Elite Dealer of the Year Award. It\u2019s no secret who the winner is and I\u2019ll be profiling them within the next couple of weeks in The Week in Imaging along with all the other 2012 Elite Dealers. It\u2019s a distinguished group and be sure and check in over the next five weeks to find out who is being honored.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to having a sense of humor about this business, I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re writing about office technology and solutions\/services (copiers) or selling office technology and solutions\/services (copiers), or dispensing advice on how to more effectively sell office technology and solutions\/services (copiers), I find it funny when I describe myself as a journalist or a writer and people ask me what I write about and when I say \u201cthe copier industry\u201d it\u2019s obvious that this is the conversation killer to end all conversation killers. I imagine even the most successful dealers out there aren\u2019t regaling friends, families, and strangers about copiers either.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it\u2019s about more than just copiers, but if it weren\u2019t for copiers, no matter where the industry is shifting today, we wouldn\u2019t be here and we wouldn\u2019t all be gathering together at Frank\u2019s dinner.<\/p>\n<p>New content this week includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preo Goes Down for the Count<\/li>\n<li>Submitted for Your Document Management Approval: DocuLex Archive Studio<\/li>\n<li>Cannata Award Winners<\/li>\n<li>Art Post Wants to Know Are You Tracking?<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s Hot &amp; What\u2019s Not?<\/li>\n<li>September News Bytes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a couple of years since I last attended a Cannata Dinner. Always an enjoyable time and always for a good cause, Frank\u2019s dinner remains one of the must-attend industry events and one of the few functions that bring together all the major players from the industry in the same room. It\u2019s a schmooze fest for sure and with the awards turning into a roast more often than not, it\u2019s a good time even though manufacturers had better show up with a thick skin and a sense of humor. \u00a0I had the good fortune to be invited by Frank to present The Week in Imaging\u2019s Elite Dealer of the Year Award. It\u2019s no secret who the winner is and I\u2019ll be profiling them within the next couple of weeks in The Week in Imaging along with all the other 2012 Elite Dealers. It\u2019s a distinguished group and be sure and check in over the next five weeks to find out who is being honored. Going back to having a sense of humor about this business, I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re writing about office technology and solutions\/services (copiers) or selling office technology and solutions\/services (copiers), or dispensing advice on how to more effectively sell office technology and solutions\/services (copiers), I find it funny when I describe myself as a journalist or a writer and people ask me what I write about and when I say \u201cthe copier industry\u201d it\u2019s obvious that this is the conversation killer to end all conversation killers. I imagine even the most successful dealers out there aren\u2019t regaling friends, families, and strangers about copiers either. Granted, it\u2019s about more than just copiers, but if it weren\u2019t for copiers, no matter where the industry is shifting today, we wouldn\u2019t be here and we wouldn\u2019t all be gathering together at Frank\u2019s dinner. New content this week includes: Preo Goes Down for the Count Submitted for Your Document Management Approval: DocuLex Archive Studio Cannata Award Winners Art Post Wants to Know Are You Tracking? What\u2019s Hot &amp; What\u2019s Not? September News Bytes Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}