| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊管理學系碩士在職專班 === 98 === The traditional print magazines had been isolated and changed from the trouble due to powerful online media. In order to compete and stay relevant, most major print magazines have made great stride in developing online social media and networking to expand the media influence from limited print world to boundless online world. Among of them CITE GROUP, the market leader of the magazine groups in Taiwan announced the program “Click-and-Mortar Project” in 2009 to indicate all the publications under the group go digital and make the monumental but successful transition by practicing “Click-and-Mortar Project” to integrate multimedia and multi-industries.
There are two main motivations to drive this thesis; the first motivation is addressed the issues by quantity and quality case studies. In the thesis, I tried to locate the developed processes when print magazine went digital and experienced integrated multimedia program. Meanwhile I analyzed the actual problems and obstacles that the print magazines were facing in each process by true cases study.
The second of the motivation is provided the suggestions and solutions for publications which plan to step in dot-com area. Nowadays, most of the executive management in print magazines is not familiar with cyber publishing and they don’t even have the clue on interactive media management. From this thesis, the management of print publication would be able to recognize the steps of transition. Moreover they could identify the potential impacts and influences which will happen during the change. Also, they would understand the matter needing attention to avoid the risky and the failure possibility.
In this thesis, I selected the PC Home division of CITE GROUP as an object of study. The PC Home division includes two traditional print publications, PC Home Magazine and PC Home Advance Magazine. In order to communicate with mass online population and make the go digital transition smoothly, The PC Home division built Techbang website as their focus online media since 2009. What was the motivation to drive this project? What was the objective they attempt to achieve? After profoundly interviewed several editors in chief and advertising account managers from 3 different departments, I presented the observations and insights of this project.
The major achievements of this thesis include locating the internal and external issues they faced when print publication performed integrated multimedia program. Also, pointing out the action items they took on each transition process. Last but not least, I would like to present the models for the print publications who try to perform integrated multimedia program in the short future.
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