B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Magazines aren’t dying , they’re simply transmigrating. You see, the soul of a magazine is not to be found in its format. LIke every other kind of communication, a magazine is expression, transported in a vehicle. That highlights the problems with digital magazine formats so far. Can Webinars Get Hip?

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

One of the hottest Internet memes last week was the story of how blogger Monica Gaudio complained to a print magazine, Cooks Source , that it had used her work without permission and got told that, really, she should be grateful to have it stolen. Tags: Ethics blogging magazines. Often that copying will be to your benefit.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 8, 2010

In the B2B publisher’s dream world, the transition to online media would come as a natural evolution from print. Until traditional B2B publishers accept and adapt to this reality, they will remain stuck in the past. So far, it seems, they’re still looking backwards, to judge from two recent surveys of magazine personnel.

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In revised guidelines issued yesterday, the American Society of Magazine Editors, or ASME, addressed types of potential conflict between editorial and advertising content that have grown like weeds in recent years.

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

After suggesting that The Verge is what magazine design should be on the Web, or rather, what should replace magazine design, he asked whether it mattered. Traditionally, magazines were a collection of disparate items that relied on the container to give them a coherent identity. But containment doesn’t work on the Web.

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B2B Memes

JULY 25, 2011

The first step might be to think of a Twitter account not as a marketing tool or some supplementary appendage to a publication, but as a separate channel for the brand in the same way a magazine is. Now suppose that a publisher named a magazine after one of its editors—the John Bethune magazine, say. Related posts: Be Yourself.

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B2B Memes

JANUARY 27, 2011

Likewise, commodity content is essential to publishing, especially B2B publishing and content marketing. Yes, there are unique and exciting developments to cover in any B2B industry, but most B2B media are built on a platform of commodity content. Early in my career I was the editor of an industrial product tabloid magazine.

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B2B Memes

APRIL 13, 2011

The practice takes a variety of forms, but straightforward examples include Digg , TechMeme , and B2B Marketing Zone. The nearest print analog would be those dimly remembered volumes in library reference rooms that indexed articles from journals, magazines, and other periodicals. Instead, you simply click on the link and start reading.

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B2B Memes

APRIL 20, 2012

Related posts: Is B2B Ready for Corporate Journalism? Should Journalism Schools Rethink Magazines? (Or But it does mean that journalists must acknowledge that limitation if they wish to overcome it. Journalism, Aggregation, and Doing Things with Words. Or Even Journalism Itself?).

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The effect is simply amplified when it comes to magazines (and turned up to 11 for newspapers). The physical aspects of magazines can be nice indeed, but they are rarely treasured objects.

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B2B Memes

JANUARY 24, 2011

In some ways, bundling voices is not a new idea for magazines. As the word itself suggests, a magazine is a kind of container for a variety of things. But for successful magazines, there has always always been a creative tension between this inherent diversity and a need to impose on it some form of unity.

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B2B Memes

JUNE 21, 2010

Writing on Foliomag.com earlier this month, blogger Josh Gordon spun a comment heard at the Folio: show into a bullish prediction for print magazines. The reason for this, he said, is that “his magazines are most often the first point of contact leading to the sale of all the other services he is now selling.”.

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 12, 2010

As he put it elsewhere on Twitter, Marr’s criticism of blogs as fine things for certain purposes but inadequate to the task of journalism is like saying that “magazines are fantastic, but won’t replace journalism.”. The content we were posting, he said, was just like what we put in the magazine.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 12, 2010

B2B magazines probably have a higher percentage of commodity content than other types of publications. That’s partly due to the prevalence of service journalism in B2B. Perhaps there is an opportunity for someone to develop a Demand Media–style marketplace for B2B commodity content.

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B2B Memes

JULY 18, 2011

In my years as a magazine editor, one of the most irksome tasks was writing an editorial announcing a redesign of the publication. Sharedaddy to allow readers to share B2B Memes stories more easily. Sadly, there’s nothing fresh or original about saying your redesign is fresh and original. Again, this feature was overdue.

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B2B Memes

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In the most recent comment yesterday , my friend and mentor Howard Rauch argued that excessive digital workloads are very real phenomena for B2B editors. That, though, is a product of the historic fact that a magazine or newspaper was finished. He’s right, of course. The page was set, the presses rolled, the story concluded.

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B2B Memes

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Commenting on a Folio: magazine blog last week, an anonymous “Exhausted Editor” bemoaned an increasing digital workload : “I’ve got enough junk to write/post/cover. I’m tired of writing the stories, cooking the meals, flying the corporate digital jet and waxing the furniture—figuratively, of course.” And yet I wonder.

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Should Journalism Schools Rethink Magazines? (Or If you’re involved in training or hiring journalists, Cohn’s article is required reading. You may not like what he says, but, sooner or later, you will have to deal with it. Related posts: Selling and Journalism. Or Even Journalism Itself?).

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Should Journalism Schools Rethink Magazines? (Or If you’re involved in training or hiring journalists, Cohn’s article is required reading. You may not like what he says, but, sooner or later, you will have to deal with it. Related posts: Selling and Journalism. Or Even Journalism Itself?).

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In the beginning of their chapter, in fact, they point to magazines as a “form of market conversation.” We ignore it at our peril. Searls and Weinberger were addressing their comments above all to public relations and marketing people.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 2, 2010

They don’t enhance the communication potential of a magazine; rather, they give you reasons to possess it as a physical thing. I’m all for magazines playing with such gimmicks. But let’s be clear.

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B2B Memes

JUNE 7, 2012

When I used to lead in-house seminars on readability for editors of technical magazines, descriptions of the grading system always backfired at first. The Flesch-Kincaid test, developed in 1975, followed Gunning in using grade levels to assess writing. Whatever the source of the grade-level equivalence, it’s a problem. We’re smart too.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 25, 2011

Infographics are not unique to the Web (magazine consultant Howard Rauch has promoted their use for years). But as Heather Rubesch noted earlier this week , stock art has more than a few downsides. Though it will entail greater effort, a relevant infographic will add far more value.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 2, 2011

As she explains, pure content businesses like magazines are just one of three types of media options for advertisers. In an article on Min Online this week, Judy Franks of The Marketing Democracy suggests that traditional media companies are faltering because they don’t value content.

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Last week, Susan Currie Sivek wrote about how magazine programs within journalism schools are increasingly giving up on traditional magazines—or as she less cynically puts it, how they are teaching beyond the magazine. Though I love magazines, I’m not sure any journalism school should have a magazine program.

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Tags: Technology The Future of Print content digital magazines new media reading Twitter.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 26, 2010

magazine, Joel Spolsky blogged about his experience in the magazine world. Earlier this month, after writing his final column for Inc. His feelings, clearly, were mixed: “Writing for Inc. was an enormous honor, but it was very different than writing on my own website.

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B2B Memes

AUGUST 10, 2012

AdVoice, he says, is “a fully transparent way for marketers to publish and curate content on Forbes.com and in our magazine.”. His first line of defense against that charge is full disclosure. But is transparency an adequate defense? When a publication buys content (from staff writers or contributors), that clearly counts as editorial.

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B2B Memes

AUGUST 10, 2012

AdVoice, he says, is “a fully transparent way for marketers to publish and curate content on Forbes.com and in our magazine.”. His first line of defense against that charge is full disclosure. But is transparency an adequate defense? When a publication buys content (from staff writers or contributors), that clearly counts as editorial.

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When an article was contained within a print magazine, the context was enough to brand the content. Tired, for instance), or employing an identifiably distinctive point of view ( Reason , perhaps?). It used to be that publishers and their editors didn’t have to worry so much about this problem. But online, that context is much weaker.

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B2B Memes

JUNE 24, 2011

Me, I’m not so nice: Come on, Stefanie Botelho and Folio: magazine — Silicone Valley is almost as embarrassing as heroine.). Though O’Regan is too nice to name the writers or publications, he notes that three of the four errors he cites have yet to be corrected, several days after publication. (Me,

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B2B Memes

JULY 6, 2011

In the trade magazine world, for instance, publishers give board members perks like VIP passes to conferences they sponsor and free copies of special publications. I don’t recommend honoraria or other payment for services—it complicates and limits your relationship with your board members. But there are benefits you can and should offer.

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B2B Memes

MAY 26, 2010

As he points out, the stories were all copyedited and proofread for their original publication in magazines, and his mother, a “king-hell proofer,” will help out. Since this is a self-published project, Doctorow wants to keep expenses to a minimum, and that means no outlay for proofreading or copyediting.

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you’ve ever bemoaned your article getting cut to fit into the space available, you’re a prime candidate for an e-book.

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Yesterday I attended BtoB magazine’s Digital Edge virtual trade show , primarily to watch a leadoff keynote by Chris Brogan and a concluding one by Gary Vaynerchuk. Until yesterday, however, the most radically effective solution of all had never occurred to me: Don’t use slides at all.

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B2B Memes

AUGUST 12, 2011

After reading Owens’s post, I wondered how many B2B editors have experienced such a moment of Twitter enlightenment. From among the 15 magazines produced, I looked for any senior-level editors who tweeted at least once every business day on average, or 22 tweets per month. Related posts: The Perils of Corporate-Personal Twitter Names.

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MUD day 4: If you’re a B2B journalist or a journalistically inclined content marketer, you should be faithfully following Steve Buttry’s blog. Although he’s a died-in-the-wool newspaper guy, he deals frequently and insightfully with issues that also plague trade editors and reporters.

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