rbi
The end of an era at RBI (nearly)
With the disposal of Farmers Weekly, my former employer is all but out of the journalism business.
B2B
B2B publishers no more
From Patrick Smith’s Media Briefing e-mail a couple of weeks ago [http://briefingmedialtd.createsend1.com/t/r-e-hkxdhk-mdyykuip-hl/](it was two days after my daughter was born, so I was a bit too busy to read it back then 😉 ) : > In this context, should I stop saying “publisher” to refer
aggregation
Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby
I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional newspaper approach to selling their stories
disposals
RBI sheds TotalJobs
I saw some search traffic hitting my blog this morning for “TotalJobs divestment”. Now I know why [http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/04/axel-springer-buying-totaljobs-for-110-million-in-digital-classifieds-offensive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29] : > Reed Business Information’s sell-offs really aren’t
business models
Online publishing is not necessarily the next home of traditional publishers
Matthew Ingram has written a typically thoughtful and insightful piece about the bind newspaper publishers find themselves in [http://gigaom.com/2012/04/03/why-digital-native-media-will-almost-always-win/], all inspired by this graph from LinkedIn [http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/03/08/economic-report/]: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/
office life
An Ending
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jobhunt
Wanted: New Challenges
Yesterday, I returned from my best holiday in years, refreshed, revitalised and ready for the challenges ahead. Our blog platform needed revamping, there was a ton of mobile strategy work to be done, we needed to brainstorm easy win funnel content for one of our magazines, we needed to press
flightglobal
Covering air shows, the RBI way
I posted this on Twitter last week, but I think it’s worth reposting here. Here’s how FlightGlobal moves a whole chunk of its publishing operations to air shows, so they can maximise their coverage: [via Runway Girl [http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/runway-girl/2011/10/video-how-flightglobal-covers.html] ]
community care
Maybe I should have a caption competition...
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/09/6a011278fa639228a4014e8bb9b3cf970d.jpg] Just an ordinary day in the* Community Care* office, with the team wearing the regulation head temperature maintenance gear, as approved by occupational health…Oh, all right. They’re helping [publicise Woolly Hat day](http://www.communitycare.
estates gazette
Estates Gazette launches iPad app
My old stomping ground is getting tablet-ready
computer weekly
A few changes at RBI
 Patrick Smith does some analysis of changes here at RBI [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-03-30/board-shake-up-at-rbi-follows-computer-weekly-sell-off] following the sale of Computer Weekly and Microscope. Some
computer weekly
Vale Computer Weekly
I didn’t want to let the working day end without a quick post to acknowledge the news that RBI [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-computer-weekly-magazine-killed-after-45-years-as-website-is-sold/] – my employer – is in the process of concluding a sale of Computer Weekly [http://www.computerweekly.com] and Microscope [http://www.microscope.co.uk/