Your MM team met this morning to do what some editorial teams call a
postmortem on the
March/April issue (which goes on sale 2/19,
subscribers will be receiving soon). We don't like that word because
we're not trying to discover why the issue failed or died, but rather
to acknowledge what we felt we did well and to look for ways to improve
the next issue.
March/April 2008 February 2008
I
love this process of flipping through the magazine as a team and just
saying what worked and what could have been better. Not everyone on the team gets
to see all the articles before an issue goes to print, as some editors only work on
certain columns. It's rewarding to take the time to look at the
finished product together and to realize how getting that issue to
print is a joint effort among us and so many others:
YOU (our readers and contributors), photographers, production
specialists, printers, the post office.
When you get your
March/April issue (or if you want to talk about the February issue),
email me at
editorial@memorymakersmagazine.com. Include the word
Feedback in your subject line, and then tell me what you thought we did
well AND/OR what we could improve upon next time.
We also talked
about what we do as writers and designers to keep our creative juices flowing. Here are the
responses from the team. Can you guess who said what?
Come to the
forum and post your guesses. I'll check back into the
forum on Friday
to reveal who said what!
Beth, executive editor
Patty, managing editor
Christy, art director
Katie, associate editor
GinaMarie, assistant editor
a) bought new music from iTunes including artists Yael Naïm and Deb Talan
b) went shopping at Jungle Jim's international food section for ingredients to make sushi at home
c) wrote for her personal blog with creative abandon
d) bought a book at Half Price Books called
Cath Kidston's Brilliant Ideas for Using Vintage Fabrics in Your Homee) subscribed to
Real Simple
Wishing you and yours peace and love, Patty