Archive for the ‘Business management’ Category

Thinking "different" on the day Steve Jobs died

Through no one’s fault but my own, I lost a month’s worth of work and email. I am typically very compulsive about weekly backups on my laptop. But in early September I found myself distracted by company in town, a busier-than-usual social life and beautiful, cooler weather in which to pursue adventures on my bicycle instead [...]

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Powered by interns

When you run a small media company like ours, maintaining a steady stream of capable interns is the difference between muddling through and really moving forward. When you can confidently offload some of the routine tasks involved in creating and editing content for publication (for print and web), you finally find time to tackle the [...]

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100 mompreneurs and counting

It was longtime Raising Arizona Kids contributor Brittney Walker who came up with the idea of running a weekly feature on our website about local mothers who are running businesses. Hard to believe we’ve already profiled 100 of them in our Monday RAK Mompreneur feature. Brittney wrote the section for awhile, until she took a [...]

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Questions about copyediting

Maggie Pingolt, a junior at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communications, called our office to ask if she could interview one of our copyeditors. Ours work on contract, so they aren’t typically in the office. “I supervise the copyeditors,” I said. “Do you want to talk to me?” I was on my [...]

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A straight line from Point A to Point B

It seems like such a simple thing, really. Start a task. Stick with that task until it’s done. Move on to the next task. So why is it so hard to do? At no time in the history of the American office worker have their been more extraordinary tools available to improve worker productivity and [...]

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Getting your back up in business

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It could have been "Beastly," but it wasn't

A young girl who lives about as far north as you can get in the northwest Valley went to Tempe to see a movie with her dad. There are movie theaters closer to their house, of course, but this particular movie, on this particular day, wasn’t playing anywhere else. It was one of those movies [...]

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Monkey business and many caps

When my sons were small I loved reading the book Caps for Sale with them. The story, about a peddlar whose inventory of caps is stolen by some mischievous monkeys while he naps under a tree, is a wonderful bit of silliness that’s fun to read out loud. But it also has a great message [...]

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The end of a Mothering era

During intermission at the Sunday matinee performance of “Spamalot” I learned that Mothering magazine — the print edition, anyway — is dead. The news came from East Valley mom Brittney Walker, a frequent contributor to Raising Arizona Kids and a catalytic force in our company’s growing online and social media presence. Brittney sent me a link [...]

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Is print dead? Not according to the next generation of journalists

We’ve had a steady stream of bright high school and college students interning at our office over the years. It is heartening to get to know these young people, many of whom aspire to careers in print journalism even as the future of the industry faces so much uncertainty. I’m one of those (perhaps naive) believers [...]

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