As readers of this blog, you’ve probably noticed we’ve made a slight name/masthead change. This is in an effort to provide a better idea as to what our blog is about and what we believe. Since 2000, but over the last couple of years in particular, our parent corporation has been evolving [...]

Today, a few of us here found the Globe’s ROB interview with Cultural anthropologist Dr. Grant McCracken really interesting.
Dr. McCracken’s latest book, Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture, seems to be based on the argument that we are all building “portfolios” of ourselves … that there is a tendency to define ourselves more liberally, as [...]

The feedback we are receiving on our recent Multicultural Publisher’s Networking Event has been extremely positive and inspiring!
It’s unanimous: all indicated they would attend a similar event (either semi-annually, or annually) and also expressed interest in hearing more information on a number of topics including distribution, printing and marketing; news-sharing; and advertising, networking and [...]

“Passion …is always fast-moving, and if you have something extraordinary and there’s a cadre of believers, the passionate will find you.” Written by Seth Godin, I read this just a day after our Multicultural Publishers’ Networking event (see below); passion was certainly a recurring theme this week.
A few days ago, Seth “threw” an interesting [...]

As a few of us here are making some final preparations for our DMS Multicultural Publishers’ Networking Event happening tomorrow night, I realized it had been almost a couple of weeks since my last post. (One of the things I’ve come to learn about blogging, is that sometimes keeping it short and sweet isn’t [...]