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• ForeThought: New leadership, new century for IFAI

  July 1, 2012 | Kevin Yonce
  When you read Specialty Fabrics Review magazine (and visit the website), you are connected to the global specialty fabrics marketplace. Read more...

• ForeThought: The medium’s the message, largely

  June 1, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  Several weeks ago, a few zip codes in Mineapolis were selected to participate in “Operation Medicine Delivery,” to receive a sealed, empty medicine bottle in the mail. Read more...
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  Miss Management: Out on the limbs

  May 22, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  Every day, it seems, there’s some item in the news that leaves you thoroughly befuddled, with only two ready avenues of remediation: research the subject until all seeming contradictions have been resolved, or shrug it off and just go home and mow the lawn. Read more...

• ForeThought: Tweet worship: is it wrong?

  May 1, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  Last week, I attended the 2012 Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association (MMPA) Summit and Expo, an annual day-long event devoted to educational sessions in magazine editorial, design, advertising sales and audience development (circulation). The theme: evolve, profit and thrive. Read more...

• ForeThought: IFAI—100; ShowStoppers—1

  April 1, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  This afternoon, omnipresent online retailer Amazon.com sent me an email about a new book coming out: “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants,” by craftsman David Rees, the “world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener.” Is this another tasteless electronic joke being played on the print-loving editors of the world? I wondered. Happily, that’s apparently not the case. Read more...

• Miss Management: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

  February 23, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  For someone who loves email as much as I do (I consider the memo to be the world’s purest form of communication, and being able to send one to a whole bunch of people at once is probably the closest to sheer bliss that I will ever come, with the possible exception of a glass of Goldeneye pinot noir), I have been rather slow to embrace the new social media. Read more...

• ForeThought: Natural resources

  February 1, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  For many months now, the economic news has been … mixed. The Great Recession, so far, has not had a great recovery. Yet unemployment rates are slowly decreasing, and some industries have bounced back amazingly. Read more...

• Miss Management: It may take a village, but it’s probably best if the villagers don’t have torches and pitchforks

  January 23, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  Since the advent of the Internet, it’s a lot easier to get the word out—and a lot harder to pick the important stuff out of the electronic clutter. Read more...

• ForeThought: Making history

  January 1, 2012 | Galynn Nordstrom
  If you regularly read this magazine cover to cover (or if you start at the back out of some misguided sense of editorial inequity), you probably noticed that in our December issue, my favorite page of the magazine (“Beginnings,” opposite the back cover) was replaced with “Celebration of a Century,” which highlights the evolution of the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) and the specialty fabrics industry, decade by decade. Read more...

• ForeThought: Power of the collective

  December 1, 2011 | Mary Hennessy
  At the end of October, I became the interim executive vice president of the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), taking over from Steve Warner, who led IFAI for the past 25 years. During that time, IFAI experienced growth in members and programs. Read more...