50 | Magazine World | April 2007 www.fipp.com
FIPP Human Resources Forum
A select group of Human Resources (HR)
directors and managers of major international
ces
companies have been invited to the FIPP Offi
rst ever
in London, UK, on 7 June 2007 for FIPP’s fi
HR Forum. Discussion will be focused on how to
keep the best staff
, recruiting staff with digital
publishing expertise and ideas on continuing the
professional development of publishers. Please
email helen@fi
pp.com for more details.
NOTICEBOARD
No more weak excuses
New editorial and
– Cosmo to the rescue!
communications
manager joins us
Trapped on a date from HELL?! No more longing looks at
the restaurant door, as Cosmopolitan will soon be there
FIPP welcomes
to help get you out of your dating disasters! This spring,
Laurie Alpern at
Hearst Magazines is launching Cosmopolitan Fake Calls,
the London offi ce
a service that calls mobile-phone users and provides
after two years at
them with an excuse to get out of a bad date. According
Magazines Canada.
to Sophia Stuart, mobile director at Hearst Magazines
Born in Montreal
Small mags
Digital Media, the idea of helping Cosmo readers escape
and raised in dating disasters was inspired by an episode of Sex and
Toronto, Canada,
speak out in
the City. “There will be different flavours of calls,” says
Laurie speaks Stuart. “There will be the ‘I need to get out of here ASAP’
Canada
English, French and
one, and one that calls you in 30 minutes if you’re not
Spanish, and holds
sure if the date is going well or not.” Options include
Magazines Canada has
degrees in Spanish
calls that appear to come from significant others,
launched a blog for magazines
and journalism.
enraged neighbours or furious employers. Users will
with a circulation of under
Want your company
be charged a to-be-determined fee per call.
10,000. The Shoestring
or association to
is an online venue for
appear here in
celebrating the achievements
Magazine World?
and innovations of small
Then email Laurie
FIPP members can
magazines in Canada, and
at laurie@fi pp.com.
carry our logo on
sharing news about the
their magazine and
small-magazine community.
websites as an added
Check out news, views and
Dates for your diar
y
member benefi t.
interesting stories at: http://
Please email:
smallmagazines.blogspot.com.
info@fi
13 May 2007
pp.com
FIPP Annual General Meeting
China W
orld Hotel, Beijing, China
Contact Helen Bland, email: helen@fi
pp.com
GQ opens its first bar
13-15 May 2007 First there was Vogue Café. Now it looks like the men of Moscow
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th
FIPP W
orld Magazine Congress
are about to get their own watering hole with the o
pening of
China W
orld Hotel, Beijing, China
GQ Bar. Marking a second collaboration with publishers Condé
www.fi
pp36china.co
m
Nast, Russian developer Arkady Novikov has created a huge
7 June 2007
entertainment complex, with th
ree rooms totalling 1,500
FIPP Human Resources F
orum
square metres. And should you ever forget where you are,
FIPP Offi
ces, London, UK (see top)
the huge GQ covers on the bar's walls should remind you.
14-15 June 2007
Ad Sales W
orkshop
Autoklub CR, Prague, Czech Republic
It’s easy being green
Contact Rolf Rohwer
, email: rolf@fi
pp.com
Knit.1 magazine – an American knitting and crochet quarterly aimed at young,
9-10 December 2007
fashionable readers – is making its summer issue a green one. Content will include
Worldwide Magazine Marketplace (WMM)
fashion features using eco-friendly yarns or recycled materials, such as soy- and
Suntec Conference Centre, Singapore
corn-based yarns. The feature ‘Solar power’ will include hot-weather tops in bright,
Contact Claire Jones
, email: claire@fi
pp.com
sizzling colours. Other editorial will cover making shopping bags out of yarn and
recyclables, such as plastic grocery bags, how to recycle yarn for a new garment,
7-9 September 2008 and knitters who use their craft to benefi
b2b Conference, New Y
ork, USA t the environment.
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