Tuesday, December 20, 2005
The Best of PM Magazine (by topic)
In preparing for Restoration 2006, I was thinking that it would be great to offer a compilation of all the disaster preparation/homeland security/interoperability articles that have appeared in PM Magazine in a single booklet. There is a lot of great content spread out over several years of PM that is still useful, but takes a while to track down. Many managers may not keep each issue of PM, and new members won't have received past issues.
Topics with a lot of content could become their own "best of" book (emergency management, next generation, media relations, pensions and finance, etc.). We already have the content, so the only effort in creating this would be to write introductions to each volume, track down and select the best articles, devise a cover for the series, and develop a pricing plan. These could also be easily updated as new articles on a topic are authored and older ones become less relevant.
Topics with a lot of content could become their own "best of" book (emergency management, next generation, media relations, pensions and finance, etc.). We already have the content, so the only effort in creating this would be to write introductions to each volume, track down and select the best articles, devise a cover for the series, and develop a pricing plan. These could also be easily updated as new articles on a topic are authored and older ones become less relevant.
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I was thinking both - maybe free electronic for members (or significantly discounted), but you could make print versions available for sale. Harvard Business Review sells their topic collections for $20 each ("HBR paperbacks are a great way to get the most important ideas you care about in one convenient place").
For some, it may be the ease of use versus the cost. I can spend an hour searching the database and not find everything (at the manager or assistant salary cost to the city), or just pay $20 (or whatever) for all the articles on the topic I want in one pub.
The online PM search goes back to 2003 (are there earlier articles?). I just learned Scott Collins had researched PMs all the way back to 1931 on I believe it was council-manager FOG. Apparently there were some interesting and still relevant articles.
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For some, it may be the ease of use versus the cost. I can spend an hour searching the database and not find everything (at the manager or assistant salary cost to the city), or just pay $20 (or whatever) for all the articles on the topic I want in one pub.
The online PM search goes back to 2003 (are there earlier articles?). I just learned Scott Collins had researched PMs all the way back to 1931 on I believe it was council-manager FOG. Apparently there were some interesting and still relevant articles.
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