{"id":1163,"date":"2011-08-09T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2011-08-09T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:07:53","slug":"stitches-named-magazine-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2011\/08\/09\/stitches-named-magazine-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitches Named Magazine of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I was back in the Windy City for the second time in two weeks (ASI Chicago<\/a> was indeed just two short weeks ago) with ASI Editor-in-Chief Melinda Ligos to attend the American Society of Business Publication Editors\u2019<\/a> (ASBPE) conference and awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

The ASBPE honored Stitches magazine<\/a><\/em> with its top \u201cMagazine of the Year\u201d award in its 33rd annual Azbee Awards of Excellence competition. In addition, Stitches<\/em> won five national awards, including \u201cBest Feature Article\u201d for our November 2010 Stitches <\/em>Golden Needle Awards coverage, \u201cBest Feature Series\u201d for \u201cMentor of the Month,\u201d \u201cBest Original Research\u201d for our annual May State of the Industry survey<\/a> by ASI Executive Director of Research Larry Basinait, and \u201cBest Regular Department\u201d for \u201cLook Book.\u201d The ASBPE honored ASI publications with a total of nine national and 11 regional awards of excellence for writing, editing, research, design and photography. In the pic below mine, Melinda shows off one of editorial’s many awards.
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When I was a graduate student at Penn State<\/a> studying creative writing, I had the great opportunity to teach undergraduate writing classes. I\u2019d walk from my apartment on Hamilton Street three times a week toward the main campus going over my lesson plan in my head (the pithiness of Gwendolyn Brooks\u2019 poetry<\/a> or artfulness of Mark Doty\u2019s memoir<\/a>). I loved the nervous tension of these walks, thinking about whether I could get my students excited about writing. My head is still always wrapped up in the beauty of words and the art of communication, and to have Stitches<\/em> recognized with these awards was truly an honor.<\/p>\n

For the Magazine of the Year Award, ASBPE\u2019s judges told us that Stitches <\/em>stood out from the competition with strong writing, understanding of its target audience and intriguing design. In particular, they said Stitches<\/em> is \u201cbrightly written and designed\u201d and \u201ceasy to read and aesthetically pleasing,\u201d showing \u201ca real engagement in the industry you don\u2019t always see.\u201d
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In Chicago, not too far from the brand-new Marilyn Monroe statue with her iconic white dress flying up, I had the opportunity to stand in a lecture hall in the University of Chicago\u2019s Gleacher Center, presenting to other B-to-B magazine editors at ASBPE what it is we\u2019ve done over the last five years to revitalize Stitches<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I talked about our complete magazine redesign in 2009; our commitment to hard-hitting content (we recently spent the day in Montana Women\u2019s Prison\u2019s embroidery shop to learn whether it was a great rehab device or a way for outside shops to exploit cheap labor); the way we\u2019ve built a community for readers (we\u2019re on Twitter, @asi_stitches; and Facebook<\/a>, www.facebook.com\/stitchesmag; we have a social site<\/a>; www.stitchesmagsocialsite.com); and our must-read yearly issues (May\u2019s State of the Industry and November\u2019s Golden Needle Awards coverage).<\/p>\n

After my presentation, I talked with other editors about what it\u2019s like to be able to do what we love every day and be so close to the written word, but also create these bright vehicles and communities to serve our industries. For me, this Magazine of the Year award was thrilling and humbling, because, really, in the magazine world, you can never sit still \u2013 it\u2019s always about moving forward.<\/p>\n

— Stitches<\/em> Editor and ASI Director of Education \u00a0Nicole Rollender<\/p>\n

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