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Spent the day setting up some T8N online and social media, some hardware and finalizing a few design issues:

T8N Magazine website: a basic wordpress installation built on Parabola

Twitter: twitter.com/t8nmagazine
Instagram: instagram.com/t8nmagazine/
Facebook: facebook.com/t8nmagazine
And a Mailchimp mailing list, a bunch of email addresses and a new computer for the editrix…

Then it was finalizing some logos and setting the final version of the files for use.

All in all, a pretty busy day 2 for T8N Magazine.

For the last little bit most of our old Hole’s gang has been working to bring a new project to reality. As of today it is officially a go. In November of this year we intend to launch a new lifestyle/community magazine focused on St Albert. Rob Lightfoot, former Publisher of Vue Weekly is at the helm and is going to handle the business and sales aspects while Carmen, Brenda and I will work on content and design.

So far all we have is a our interim T8N Media Kit and of course, the logo above.

We should have the website up in a few days and we have already started on the prep work for the editorial and photography. The first issue is planned for mid November and the second mid to late January. After that, if all goes well, it will move to monthly and there are plans to expand the business from there.

But for now it is all about scrambling to put out our first issue in time to hit the Xmas market. Wish us luck…

Seems multi-tasking is not as useful a talent as I like to tell myself.

People often start multi-tasking because they believe it will help them get more done. Those gains never materialize; instead, efficiency is degraded. However, it provides emotional gratification as a side-effect. (Multi-tasking moves the pleasure of procrastination inside the period of work.) This side-effect is enough to keep people committed to multi-tasking despite worsening the very thing they set out to improve.

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