Magazine to Read: The Social Media Monthly

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With the world getting more and more digital, I find an increasing value in printed materials.

I mean, what else are you going to do on an airplane after shutting off your mobile device?

As bookstores continue to close around the country, I remember spending hours going from section to section, sampling best-sellers, sports books, sci-fi and more.

Which is why I’m really excited about something that shouldn’t make sense, but works perfectly: The Social Media Monthly Magazine.

The brain-child of Bob Fine, the magazine discusses everything in the social media world from various perspectives, with regular contributors and guest writers.

One of my favorite features is the cover. While many magazines have a cover “formula,” The Social Media Monthly has custom-made pieces of art contributed by different artists each issue. Brilliant and beautiful!

Full disclosure: the January edition featured an ad for my company, iostudio, included below (in the interest of shameless self-promotion).

But regardless of my or my company’s involvement in the magazine, I absolutely love the concept of a print magazine for a digital industry. If you want to learn about ANYTHING, there’s a magazine for you. So why should social media be different?

It was named one of the hottest magazine launches of 2011, and here’s hoping it’s named one of the hottest magazines of 2012, period.