Business 2.0 Wins Maggie Award for Best Business and Finance Publication.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 Western Publication Association Recognizes Business 2.0's Excellence in Delivering News, Forecasts, and Analysis Imagine Media's Business Division today announced that Business 2.0 magazine was named Best Business and Finance Publication by the Western Publications Association at the Annual Maggie Awards last week. The award recognizes the magazine's excellence in delivering news, forecasts, and analysis. "It's an honor to win the Maggie for Best Business and Finance Publication," said James Daly James Daly may refer to:
Business 2.0 magazine is an indispensable business tool for understanding how to succeed in the Internet Age. Its content focuses on practical, in-depth and insightful information to help readers understand the changing business landscape and provides strategies on navigating life and work in the New Economy. Business 2.0 was the first magazine to offer this in-depth, monthly coverage on business in the New Economy, and has achieved phenomenal acceptance by readers and advertisers. Since its July 1998 launch, the magazine's circulation has grown from 125,000 to a 100 percent paid rate base of 210,000 in January 2000, and has announced plans to raise its circulation to 300,000 in August. Business 2.0 has enjoyed a 417 percent increase in advertising pages from April 1999 to April 2000 and to date, more than 660 consumer and business-to-business companies have advertised in the pages of Business 2.0. Reader demand has prompted Business 2.0 to move from a monthly to a biweekly bi·week·ly adj. 1. Happening every two weeks. 2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. n. pl. bi·week·lies A publication issued every two weeks. adv. 1. Every two weeks. format in May. About the Maggie Awards The Maggie Awards are the magazine awards of western publishing presented annually by The Western Publications Association. The Western Publications Association has represented magazine publishers and companies west of the Mississippi who interact with the magazine publishing industry for 43 years. For more information, visit http://www.wpa-online.org. About Business 2.0 Business 2.0 (www.business2.com) is an award-winning, international monthly publication from Imagine Media, Inc. Based on the belief that the Internet is changing the rules of business, the magazine is aimed at "Transformers"-people with the power, influence, and insight to re-invent their companies for the New Economy. Each month, through in-depth analytical reporting, Business 2.0 provides the ideas and information these business leaders need to succeed in the Internet Age. Business 2.0 won three 1999 Maggie Awards from the Western Publications Association, including Best Overall and New Consumer Publication, and Best Special Interest Consumer Publication. Business 2.0 was also honored as the Best Newcomer by the Computer Press Association and won Folio's Editorial Excellence Award and two Silver Ozzies for magazine design in 1999. This year, the publication has already been named a 2000 National Magazine Awards finalist by the American Society of Magazine Editors For the engineering society, see . The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) is an industry trade group for editors of magazines published in the United States. The group advocates on behalf of member organizations with respect to First Amendment issues, and serves as a (ASME ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers ) in the category of General Excellence. Business 2.0 was also recognized by AdWeek as one of the five top Upstarts-a category created by AdWeek to recognize magazines that are experiencing incredible growth. About Imagine Media, Inc. Imagine Media (www.imaginemedia.com) is one of America's fastest-growing publishers of magazines and Websites. Its success is based on the "passion" strategy: creating products that excite tech-savvy consumers. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay , Imagine Media's publications sell in excess of 1.8 million copies per month. Its market-leading titles include: Business 2.0, Games Business, MacAddict, Maximum PC, Next Generation, Official Sega Dreamcast Magazine, PC Accelerator PC Accelerator (PCXL) was a personal computer game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now a subsidiary of Future Publishing). It was known for its Maxim-like humor and photography, and its last issue was dated June 2000. , PC Gamer PC Gamer is a magazine founded in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future Publishing. The magazine features news on developments in the video game industry, previews of new games, and reviews of the latest popular PC games, along with other features , PSM PSM PlayStation Magazine PSM Process Safety Management (chemical industry) PSM Porsche Stability Management PSM Platform-Specific Model(s) PSM Platform Support Module PSM Professional Science Master's : 100% Independent PlayStation Magazine, and on the Web: DailyRadar.com, the MacDaily Network, and the MaximumPC Network. Imagine Media recently merged into The Future Network plc (www.futurenet.com), the media company founded by Imagine's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Chris Anderson Chris Anderson may mean:
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