Nice one, centurion!
18 May 2009
We all recognise some points of reference. Some might be things like a budget, a number that has to met (even if it was set last year before the credit crunch!), a date by which a project needs to be completed or delivered by. Or it might be a milestone that simply occurs by the passage of time – a diamond wedding anniversary perhaps, or the-longest-running-detective-series-on-TV (which I believe is Taggart, in case you were wondering).
Yet even in the latter case there is definitely a cause for celebration – these things only last if they are good. Which is why we are delighted to be celebrating our 100th issue today. A hundred issues of a weekly newsletter, as those with razor sharp minds will have already worked out, is only two years, but in that time (which feels more like a decade) change has been everywhere.
The global economy has collapsed (although I suspect those with the razor sharp minds may have already noticed this), nobody is really sure when it all started or when it may finish, automotive electronics has slipped from pole position to the back of the grid, Barack has replaced Bush, Brown replaced Blair, the US started taking Pb-free seriously… and all of a sudden two years really does seem like quite a long time!
From EMTWorldWide’s perspective we have seen the circulation grow, increased click-throughs to our web-site, and widespread acceptance and use of our industry-leading reference sections of which Jargon Buster, Events, and most of all The ShortList are pre-eminent. But if I had to pick out a single aspect of EMTww that I had particularly enjoyed over these first 100 issues, it would be that I had enjoyed communicating and learning from our team of correspondents. Our goal was always to make EMTww different from other newsletters by offering independent commentary and analysis of the electronics manufacturing industry, and by having an excellent team of correspondents – Susan Mucha in America, Gordon Wong in China, and Anand Sethi in India – recently complemented by contributions from Paul Wolfe, our Assistant Editor in the UK, we really have been able to get a global insight into what is happening in the key geographies around the world.
A case in point is this week’s column from Gordon Wong, looking at Africa as a valuable market from a Chinese perspective and how Asian investment in that continent appears to be a gamble that is paying off. Equally, Susan Mucha’s report about Singapore, looking at it from an American perspective as a model for supply chain development, or Anand Sethi’s recent revelation that the Indian election was providing an unexpected boost to the electronics industry (by providing electronic voting machines), are not the stories you would be able to read anywhere else.
Moreover, the people that have made this ‘e-project’ (if there is such a thing), such a success is the readers – every time you open and read an article it is a vote of approval! – and so all of the team at EMTww would like to thank you for that.
Now on to the next hundred issues!
P.S. I know that ‘centurion’ only refers to a roman soldier and has nothing to do with 100-issue old newsletters – but I never thought I would have an opportunity to use a Monty Python line as one of my headlines!
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