Welcome to tabpi.org, the website for Trade, Association and Business Publications International 2008 Tabbie winners unveiled CLEVELAND —The 2008 Tabbie Awards featured more than 700 entries, with nominations coming from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, France, Ireland, Lebanon, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.  Judges commented favorably on the high quality of the submissions. Highlighting the Best Single Issue category — the competition's most comprehensive — are entries from BUILDER, National Real Estate Investor, and Inbound Logistics, which took the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards respectively. The Top 25 of the Best Single Issue category include Modern Healthcare, millimeter, Legal Business, Benefits Canada, Construction Week, Architect, FUEL, and SQM. Gold design award winners are Information Security for Feature Design, Business Quotient for Front Cover, Digital Imagery; Pharmacy Practice for Front Cover, Illustration; Graphic Arts Monthly, for Front Cover, Photograph; SN’s Whole Health/Supermarket News for Front Cover, Special Issue; NYSE for Opening Page or Spread and New Zealand Retail for Table of Contents. Gold editorial award winners are Storage for Department; Publishers Weekly for Editor's Column; Physicians Practice for Feature Article; Fortune for Focus/Profile Article; BUILDER for How-To Article; Chemist+Druggist for News Coverage; Law Technology News for Regular Column; Network World for Single News Article; NYSE for Special Section and Storage for Technical Article. This year’s Best b2b Website winners are Accountancy Age, Computerworld and Modern Healthcare, which won the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. In the new Online Feature category, Computerworld, PC World, and Therapy Times won the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Magazines that took home four or more awards are Architect, Computerworld, CRM magazine, Exhibitor Magazine, HemAware, Interiors & Sources, Modern Healthcare, Network World, New Zealand Retail, PC World, Pharmacy Practice, Professionally Speaking, REALTOR Magazine, rt image, and Storage. Complete results, along with selected comments from the judges and samples of the winning entries, are available at here. Presented by Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI), this fifth-year editorial and design competition was open to English-language b2b publications worldwide, published at least quarterly. The 2008 Tabbies are supported by companies that have an interest in working with b2b editors and publishers — as well as supporting editorial and design excellence. Your support of them is most appreciated. The Platinum Sponsor is FosteReprints. Gold Sponsors for the 2008 Tabbies are: Texterity Inc., RedRover Reprint & Content Management Services, BtoB Magazine)  and Proximity Marketing. Silver Sponsors for the 2008 Tabbies are: Business Strategies Group Asia and Lane Press.     2008 Young Leaders Scholarship winners announced CLEVELAND — Winners have been announced for the 2008 TABPI Young Leaders Scholarship. This year's program is sponsored by TABPI and the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), with generous support from TABPI Platinum Sponsor FosteReprints (www.fostereprints.com). The 2008 TABPI YLS awards were granted to the following editors: Andy Hoskins is deputy editor for bmi Publications' The Business Travel Magazine, a publication that was voted best in its field in December 2007 at the annual Business Travel Journalism Awards. He has been with bmi since 2004. Hoskins received an Upper Second Class Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography from the University of Southampton in Hampshire. In his spare time, Andy is a keen sportsman and traveller. He plays regularly for a local football (soccer) team, enjoys cycling and plans to run his first marathon in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May 2008. Kate Rau is editor for SALESGURU magazine, South Africa's only publication focused purely on the subject of selling. Kate is tasked with growing the quality of the magazine, as well as increasing national exposure of the brand. She is assisting in the website revamping process, as well. She formerly worked for Push Media and Media 3S / Shorten Publications. She has a BA in Journalism, specialising in French, English and Audio Visual communication from Rand Academic University (Now University of Johannesburg). Her interests include gardening, yoga, reading, and walking her boxer. More details here.   First winner of TABPI Design Challenge announced MaTT Britcher, Art Director of BNP Media's appliance DESIGN magazine, is the winner of the inaugural TABPI Design Challenge. Britcher will receive U.S. $250 for submitting his winning solution. The Challenge invited b2b art directors and designers to imagine themselves as the art director for Concrete Times magazine. The publication's editor and publisher were split as to whether the focus should be the magazine's 40th anniversary or their first-ever 100 Top Leaders feature article. The Challenge is meant to reward graphic creativity in the b2b industry, as well as serve as an learning opportunity for other artists. For further details, judges' comments and a look at the Honorable Mention winners, click here.   TABPI funds new b2b professionals group in South Africa JOHANNESBURG — TABPI is funding the creation of a new b2b media professionals group in South Africa, which will serve as the organisation’s first chapter outside of the United States. TABPI South Africa will operate independently out of a base in Johannesburg and is being set up by joint co-ordinators, Louise Marsland of Bizcommunity.com and Natalia Thomson of Now Media. Paul Heney, TABPI President, explains, “One of the main long-range goals of TABPI has been to foster groups that promote b2b journalistic integrity in different countries. This new organisation that Natalia and Louise are spearheading will be a great new resource for the growing b2b industry in South Africa and throughout the continent. Both of them care deeply about the b2b industry and are hoping to give something back.” The role of the TABPI South Africa will be: To raise the professionalism of b2b editors in South Africa. To facilitate relevant training opportunities. To provide a networking platform for b2b editors in South Africa. To provide pertinent research for the b2b industry. To raise the profile of the b2b media sector in South Africa. To liaise with current industry and regulatory online and publication structures for the greater good of the industry. For more details, click here.   Research Department launches David Drickhamer, former Editorial Director for Material Handling Management and Logistics Today magazines in Penton Media's Supply Chain Group, has been named Editorial Research Director for TABPI's new Research Department. TABPI Research will develop custom research for b2b magazines, as well as for the b2b community at large. One main focus will be on conducting Salary Surveys for individual magazines. For full details, click here.   TABPI forums provide online community for editors, art directors, publishers, freelancers Launched in 2006, the TABPI b2b Publication Forums are a free resource provided to anyone active in b2b media. Subforums focus on topics such as freelancers, ethics, sales/editorial relationships, design, journalism, and more. We encourage you to visit the forums and register, read the posts, or start your own discussion.