Kim Hollamby | The anchor swallowed » IPC Media http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog Thoughts on business, internet, boating, theatre lighting and other interests Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:31:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Time to say goodbye…and hello http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2008/08/22/time-to-say-goodbyeand-hello http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2008/08/22/time-to-say-goodbyeand-hello#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:34:55 +0000 Kim http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/?p=84 Continue reading Time to say goodbye…and hello

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Following an extensive period of research the site maps and

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]]> http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/08/21/good-to-know-launched/feed 0 Shooting UK portfolio launched http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/07/30/shooting-uk-portfolio-launched http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/07/30/shooting-uk-portfolio-launched#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:41:27 +0000 Kim http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/07/30/shooting-uk-portfolio-launched/ Have just launched a series of websites covering our shooting and field sports brands – Shooting Times, Sporting Gun, The Field and The Shooting Gazette, all of them clustered under a new portal, Shooting UK.

This particular set of web builds burned a lot of midnight oil in order to get them ready for the CLA Game

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House To Home is the second website we have launched on our new Symphony-based in-house developed CMS platform and the third major launch for my team this year, following Country Life in February and InStyle in May.

House To Home’s key feature is its broad range

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Motor Boats Monthly's May 87 edition

Doesn’t seem, ummm…10 years since I wrote a horribly long 10-year celebration in the magazine itself.

I joined the mag just in time to see the very first edition arrive in the office. Kirton’s Farm Country Club (now the Copthorne Hotel) in Pingewood was our base…took me 10 minutes to

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]]> http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/05/06/20-years-of-motor-boats-monthly/feed 0 InStyle site launched in the UK http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/05/04/instyle-site-launched-in-the-uk http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/05/04/instyle-site-launched-in-the-uk#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 20:25:09 +0000 Kim http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2007/05/04/instyle-site-launched-in-the-uk/ After a lot of transatlantic effort we launched InStyle’s UK website last night.

On the surface it looks like a close cousin of the parent InStyle.com site in the US but there have been many changes to make it more suitable for a predominantly UK audience. The site editor is Maria Milano, who flew out to New

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Kim Hollamby, currently group editor responsible for CALM’s internet development, marine portal ybw.com and marine B2B title International Boating Industry (IBI), has been appointed to the new role.

Kim will take

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