SNEWS Magazine’s Power Player Lounge Opens Today!

Posted by Kristin Carpenter Ogden on June 24, 2009

The SNEWS magazine spearheaded an outdoor industry leadership recognition this past January (2009). The SNEWS Power Players was announced at our winter Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City. I was fortunate enough to be selected to the top 10 Power Players list. What an honor!

The list comprises some of the industry’s best, and I proposed to Michael Hodgson and Therese Iknoian, SNEWS publishers, to consider allowing the Power Players to give back to our industry through a forum. It launched today! Ten of us will take two turns in a weekly column found on SNEWS. Each of the 10 peeps will be writing on their respective area of expertise, focused on providing solutions and beta for the recession we’re battling through. SNEWS is a membership site, but this aspect of it is open to the public.

Here’s Michael Hodgson’s intro, posted today:

In January 2009, SNEWS® named the industry’s first class of outdoor industry Power Players (click here to read).

“Insight and inspiration provide an edge that everybody can use in these economic times,” SNEWS reported when it announced the Power Players. “Both can be found by listening to people who have become business leaders. And that is the driving force behind the launch of the SNEWS Power Players — an honor that will acknowledge outdoor industry leaders for varied accomplishments in different industry sectors.”

To acknowledge the honor of being chosen as the first class of Power Players, the group wanted to collectively give back to the outdoor industry by sharing ideas and encouraging debate and discussion. Today, the 2009 SNEWS Power Players’ Lounge opens in SNEWS.

Each week, through the end of October 2009, a new column will be posted to the Power Players’ Lounge. It’s intended to be a place where our industry friends can gather to read and hopefully discuss ideas for improving business — especially important during these challenging economic times.

We encourage you to interact with others while hanging out in the Power Players’ Lounge and it’s our hope their columns will inspire imagination and debate. Use the comments button at the top and bottom of each article to post your own remarks and observations, and to engage in discussion.

Power Players’ Lounge columnists include: Bill Gamber, Joe Hyer, Jennifer Mull, Brad Werntz, Kristin Carpenter-Ogden, John Sterling, Josh Guyot, Mike Wallenfels, Beaver Theodosakis, and Sally Grimes.

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