February 25, 2013
BY Holly Jessen
It’s been about a week since we launched Ethanol Producer Magazine’s updated website. We’d love to hear what you think about it!
The new design emphasizes two elements of the website. The first is the news stories we post daily, during the business week. As before, you can get notified when we post stories in a variety of ways, by checking out the website, liking us on facebook, following us on twitter or signing up for our weekly newsletter.
The blogs are also highlighted more prominently, higher up in the website. Although I’ve blogged periodically in the past, I will now be writing one every week. EPM’s contributions editor Sue Retka Schill, who has been writing a blog for EPM for more than three years, will continue to write one as well. Erin Voegle, the news editor for EPM and our sister publication, Biomass Magazine, has a weekly blog at that website.
Reorganizing the website means that longer feature stories, such as the one I wrote for the March issue, about clean-in-place systems at ethanol plants, are in a different place. Scroll down and look for links to the current issue of the monthly magazine on the right side.
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One new feature is tagging. The seven categories are operations, markets, feedstocks, coproducts, cellulosic, business and policy. If you’re interested in a specific category, click on the tag up at the top of the website and it will take you to the stories written recently in that category. Stories are often tagged in multiple categories.
Another recent change is that I’ve been named managing editor of the magazine. I’ve been writing about ethanol for more than three years now and I will continue to write in my new role. The longer I write about ethanol, the luckier I feel. Instead of building up random useless facts that I don’t ever need to use again, every time I talk to someone or attend a conference, I’m building on my knowledge of the industry. Even though I know I still have loads to learn, my current understanding of the industry does helps me ask better questions and dig deeper into my stories than I did when I first started covering the industry.
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