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Back to School: Magazine Design

• Consider Making Your Own Magazine With a Template
• Or Create Your Own Magazine Template in InDesign
• Design a Cover That Catches the Eye
• Begin With a Great Contents Page
• Adapt to the Genre
• Give Your Magazine a Consistent Style
• Focus on Creating High-Impact Inside Pages
• Get Your Print Specs Right
• Reuse Your Templates to Make Your Own Magazines
• Consider Adapting Your Design as an eMagazine

Conclusion: Creating a Magazine in 10 Easy Steps

• More Envato Tuts+ Resources for Magazine Design!

Here we’ll walk through the steps of getting started creating your own magazines for print, as well as sharing tips for making the design process a whole lot smoother and easier for beginners. 

1. Consider Making Your Own Magazine With a Template

If you’re new to magazine-making, a template is a sensible place to start. Magazine templates are great value and allow you to dive straight into customising your magazine without having to battle with parent pages, page numbers, or heading styles. Most templates are available in standard sizes and are optimised for print, with a bleed and CMYK color swatches already set up for you, which ensures you’ll have no headaches when it comes to exporting your artwork for printing.

All you have to do is download the template, open it in Adobe InDesign and start editing, by placing images and pasting in your own text. You can also make the templates unique by swapping in fonts or color swatches, to create a wide variety of different looks. It's an awesome first step to making your own magazine.

Worried that templates can be a little bland? These 20 magazine templates have exceptionally creative layout designs:

This tutorial also shows you how easy it is to creatively customize an InDesign magazine template, by swapping in different images and color schemes:

You can find a wide range of templates over on Envato Elements for creating a magazine. 

2.  Or Create Your Own Magazine Template in InDesign

Alternatively, if you’ve got a bit of experience with using InDesign , creating your own magazine template from scratch can be a really satisfying process, and it can help you learn some of the more technical aspects of creating magazines. 

A template is, at its most basic, an InDesign document made up of a series of facing pages (spreads) for the inside of the magazine, as well as a separate cover template. 

The inside pages document should have parent pages which feature elements that are applied across a range of pages, such as page numbers and running headers. These are quick and easy to set up once you know the basics. Expand the Pages panel (Window > Pages) in InDesign and click on the A-Parent page icon at the top of the panel to bring up the parent on screen. 

To insert page numbers, create a text frame on the page and go to Type > Insert Special Character > Markers > Current Page Number. 

Running headers, which are usually placed along the top or the bottom of each page, can be created using the Type Tool (T) . Include the magazine name on one side of the spread, and the article or section name on the facing page. 

To learn how to create your own magazine template in more detail, check out this tutorial, which covers all the bases:

This video course on creating magazines is also a thorough introduction to the basics of magazine design. It leads you through from setting up magazine documents in InDesign all the way to editing the design of your layouts.

3.  Design a Cover That Catches the Eye

If you’ve ever watched The September Issue , you’ll know how many tense discussions are held about the design of a Vogue cover before it goes to print. While details like background color and the placement of article teasers can seem unimportant to the uninitiated, these add up to creating a cover that will either sell well or won’t. 

The cover is the first point of contact between your magazine and a potential reader, so it’s really important that it’s eye-catching, engaging, and attractive. Here are three tips for making sure your cover design is as effective as possible:

Creating a Magazine Cover Tip #1

Using an interesting photo or illustration and blowing this up to large scale makes for a good start, and a handy tip is to always use photos of people who are looking directly into the camera . This gives the reader the impression of eye-contact with the model, drawing the browser in and inviting them to pick up the magazine from the shelf. 

Creating a Magazine Cover Tip #2

Focus on creating a hierarchy in your typography , setting the magazine title at the top in a large display font, and supporting this with sub-headings and article teasers in smaller font sizes and varied styles, like italics, along the left and right edges of the cover. Stay disciplined and stick to a maximum of two fonts across your cover to create a professional look and avoid confusing the eye. 

Creating a Magazine Cover Tip #3

Use a simple and striking color palette , and look for trending colors on sites like Pinterest and Behance to pitch your magazine to a contemporary audience. Aim for a high contrast between the background color and/or photo and the type, to make the text as legible as possible, even when viewing from a distance.

This tutorial on how to create a cover for a fashion magazine leads you through some of the key aspects of laying out an effective cover design:

4. Begin With a Great Contents Page

Once you’ve set up a basic template and created a cover, it’s time to start drafting layouts for the inside pages as you create your own magazine. The contents page is the anchor of your inside pages, directing readers to different sections and highlighting key articles (sometimes termed ‘feature articles’) which might be of particular interest. 

Unlike the standard list format you’ll find in books, magazine contents pages tend to be more visually engaging affairs, with images, dynamic layouts, and interesting typography. 

Most contents pages are structured around a grid—a series of square sections which the designer uses to place elements like images and numbers. In InDesign, you can reveal the document’s grid by going to View > Grids & Guides > Show Document Grid . Go to the main InDesign menu and choose Preferences > Grids to edit the spacing settings of the grid. 

Read on to discover some inspiration and top tips for creating interesting contents pages. 

Make Your Own Magazine Content Tip #1

Flush images and text alternately left and right to create variation , to break the traditional left-aligned list format. Allow type to overlap images to create a more dynamic, energetic feel to the design.

Make Your Own Magazine Content Tip #2

Boxy grids can be an effective way of sectioning elements on a contents page. Here, the sections are highlighted with dotted strokes to make a feature of the grid. Type is highlighted in block color to make the body text appear more interesting.

Make Your Own Magazine Content Tip # 3

In this example , images are limited to the top third of the layout, creating a minimal and streamlined effect. A grey and white palette is reversed across the sections of the contents to create a stylish contrast and improve readability. Numbers are highlighted in frames to make them a prominent design feature of the layout. 

5. Adapt to the Genre

This is a fundamental magazine-making tip. Whether you’re creating a fashion magazine or a travel title, it’s important to recognise the audience you’re trying to appeal to and adapt the design of your magazine accordingly. 

Go to your local newsstand and scan your eye over the magazines on offer. If you’re designing, say, a food magazine, look at the existing food and lifestyle magazines on display and try to spot some common elements between them. Often, particular font styles, colors or photo angles will be used across a range of magazines within the same genre, because these signal to the reader that the magazine is appropriate for them. 

Make a note of these commonalities and try to incorporate some of them into your design. You can add individuality to your magazine by giving a unique twist to other elements. If all high-end fashion magazines seem to use serif fonts (modern serifs like Didot and Bodoni tend to be the norm for titles like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar ), you could give your design a unique angle by setting a serif header in bright neons or a pastel gradient, for example.

Becoming familiar with some of the common design traits of your chosen magazine genre can help you feel more confident with designing. Check out these tutorials on how to create genre-appropriate styles for a fashion magazine and a children’s magazine:

6. Give Your Magazine a Consistent Style

Magazines can be lengthy documents and also, unlike books, run into repeat issues. Both of these facts mean that it’s essential to keep your magazine design as recyclable as possible. 

What do I mean by recyclable? Aside from creating elements you can repeat across large sections of your magazine using parent pages, such as page numbers and running headers, you should also have elements of your magazine design that you can quickly and easily copy and ‘recycle’ across multiple pages.

This magazine template is a great example of how effective it can be to recycle elements. Here, a geometric tile-like pattern is repeated across many of the pages, rendered in color against plain backgrounds or white against photos. Teamed with consistent font styling (in InDesign , go to Window > Styles > Character Styles to define type styles), the result is polished and pulled together.  

Aiming for consistency across your magazine design not only gives the document a super professional look, it also helps you, the designer, to save time by repeating elements across your design. 

There are lots of different ways you can promote consistency across your designs. Start by drafting a single spread—from here, you can copy and paste elements across to other pages. 

Define the grid you’re going to use across the magazine, and draft out basic consistent elements such as margin width and the minimum/maximum number of columns. You can then create visual consistency by recycling graphics, such as patterns or backgrounds, typefaces, or colors. 

In this template , the designer has created a streamlined, consistent look for the magazine by reusing the same font (Helvetica) and sticking to a simple grey and white color palette throughout.

In this magazine design tutorial , you’ll learn how to create two sets of retro-themed magazine spreads, which also follow rules of consistency in color and typography.

7. Focus on Creating High-Impact Inside Pages

Once you’ve designed an awesome cover, it’s easy to feel like you can rest on your laurels and neglect the design of the inside spreads of your magazine. 

Although the cover undoubtedly is the most important layout for first drawing in a potential reader, the inside pages play an important part in keeping the reader engaged, ensuring they read the magazine cover to cover as well as encouraging them to buy further issues in the future. With this in mind, you need to make sure your inside layouts are just as engrossing and visually appealing as your cover. 

Creating high-impact magazine layouts doesn’t have to be high-effort. There are techniques magazine designers use to maximise the impact of spreads without spending huge amounts of time. 

Photos are the quickest and most effective way to add visual impact instantly. For fashion titles, look for immersive portrait photography . Travel magazines will need plenty of beautiful landscapes . Lifestyle or food? Aerial shots of food and drink  always look great and allow plenty of creative opportunities for placing type. 

Make sure all the photos you use are the highest quality you can find, so that you blow them up to full-page size without blurring or pixelation. For the opening spreads of articles, it’s good practice to also source images that will fill two facing pages, so check the landscape filter on your stock site .

Read up on more tips for making the most of your magazine layouts here:

8. Get Your Print Specs Right

Perhaps you’re intending for your magazine to be a digital publication (see Tip 10 , below), but it’s likely you will want your magazine to be in print format, if not both. 

If you’ve set up your artwork correctly, printing your magazine is a relatively simple process, and you’ll find many online print-on-demand sites now offering magazine printing services. Alternatively, seek out a local printshop or specialist publishing printer to source quotes and services. 

Once you’ve finished your magazine artwork, you’ll need to perform a preflight (in InDesign , Window > Output > Preflight ), which checks for errors like missing fonts and RGB colors in your document. 

The main things you’ll also need to ensure are present in your document are a bleed (which extends the color of the magazine pages past the edge of the page, to minimize the impact of trimming errors), CMYK color swatches  (not RGB), and that all your images are high-resolution (i.e. have a minimum of 300 dpi ). 

You can find out more about preparing your magazine artwork for print with this handy guide:

9.   Reuse Your Templates to Make Your Own Magazines

Once you’ve created your first magazine, you’ll never look back! Designing magazines is really fun, and creating new themes and styles for new titles can be addictive. 

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel every time you’re tasked with designing a new magazine. Reuse your old designs, and adapt these as templates for new layouts. Duplicate your InDesign files to work on a new copy and switch up simple elements like color swatches and font styles to give your magazine a new look in very little time.   

Even if you require a different page size, you can adapt an existing template by using InDesign ’s Liquid Page Rule , which you can activate when you select the Page Tool (Shift-P) . Set the rule to Scale , to scale the content fluidly as you resize pages. 

10. Consider Adapting Your Design as an eMagazine

While print magazines have remained enduringly popular, digital versions of magazines that can be read on eReaders and mobile devices have started to find a niche in the publishing market. This is why you need to design your own magazine with digital versions in mind.

If you want to adapt your print magazine to a digital format, you will need to change a few key elements, such as the colorspace (from CMYK to screen-friendly RGB), page size (which will have to adapt to multiple screen sizes and be rendered in pixels), and interactivity (such as adding optional page-turning buttons, video content, animation, etc.). 

These tutorials will help you make a good start on creating your own digital magazines. You’ll find advice on how to set up your artwork as fixed-layout pages, which is currently the more common standard for eMagazines. 

In this article, we’ve walked through ten stages of designing your own magazine that make a statement, from adapting templates and creating eye-catching covers through to creating a consistent style for your magazines and preparing your artwork for print. 

Designing your own magazine can be a really creative and satisfying process, and it doesn’t need to be hard work or time-consuming. Adapting a template is a great starting point and can save time that you can channel into making your design look as attractive and polished as possible. 

Make sure to check out the huge range of awesome and easy-to-adapt magazine templates over on Envato Elements . 

More Envato Tuts+ Resources for Magazine Design

Ready to learn even more about magazine design? Check out this video from the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel !

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How to make a magazine for a school project

We are excited for you to experience the joy of making a magazine for a school project. Our makerspace is a free online magazine editor that anyone can use to make a magazine. Instead of writing pages upon pages of text, a magazine gives you the opportunity to get creative with your school project. Create magazine-style layouts, use different fonts, add images and illustrations all in the makerspace. Whether you were assigned a magazine project at school or you have decided to make one for a school project, we will help you get started.

Step 1: Establish your topic

When making a magazine for a school project, you want to research your topic thoroughly. The magazine is essentially a way for you to bundle all the information you would normally provide in a project or report, but in a creative and aesthetically pleasing way.

Step 2: Gather material

From text to images, we recommend collecting all the information you want to include in your school magazine in one place. This will help you later on.

Step 3: Design your cover

The cover of your magazine is the look and feel of your project. Making a strong cover for your project is a good start to begin working on your magazine because it gives the first impression.

Step 4: Choose a layout

Create a layout for your magazine and try to understand how the reader will process the information about your topic. We have magazine templates to help you with this step. You could also have a look at some published magazines for inspiration and as a reference to plan sections of your magazine. In this step, you should figure out how you want to break up the text and start playing around with putting text into columns.

Step 5: Work together

The best part about making a magazine for school is that you do not have to do it alone. The makerspace is perfect for group projects as you can easily invite your classmates to the magazine and have them create their own pages. We even have a shoutout box for people working on the magazine to leave comments and messages. Are you working with international students? No worries, the makerspace is currently available in 3 languages; English, Dutch and German.

Step 6: Order your magazine

After all your final edits have been made and your magazine is complete, order your magazine as high quality print or as a digital PDF. Be ready to impress your teacher and readers with a professional magazine for your school project. And don't forget to have fun.

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How to make an interactive school magazine

A school magazine could be the happy memory of your school life or deliver the useful knowledge for your study. It gives the chance for students to learn more interesting things. If you want to design a school magazine for a project, how will you do?

• The creative school magazine should be unique with great ideas.
• Kids preferred the interesting content and popular layout.
• It can be reached by mobile devices, it is better for them to digesting.

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The school magazine can be educated or entertaining. With Flip PDF, your educated magazine can be more interactive while the entertaining magazine can be funnier. Let's see the process of making a school magazine with Flip PDF.

Step 1: Prepare all the content in a PDF document.

First of all, arrange your topics of school magazine wit texts and images. And then save the content as PDF document.

Step 2: Import into Flip PDF and design the cover.

When the content is in Flip PDF, you need to design the cover again. To make it more popular, you add you own background, theme and symbol. Just let your imagination run wild. You can also design the hard cover for the flipping magazine.

Step 3: Make the content funnier

If needed, you can add an audio assistant to read all the texts for your readers. Besides, in the page editor, you can add images, videos and flash to make the content funnier.

Step 4: Publish online or print it.

You can publish a mobile friendly school magazine online via FTP or directly upload into FlipBuilder cloud platform. Also, you can print the pages for distribution.

Step 5: Social share

Just click the share icon on the navigation bar, you can share the creative school magazine with classmates, teachers and friends. Learn more>>

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How to Make a Magazine: The Definitive Guide

In some ways, making a magazine today is easier than ever. The internet puts free information at everyone’s fingertips, all instantly available through mobile devices. What’s more, every person online has the opportunity to create high-quality content if they so choose. From free magazine templates to stock image libraries, there are more options than ever. Still, there’s more to making a successful magazine than simply putting images and text together. In this step by step guide, we’ll explain how to make a magazine that will not only showcase your brand in the best light, but keep your audience hooked.

How to make a magazine in 16 steps

In this resource, we’ll walk you through the work that happens before, during and after production. The first stage is brainstorming, followed by creation and collaboration, and finally, distribution. There’s a lot to cover (no pun intended), so let’s dive in.

Before production: Brainstorming

1. developing your business plan.

Before you write a single word for your magazine, you’ll want to sit down and create a game plan. This includes your mission (the reason why your magazine should exist), your overall goals, and how you’ll attain them.

Here are some of the most important questions to consider

• What is the concept or focus of your magazine? This should be brief and concise, like an elevator pitch. For example, take a look at this copy from TIME ’s “About” page:

While their brand has ballooned over the past 100 years, their commitment to “unparalleled trust and authority” remains the cornerstone of the TIME brand today. And while your aspirations might not be as grand as TIME Magazine, it’s important to nail down the ‘why’ behind your publication. 

• Which topics will you cover, and in what depth? You can’t have a magazine without a subject. Think about your area of expertise and the audience you’re aiming for. Whether you’re putting together a catalog showcasing handmade jewelry, or a glossy magazine with lush photography for your state’s tourism board, you need a clear, unifying topic.
• Consider your tone & voice —there is a big difference between The New Yorker and OK! Magazine . Consider your ideal audience and what they might resonate with. Also consider your topic. A university magazine might have more leeway to be less formal than say, a science publication.  
• Will your magazine by physical or digital (or both)? While the thought of holding something physical in your hands may sound appealing, consider the cost of printing a physical magazine. Even if you’re a well-established brand, the vast majority of your audience will have access to the internet and will be able to easily access a digital magazine. Again, consider your audience, the purpose of your publication, and how much you’ll willing to invest in it. 

Pros of physical magazines: 

• Ability to add full page advertisements and inserts
• Limited stock could make your publication more valuable
• Tactile reading experience

Cons of physical magazines:

• High upfront cost
• Bigger carbon footprint
• Readership is limited to how many copies printed

Pros of digital magazines:

• Free or low-cost
• Accessible to a wider audience
• Can include immersive elements such as scrolling text or video

Cons of digital magazines:

• Less advertising potential
• More competition

Here are a few more questions to ask yourself:

• Who is the primary audience? Your magazine should speak to others, not just yourself. It’s also important that your audience has a “continuing need” for your content, so they’ll want to subscribe and read more. Think about your audience’s lifestyle, and cater to the issues and ideas they care about. 
• What’s your title? Once you’ve thought about these other questions in depth, it’s time to start brainstorming titles. Our advice? Keep it short, simple, and relevant to your purpose/topic. 
• How will the first issue be funded? Many magazines earn profit by selling advertising, but it can be hard to attract advertisers at first. Depending on your situation, we might suggest using personal capital to fund the first issue—raised by saving money, seeking investments, or crowdfunding.

2. Research the landscape

There are a lot of magazines out there (both online and in print). Spend some time exploring some publications that you’d like to emulate, and get an idea of any potential competition. This will give you a better idea of what’s already being covered and how you can differentiate your publication. Taking stock of your competition can also reveal any gaps and opportunities that are currently not being met in the market, which you can use to your advantage as you develop your concept.

Now’s also the time to dive deeper into your target audience. Are most publications in your niche print or digital? Consider the ways you can add more value for your intended readers. 

If you’re interested in making a digital magazine, we recommend adding keyword analysis to your competitive research. Working with an SEO tool will help you find out what keywords and topics your competitors are ranking for, and can reveal gaps you can take advantage of in your own content.

3. Build your team

A magazine isn’t something you should undertake alone. Building a trustworthy team and dividing your workload will help you create faster, better results – with much less risk of burnout. The stronger your team, the stronger your magazine will be. Here are a few staff roles you might want to consider.

• Writers — Magazines are driven by great content, so of course you’ll need great writers to make it work. Depenging on the size and scope of your magazine, you might opt to keep things in-house or reach out to freelancers to submit pitches. Either way, be clear with writers about your editorial expectations and whether you’re offering any compensation for their work.
• Editor — At the end of the line, there should be one pair of eyes to give each piece of content the final yay or nay. A head editor ensures consistency and quality by reinforcing your editorial standards. This includes tone of voice, grammar, mechanics, and even the reach and scope of each article. When you have a strong editor at the helm, the finished magazine will be polished and cohesive.
• Sales manager — If your magazine will feature advertisements, a sales manager is indispensable. This person will serve as the point-of-contact for advertisers who will pay for space in your magazine. Having one person available to address their questions and concerns will help you build a better relationship with them, leading to higher, more sustainable profits.
• Marketing manager — Your magazine needs advertising too! A marketing manager will work to get attention for your magazine, making sure it’s present in all the right places. For example, If you’re launching a magazine in print, you’ll need distributors in bookstores, newsstands, and other public places. If you’re launching online, there are many channels for you to explore, from search engine ads to social media. Part of this person’s responsibilities will be deciding which distributors and channels are best for your magazine, and then creating materials like press kits and promotional content to support them.
• Publication manager — This is someone who gets down to the nitty-gritty of publication. This person will help you choose a printing partner who meets your needs, both in terms of quality and budget. What will the paper cost? How do the colors look? Are there any errors in the finished product? A publication manager will focus on these seemingly minor details that, in reality, make a huge difference when you’re creating a magazine.
• Partnerships / groups — These are helpful connections who aren’t necessarily part of your team, but can steer you in the right direction. Partnering with relevant brands that share a similar audience to you can bring more exposure. Additionally, you can find groups made up of local or indie magazines online to share advice and opportunities with one another.

During production: Creation & collaboration

Here’s where we get to the exciting stuff. Don’t get us wrong – this can be a very hectic time, but it’s where the real magic happens. If you’re inspired to make your own magazine, you’re likely familiar with the following steps—but let’s review them anyway.

4. Designing your masthead

Your magazine’s ‘brand’ is defined by its masthead. Think of Time , Vogue , and National Geographic , all publications with iconic, recognizeable mastheads. These publications use serif fonts. On the flip side, magazines like Billboard , GQ , and Glamour use sans serif fonts. Consistently using the same typeface issue after issue builds a consistent brand, while your designers can play with the color of the text to match the cover image.

5. Writing articles

Finally, time to create articles and stories for your magazine. Depending on your concept, this might mean a few different things: fiction or non-fiction, short stories, journalistic articles, how-to guides, reviews, or even a blend of all of the above. This step encompasses the writing process, from conception to pitch, and from researching to drafting.

When you’re planning each issue, you’ll also want to choose an attention-grabbing cover article. This is the ‘main event’, and will often be the story or feature readers are most excited about.

Take this cover story from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s campus magazine for example. “You do what?” is an attention-grabbing headline for this inside look into some of the most interesting careers RIT alums have – a cover story most students and parents would be very interested in reading.  

Once you’ve written all of your articles for an issue, don’t forget to add a table of contents so readers can easily find what they’re looking for.

It’s not uncommon for articles to undergo more than one round of revisions. Far more than just catching style and grammar mistakes, editing will help the writer focus and elevate their writing. Editors can help with fact-checking as well. Together, writers and editors cooperate to make an article the best it can be.

7. Proofreading

After an article has been written and edited, careful proofreading is required to ensure quality and accuracy. Any typos or errors that made their way through the writing process will be squashed here. Unlike editing, proofreading is not an evaluation of the article’s style, tone, organization or effectiveness. The focus is solely on finding and eliminating errors, so the finished product reads professionally. The person who proofreads might very well be the editor too, but these are still two separate stages of production.

8. Graphic Design

The way we enjoy magazines is different from how we consume a book or a newspaper. Although each of these publications provides information, magazines in particular are known for being visual. From elegantly gorgeous to colorfully flashy, magazine design runs the gamut.

In the name of consistency, you’ll want to decide early on whether you want your graphic/cover design to lean more toward imagery or information – or a blend of both as pictured here.

Your graphic designer is just as responsible for your magazine’s tone and feel as your writers are—if not more so. It’s important for your graphics to match your words. Browse these magazine design templates for some inspiration.

9. Photography

Stock photos are okay here and there, but they’re no substitute for custom photography. Rather than searching for pictures to match your vision (and potentially settling for less), a photographer can work with you to capture the pictures you really want. Color, lighting, subject, quality… All of these photo elements contribute to the reader’s perception of your brand. After all, that’s why they say a picture is worth a thousand words. (Or, at least, it’s why we say it.)

10. Build out your back page

If you’re including advertisements in your magazine, a back page is a must. Among wide-circulation magazines, the back page is often a full-page advertisement – one that companies pay a lot of money to be featured in. When you’re designing each issue, don’t forget to leave room for this important page.

11. Make a prototype

Just like with any product, you can’t mass produce until you have a definitive, finalized version. All of the content, words and images must be firmly locked into place with no errors or further changes. Holding your first finished prototype (whether in your hand or on a tablet) is a proud moment. Savor it! You’ve put in a lot of work to get here, and there’s still work to be done. You are now ready to start sharing your magazine with the world.

12. Digitize

Regardless of where/how you’ve designed your magazine, you want to triple check that your digital file is ready to distribute. Different publishers and reading apps have their own standards in terms of file type, size, quality and so on. Make sure you’ve researched and complied with those standards in order to prevent delays.

After production: Distribution

13. find a printer.

Your printing partner is a critical ally on your way to distribution. If you’re only hosting your magazine online, well, you’re off the hook on this one. But if you intend to share hard copies of your magazine locally, regionally, or even nationally, you need a printer you can trust to deliver satisfactory results every time. Do your research, ask around, and interview printing partners until you feel confident that your pick is a good match.

When you’re considering printing, keep these things in mind:

• Paper quality — Magazines should be on glossy paper for the best image quality. Consult with a professional printer about the right weight and size for your project.
• Layout — Because of the nature of magazines, you will need to double check to ensure that your pages will be laid out as expected.
• Full-bleed — You can add a bleed to your document so there are no blank edges on your pages. A bleed is similar to a wider margin which is then trimmed in the printing process.

14. Establish your online presence

Perhaps more than any other step, this is paramount to launching a successful online magazine. Your online presence can take many forms, from a website to a blog to social media channels, and maybe even all of the above. What’s important here is building a community of people hungry for your content. Find out where your target audience ‘lives’ online, and make sure they can find you. 

A few specific ways to drive more traffic:

• Use SEO best practices in your blog and social media to help more people find you
• Join industry or community groups on social media and share your articles
• Offer free print editions at industry trade shows or events

15. Decide whether to paywall

This is a tricky question in today’s publishing world. If you paywall all of your content, it might be hard to attract new readers. But, you can’t give it all away for free either. Striking the right balance between paid and free content might look different for every publication, so experiment to see what works for you. A good place to start is sharing free content and article excerpts on your blog but charging a flat price or subscription for each magazine issue.

16. Build a community around content

Your readers can (and should be) be your best brand advocates. When you foster a strong community on your blog, forum, or social media pages, it gives readers a shared sense of belonging. Discussions are far more interesting when readers get involved, and they can provide you with inspiration and direction. Beyond the pages of your magazine, there are many opportunities to get creative here. For example, you could start a branded YouTube channel to share vlogs and other video content.

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Together with your teacher, learn how to develop a magazine and all the aspects it entails. Lars shows you the different possible options for designing a magazine, from the idea, research, and layout, to production and marketing . By the end of the course, you'll have the tools to find the right format for your publication . Take a fragment of reality, analyze it, and reassemble it in magazine form.

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If your school does not have its own magazine, founding one can be an excellent opportunity to show off your leadership skills, as well as acquire new literary and journalistic skills. Starting a school magazine is also an excellent way to get other students involved with journalism and creative writing and to generate school pride. Starting a magazine from scratch can be a tough job, but the end results can be worth your while if you stick to it.

Consult with an adviser, preferably one who is also an English or journalism teacher, for advice and support. Your adviser can help with details that most students wouldn't be able to handle on their own, such as requesting funds for the magazine.

Create a new name for the school magazine. Remember to make it catchy and pleasing to the eyes and ears. Steer clear of names that may sound awkward or offensive to others.

Set up a working space for managing the school magazine. A computer lab is ideal for this task, as you will need access to computers with desktop publishing software.

Assemble a staff of interested students to help create and edit the school magazine. Have everyone understand their role and responsibilities as staff members of the magazine. In most cases, you may hold elections for staff leadership positions.

Start out small and avoid making fast growth a priority. Promote student body involvement in the magazine by asking for submissions to the magazine. Make sure the editors screen and assess the submissions according to the guidelines set by the staff. Have the staff members cover class news, school news and community news.

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This article was co-authored by Joe Simmons . Joe Simmons is a Corporate Trainer based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Joe specializes in operations management, leadership, learning and development, and employee training to help employees become high-performing teams. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from The University of South Florida. Joe’s coaching has helped numerous organizations with employee retention, revenue growth, and team productivity. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 528,480 times.

Have you spent your life dreaming of starting up your own magazine? Maybe you want to create a mag about your favorite activity (skateboarding? Shopping? Following celebrities?) or maybe you want to get information out into the world about an issue you are passionate about. Whatever your reason, this article will help you through the process of creating a magazine and running it successfully.

Creating Your Own Magazine

• You will also need a business plan when you approach the people who will fund your venture. They're much more likely to invest in your venture when they see you've invested time and effort yourself.
• Consult a business plan consultant or writer who can help you to create a solid, cost-effective plan. While this will cost you money, it will ultimately save you money in the long run.

• What will be the topic of your magazine? Focus on things you love and know well, whether that is sports, fashion, computers, or social networking. Creating a magazine based on your passions will be more engaging, relevant, and useful to your readers than a topic you have no relationship with.
• Who is your target audience? This will help you focus on your possibilities. For example, if your topic is fashion, your demographic will have a huge impact on the style and substance of your magazine, as well as potential ad revenue. If your target market is teenage girls/boys, for example, you'll approach the writing, content, even the logo and color scheme much differently than you would if you were targeting men over 40, or gender-neutral 20-somethings. Determine the age, gender, income level, geographic location, and education level of your target audience.
• What caliber will your magazine be? As odd of a question as this may be, you will have to decide if you want your magazine to be an authority on a subject (like cooking or fashion) or if you want your magazine to be light, gossipy publication (think Ok! or Us.)

• For example, consider buying a home. There are three groups of people who could be reached with a magazine: the buyer, the seller, and the real estate agent. However, of those three groups, only one has the potential of being a repeat customer, and that's the real estate agent. Unless you target investment buyers and sellers—which is really a completely different market—your best target audience for repeat business will be the real estate agent.
• It is also important to keep the content simple. Complicated content can lose readers quickly, so make it digestible and easy to understand, tailored to what people are interested in and not wandering off its main topic.

• For example, if you're creating a magazine for rock climbers, you will want to meet the top climbers, content creators, and other stars in that firmament. It may be that they do nothing more than tell their friends, "Hey, there's a rad new mag coming out in a couple months", or they may say, "Hey, there's a rad new mag coming out in a couple months, and I'd love to do a spread on your trip to Smith Rocks." Either way, you're a winner.
• Talk to people with experience starting and financing business ventures, and people in the printing industry. Talk to your banker, your attorney, printers, website creators--anybody who might have a wealth of knowledge and experience that touches your venture is good to know.

Building Your Team

• It takes a lot of time to write articles. It takes more time to photograph or source and edit images. It takes still more time to do the page layout, ad sales, manage the printing process, sales, distribution, and customer support. Each of those disciplines require their own levels of expertise. Unless you plan on publishing one copy every 6 months, it would be wise to build a staff at this point.

• Publication manager. Somebody has got to be out there sourcing printing houses, paper costs, doing spot checks, proofing, and being the point person for everything to do with the nuts and bolts of publishing.
• Sales manager. All those ads have to come from somewhere, because that's where a lot of the revenue is going to come from—especially at first, as you give away copies as fast as you can. Having somebody working that revenue stream every day will make a huge difference on your bottom line.
• Marketing manager. Even if you build it, they're not going to come unless they know about it. A marketing manager will spread the word, get your magazine placed on newsstands, bookstores, distribution houses, and more. Your marketing manager will also know what the competition is doing—what's in their press kit, what promotions they're running, and how they're being successful—and then do it better!

• Writing and editing. All those fine and witty words, the articles, even the page numbers and table of contents all need to be written and edited. Emphasis on editing.
• Graphic designer. What does the magazine look like? Again, different markets need different design approaches, and people will respond accordingly. Consider the difference between, for example, Wired and The New Yorker. Wired made their mark with day-glow colors, cutting edge page layout, and bold use of white space. It appealed to the geekdom like nothing else at the time. Now consider The New Yorker, with it's wry, pastel art, witty cartoons, and probing articles, all wrapped up in traditional fonts and page layout.

• You should also see if you can find reviews for the publisher. If you find reviews like “All of the pages were diagonal and they still charged us!” run away as fast as you can.

Creating Your First Issue

• Armed with your mock-up, your writers and designers will know what to create, your marketing and sales people will know what to sell, and your publishing people will be able to start pricing things out and getting bids.

• Maybe a freelance writer came across a story about a Christmas tree farm that inexplicably gets visited by a herd of wild reindeer every Christmas eve. But you are currently publishing your July issue. No worries--stick it in your ‘To Be Used’ article log and plan on running it in the December issue.

• Set your website up so that some of the articles are open to public browsers, but others require a subscription to your magazine to be viewed.

After Launching Your Magazine

• Do they love the content, but hate the layout? Find out why they hate it. It might be a perfect layout for a different demographic, but not yours. Before changing things willy-nilly, analyze the pros and cons.
• Is it priced right? People often complain about the price of things that they buy, but the key here is "did they buy?" If you get a lot of feedback saying, "It looked nice, but was too much, I didn't buy it", you might have to readjust your numbers. That could be just adjusting your expectations, or it might mean selling more ads instead of charging more per issue.
• Encourage staff feedback as well. Staff may have some great ideas that arise out of what they've learned while creating content or marketing the magazine.

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• Be realistic, but no need to be pessimistic. After all, starting a magazine is a simple mix of business strategies and creativity. Get it right, and you’ve got the money. Get it wrong, and you’ll have a wealth of experience. Thanks Helpful 4 Not Helpful 0
• Understand that "survive" doesn’t mean the magazine makes enough money to buy swanky cars and mansions for yourself. It literally means “survive”. Of every hundred magazines that are launched, just one magazine actually survives a two year period. Making hundreds of thousands of dollars is another topic entirely. But, on a positive note, a few of these newly launched magazines do make a lot of money, so you still have a fighting chance. Thanks Helpful 3 Not Helpful 0
• Be prepared, and be proactive. Planning ahead for possible difficulties will help you should any of those come to pass. Instead of being reactionary, you'll be able to meet them with a plan. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 1

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How to Create a School Magazine with Multimedia

• September 30, 2023
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Interacting with digital tools and multimedia has become a habit of the people working in the IT infrastructure. Nowadays, digital technology and devices have made our lives easily online. As the human age progresses, people can go through multimedia tools and do an edition of magazines online with hands-on experience. For the publishers, and software handlers it is a piece of pure happiness to create the digital magazine with the Multimedia tools and interactive software to get the work completed in no time.

> Part 1: FlipHTML5—Digital Magazine Maker with Multimedia Tools > Part 2: Steps to Create a School Magazine with Multimedia > Part 3: The Interactive School Magazine on FlipHTML5

Part 1: FlipHTML5 —Digital Magazine Maker with Multimedia Tools

FlipHTML5 is the online publisher software that enables its users to create formats of print in digital form including magazines, yearbooks, cooking things, etc. with mobile version and desktop versions. To interact and create an excellent memory experience, one can start with school magazine preparation with multimedia options in digital format. There is much software to access in the market worldwide. The creation of a magazine can give you a chance to school and college enthusiasts to learn more exciting things.

In just a few easy steps you can be well on your way to creating a unique school magazine with beautiful images to share your memories with your friend’s circle. FlipHTML5 page editor and animation editor will help you enrich the content with multimedia and other modern elements.

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Part 2: Steps to Create a School Magazine with Multimedia

Step 1: prepare all the content in pdf format.

First of all, arrange your school magazine content in a proper sequence as per your ease and convert it to save it to the PDF format. While keeping the document, scroll down in type and save it in the .pdf extension.

Step 2: Import into the FlipHTML5 software and design your outer cover

When the content is in FlipHTML5, you need to create the cover once again. To make it more popular, you can add your desired background, theme, and symbol options. Just let your imagination run with happiness and smiling faces. You can also design the outrebound cover for the School magazine.

Step 3: Customize your school magazine

From page flip modes to background effects, FlipHTML5 offers a variety of customizable options for you to decorate your school magazine.

Step 4: Make your content funnier and appealing to your friends

You can add an animation tool, or audio assistant to read all words in the form of content for your readers. Also, on the editor page, you can add bulk images, videos, and flash to make the content appealing.

Step 5: Share socially

With the help of the Navigation bar, you can quickly access to share option and interact with your friends on social media like teachers, old colleagues, and new friends.

Conclusion:

How to create a school magazine after building up from FlipHTML5 • The creative school magazine should be unique with old and fresh ideas. • Kids always love the exciting content and accessible layout. • Mobile devices can reach it, and share it readily with mobile apps.

With the FlipHTML5 Software tool for education and school magazines, you can create an amazing page with digital documentation to make it more user-friendly, interactive, and easily accessible to your friends. With FlipHTML5, you do have not to worry about how to make school magazines a refreshed memory from your teen to adult days.

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How do you know that students “get it?” How do you know that they understand core concepts and can articulate them and express them in multiple ways? These were the questions I asked myself when designing a lesson for fourth graders at Manor View Elementary at Fort Meade, Maryland seeking to understand the Learner Profiles and Key Concepts from the PYP International Baccalaureate program. Drawing inspiration from the book Innovating for People by the Luma Institute , I asked students to create magazine cover to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts. Creating magazine cover is hardly a new concept but I love how the Luma Institute includes it as part of the innovation process.

Gather materials – markers, crayons, 8.5 x 11 plain white copy paper. When it comes to arts integration done directly in the classroom use the very simplest materials available. The emphasis should be on the doing/creating/processing rather than manipulating complex or messy materials.

Use the See/Think/Wonder thinking routine to show positive examples of a student magazine cover. In the example below, the students saw the child’s colorful socks, the fact that she was sitting on books and that the story names used numbers. They thought that she might be caring and knowledgeable (two of the IB Learner Profiles) and the wondered what grade she was in, where she lived and why she was smiling. The point is to model what a great example might look like and for the students to draw inspiration from it. (10 minutes)

Source: Kiwi Magazine Cover

Ask the students what IB Learner Profile best fits their personality, life or activities. Be sure to explain to them that all of the profiles apply to them but they may feel more strongly about one in particular. I have found that Risk-Takers, Caring and Knowledgeable are the most popular with 4th graders. It may help to show them a picture of the Learner Profiles so they can visualize some hard to grasp concepts. (10 minutes)

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Create a magazine cover  (30 minutes) – Fold the paper in half, and make sure the students include:

• Name of the Learner Profile as the title of the magazine cover. This should be big, clear and colorful.
• Create a symbol or image that describes the Learner Profile.
• Create at least one article name on the side like “5 Ways I am a Caring Student.”
• Write a short article or list on the profile inside of the cover.

Offer students the opportunity to present their covers to the class (10 minutes) – Students take pride in their work and offering them the opportunity to explain why they are caring, knowledgeable, etc. will give you a chance to assess their understanding of the profile they chose. In fact, the whole activity serves as a great formative assessment of their understanding because there is:

• Discussion of the profiles that allows them to verbally articulate understanding and also hear fellow students’ ideas.
• Creation of visual art that demonstrates their symbolic/conceptual understanding of the profiles.
• Writing that allows them to create a list of ways that show how they apply the profiles to their lives.
• Presentation of the entire work in front of an audience.

Happy magazine cover creation! This is a super easy way to engage your students and use arts integration to both deepen and assess student understanding of sometimes abstract concepts.

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How to Create Your Own Digital Magazine

Written by: Orana Velarde

You should always be on the lookout for innovative ways to communicate with your audience. Don’t let your content strategies go stale by sticking to the same types of content year after year.

Audiences and consumers expect brands to evolve, grow and expand their communication platforms. Adding a new type of content — like a digital magazine — can revive any strategy.

All brands benefit from content that brings value to their readers, helping convert them to loyal customers. Digital magazines are an excellent way to open up to new followers and hold on to old ones by showing them you’re evolving. Digital magazines are also a great way to improve brand awareness .

In this article, we’ll take you through a step-by-step guide to create your own digital magazine, plus a lively collection of digital magazine templates that will help with inspiration and give you a head start.

Let’s get started!

Here’s a short selection of 8 easy-to-edit digital magazine templates you can edit, share and download with Visme. View more templates below:

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What is a digital magazine, types of digital magazines, why should you create a digital magazine, how to create a digital magazine, 5 tips to improve your digital magazine, 11 digital magazine templates.

When digital magazines first came into the online marketing scene in the 90s, they were simply digital versions of print magazines. Not anymore!

Now, they're commonly launched as digital versions without an initial print run. Digital magazines used to look just like their print counterparts, but now they can be as simple as a static PDF or as engaging as an exciting interactive experience . 

Digital magazines are not like social media ads or landing pages for a brand. They’re not a selling asset, like a brochure .  The purpose of a digital magazine is to communicate, inform or entertain. 

Plus, content types that aren’t promotional tend to perform better. That’s why 90% of the most successful marketers get optimal results by prioritizing their audience’s informational needs over sales-y messages . 

Digital magazines come in many different forms. So it's important to determine which is the right type of digital magazine for your business.

As we already mentioned, digital magazines have evolved since their inception — what once started as static PDFs that mirrored printed magazines has become a standalone marketing and communication tool for businesses across various industries.

Over the years, the functionality improved so content would be easier to read on mobile devices. Then, they got more interactive, and now a digital magazine can be a complete experience.

Choose the digital magazine style that makes the most sense for your goals, and select the content type that fits with your brand voice and values. 

Below are all the types of digital magazines available to create through several online platforms — including Visme .

Interactive Experiences/HTML5 Live Link

The best and most impactful type of digital magazine is the one that offers an interactive experience. Either as a website, landing page or as a live link created with a tool like Visme.

By creating an interactive experience, your digital magazine can include video, animations, popups and hyperlinks for internal or external navigation. These features will make any digital magazine stand out from the competition, plus they’re super easy to make with Visme.

When you create an interactive digital magazine, share it as a live link for free access or use it as a lead magnet , thus adding value to your content marketing strategy exponentially.

Interactive or Static PDFs

PDF magazines are either static or interactive. At their inception, they were static PDF files downloaded and shared via email or file sharing. Nowadays PDFs are interactive and engaging by including elements that call attention and inspire the readers to participate.

As you might have guessed, Interactive PDFs are infinitely better than static PDFs, especially for digital magazines. A static PDF brings no extra value to the reader apart from the content. The classic PDF has lost its luster due to how technology has evolved. PDFs, especially static ones, are difficult to read on mobile devices if they’re not optimized for responsive viewing.

If you’re thinking of creating a PDF digital magazine, it’s in your best interest to go with the interactive option.

An additional option for digital magazines is to share each issue as a flipbook .  The original digital flipbook style was designed for viewing on desktop, and was extremely difficult to read on mobile devices. This has changed in recent years, with flipbook creation platforms adding mobile options to their publishing suites. 

Issuu, for example, started as a simple flipbook platform and now offers digital publishing solutions for mobile and social media. You simply upload a PDF file and Issuu takes care of the rest. The only downside to this digital magazine style is the lack of interactivity. 

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Mobile Apps

Initially, mobile digital magazines were an interactive alternative to static PDFs. But as technology improved, other digital magazine creation solutions popped up, making publications easier to handle. That’s why it’s not common to start a digital magazine journey with a mobile app — it takes a lot of time and upkeep.

The best time to integrate a mobile app version of a digital magazine is when the desktop version already exists, and there’s a considerable reader base.

When the app version is ready, offer it to your existing readers as another option. Make sure to design the UI for both Android and iOS so you’re not excluding any of your readers. Create a memorable app icon so it’s easy to find on the phone screen.

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The last digital magazine-style on our list is the one that resembles a blog. But don’t be mistaken; the only similarity with a blog is the visual layout of the articles. Even though they resemble each other in formatting, blogs and blog-style magazines differ in terms of content. 

Magazine articles are more journalistic in style than blog entries. The navigation is more like a magazine than a blog, with articles grouped into issues. The benefit of making your magazine look like a blog is that it’ll be easy to read and browse. Readers will feel comfortable with the layout. That said, you can add some personality to the design to make the structure even more unique.

Any content strategy can benefit from the incorporation of a digital magazine. Strategies with a variety of outputs and touchpoints reach more people. Plus, people prefer to consume content in different ways.

Here are the top reasons why you should consider creating a digital magazine.

You have a print magazine and want to go digital.

If you have a print magazine with a loyal reader base, it’s an excellent time to consider going digital. Going from print to digital can be either an addition to your strategy or a completely new one.

For example, magazines like The New Yorker added a digital version without getting rid of the print version. Others, like Computerworld and Teen Vogue, went completely digital and stopped publishing print versions altogether. 

The benefit of adding a digital magazine to your already existent print pub is that your audience will get to choose how they prefer read your articles. You can create subscription plans that include both print and digital options — or one or the other.

Deciding to stop the print pub and transition to purely digital is a bold choice. The dual production efforts are highly successful when the original magazine is rich with illustrations and custom graphics.

Going back to our example, The New Yorker has beautiful visuals that people like to have in print. Magazines like Computerworld didn’t have that advantage.

You want to use your digital magazine as a lead magnet.

Digital magazines as lead magnets are great for business owners and marketing teams building their customer base. Lead magnets like ebooks and checklists are grea t, but essentially serve as one-offs. On the other hand, a digital magazine will regularly keep your audience's interest piqued with new issues and articles. 

Entice new readers with free articles, and then offer a starter subscription with a low-cost option for the first few months. Once that trial period is over, the subscription cost can increase, but be sure to offer easy unsubscribing options so no one feels trapped.

When your digital magazine grows and your reader base expands, you can start offering merchandise, creating a mobile app and hiring more writers.

Using a digital magazine as a lead magnet is a long game strategy; it’s not the best choice if you don’t have the resources to follow through.

If you use Visme to create your digital magazine, you can email-gate the content by requiring registration when they visit your link or embedded content. Just head to the advanced sharing settings to turn this option on.

You want to increase your digital presence and brand awareness.

Digital magazines don’t always have to be behind a paywall; they can be free as well. The choice is up to you and your brand values.

Having a free digital magazine can be a great way to connect to your audience without asking for anything in return. In this case, it’s a brand awareness strategy instead of a revenue generator.

Another brand marketing angle is to offer the newest issue for free until the next issue is published. Then all archive issues are only available under subscription.

This is an excellent way to build brand awareness that then converts to leads. The trick to this strategy being successful is the quality of your content. Readers will only stick around or come back if your articles bring value and offer interesting insights that other publications do not.

Are you ready to create your own digital magazine? As long as you follow the steps, you’ll be on your way to a successful digital magazine launch. Let’s get started.

Step 1: Set a Goal for Your Digital Magazine

The first step, much like any outbound project in your content strategy, is to set a goal for your digital magazine. What do you plan to achieve with the publication?

• Will the magazine be a monetized asset, or will it be a free offering?
• Do you plan to inform, pitch or entertain your audience?
• How big do you want your digital magazine to grow in the future?
• How often will you publish a new issue?

Write down your goals and projections, and annotate some roadmap ideas on how to achieve them . Create a brainstorm or mind map, plus add to-do lists and detailed notes about what needs doing.

Use a project plan to help get all ideas and roadmap steps organized. This template has pages for goals, Gantt chart roadmaps and objectives.

Step 2: Select the Right Software

Test different platforms to create your digital magazine. Some online tools offer solutions from design to publication, while others only offer a platform for publishing and sharing an uploaded PDF. Here’s a list of some of the most common digital magazine makers:

• FlippingBook

Most of the digital publishing platforms that promote a digital magazine maker offer only flipbook-style options. Knowing what we know about how flipbooks — made with static PDF files — are not ideal for mobile viewing, you thankfully have better options.

For example, Visme offers the whole gamut of options. From static and interactive PDFs to interactive experiences shared as a live publication to view online.

The video below shows how to create a document with Visme. All the documents created with Visme can be turned interactive with just a few clicks! If you still want to use a flipbook style magazine for your website, upload a Visme created PDF to any flipbook site. Additionally, Visme live links are responsive for desktop and mobile. Your digital magazines #madewithvisme will look great on all devices.

Step 3: Choose a Topic or Overarching Theme

Now that you’ve laid out your goals and chosen the software you feel the most comfortable with, it’s time to pinpoint a topic or overarching theme for your digital magazine.

Consider your brand’s market position and what your customer base already loves about your company. What are the questions they’re asking the most through the support channels? What types of comments are they making on your social media?

Think of an overarching theme intimately tied to your industry that will bring value to your client base. This is crucial for your digital magazine to make an impact; otherwise, they won’t be interested in reading it, let alone subscribe to it.

Use a brain map to develop themes and topics that will help later with the content strategy.

Step 4: Create a Content Strategy

Your magazine as a whole has an overarching theme, then each issue is a detailed or tangential aspect of the overarching theme.

For example, if you own a consulting company for Human Resources teams , your main topic can be “Human Resources and the Future of Work.” Then each issue can concentrate on specific aspects of this work, with opinion pieces, research articles, personal stories, etc.

Create a content strategy for the first few issues, designing a document template that you can later recreate and tweak as needed. Assign tasks to yourself and your team so that each aspect of content production is taken care of. Put together a Gantt Chart to help you follow through and stay on track.

Step 5: Write the Articles 

Now it’s time to write the articles. Consult your content strategy to see how many articles you need to write and decide if you’ll write them all yourself or if you’ll hire other writers to help. Writers can be members of your team or freelance writers brought in specially for the magazine project.

When writing and editing, remember to stay true to your brand voice and values. The content in the magazine represents how you see your brand growing for the future. A digital magazine project means brand message expansion, so put those storytelling skills to good use.

Step 6: Plan the Visuals

Start planning out the visuals for the cover and the inside pages as you’re working on the written content. When you use a digital magazine maker like Visme, you’ll have thousands of images and videos at your fingertips. If your brand has company visuals or similar, upload them to the software you chose. 

Visme has a media library feature where you can store images and videos organized by folders and tags. Having a productivity resource like an organized media library makes it easier to build a digital magazine — or any visual project you have in mind.

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Step 7: Choose a Template

Browse through digital magazine templates to find the one you love. Look at the overall layout to find one that matches your brand’s visual architecture. This is important because when you’re adding the content to your magazine, you don’t want to waste time redesigning the whole thing. The idea of using a template is to save precious time while also creating something beautiful.

The template you choose might not have enough pages for what you envision your magazine to have, but it’s easy to duplicate or add more pages as you add the content. Remember to continue the visual style on new pages so they don’t stand out like sore thumbs. 

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Step 8: Design a Magazine Cover

Now it’s time to design the cover for your digital magazine. On this layout, add the title of the magazine, a few titles of the best articles inside, the issue number and date, and optionally, your logo. Use an eye-catching visual or photo that makes sense with the topic and your brand message. 

If you have an interview featuring an interesting character from your industry, use a good-looking photograph of them for your magazine cover. Other options include a stock photo of something that illustrates the overarching theme of the issue.

For example, the template below for an Organic food digital magazine uses an image of tomatoes. Alternatively, get conceptual and use a collage or illustration that depicts the main topic of your magazine.

Not totally sure how to get started with your magazine cover design? This infographic walks you through the anatomy of an magazine cover that should help you put everything in the right place.

Step 9: Edit and Proofread Your Content

Before publishing your digital magazine, the last step is to edit and proofread all the articles and check that all the interactive features are working as they should. Ask professional editors or proofreaders for help; we don’t recommend you do everything yourself, as that creates blind spots. 

Also, go through your brand guidelines and brand voice parameters to analyze if all articles, visuals and interactive features are following the guidelines for visual and messaging brand styling. Taking the time to do this is crucial for creating impactful and relevant content for your business.

Step 10: Publish Your Digital Magazine

It’s time to publish your digital magazine!

As you saw above, there are many options for publishing, from PDFs to flipbooks to interactive experiences. Regardless of how you choose to publish your digital magazine, it’s in your best interest to create a space on your website where the magazine issues are collected, archived and promoted. 

If you're charging a subscription for your magazine, you’ll need a way to collect payments. You can do this via an ecommerce service on your site that redirects the reader to the magazine issues once they’ve paid. Once they’ve signed up and paid, direct them to an embedded version on your website or to the published Visme link.

If you’re using the digital magazine as a free lead magnet, add an email capture to your Visme published digital magazine and let readers experience it as a live interactive link. Then click Share and Publish for Web to launch your new issue.

Creating a digital magazine is a straightforward project when you follow the steps above. But there’s always room for making your digital magazines amazing.

That’s where the following tips come in. Call them our Pro Tips for the success of your digital magazine.

1. Make it interactive.

The first and most crucial tip we can offer about creating digital magazines is to make yours interactive. Turning your magazine into an experience will set it apart from the rest. The types of interactive features you can add are:

• Embedded videos
• Embedded quizzes
• Embedded forms
• Hover effects

Use digital tech to your advantage. Offer readers more than just textual content. For example, you can add a short survey asking their opinion of the magazine or as a fun quiz.

2. Use big and bold fonts

Readers will view your magazine on all sorts of digital devices. Make sure the text is easy to read on desktops, laptops, tablets and phones. The no. 1 solution for this is to use big and bold fonts. Make titles noticeable and body text easy to read with fonts that aren’t too thin or mushed together. 

Use extra line space and space between letters to create a better visual flow for your readers. Choose a font pairing that won’t compete with your visuals. The first option is always to use brand typography, but sometimes you can get a little creative in digital magazines. Just make sure it doesn’t take away from the flow and is still easy to read.

Inside your Visme editor, choose a pre-designed font pairing that will look great straight out of the box. Ungroup the pair to adjust the layout between title and subtitle.

3. Focus on quality

Whether your magazine is a free publication or a paid subscription, it needs to be worth reading, downloading or sharing. Focus on the quality of your digital magazine. Consider all the details from the theme to the articles to the visuals and interactive features.

Make sure all articles are relevant to the topic and your brand voice. Use a discerning editing stance when finalizing the text; hire editors if none are on your team. Hire designers, illustrators or photographers to create exclusive content for your magazine. You don’t want your digital magazine to look like a mass-produced digital publication; make yours stand out.

4. Make it easy to navigate

Digital magazines, like websites or apps, need to be easy to navigate. Readers should go from page to page with simple pagination and have access to a table of contents that links to the desired article they want to read .

If you’re creating an interactive PDF, add a home button on each page, so the reader can easily find the Table of Contents after skimming or reading an article. 

Live online links created and published with Visme have an incorporated pagination feature and a table of contents accessible from every page. All you need to do is add relevant titles to each page, so there’s no confusion.

5. Analyze the performance of your digital magazines

What good is creating new content for your brand if you’re not tracking its performance? When you make a digital magazine with Visme and share it as a published live link, you can access an analytics dashboard.

Track how many opens, reading time spent and demographic data about your readers and subscribers. Collect emails to add to your mailing list and nurture your readers through your email provider.

Analyze the data to tweak and test changes on your future issues and articles. To know if your initial readers enjoy the digital magazine, include a short survey to ask for feedback or suggestions. Visme offers several surveys and form integrations to easily embed questionnaires to help you analyze the impact of your digital magazine.

Now that you’re ready to start creating your digital magazine, it’s time to find a template that matches your vision. You can also look at templates for initial inspiration while still building the content strategy. 

Here are 11 digital magazine templates from Visme that you can start using right away.

1. Sports Magazine Template

This sports magazine template has a modern feel, with cutout images of athletes laid over bold backgrounds. The bold, all-cap titles stand out and are easy to read and skim.

2. Technology Magazine Template

This tech-related digital magazine template has a clean-cut design with lots of white space. The content feels easy to read and skim. Page 7 includes a minimalist comparison infographic to support a comparative article.

3. Food Magazine Template

Choose this digital magazine template if you’re creating a digital magazine about food. There are pages for text articles, plus layouts for recipes with images. The overall design is graphic and exciting and easy to customize.

4. Lifestyle Magazine Template

The pages of this lifestyle digital magazine template are full of creative typography and unique visual layouts. Use this design if your brand is creative and offbeat. It will be easy to stand out with a composition as unique as this.

5. Business and Advertising Magazine Template

Business-related content doesn’t need to be corporate and dry. Bright colors and full-page images create an impact that will call attention to the reader. With your content and a good dose of interactivity, this template will be a great addition to your content strategy.

6. Ecommerce Magazine Template

Minimalist and stylish layouts are perfect for ecommerce or product feature magazines. This magazine template uses a lot of white space to give a feeling of freshness and novelty. Plus, to create visual contrast, some pages have full-size images with vibrant darker colors.

7. Travel Magazine Template

Travel magazines always depend on great photography to support the stories on the pages. This magazine template is an excellent example of boxed content laid over imagery of beautiful locations and places.

8. Fitness Magazine Template

Duotone designs work great for a variety of magazine topics. This fitness magazine offers a great starting point for any type of content. Select this template if you’re looking for a unique visual story to go with your content.

9. Interior Design Magazine Template

Blocked designs are easy to read and feel dependable. This style of magazine template will look great for an interior design magazine or any other topic that can benefit from a contrasting creative look.

10. Health Magazine Template

Digital magazines that use a repeating pattern on every page set a visual cue for the entirety of the issue. This health magazine template includes a vertical line on the left of each page where you can have the page number and even the title of the article on that particular page. 

11. Fashion Magazine Template

Creative content will fit well with this fashion magazine template. Pages with colorful design elements make content stand out and fun to read. The white space creates a unique layout that’s perfect for any creative digital magazine.

Over To You

Now it’s your turn. What type of digital magazine will you create for your business? Will it be a static or interactive document that you can share via email or embed into your website? Or maybe you want to be bold and create an interactive experience with Visme!

We lean towards the latter, a live HTML5 link with interactive features that will keep the reader engaged, entertained and looking forward to more.

Try Visme for your digital magazine creation . If you’re already creating content with Visme, adding a digital magazine to the mix is easy. We offer several digital magazine templates that you can share as PDFs or live links for interactive experiences. We can’t wait to see what you create!

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Top Ideas to Start University Magazine

Are you affiliated with a university that has considered publishing a digital magazine? Having a magazine gives the university a platform to share important messages, updates, and news to many people in a fun and creative manner. Aside from getting the word around, having a university magazine can also do wonders for a university’s brand or image.

Having a university magazine can be a great idea to spread official messages to many people simultaneously as part of an array of creative content. A magazine gives your university an advantage over other universities in sharing news and updates with students and alumni. A good university magazine on the best digital magazine platform can also boost the university’s brand or image.

But having a university magazine is not as easy as it seems, the main drawback being the budget. Maintaining a university’s magazine makes sense when universities compete for students and alumni giving. A magazine or magazines should serve as an integral part of the content marketing strategy at your university. The clinical nature of higher education is a boon and a bane in itself. Content may be tailored around the university’s core values or upcoming annual deadlines but at times may also leave the content strategists struggling to find fresh ideas to publish. This issue may be solved by using the In Design digital publishing platform. We have developed innovative and evergreen ideas for success to apply to your university magazine. Let us assist you with identifying content that may be suitable for starting a magazine at your university.

Advice for Prospective Students

Some prospective students feel lost when becoming a part of a new university. You may want to help prospective students by publishing a magazine that gives them end-to-end details about moving day, choosing a major, or share valuable insights about the experience of a student-athlete. While this style of university magazine is useful for everyone, especially from the point of view of the admissions office, it may have a greater impact on the prospective student to get a behind-the-scenes viewpoint.

Students and Lecturer’s Journals

Starting a university magazine is also a great idea for students and lecturers who advise on research and make reports or journals. If these journals are featured in your magazine with the help of online magazine publishing platforms, more students and lecturers will have the opportunity to read research affiliated with your university, even the ones who don’t write journals. Some universities have their internal magazine, which features a collection of journals written by university lecturers.

University and Faculty News

The idea of having all the journals in one magazine seems to be quite boring, right? This is why you should add other content as well, in your magazine. One way to do this is to feature the university and faculty news in your university magazine using a digital publisher suite. This way, all members of the university can be aware of what is going on or what is going to be held at the university.

Apart from this, you can also add content to introduce each university member to the InDesign digital publishing platform, so that the university members can know each other. Your magazine should be able to spread information to a lot of people at the same time. So, try to include the university’s new policies, activities, or the appointment of a new coach for their soccer team.

General Appeal

It is not necessary that you only include educational or university-related content in your magazine. You may use the best digital magazine platform to add full-colour content along with amazing pictures. You may add sections on economics, entertainment, and sports as well as stunning photos from students. One of the perks of having a digital magazine is that you may make it interactive by adding video and music. The digital publishing platforms provide all the interactivities you need.

A Bonus Category

A university magazine is a great way of creating a target audience. Your students feel welcomed into the institution. A university and its management may use this platform as a means of communicating and connecting with its students. In your online university magazine, you may have a section dedicated to providing career advice services for prospective students or helping the students make a decision to enroll. Campus safety tours, informational presentations, and campus safety are some of the other evergreen ideas that will ensure the success of your university magazine.

In Conclusion and Summation

Several online magazine publishing platforms offer the opportunity to create online magazines for free. All you have to do is register using your email address. These platforms will allow you to design your online magazine as well as showcase your content using a web app. Some platforms also allow you to share your web app URL so that others may also have a look at the amazing content you have to offer. Mag+ is one of the fastest-growing and leading digital magazine platforms; using Mag+ you may create, manage and publish deeply engaging content that marks your university as a top-tier institution. Our creative teams are waiting to hear from you. Connect with us today to create your own custom digital magazine. Contact Us now.

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According to the recently released 2016 Building a Grad Nation Report , high school graduation rates in the U.S. are at an all-time high of 82.3 percent.

To reach the goal of helping students achieve a higher rate of completion, schools are turning to a variety of resources, both high tech and low tech to engage students and help them perform better in class and on high stakes assessments. For many schools, this involves the use of magazines in the classroom. Here are five ways that magazines are making a difference for student success in the classroom:

Arguably the biggest hurdle to student learning is lack of engagement. Magazines, by their nature, cover a range of topics to capture the interest of readers of all ages in a format that is fun and appealing. Many include games, puzzles and quests that help reinforce key concepts in a fun yet challenging way.

Manageable Chunks of Information

According to several articles, the human brain has limitations in the amount of information it can consume and retain at a given time, so “ chunking ” content into logical segments leads to higher retention. Unlike the classic basal textbook, magazines provide students and teachers with self-contained learning segments that are less threatening and easier for students to absorb and learn.

Accessibility

With the growing number of non-native speakers in classrooms, a clear recognition that any given classroom can include many different levels and types of learners, accessibility of content is a key topic in learning. Highly visual and designed to engage and welcome readers, magazines have been successful in reaching visual learners and students who require additional language support .

Practice in Informational Reading

Although state standards and the Common Core vary in their specific standards benchmarks, one constant is the recognition of the importance of informational reading . While many classrooms have a variety of novels and books, nonfiction texts outside of classroom textbooks are harder to find. Magazines as well as newspapers offer an easy way to integrate short, age-appropriate informational reading into classroom instruction.

Builds Background Knowledge Through Nonfiction

While many studies have shown the relationship between reading skills and student success, recent studies have shown that what students read can make an even greater impact. According to a study published in Educational Leadership , nonfiction reading not only helps students develop research skills and the ability to read complex texts, it helps build the background knowledge shown to play a factor in students’ success in content area reading later in their education.

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In this undated photo, students attending the Building Your Own Computer program offered by the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, practice their skills. States are looking to beef up their residents tech skills as generative artificial intelligence plays a greater role in the workplace. CfAL officials, however, say basic computer skills are also still needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)

In this undated photo, a Connecticut high school student practices skills she has learned in the Building Your Own Computer program offered by the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion. States are looking to beef up their residents tech skills as generative artificial intelligence plays a greater role in the workplace. CfAL officials, however, say basic computer skills are also still needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)

In this undated photo, Richie Hull, a lead instructor at the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, teaches the Foundation to a Career in Computers class at the organization’s computer lab in New Haven, Conn. States are looking to beef up their residents tech skills as generative artificial intelligence plays a greater role in the workplace. CfAL officials, however, say basic computer skills are also still needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)

Connecticut is working to create what proponents believe will be the country’s first Citizens AI Academy, a free online repository of curated classes that users can take to learn basic skills or obtain a certificate needed for employment.

“This is a rapidly evolving area,” said state Democratic Sen. James Maroney. “So we need to all learn what are the best sources for staying current. How can we update our skills? Who can be trusted sources?”

Determining what skills are necessary in an AI world can be a challenge for state legislators given the fast-moving nature of the technology and differing opinions about what approach is best.

Gregory LaBlanc, professor of Finance, Strategy and Law at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley Law School in California, says workers should be taught how to use and manage generative AI rather than how the technology works, partly because computers will soon be better able to perform certain tasks previously performed by humans.

“What we need is to lean into things that complement AI as opposed to learning to be really bad imitators of AI,” he said. “We need to figure out what is AI not good at and then teach those things. And those things are generally things like creativity, empathy, high level problem solving.”

He said historically people have not needed to understand technological advancements in order for them to succeed.

“When when electricity came along, we didn’t tell everybody that they needed to become electrical engineers,” LeBlanc said.

This year, at least four states — Connecticut, California, Mississippi and Maryland — proposed legislation that attempted to deal with AI in the classroom somehow. They ranged from Connecticut’s planned AI Academy, which was originally included in a wide-ranging AI regulation bill that failed but the concept is still being developed by state education officials, to proposed working groups that examine how AI can be incorporated safely in public schools. Such a bill died in the Mississippi legislature while the others remain in flux.

One bill in California would require a state working group to consider incorporating AI literacy skills into math, science, history and social science curriculums.

“AI has the potential to positively impact the way we live, but only if we know how to use it, and use it responsibly,” said the bill’s author, Assemblymember Marc Berman, in a statement. “No matter their future profession, we must ensure that all students understand basic AI principles and applications, that they have the skills to recognize when AI is employed, and are aware of AI’s implications, limitations, and ethical considerations.”

The bill is backed by the California Chamber of Commerce. CalChamber Policy Advocate Ronak Daylami said in a statement that incorporating information into existing school curricula will “dispel the stigma and mystique of the technology, not only helping students become more discerning and intentional users and consumers of AI, but also better positioning future generations of workers to succeed in an AI-driven workforce and hopefully inspiring the next generation of computer scientists.”

While Connecticut’s planned AI Academy is expected to offer certificates to people who complete certain skills programs that might be needed for careers, Maroney said the academy will also include the basics, from digital literacy to how to pose questions to a chatbot.

He said it’s important for people to have the skills to understand, evaluate and effectively interact with AI technologies, whether it’s a chatbot or machines that learn to identify problems and make decisions that mimic human decision-making.

“Most jobs are going to require some form of literacy,” Maroney said. “I think that if you aren’t learning how to use it, you’ll be at a disadvantage.”

A September 2023 study released by the job-search company Indeed found all U.S. jobs listed on the platform had skills that could be performed or augmented by generative AI. Nearly 20% of the jobs were considered “highly exposed,” which means the technology is considered good or excellent at 80% or more of the skills that were mentioned in the Indeed job listings.

Nearly 46% of the jobs on the platform were “moderately exposed,” which means the GenAI can perform 50% to 80% of the skills.

Maroney said he is concerned how that skills gap — coupled with a lack of access to high-speed internet, computers and smart phones in some underserved communities — will exacerbate the inequity problem.

A report released in February from McKinsey and Company, a global management consulting firm, projected that generative AI could increase household wealth in the U.S. by nearly $500 billion by 2045, but it would also increase the wealth gap between Black and white households by $43 billion annually.

Advocates have been working for years to narrow the nation’s digital skills gap, often focusing on the basics of computer literacy and improving access to reliable internet and devices, especially for people living in urban and rural areas. The advent of AI brings additional challenges to that task, said Marvin Venay, chief external affairs and advocacy officer for the Massachusetts-based organization Bring Tech Home.

“Education must be included in order for this to really take off publicly … in a manner which is going to give people the ability to eliminate their barriers,” he said of AI. “And it has to be able to explain to the most common individual why it is not only a useful tool, but why this tool will be something that can be trusted.”

Tesha Tramontano-Kelly, executive director of the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, said she worries lawmakers are “putting the cart before the horse” when it comes to talking about AI training. Ninety percent of the youths and adults who use her organization’s free digital literacy classes don’t have a computer in the home.

While Connecticut is considered technologically advanced compared to many other states and nearly every household can get internet service, a recent state digital equity study found only about three-quarters subscribe to broadband. A survey conducted as part of the study found 47% of respondents find it somewhat or very difficult to afford internet service.

Of residents who reported household income at or below 150% of the federal poverty level, 32% don’t own a computer and 13% don’t own any internet enabled device.

Tramontano-Kelly said ensuring the internet is accessible and technology equipment is affordable are important first steps.

“So teaching people about AI is super important. I 100% agree with this,” she said. “But the conversation also needs to be about everything else that goes along with AI.”

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Jun 28, 2024

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As the field of reproductive and maternal health has grown, awareness about the impact of hypertension during and after pregnancy on future cardiovascular health has also increased.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) affect about 8% to 10% of pregnant individuals and includes hypertension that occurs during and after pregnancy, such as chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia and postpartum hypertension. Individuals who are Black, over the age of 35 years, and those with obesity, a BMI >30 and diabetes are at higher risk.

To help increase awareness of HDP and bridge gaps in care, a new Postpartum Hypertension Clinic Development Toolkit, created jointly by the ACC's Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Member Section and the Reproductive Health and Cardio-Obstetrics Member Section in collaboration with the ACC Pennsylvania Chapter and others, offers guidance for developing postpartum hypertension clinics and best practices for transitions in care.

Three Key HDP Takeaways

• Recognize that HDP is common, affecting one in 10 pregnant individuals, and is associated with significant postpartum morbidity and increased future cardiovascular risk.
• Care of HDP can be improved through initiatives like dedicated postpartum hypertension clinics and home blood pressure monitoring programs in general cardiology practices.
• Future research will guide the establishment of optimal blood pressure goals for this population and how to achieve them.

The toolkit is geared for all members of the care team: ob-gyn specialists, cardiologists, APPs, NPs and PAs and more, and recognizes the need for multidisciplinary care.

"There was a real need to create something that helps guide clinicians from different systems, not just academic tertiary care centers, but also clinicians in more rural locations and nonacademic centers who are taking care of individuals with HDP and want to build an HDP clinic or remote blood pressure monitoring programs," says Malamo Countouris, MD, AACC , the toolkit's lead creator and writer.

Toolkit Components

The toolkit consists of seven parts and can be downloaded as a whole or as individual sections.

• Part I discusses how to start a postpartum hypertension clinic for individuals with HDP, from conceptualizing the clinic to reviewing administrative logistics and coding.
• Part II focuses on clinical models and framework for the clinic, including clinical models and operations, clinic activities, and coding and billing.
• Parts III and IV focus on obstetric considerations after HDP and managing blood pressure postpartum.
• Parts V-VII provide clinic example documents and other materials, patient education resources, and appendices and references.

Special Thanks to the Toolkit Authors

Malamo Countouris, MD, AACC ; Natalie Ann Bello, MD, FACC ; Colleen Harrington, MD, FACC ; Jennifer Lewey, MD, FACC ; Kathryn Lindley, MD, FACC ; Megan Mclaughlin, MD, MPH ; and Kayle Shapero, MD . The reviewers are Sri Adusumalli ; Alisse Hauspurg, MD ; Adi Hirshberg, MD ; Deirdre Mattina, MD, FACC ; Michael Rakotz, MD , and AMA Team ; Rachel Sinkey, MD ; and Eugene Yang, MD, FACC .

Although the toolkit provides information on how to start a clinic, the information is also valuable for clinicians who are not looking to start a clinic but want to improve how they provide care to their patients with HDP, perhaps through telehealth or remote blood pressure monitoring.

Countouris notes there are currently no standard guidelines for following patients with HDP, particularly after six weeks postpartum when they typically have their last visit with their obstetric clinician. At this point, she says about 40% of individuals still have hypertension and ideally should be transitioned from their obstetric clinician to their primary care clinician or cardiologist.

The toolkit aims to establish structured postpartum care for patients with HDP to help care teams follow up on necessary antihypertensive medication, screen for cardiovascular risk factors and talk to patients about long-term cardiovascular risk.

The toolkit also provides information on a "baseline" knowledge of treatment that all members of the care team should have. "Talking about contraception and breastfeeding are important in this population, and this toolkit helps cardiologists with these conversations," she says.

Click here to download the new ACC Postpartum Hypertension Clinic Development Toolkit.

A Lesson in Multidisciplinary Collaboration

The development of the Postpartum Hypertension Clinic Development Toolkit is a wonderful story of multidisciplinary collaboration across the ACC. The Pennsylvania State Chapter received a grant from the ACC, supplying funds for the writing, design and production of the toolkit.

The Chapter then collaborated with ACC's Reproductive Health and Cardio-Obstetrics Member Section, which led the effort, and in turn with the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Member Section under the leadership of Eugene Yang, MD, FACC . Other ACC Chapters including California, Massachusetts and Tennessee were also involved in the project.

Subsequent collaboration has extended to include the Million Hearts program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Million Hearts is including the Toolkit as part of the CDC's Hypertension Management Program. Click here to access the CDC's Hypertension in Pregnancy Change Package.

Clinical Topics: Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Disease, Prevention, Vascular Medicine, Hypertension

Keywords: Cardiology Magazine, ACC Publications, Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced, Maternal Health, Reproductive Health, Pre-Eclampsia, Postnatal Care, Cardio-Obstetrics

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Oklahoma’s top education official orders schools to incorporate Christian Bible into teaching

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top education official ordered public schools Thursday to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12, the latest effort by conservatives to incorporate religion into classrooms.

The directive sent Thursday to superintendents across the state by Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters says adherence to the mandate is compulsory and “immediate and strict compliance is expected.”

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“The Bible is an indispensable historical and cultural touchstone,” Walters said in a statement. “Without basic knowledge of it, Oklahoma students are unable to properly contextualize the foundation of our nation which is why Oklahoma educational standards provide for its instruction.”

The directive is the latest effort by conservative-led states to target public schools: Louisiana required them to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms, while others are under pressure to teach the Bible and ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Earlier this week the Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked an attempt by the state to have the first publicly funded religious charter school in the country.

A former public school teacher who was elected to his post in 2022, Walters ran on a platform of fighting “woke ideology,” banning books from school libraries and getting rid of “radical leftists” who he claims are indoctrinating children in classrooms.

He has clashed with leaders in both parties for his focus on culture-war issues including transgender rights and banning books, and in January he faced criticism for appointing a right-wing social media influencer from New York to a state library committee.

Walters’ directive immediately came under fire from civil rights groups and supporters of the separation of church and state.

“Public schools are not Sunday schools,” said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, in a statement. “This is textbook Christian Nationalism: Walters is abusing the power of his public office to impose his religious beliefs on everyone else’s children. Not on our watch.”

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As AI gains a workplace foothold, states are trying to make sure workers don’t get left behind

In this undated photo, Richie Hull, a lead instructor at the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, teaches participates at the Ives Maine Library in New Haven, Conn. how to take a computer apart and put it back together again. Connecticut is working on a new online academy to teach citizens about how to use generative artificial intelligence, but groups like CfAL say basic computer skills are also needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)

In this undated photo, students attending the Building Your Own Computer program offered by the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, practice their skills. States are looking to beef up their residents tech skills as generative artificial intelligence plays a greater role in the workplace. CfAL officials, however, say basic computer skills are also still needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)

In this undated photo, a Connecticut high school student practices skills she has learned in the Building Your Own Computer program offered by the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion. States are looking to beef up their residents tech skills as generative artificial intelligence plays a greater role in the workplace. CfAL officials, however, say basic computer skills are also still needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)

In this undated photo, Richie Hull, a lead instructor at the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, teaches the Foundation to a Career in Computers class at the organization’s computer lab in New Haven, Conn. States are looking to beef up their residents tech skills as generative artificial intelligence plays a greater role in the workplace. CfAL officials, however, say basic computer skills are also still needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With many jobs expected to eventually rely on generative artificial intelligence, states are trying to help workers beef up their tech skills before they become outdated and get outfoxed by machines that are becoming increasingly smarter.

Connecticut is working to create what proponents believe will be the country’s first Citizens AI Academy, a free online repository of curated classes that users can take to learn basic skills or obtain a certificate needed for employment.

“This is a rapidly evolving area,” said state Democratic Sen. James Maroney. “So we need to all learn what are the best sources for staying current. How can we update our skills? Who can be trusted sources?”

Determining what skills are necessary in an AI world can be a challenge for state legislators given the fast-moving nature of the technology and differing opinions about what approach is best.

Gregory LaBlanc, professor of Finance, Strategy and Law at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley Law School in California, says workers should be taught how to use and manage generative AI rather than how the technology works, partly because computers will soon be better able to perform certain tasks previously performed by humans.

“What we need is to lean into things that complement AI as opposed to learning to be really bad imitators of AI,” he said. “We need to figure out what is AI not good at and then teach those things. And those things are generally things like creativity, empathy, high level problem solving.”

He said historically people have not needed to understand technological advancements in order for them to succeed.

“When when electricity came along, we didn’t tell everybody that they needed to become electrical engineers,” LeBlanc said.

This year, at least four states — Connecticut, California, Mississippi and Maryland — proposed legislation that attempted to deal with AI in the classroom somehow. They ranged from Connecticut’s planned AI Academy, which was originally included in a wide-ranging AI regulation bill that failed but the concept is still being developed by state education officials, to proposed working groups that examine how AI can be incorporated safely in public schools. Such a bill died in the Mississippi legislature while the others remain in flux.

One bill in California would require a state working group to consider incorporating AI literacy skills into math, science, history and social science curriculums.

“AI has the potential to positively impact the way we live, but only if we know how to use it, and use it responsibly,” said the bill’s author, Assemblymember Marc Berman, in a statement. “No matter their future profession, we must ensure that all students understand basic AI principles and applications, that they have the skills to recognize when AI is employed, and are aware of AI’s implications, limitations, and ethical considerations.”

The bill is backed by the California Chamber of Commerce. CalChamber Policy Advocate Ronak Daylami said in a statement that incorporating information into existing school curricula will “dispel the stigma and mystique of the technology, not only helping students become more discerning and intentional users and consumers of AI, but also better positioning future generations of workers to succeed in an AI-driven workforce and hopefully inspiring the next generation of computer scientists.”

While Connecticut’s planned AI Academy is expected to offer certificates to people who complete certain skills programs that might be needed for careers, Maroney said the academy will also include the basics, from digital literacy to how to pose questions to a chatbot.

He said it’s important for people to have the skills to understand, evaluate and effectively interact with AI technologies, whether it’s a chatbot or machines that learn to identify problems and make decisions that mimic human decision-making.

“Most jobs are going to require some form of literacy,” Maroney said. “I think that if you aren’t learning how to use it, you’ll be at a disadvantage.”

A September 2023 study released by the job-search company Indeed found all U.S. jobs listed on the platform had skills that could be performed or augmented by generative AI. Nearly 20% of the jobs were considered “highly exposed,” which means the technology is considered good or excellent at 80% or more of the skills that were mentioned in the Indeed job listings.

Nearly 46% of the jobs on the platform were “moderately exposed,” which means the GenAI can perform 50% to 80% of the skills.

Maroney said he is concerned how that skills gap — coupled with a lack of access to high-speed internet, computers and smart phones in some underserved communities — will exacerbate the inequity problem.

A report released in February from McKinsey and Company, a global management consulting firm, projected that generative AI could increase household wealth in the U.S. by nearly $500 billion by 2045, but it would also increase the wealth gap between Black and white households by $43 billion annually.

Advocates have been working for years to narrow the nation’s digital skills gap, often focusing on the basics of computer literacy and improving access to reliable internet and devices, especially for people living in urban and rural areas. The advent of AI brings additional challenges to that task, said Marvin Venay, chief external affairs and advocacy officer for the Massachusetts-based organization Bring Tech Home.

“Education must be included in order for this to really take off publicly ... in a manner which is going to give people the ability to eliminate their barriers,” he said of AI. “And it has to be able to explain to the most common individual why it is not only a useful tool, but why this tool will be something that can be trusted.”

Tesha Tramontano-Kelly, executive director of the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, said she worries lawmakers are “putting the cart before the horse” when it comes to talking about AI training. Ninety percent of the youths and adults who use her organization’s free digital literacy classes don’t have a computer in the home.

While Connecticut is considered technologically advanced compared to many other states and nearly every household can get internet service, a recent state digital equity study found only about three-quarters subscribe to broadband. A survey conducted as part of the study found 47% of respondents find it somewhat or very difficult to afford internet service.

Of residents who reported household income at or below 150% of the federal poverty level, 32% don’t own a computer and 13% don’t own any internet enabled device.

Tramontano-Kelly said ensuring the internet is accessible and technology equipment is affordable are important first steps.

“So teaching people about AI is super important. I 100% agree with this,” she said. “But the conversation also needs to be about everything else that goes along with AI.”

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Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible

The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document.” The mandate comes as part of a conservative movement to infuse Christian values in public schools.

By Sarah Mervosh and Elizabeth Dias

Sarah Mervosh covers education, and Elizabeth Dias covers religion.

Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in an extraordinary move that blurs the lines between religious instruction and public education.

The superintendent, Ryan Walters, who is a Republican, described the Bible as an “indispensable historical and cultural touchstone” and said it must be taught in certain, unspecified grade levels.

The move comes a week after Louisiana became the first state to mandate that public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, which was quickly challenged in court.

The Oklahoma directive could also be challenged and is likely to provoke another fight over the role of religion in public schools.

The efforts to bring religious texts into the classroom reflect a growing national movement among conservatives — particularly Catholics and evangelicals who oppose abortion, transgender rights and what they view as liberal school curriculums — to openly embrace the idea that America’s democracy needs to be grounded in their Christian values.

That movement had a major victory in overturning Roe v. Wade two years ago, and its supporters see ending abortion as only a starting point in a broader campaign to preserve and expand the presence of their Christian values in American life. Many conservative Christians see schools as a frontier of their fight, as they seek to shape the next generation.

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