Still traveling: At some point in the next day or so, I’ll be online and will be doing some major catching up as I’ve been unplugged for the past 24 hours.

Old and new: Yesterday, I preached about something and then I saw it practiced. In the morning I was on a panel at the Folio: Show with the editors of Backpacker Magazine and the Canadian Magazine Today’s Parent talking with a couple hundred magazine editors about ways to connect with their readers. “A magazine is not a community — community is real people connecting” I told them, “but a magazine can help bring a community together.”

Then, I took the train to D.C. where I hung out with a couple hundred readers of PaidContent.org at a “MediaNext” mixer. PaidContent creator Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer, executive editor, understand the importance of “faciilitating the creation of community” as well as any publisher/editor team I know.

And at the MediaNext event, despite the room being filled with “new media” and tech-types, I even got to meet b-2-b magazine industry blogger, David Shaw, after months of trying.

Thanks to Rafat and Staci, who continually do amazing reporting at PadiContent.org and who are demonstrating how to build a B-to-B media company from the ground up with the newest medium but following the oldest strategy: hard work.