The more things change …
A journey through past issues of Community magazine
The start of something big! The first issue of The West Florida Wire, Summer 2003
By: Kris Kesling-Hays Marketing Director, CAI West Florida Chapter Phone: 941 / 927-1910 Email: Kris @ caiwestflorida. org
I recently flipped through the some archived issues of our chapter’ s Community Magazine. Did you know that the first one was in the summer of 2003? What I found was not only old photographs( black and white), vintage advertisements and dated design trends, but a living history of our chapter and of the community associations industry itself.
Back in the day, the magazine was called The West Florida Wire, and even today, I sometimes talk to chapter members who still call it“ The Wire.” Combing over those old issues sometimes felt like time travel – like visiting another era. Yet something about the content of those pages was also eerily familiar.
I could tell that some of the topics that made the cover were likely cutting-edge at the time, like the September 2007 issue, whose headline was“ Is �-Mail Taking Over?” Or the September 2011 issue entitled“ Social Media: It’ s Not Just a Kid Thing Anymore.” These topics are almost laughable to today’ s readers, as these issues are so engrained into our daily personal and professional lives.
Other cover-worthy topics are as important and relevant today as they were a couple of decades ago. For instance, the first cover that featured a Florida legislative session update appeared in the third
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