My farewell editorial in Control #pauto #automation

Now that it is in print, I can point to the final editorial I wrote after 10 years as editor of Control and ControlGlobal.com.

“Ten years ago, Putman Media’s CEO told me he was handing me his shining jewel and asked me to please not screw it up. Not only did we not screw it up, we’ve done very well over the past decade. We have grown our editorial coverage above the plant floor. We have planned and executed a highly successful digital content strategy with ControlGlobal.com that changed us from a magazine with a replica website to a lively and content-heavy, print-and-digital publication vehicle that, as I wrote in Control’s mission statement in 2004, “seeks to provide high-value content to our readers by whatever means they wish to receive it.”
Our Top 50 list, which is the cover story for this edition, our Readers’ Choice Awards, our Process Automation Hall of Fame and other signature features, along with deep analysis and inspired reporting have made Control and ControlGlobal.com much more than just another magazine. We have become a singular authority in process automation.”
You can read the rest at http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2013/farewell-to-our-editor-in-chief-walt-boyes/