To all of you who have emailed inquiring about my absence from the Syntagma battlements in recent weeks, thank you.

I’ve been completing the last of my contract obligations for a media company with strong ties to the retail sector. Now that it’s complete, I can concentrate totally on Syntagma’s weighty world affairs. Exhaustion, however, may slow me down in the first few days. Bear with me if I don’t get round to you immediately.

We do, though, have a fast-track channel for anyone wishing to pay us.

Apart from the routine operations always present in a large network, we have a huge slew of new projects and maturing older ones to tackle after Easter. Here’s a taster :

* Moneyizor network magazine to be designed and launched, including three new webtitles to be set up.

* Final proofread of Syntagma Media’s first print book of the new season : Naked Tales — Stories By Writers Who Blog, which is being published by Humdrumming in May.

* Complete switch over to new Windows Vista systems for all activities. We’re also making the move to Microsoft Office 2007 in one fell swoop. I’m really looking forward to all the glitches.

* Work on Dial Publishing’s new edgewise general trade imprint. The first print title will be Steve Newman’s brilliant fictionalized biography of Ernest Hemingway, currently being serialized here by Syntagma Digital.

* Initial work on our Retailz USA retail portal, due in May/June.

* Something called “real life”. What can that be?

One morning I’ll wake up with absolutely nothing to do all day. Then I’ll know I’m dead.

In the meantime, raise the bugle and signal the advance.

We’re getting more than a few inquiries about our forthcoming Moneyizor network magazine. Principally, they concern the shape of the content and the policies behind it. These are mainly coming from people who are considering offering their own sites to the magazine, or applying to write an in-house webtitle.

The top question is, what sites are currently scheduled for Moneyizor, and what are the main categories? So here’s a list of the sites that will be in at the launch :

1. LSE Latest – Supporting an Independent London Stock Exchange.

2. Money Finesse – Personal Finance in the USA.

3. Small Business Booster – Tips and Advice for Success. [NEW]

4. The Money Log – Enrichment Daily.

5. Superdemocracy — A New Art of Corporate Governance.

6. Entrepreneur Latest — [Under Development].

7. Innovation Latest — [Under Development].

And the list is still growing in advance of our mid-April launch.

As for the terms we offer to externally-owned sites, we’re currently looking at a 70/30 split in favour of the client. Other aspects of the deal are still under consideration.

Contact : Moneyizor(at)SyntagmaMedia(dot)com.

Syntagma Digital is today embarking on the development of two new webtitles for our Moneyizor network magazine, due next month.

They are Entrepreneur Latest and Innovation Latest, embracing the two most essential features of the modern, globalized economy.

Stay close for further information.

The first of our much-trailed retail portals is set for lift off around May/June, following the launch of our newest network magazine, Moneyizor in April.

The first of the two currently-planned shopping-based extravaganzas is titled, RetailzUSA, and, as the name implies, is targeted firmly on the world’s biggest retail market.

We have a raft of webtitles ready for the off and are adding more as we go. We shall also be inviting outside sites to join at some stage.

The U.S. version will be followed by a UK portal — ShopShapeUK, probably towards autumn.