{"id":127,"date":"2012-09-03T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microcosmpublishing.dev\/blog\/2012\/09\/big-changes-in-our-little-world\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:51:43","slug":"big-changes-in-our-little-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/big-changes-in-our-little-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Changes in our Little World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There&#8217;s been some changes around Microcosm HQ lately, both in the physical sense (our little Jeff is growing up so fast!) and within the organization.&nbsp; After a couple weeks, a thousand screws, gallons of iced tea, and (quite literally) tons of books, the store has gone through a bit of a remodel.&nbsp; It&#8217;s still the Microcosm you remember, but we are now stocked with so much good stuff that we had to lift our desks off the ground to make room for it all. Come check it out and browse around! And don&#8217;t worry, that&#8217;s not the voice of God when you walk in, it&#8217;s just us from our new lofts.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>Big News<\/strong> is that as of August 1, Microcosm split into   two distinct operations in two different states. Microcosm Publishing   still maintains the store you know (and hopefully love) at 636 SE 11th   Ave in Portland and will continue to publish books and bookettes for   years to come, but our distribution brethren are now their own   separate organization, distributing the same thousands of zines,   books, stickers, patches, and more that you know (and hopefully also   love). We&#8217;ve changed our management structure to the same traditional model we used from 1996-2005 that allows staff to focus on their individual job duties rather than everyone having to learn to manage an organization and needing decisions to be processed through eleven co-workers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We think this new transition will help each group to   work closer on what we&#8217;re each good at (publishing or distributing)   without having to constantly focus on the big picture and organize hours   long meetings with each other inter-state (Have you ever had a seven   person, four hour meeting on Skype? We don&#8217;t recommend it.). After   seventeen years, we still do this because we love it, so look for dozens   of new titles coming out in the coming months and years\u2014including the   long awaited <em>Make It Last!&nbsp;<\/em>Check out the photos of our recently re-engineered store\/office\/warehouse.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\" id=\":nh\" class=\"ajR\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore1.jpg\" \/><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>There&#8217;s been some changes around Microcosm HQ lately, both in the physical sense (our little Jeff is growing up so fast!) and within the organization.&nbsp; After a couple weeks, a thousand screws, gallons of iced tea, and (quite literally) tons of books, the store has gone through a bit of a remodel.&nbsp; It&#8217;s still the Microcosm you remember, but we are now stocked with so much good stuff that we had to lift our desks off the ground to make room for it all. Come check it out and browse around! And don&#8217;t worry, that&#8217;s not the voice of God when you walk in, it&#8217;s just us from our new lofts.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>Big News<\/strong> is that as of August 1, Microcosm&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto"],"my_excerpt":"<div>There's been some changes around Microcosm HQ lately, both in the physical sense (our little Jeff is growing up so fast!) and within the organization.&nbsp; After a couple weeks, a thousand screws, gallons of iced tea, and (quite literally) tons of books, the store has gone through a bit of a remodel.&nbsp; It's still the Microcosm you remember, but we are now stocked with so much good stuff that we had to lift our desks off the ground to make room for it all. Come check it out and browse around! And don't worry, that's not the voice of God when you walk in, it's just us from our new lofts.<br \/><br \/>Our <strong>Big News<\/strong> is that as of August 1, Microcosm split into   two distinct operations in two different states. Microcosm Publishing   still maintains the store you know (and hopefully love) at 636 SE 11th   Ave in Portland and will continue to publish books and bookettes for   years to come, but our distribution brethren are now their own   separate organization, distributing the same thousands of zines,   books, stickers, patches, and more that you know (and hopefully also   love). We've changed our management structure to the same traditional model we used from 1996-2005 that allows staff to focus on their individual job duties rather than everyone having to learn to manage an organization and needing decisions to be processed through eleven co-workers.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/><\/div><div><\/div><div>We think this new transition will help each group to   work closer on what we're each good at (publishing or distributing)   without having to constantly focus on the big picture and organize hours   long meetings with each other inter-state (Have you ever had a seven   person, four hour meeting on Skype? We don't recommend it.). After   seventeen years, we still do this because we love it, so look for dozens   of new titles coming out in the coming months and years\u2014including the   long awaited <em>Make It Last!&nbsp;<\/em>Check out the photos of our recently re-engineered store\/office\/warehouse.&nbsp;<\/div><div class=\"yj6qo ajU\"><div data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\" id=\":nh\" class=\"ajR\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">  <img class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><br \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore3.jpg\" \/><br \/><br \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore1.jpg\" \/><br \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore2.jpg\" \/><br \/><\/div><\/div>","my_excerpt_rendered":"<div>There&#8217;s been some changes around Microcosm HQ lately, both in the physical sense (our little Jeff is growing up so fast!) and within the organization.&nbsp; After a couple weeks, a thousand screws, gallons of iced tea, and (quite literally) tons of books, the store has gone through a bit of a remodel.&nbsp; It&#8217;s still the Microcosm you remember, but we are now stocked with so much good stuff that we had to lift our desks off the ground to make room for it all. Come check it out and browse around! And don&#8217;t worry, that&#8217;s not the voice of God when you walk in, it&#8217;s just us from our new lofts.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>Big News<\/strong> is that as of August 1, Microcosm split into   two distinct operations in two different states. Microcosm Publishing   still maintains the store you know (and hopefully love) at 636 SE 11th   Ave in Portland and will continue to publish books and bookettes for   years to come, but our distribution brethren are now their own   separate organization, distributing the same thousands of zines,   books, stickers, patches, and more that you know (and hopefully also   love). We&#8217;ve changed our management structure to the same traditional model we used from 1996-2005 that allows staff to focus on their individual job duties rather than everyone having to learn to manage an organization and needing decisions to be processed through eleven co-workers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We think this new transition will help each group to   work closer on what we&#8217;re each good at (publishing or distributing)   without having to constantly focus on the big picture and organize hours   long meetings with each other inter-state (Have you ever had a seven   person, four hour meeting on Skype? We don&#8217;t recommend it.). After   seventeen years, we still do this because we love it, so look for dozens   of new titles coming out in the coming months and years\u2014including the   long awaited <em>Make It Last!&nbsp;<\/em>Check out the photos of our recently re-engineered store\/office\/warehouse.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\" id=\":nh\" class=\"ajR\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore1.jpg\" \/><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/newstore2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}