Welcome to BDC Magazine’s new outlet for keeping you (our subscribers) up to date and informed regarding the latest in the design center industry–our BLOG!

Our Goal

Our goal is to stay connected with our reader base in an interactive, fun, and informative manner between electronic issues of the magazine. We also aim to facilitate connection among our readers, because we believe that design centers can benefit from being part of a community, especially during such a tough market.

 Topics for Discussion

From this Blog, you can expect to find exactly what you find in the magazine–including tips, tools, advice, and updated news and events. Topics may include anything that peaks our interest, or anything we think will peak yours. (If you have any ideas, feel free to contact us at http://bdcmagazine.com/contactus.) We are looking forward to having fun with this!

BDC Bloggers

BDC Bloggers will include the staff at BDC Magazine, our column of industry-leading experts and contributors whose advice you have come to respect, and other industry specialists.

Your Role 

You can help build the BDC community by visiting on your lunch break, sending a link to a friend, or adding comments and valued insight to our entries.

Most importantly, become a part of the BDC community by subscribing to this blog!

Thanks for visiting!

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Important Announcement from the Editor!

by Maria Muto-Porter, Editor, BDC Magazine

From the time the Europeans came to North America with only what they could carry on several scary-tiny ships, people learned to find ways to accomplish what they wanted using limited resources. Some lessons were learned from the Native Americans, for whom living off the land was a way of life. Some were naturally adept at adapting, discovering multiple uses for tools and scavenging for the rest from the forests around them. Others lamented what they once had, and failure meant returning to the old country, or simply not surviving.

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