Back in March 2005 I became editor of Reinsurance magazine.
I was not the first editor of the magazine to come from a (re)insurance background, but I was the first for quite some time.
So the first thing I did was sit down with the team and think of how I could get this across to you, dear long-suffering friend!
Changing a monthly print magazine takes ages, and I wanted to go for immediate impact. So one of the first changes I made was to decide to write a weekly editorial introduction to the weekly news email alert.
As a former broker, I’m rarely short of an opinion or a story to tell, and as time went on the weekly essays started getting lots of responses from you, dear reader.
All this time the whole blogging phenomenon really started taking off.
And after checking out some popular blogs I realised that this combination of opinion, off-the-cuff prose and humour, was pretty much what I had been doing all along with the weekly emails. It only remained to build a new site — of course, no mean feat.
So work began and here we are — welcome to blog-re.com — probably the world’s first reinsurance commentary weblog.
Join in the debate or just sit back and enjoy — the choice is yours.
Mark Geoghegan, Editor and blogger-in-chief.
PS. I highly recommend you get signed up to our RSS feed. The great thing about blogs is that we can now post when the mood takes us — not just on Fridays.
Being signed up to an RSS feed means you can see straight away whenever we’ve posted something new, without having to come looking at the site all of the time — a miracle of modern communication. And do what I do — if you don’t understand how to do it – get a techie to do it for you!
