Happy new year everyone
- Wed, December 31 2008
- Filed under: Personal
Happy New Year and thanks for reading the blog this year. Life is short, and if you’re taking precious time from your schedule to check the blog from time to time, I hope it’s been helpful to you. Let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see or know that’s not getting coverage here. I am always happy to hear from REAL readers. (Many of the comments I get are NOT from real readers—it’s amazing how many Viagra-peddlers and real estate agents like to comment about nonprofit marketing with helpful links to their products and services!).
This has been an incredibly eventful year in politics and our economy - both of which will affect our work fundamentally in the year ahead. On a personal note, it’s also been an eventful year - I got engaged to be married, my older daughter hit the double digits in age, and I took on a new role at Network for Good (COO) that has been an exciting change. I have a feeling 2009 is going to be pretty interesting as a result of all of this.
Whatever happens, we’ll be in it together. I look forward to finding my way through the excitement ahead right there with you. I’ve definitely learned more from all of you than I could ever reciprocate. Thanks for sharing your stories, your wisdom and your experiences. They hold lessons that I’ll be applying ever day in the New Year.
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Hi Katya,
Happy New Year. Thank you for all your very helpful advice on this blog, etc.. Congratulations on getting engaged and on your new role at Network for Good.
I can’t think of any topics that would be helpful other than possibly more media pitching tips or a webinar, and maybe one geared towards pitching and building relationships with the new media 2.0 - blogs, etc.
I read your wonderful blog almost every day, and tell all my non-profit friends I meet about it. Just told a woman from Toledo about your book and blog yesterday. Keep up the great work and Happy New Year!
Warmly,
Kirt
Thanks so much, Kirt. I’ll be happy to post on the media and web 2.0!
Hiya Katya!
Congrats on the engagement and position as well!
I love the blog and check in often. What I need to see how community engagement efforts can be assisted by social media and web-based activities. We are looking at engaging grass roots community folks in a public health project and I have been preaching the gospel of social media, but falling on deaf ears sometimes…
Thanks again for all you do!
Charlie Brown
Katya, my hero!
Thanks for this site. Literally, I have your page set as my homepage. Every time I fire up the web browser, I am immediately faced with your stellar info.
I had a bit of a personal revelation yesterday. Perhaps your readers might find it helpful: http://rennerfamilyinhaiti.blogspot.com/2009/01/2009-year-of-branching-out.html
I credit you in part for the fact that I am even thinking this way at all.
You are a huge blessing,
Luke Renner
Luke, you made my day! I love your post. It’s SO well said. In fact, it’s so well said (and illustrated), I’d like to post it in full on the blog here? Are you up for a guest post?
Katya,
Thank you for sharing all your wonderful ideas. I’ve been reading your blog throughout the past year and I just finished reading your book. The line that sticks with me most is that it’s more useful to think of contributors as customers rather than converts. I love your anecdotes about condoms in Cambodia and children in Chernobyl.
Another great lesson that I’ve learned, that I’d like to share here, is that it’s important to reach out to both online and offline media, in order to reach different demographics. Case in point: my 85-year-old grandmother! http://wokai.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/01/social-media-advice-from-grandma-ginny-review-wokai-on-greatnonprofitsorg.html
Thanks again, and happy new year
Leslie Forman
Katya, I love your site too.
I read every week and it makes me happy…I never know what I’m going to learn.
You rule.
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