KirkMahoney.com launched one year ago today, and what a year it has been!
A Wonderful Opportunity
This website has given me a wonderful opportunity to talk about better communication, a personal passion that has made it easy to write 366 blog posts over the past year. (Yes, we had a February 29 in the past twelve months!)
Readers Around the World
Visitor statistics tell me that I get readers from all over the world.
For example, a KirkMahoney.com reader in August referred others on a page in the LiveJournal Russian-to-English translation forum — in Russian! — to my blog post about “Classic” vs. “Classical”.
A huge spike in readership recently came from Brazil, so I have to say “Olá!” to all of the brilliant Brazilians whom I have met on LiveMocha.com.
“Hello!”, too, to my LiveMocha.com friends from South Korea to Dubai. Now that I am “back on my feet” a month after Hurricane Ike hit Houston, I will be back at LiveMocha.com, exchanging more help with fellow language enthusiasts!
Feedback, Please!
I believe that, when compared with a blog-comments approach, a forum provides a better way for readers to discuss issues raised by a website’s topics, so I plan to add a forum here, too, and to review it regularly.
You already might have seen a pop-up window that invites you to an optional survey that appears when you arrive here.
I plan to continue that general survey, but I also will look at creating specific surveys on particular topics.
Together, this will give you four ways to give me feedback:
- the contact form;
- the pop-up survey;
- the forum;
- specific surveys.
Serving You Better
I welcome your feedback because I want to do everything that I can to better meet your desires for this website.
Toward that end, I plan to:
- review all sidebar content and eliminate what isn’t being used;
- refine within-website advertising to focus better on your interests;
- write more articles, for in-depth discussions that go beyond my blog posts;
- promote the relatively hidden gems here at KirkMahoney.com;
- highlight the most popular blog posts;
- make it easier for you to share blog posts with others;
- connect better to fellow bloggers.
For example, if feedback from another blogger triggers a new article or blog post at KirkMahoney.com, then I will acknowledge that blogger with a link to his or her blog.
Thank You!
Even if you have never contacted me, your visits mean a lot to me. So thank you for your explicit or implicit support over these first twelve months. May the next twelve be even more valuable for all of us!