{"id":389,"date":"2008-10-17T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/what-a-year-it-has-been\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T20:06:50","slug":"what-a-year-it-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2008\/10\/what-a-year-it-has-been\/","title":{"rendered":"What a year it has been!"},"content":{"rendered":"

KirkMahoney.com launched<\/a> one year ago today, and what a year it has been!<\/p>\n

A Wonderful Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n

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!)<\/p>\n

Readers Around the World<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visitor statistics tell me that I get readers from all over the world.<\/p>\n

For example, a KirkMahoney.com reader in August referred others on a page<\/a> in the LiveJournal Russian-to-English translation forum — in Russian!<\/em> — to my blog post<\/a> about “Classic” vs. “Classical”.<\/p>\n

A huge spike in readership recently came from Brazil, so I have to say “Ol\u00e1!” to all of the brilliant Brazilians whom I have met on LiveMocha.com.<\/p>\n

“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<\/a> hit Houston, I will be back at LiveMocha.com, exchanging more help with fellow language enthusiasts!<\/p>\n

Feedback, Please!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

You already might have seen a pop-up window that invites you to an optional survey that appears when you arrive here.<\/p>\n

I plan to continue that general survey, but I also will look at creating specific surveys on particular topics.<\/p>\n

Together, this will give you four ways to give me feedback:<\/p>\n

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  1. the contact form<\/a>;<\/li>\n
  2. the pop-up survey;<\/li>\n
  3. the forum;<\/li>\n
  4. specific surveys.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Serving You Better<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I welcome your feedback because I want to do everything that I can to better meet your desires for this website.<\/p>\n

    Toward that end, I plan to:<\/p>\n