Thanks for Giving
Today, as most of you know, is Thanksgiving. In the spirit of the holiday, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you. Your contribution to this site makes it what it is. Your comments and email are so incredibly thoughtful and insightful, it makes me feel incredibly special that all of you are willing to share your brilliance with me here. You inspire me more than I could possibly explain.
With that said, here’s a (most likely incomplete) list of some of the commenters over the last few months. If I missed you, leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list. (THIS IS IN NO SPECIFIC ORDER.)
Thank you . . .
Rob Fields
Chet Gulland
Mike
Justin
Max Kalehoff
Debbie Millman
Jeff
Loren Feldman
Russel Davies
El Gaffney
CK
Roger von Oech
Orli
Johanna
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Michael Surtees
Jecklin
Robert Tsai
R
Josh
David Berkowitz
Jason
Amber
Chartreuse
Dave
Ray
Christian
Peter Caputa
Nate Archer
Stephen Denny
Barbara
Josh Owens
Paul McEnany
Charles
Mark
Liz
Candice
Sergio Rebelo
Pam
Corinne Flax
Howard Lindzon
David Armano
Noah Winecoff
Kim
Rohit
Piers Fawkes
Bill Rice
Paul Watson
Scott Berkun
Jack Cheng
Happy Thanksgiving
PS – For those that haven’t left a comment or dropped an email now is as good a time as any. But not to worry, I’ve got nothing but love no matter what.
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Noah- Thank you, keep on with yo bad self…
Happy thanksgiving Noah
You’re welcome and thanks right back at you. I learn much from the wisdom and conversation you share at your blog…looking forward to MUCH more. Have a terrific holiday :-).
You’re all very welcome. I love this stuff. Actually it’s funny, looking back on CK’s why do you blog question, I don’t know if I’d be so quick to answer “an excuse.”
The people I meet and conversations I have as a result of this place are extraordinary. The three of you are a testament to that. Thanks.
There are some terrifically helpful and intelligent and relevant blogs I visit…that never participate in Reciprocal Commenting, never reply to my emails, and never acknowledge the contributions of commentors (co-mentor, get it? I don’t.)
Ah, the narcissism of some folks. All take and no give.
A comment is generally this–FREE valuable content or even corrections, for your blog.
No such thing as “my” blog. Every [good, successful] blog is a team effort, even when it’s got only one Webmaster/Author. I often preach that if a person only reads my posts, and does not read the comments, they’re only getting about 1/10 of the story.
God bless our loyal lurkers. They promote our ideas offline or in other forums. They add traffic numbers. They derive benefit from our team work silently, shyly, secretly even.
But how vital the comment posters are. If my blog never got any comments, I think I’d go crazy. “Does no one have an opinion, a complaint, a critique, a question about what I wrote?”
I vastly prefer substantiations and harsh attacks to mindless, flattery or knee-jerk agreement.
Noah, you are very wise to thank your FREE content contributors, and don’t forget to thank those silent, shy, too busy, inarticulate lurkers too. They do more than we realize!
I’d like to point out to one and all the sheer genius of Noah’s web design. I have never seen Posts and Comments on a level playing field before. The Posts and the Comments are side by side, equal, like a democracy, that much hated inevitability of the universe.
A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you, Noah, and everyone else! It’s been a total pleasure taking part in the discussion here since I found itâ€â€and thank you (all of you) for that.
been more of a silent, inarticulate lurkers lately but still been reading. happy turkey day
I’m with Vaspers, don’t think I came across clearly enough: God bless our loyal lurkers.
Hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving.
u da man, homey. happy belated turkey day.
Thanks Pete, right back at ya.
Thanks!
Noah–thanks so much to you too (and your mom). You are wonderful, your blog is wonderful and I am so glad we have met.