What a Year

I'm taking a cue from Stephanie tonight, and celebrating our blogiversary  -- Change.org's content-driven make-over launched one year ago today. The bloggers spent two months prior to the launch preparing content for each of our respective sites, doing our small part to give life to a concept much longer in the making by the site's leadership.

It's certainly been an interesting year, with 630 posts ranging from rumbles to smack-downs, anguish to facetiousness. More than anything, I've enjoyed engaging with readers*, who've come to the site from nearly every country in the world.

Though it is an honor to be blocked by some of the world's most repressive regimes (Eritrea, Uzbekistan, North Korea -- I'm talking to you). People in Western Sahara are probably too busy trying to protect their phosphate from the Moroccans, I suppose. And Greenland? Too happy in your peace-loving country to delve into the dark side?

And to my frequent visitors from the Sudanese government: Yes, I'm watching you too.

I remember listening to each editor introduce themselves on our first conference call and wondering if I was worthy to be included among their ranks. Change.org assembled an impressive team of advocates to write for the site, and I feel honored and humbled to share the same platform. We've all poured a tremendous amount of energy into our causes -- producing daily content, creating actions, featuring videos, engaging in comments, and building our communities.

So many thanks to my readers, to my wonderful guest bloggers, and to my fellow Change-sters. Sentimentality Hour is now over -- back to work.

*With the exception, that is, of the multiple threats from the overzealous Holocaust deniers.

[Image from Geek and Poke, Creative Commons.]