A cheesy or good Thanksgiving post, I am thinking maybe cheesy, but you be the judge.
These things can be either really good or really cheesy. Here is my best shot.
- Last year on Thanksgiving evening the Senior Housing Forum website totally crashed and I spent most of Thanksgiving morning trying to get it up and going. It crashed because of too much traffic for the hosting plan I had and so I was even grateful for the crash.
- I am grateful to all the new readers over the past year. Our traffic has more than doubled.
- I am sorry . . . sort of . . . for the people I made so mad they vowed to never visit Senior Housing Forum again (mostly over my article titled “Nursing Homes a National Disgrace).
- I am even more grateful for those of you who thought that article and others sucked, then took the time to say so and dialog about it.
- I am grateful to those of you who find my typo’s (including my father) and send them to me.
- I am profoundly humbled by the amount of time a number of senior living leaders have spent talking to me about their big ideas for helping seniors have amazing lives to the very end.
- When I ended up in the hospital I was profoundly thankful to my fellow writers and bloggers who sent me emails asking what they could do to help me keep things going while I was laid up.
- So many of you have sent me emails expressing thanks for the topics we cover. Each of those emails are a precious gift.
- So much of the growth we have had this year was made possible by our partners and I hope you will check out what they are doing to improve the lives of seniors.
- Finally I appreciate all of those of you who have provided guest articles. I need a break from time to time and just reading only what I have to say and think becomes boring.
That’s it . . . . almost. . . my request for two favors:
- No matter what it is or how brutal it is, If you see something we could be doing better I want to hear about it.
- We are looking forward to 2014 (I think I am supposed to save saying that until New Years . . . but oh well) and I am planning on expanding the amount of content and the more readers we have the easier it is to make that happen.
I would really appreciate your inviting just one person (but 50 would be ok too) to check out Senior Housing Forum. Have a Great Thanksgiving, no new posts for Thursday and maybe Friday, but we will be back at it with some great stuff next week including an interview with nationally known highly regarded writer Sally Abrams. Steve Moran
Thank you Steve for your great, good and not so good articles throughout the year. I have sent and continue to send, several people to your blog as we all have the same goal–serving our seniors to the best of our ability. I wish you and your readership a most blessed and safe holiday season!
Thank you for this post Steve. I have been following you now for the last several months, both via email and LinkedIn and I find so much value in your blogs- even when I may not wholeheartedly agree, you are challenging those of us who work in this industry to think and reevaluate the “way it’s always been done” and I love that. I regularly share your posts with my managers and they enjoy them as well. Thank you for being another resource I can utilize to help me keep my finger on the pulse of much of what happens in senior living. As an ED of a new community I don’t always get out as much as I’d like and this and other blogs and resources I have found help keep me up to speed.
Have a wonderful thanksgiving!
Warmly,
Leslie
Hi Steve,
I think your Thanksgiving message is very appropriate, honest and useful. As a marketing & strategy professional, I also appreciated how your message enumerated some of the tangible benefits of your website–of which there are many! At Sage Age Strategies, we enjoy your content and have shared many of your articles on our Face Book page. Additionally, we have appreciated your use of our original articles as a means of sharing evidence-based best practices with our friends and client-partners throughout the senior living industry.
We consider your site to be a valuable forum for the latest information and 360 degree discussions of what’s happening in our industry. Happy Thanksgiving and best wishes for your continued success as we approach the New year!!!