February 2, 2011

A Big THANK-YOU

This post comes a day later than planned. A 5am online training sessions with the moderator in the States meant I had to take an early night and wake up again to attend the one-hour training. That was a success and I got some questions answered. But it also meant I had to delay this post, which is a big thing for me and the rest of the team on NewsFlashMedia.

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What was planned actually was to say a MONSTROUSLY BIG THANK-YOU to everyone who has supported us from the very day we launched NewsFlashMedia.

A baby in the blogger circle, NewsFlashMedia is extremely happy to say that in just a month since we launched our readership has almost touched 2000. And that is a big deal for us who, when we started thought, our readership count might crawl at a snail’s pace. Almost 2000 readership in just a month – wow – what else can we ask for?

 Image: Thanks - CIELEKE

We hope to grow even stronger and feature more quirky and interesting articles as well as serious news that make us rethink our values in life. We are hoping more people out there who would love to see their articles featured but don’t have the time to manage their own blogs would throw in their articles to be used in NewsFlashMedia. This room is for all of us who are not necessarily trained writers from the publishing world but are real writers from deep within.

Our special thanks start with four awesome people who became members on the first day we launched – Indah, Ryan, Xavier and Chris. The rest followed suit over the next few days. We only have 10 members but that’s cool enough for us because this is a sign there are supportive people out there. And Jo, a dear friend, just joined us yesterday, making him the 10th member. Jo, you’re a 10 hon!

Another special thanks goes to Indah who is always dropping comments whenever an article caught her attention and interest. And, the latest rainbow for us is when Pink Guava kicked off our Flash Shout Out box. Hopefully, Pink Guava’s move will trigger others to do the same because it’s nice for our writers to know they have some “unknown” and “unrelated” friends who like their works.

We know too we have “silent” readers who don’t “announce” their presence in our site but are quietly supporting us. That, my friends, is highly appreciated too.

Our thank-you today will get seriously long and winding if we continue thanking everyone personally so we will shoot the last gratitude in your way – to all the readers and artists whose clip arts and images and photos we’ve been using in our illustrations. We believe that hard work deserves a mention, especially to the creative who are always so humble with their God-given talent.

Our site traffic reads like an atlas every day. We have visitors from places we never knew existed. We actually had to Google the names of the countries and noted them down.

We were amazed at how we are connecting with people in different parts of the world at just a click of the button.

From Asia, we have visitors in various parts of Indonesia, Hong Kong and the Philippines. There are regular visitors from Singapore and the various states in Malaysia.

And from the other parts of the world came visitors from Bilciuresti (Romania), Bryansk (Russia), Wien (Vienna), Managua (Nicaragua), Punta de Mata  (Venezuela), Perugia (Umbria), Meerbusch and Grafentonna (Germany), Bora (Sweden), Great Yarmouth (Norfolk), Castellanza (Italy), Holland, Ukraine, Madrid and various parts of the USA, England and Australia.

WOW! If we continue getting this kind of support, our team will be very good in Geography soon ;)

Thank-you. We hope we will be able to get to know some of our visitors on our site and that this room will become theirs and ours. We'd like to invite them to write a story or two about their lives in their part of the world so we  in Malaysia can share with them their lifestyles.

And lastly, to TTS whose fingers must be working hard clicking on the LIKE button on FB and our team of writers for their continuous effort in making this site real - big HUG!

Stay cool.

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