Hello, dear friends. It's me, CEO--although I haven't gone by that nickname in quite a few years. Can we have a chat among "just us chickens", about the future?
I have an important announcement for all of us in the online Christmas community:
I will be retiring at the end of this year, and making big changes to the Web resources I offer at http://christmas.organizedhome.com
It's time! Since 1995, I've published a version of what has become the Christmas Countdown. Moving from e-mail to the Web, and now springing from the Web to social media, the Countdown has been followed by hundreds of thousands of families to prepare for the holiday season.
In recent years, it's become more expensive and more time-consuming to make these resources available. Decline in desktop use means advertising no longer covers direct expenses, while growth in mobile use means it takes more and more work to create a site that will work correctly across multiple devices. The rise of social media has exploded my work day, as I try to route information to all the places where people want to read it.
Translation: I'm out of money, time and energy to keep this operation going at this level any longer. I will be scaling back my online offerings to match what I can afford.
What does this mean for the future of the Christmas Countdown and all the holiday resources I now offer on my Web site network?
In honesty, I can't yet tell--but this is the last year of the Countdown as it is now presented.
Over the coming year, I will retool the site network to bring what I offer into line with available funding, time and energy. I don't yet know what that will mean, and can't make any prediction except this one:
The times, they are a changing'.
Cynthia Ewer, Editor
http://christmas.organizedhome.com
I have an important announcement for all of us in the online Christmas community:
I will be retiring at the end of this year, and making big changes to the Web resources I offer at http://christmas.organizedhome.com
It's time! Since 1995, I've published a version of what has become the Christmas Countdown. Moving from e-mail to the Web, and now springing from the Web to social media, the Countdown has been followed by hundreds of thousands of families to prepare for the holiday season.
In recent years, it's become more expensive and more time-consuming to make these resources available. Decline in desktop use means advertising no longer covers direct expenses, while growth in mobile use means it takes more and more work to create a site that will work correctly across multiple devices. The rise of social media has exploded my work day, as I try to route information to all the places where people want to read it.
Translation: I'm out of money, time and energy to keep this operation going at this level any longer. I will be scaling back my online offerings to match what I can afford.
What does this mean for the future of the Christmas Countdown and all the holiday resources I now offer on my Web site network?
In honesty, I can't yet tell--but this is the last year of the Countdown as it is now presented.
Over the coming year, I will retool the site network to bring what I offer into line with available funding, time and energy. I don't yet know what that will mean, and can't make any prediction except this one:
The times, they are a changing'.
Cynthia Ewer, Editor
http://christmas.organizedhome.com