In August 2008, after six months of strolling an infant through the neighborhood, we decided to start the Ravenna Blog.
Four years later, and with the addition of one more staff member last October, we’re still here!
Since we started keeping track in June 2010, the Ravenna Blog has reached 61,226 unique visitors and served up 137,680 pageviews. (And that YouTube video of President Obama’s motorcade driving down NE 75th St in October 2010 has now been watched a mind-boggling 347,419 times).
And this post, this very post right here, is the 444th post.*
But this year on our birthday, instead of looking back at the biggest stories of the last year, we’d like to share with you our dreams for next year. They are three-fold:
- We’ll turn FIVE next year, and that deserves some kind of PARTY, don’t you think? You’re all invited, of course.
- Have you noticed, the Ravenna neighborhood doesn’t have a fair/art walk/bite of/festival? We need to change that. How about a family walk/run/ramble through the neighborhood? We’ve just begun to plot about it, here.
- We’re also thinking of putting together some kind of Ravenna Blog Pledge Drive Week, for neighbors who might like to contribute to the costs of running the site. (Tote bags would be involved, OF COURSE.)
More on all of that in the near future. STAY TUNED.
To close out this here birthday post, we’d just like to say: thank you for reading, thank you for commenting, thank you for sharing our site with your neighbors, and thank you sharing your stories with us.
See you around the neighborhood!
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* Kind of a cool coincidence, all the fours. Unless you’re Chinese. *gulp*
The Ravenna Blog is TWO years old!
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