Can you hear me now?
I am guessing you’ve heard those words a few times while talking on a cellphone. Typically it happens when you’re in one of those deadzones asking the other person on the line, “Can you Hear me now?” You might walk outside a building or move around just to catch that magical spot where both parties have a clear line of communication. My most recent experience was on a remote island in Northern Ontario and our phone was hit by a big storm - the phone would go in and out – I paced the room with the phone tightly pressed to my ear, shoulders hunched, saying “Can you Hear me now?”
In blogging, I have found it to be a similar experience, never fully convinced if we are authentically finding and sustaining a sense of online community with each other. It takes work to maintain links and genuinely think of others, so in order to keep a pulse on our readership, we follow our statistics closely. Since the inception of launching the Live-Safe.org blog site, we have had over 600 visitors to the site, with an increasing percentage of new visitors and time spent on the site. We suspect that readership tapers off at this time of year, so we are working on establishing targets for 2010. In this era of social connectivity, finding ways to communicate solutions often and with many different people and businesses is now a way of life – we are constantly emailing, texting, twittering, facebooking and now blogging. The real question is, are we truly engaged and how do we sustain it?
The LiveSafe blog aspires to be a place where we can share some of what we have learned from our industry experts, as well as a place for us to bring our visitors tools and resources. We also want to allow you to bring your questions, thoughts and concerns to our blog with the opportunity to bring you solutions.
We thank those who are spreading the word about the LiveSafe blog and to those providing us with news articles and information. Please remember the LiveSafe blog is intended to be interactive. It’s wonderful to get good feedback, but we also feel corrections are equally important. We welcome you to continue to join the conversation in 2010.
Can You Hear Me Now?
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LiveSafe Foundation is an Ohio based non-profit organization (501c3), and leading grassroots movement, devoted to making fire safety education, awareness initiatives and life saving tools available on a broad basis to communities, campuses, and institutions in an effort to reduce national fire fatalities and fire losses. LiveSafe aims to help finance fire safety education where means are otherwise unavailable. LiveSafe is developing and sponsoring programs to help groups find the resources needed to advance individual and community fire safety.
