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We're on a tear about Impact. We have a small Grant from the Atherton Foundation to help us expand our impact with the ThinkTech community.  We’ve done a snapshot of how our impact worked this past January, and we’ll do the same for January next year and then see how things have changed.


In the meantime, we’re going to try to build our Impact as much as possible in as many ways as possible.  That means consciously creatively expanding the quality and functionality of our website, database and graphics applications, talk shows, webinars and super shows, our daily advisories, our show and affiliate promotions, our flash messages, our bulletins, our surveys and other interactions with our current constituencies and the new ones we hope to reach.


So stand by for a variety of changes this year, in our outreach, our coverage, our email, our social media, our flyers and messages.  More than ever, these will be designed to engage you and call for you to engage with us.  After all, we want this to be a high traffic two-way street.  Just as we want to keep you advised about the issues and events we follow, we’d like to hear back from you on your perceptions and concerns about the sea changes in our world.


You’ll hear from us, and we hope you will respond, engage and join with us in this special effort to achieve greater mutual engagement and expand the points of impact that can better connect us.  We want that for ThinkTech, for our citizen journalist hosts and guests, our viewers, supporters and friends, and for everyone in our ThinkTech family.


Thanks.


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