Ah, September. Summer’s over…back to school…the weather will be mild for a while longer. What could be better?
September is a lot of things: National Library Card Sign-up Month, National Pediculosis Prevention Month (you don’t want to know!), National Read-a-New-Book Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Better Breakfast Month. It contains the holidays National Newspaper Carriers’ Day, National Grandparents’ Day (this Sunday!), International Literacy Day, POW/MIA Recognition Day (the third Friday of the month) and Patriot Day (the eleventh, of course). Past Septembers saw these new inventions appear: the safety pin, Scooby-Doo, the department store, the first edition of the New York Times….September is a month of beginnings and remembrances, of starting new and also looking back.
We are looking back at 4 years of PaperBackSwap! Yes, we launched in September 2004. Since then the club has grown beyond anything we could have expected. Nearly 4 million books have been swapped between members; innumerable features have been added; sister swapping sites for CDs and DVDs were launched; we’ve been mentioned in more media outlets than we can name–major magazines, innumerable blogs, television news spots, even the Wall Street Journal! During all this, we have “met” a ton of people whom we think of fondly as family. Our members have been so patient as we work to improve the site. Members who started out with us will recall that in the beginning we didn’t even have Personal Messaging! We’ve come a long way. And everything we do starts with the members–you tell us how you use the site, what’s not working for you, what you’d like to see–and we listen, and look at the issue from all angles, and try hard to find a way to solve the problems and implement the suggestions. Sometimes it takes a while to get to something (our To Do list is huge!) but rest assured that if we can do something, and it will benefit the membership, we’ll find a way to do it.
We think of every feature we add, every improvement, as a kind of “present” to our members. We really try to make this site better wherever we can. See “NEWS” below for the new features this month–sorry we didn’t have time to wrap!
Happy Birthday to all of us!
Richard and
The PaperBackSwap Team
Archive for September, 2008
Member of the Month- September 2008
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
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Nominations for Tammy have been coming in since we began the MoM feature. Some of the comments we got about Tammy:
“She always has something insightful to say with a twist of humor. She often lightens the mood on the forums.”
“She is a kind woman, who does nice things for people without flaunting it. I think that it would be great for her to get some recognition for everything that she has brought to the PBS community. I can’t say enough about what a great friend that she has been to so many of us, and how much she has brightened up the place by sharing her humor and her fabulous story telling abilities. I love Tammy, and I think she should be Member of the Month.”
Tammy, clearly the monkey avatar is not the only thing that is rockin’ about you! You are our Member of the Month for August. Congratulations!
If you have any nominations for Member of the Month, submit them to us here. Your nomination will not “expire”–anyone you nominate will have a chance at getting Member of the Month if enough nominations accumulate over time. Each month the person who has the most votes accumulated when the Newsletter goes to press gets to be Member of the Month and gets a newsletter mention and a nifty MoM icon to wear on profile and forum posts with pride. So go for it! Tell us who’s helped you in the Forums, who’s been a great swapper, who in your opinion is a credit to PBS. We are keeping a list of all the nominated members. Who knows–one of them might be YOU!
