As Community Manager of TuDiabetes, I sincerely wish you all a very happy Valentine’s Day. I hope for each and every one of you that it’s filled with love and loved-ones, and I hope even more that that makes it just like every other day of the year for you.
I myself am blessed and grateful to spend every day with people I love: this community. I’ve been “managing” (to the extent I am able ) this wonderful group for 4 1/2 years, and every day of that time I have interacted with members who impress me, inspire me, make me laugh, make me cry, make me think, and more. I’ve seen people come here at their wits’ end and find love, support and compassion when they can’t find it in their immediate surroundings. I’ve seen people come here to share great news about their A1c, their successful battle with insurance for an insulin pump, their relief to finally find a group of people who can help them find a good endocrinologist and figure out what the heck kind of diabetes they have!
So this Valentine’s Day is a little sad for me, because in just a couple weeks I’ll be leaving Diabetes Hands Foundation for my next (as yet undetermined) adventure, and I’m not sure how I will find another group of people as loving and spectacular as this one, with whom to spend my days. Luckily, stepping out of my role as Community Manager does not mean I have to stop interacting with all the great people here, so you will most definitely be seeing me around, as a regular member, in the future.
I love you guys. Thank you for allowing me to try to manage you for the past several years ;).
Emily, I’m sad to see you move on career-wise but life moves on and you have to go with the flow. As I’ve told you before, I’ve watched you grow and improve with your video interviews. I don’t know if you enjoyed them as much as we viewers did, but you did an entertaining and competent job.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do next. I’m hoping to see you at the Diabetes Unconference. If not, I’m sure our paths will cross again.
Emily, thanks got all you’ve done for the community here. We’ll miss you as a leader, but happily won’t have to miss you as a friend. Be looking forward to seeing you down the net for a long time to come! Good luck in whatever you choose for your next adventure!
Mmm…Is this your choice, sweetie? Changes can snowball with no consideration for who gets rolled over. And there are some recent human unknowns at the top that I have no reason to trust yet. But you know how I feel about your incredible presence here…Blessings…xx000
We’ll miss you but I wish you love and luck as you move on Emily. I appreciate all your hard work, especially with the site transition, I know it was difficult!
Emily, thank you for everything you’ve done for TuD community, including your video interviews, which are brilliant! Wish you best luck and success in your next adventures!
Em, you are truthfully a blessing to us here on tudiabetes! You have done so much for tud. I was so sad that you are leaving diabetes hands foundation, but I know wherever your next adventure brings you, you will succeed! Best wishes, and check in sometimes! You will be greatly missed! TUD will not be the same without you!
I can’t believe it’s been over four years when it feels like a lifetime. You have done so much for TuDiabetes, EsTuDiabetes, and for Diabetes Hands Foundation. Your touch, your grace, your warmth is felt in every piece of content, every interaction. I am so so grateful that your path crossed through here and that you stayed for so long. Every day that you and I spent working together was better for having you with me. And every day I’ve called you friend has been a day that I’ve cherished.
I feel the same way. exactly. Of course I’m going to miss you terribly, I’m so very very sad, but that’s because I’m selfish and only thinking of what I want. I just know you’ll be doing brilliant things wherever you go.
I’ve always told you you could have a new career as a talk show host. Your presence in our Interviews (our video archive) really was simply amazing. How you can be listening to the guest speaker (sometimes speaking about some very intricate topic), take questions from the chat room,manage to keep the questions asked, and type comments to us at the same time, is a rare talent indeed. and throw in a little glitch like the chat room being down or having a low during the interview, it really sometimes has boggled my mind.
MarieB is right about the talk-show host thing, based on what I’ve seen of your hosting video interviews/programs on TuD. You, my dear, have a unique talent!
Like so many others, I will miss you. I’ve been hanging around on this Forum for about two years now, and you are the only Community Manager I’ve ever known. I can’t imagine anyone doing as great a job as you have. Although I just know you will encounter great success with whatever you move on to, I wish you the absolute best. And I’m happy that you are sticking around TuD as a “regular” member.
Always a dollar short and a month behind, but I too shall miss your consistent presence here, Emily. You have accomplished a LOT in your brief (to me!) but busy stint at tuD and anyone (other than MarieB of course ;-)) would be hard-pressed to equal your service to this community and to diabetes itself.
This doesn’t really need to be typed, but You Go Girl - go out and accomplish all new and improved miracles for the benefit of all of us with or without Diabetes and the world at large.
I agree with the other posts in this thread - you would have an excellent career as a talk show host! Hmmm, Ellen DeGeneres just leapt into her 60th year - maybe she’s thinking about retiring and looking for a logical replacement?
Whatever you do, Lettuce Snow when you get where you’re going so we can all witness the fireworks and rhyme off stories about how we knew you waaay back when
As always, you are spot on with your assessment! Thankfully, unlike herding cats, your arms haven’t been continually clawed and shredded.
It is my turn to thank you, so …
Thank You!
Thank you for all the tireless effort, all the lows and highs during interviews, all the rapid responses to thoughts and queries, all the ideas and so much more. Thank you for being with us every step of the way to this new platform; to thinking and doing and asking how to reach those who haven’t yet been reached …
But most of all, thank you for the joy, the verve, the laughter, oh yes, the wonderful laughter.
Thank you so much for your kindness and good humour during your interviews. Even though I haven’t been too reactive - I wouldn’t miss an interview! if I do I try to look at them at a later date. They are so interesting and important and so ENJOYABLE with your great personality. You are really good at interviewing all sorts of people.
I hope you will continue a great life, we are all behind you. Thank you so much. I’m gong to miss you!!
You can be proud of the job you have done at the Diabetes Hands Foundation. You’ve truly made a difference in many many lives. I wish you luck in whatever life brings you next.
When I think about this community, the word that always floats to the top is love. When I think of the people who are here (and those who have come and gone) , the image that comes to mind is of a treasure chest that is always filled to overflowing.
When I joined TuD, you and Manny were running the shop, and I can think of no two people who more powerfully embody the qualities that make this community the amazingly special place it is. Your elegant, empathetic touch will be missed, even if you’re still in the neighborhood.
Wherever you go next and whatever you do, the people there will be extraordinarily fortunate.
) this wonderful group for 4 1/2 years, and every day of that time I have interacted with members who impress me, inspire me, make me laugh, make me cry, make me think, and more. I’ve seen people come here at their wits’ end and find love, support and compassion when they can’t find it in their immediate surroundings. I’ve seen people come here to share great news about their A1c, their successful battle with insurance for an insulin pump, their relief to finally find a group of people who can help them find a good endocrinologist and figure out what the heck kind of diabetes they have!
