For today's entry in the WEGO NHBPM we celebrate our very FIRST Birthday
Gucci Blue Heel Cake
Today is our ONE Year Birthday!!
I had just ended a 4 year stint with another diabetes Advocacy organization when I got an email that would not only change my life, but also gave me an opportunity to work with some AMAZING people doing what comes natural...fighting diabetes everyday.
One of our BLUETIFUL Co-Founders simply asked in that email on December 3rd 2011 at 6:14 PM "How can we bribe you to be part of The Blue Heel Society??". Of course in this context, the word "bribe" was intended to mean "convince". We exchanged formalities & a VERY brief conversation, including "Please take some time to consider before giving us an answer". It took me NO time at all to simply say "to answer your question, consider me bribed!". I tried to lighten the conversation up a bit and said "Forgot to mention the potential icing on the cake moment...I was a Shoe Salesman for almost seven years back in the day!".
Blue Velvet Cake with Blue Suede Shoes
I had been watching CLOSELY for a few weeks this 'new' Group on Facebook called the "Blue Heel Society" that in that two short weeks, was garnering MASSIVE support within the ENTIRE Diabetes Online Community in way's I had NEVER seen done before. Let's jump back for a second to see what was happening on our first MONTH Birthday:
What a fabulous BLUE month it has been. BLUE analogies. BLUE posts. BLUE tweets. BLUE SHOES!!
This morning, our impromptu "one month" birthday celebration occurred with much fanfare. We were delighted with retweets, links posted to our social networking sights, mentions about our blog, and, of course, YOU, the backbone of the Blue Heel Society all standing there *clicking* your heels.
With over 740 members in four short weeks, we are humbled that an idea formed on the eve on WDD resonated and struct a cord with so many people, for all the right reasons."
One year later we find ourselves honored beyond words to be reaching almost a QUARTER OF A MILLION Bluetiful peeps on Facebook alone, residing in TWENTY different Countries, all as one, united not only for diabetes awareness, but doing so by simply wearing a shoe of blue...
Our next year is poised to be even bigger & better than we could hope for. We have a DOZEN local BHS Chapter Luminary’s (Leaders) that have been hand picked to bring our Mission & Message to the streets in TRUE grassroots style, fighting the GREAT fight, as we give this Diabetes Monster a whole new face!!!
We are humbled by your excellence and certainly would be NOTHING without all of our Bluetiful peeps along our side. Put on those BLUE SHOES and get ready to help us make history in a HUGE way...
