Crowdfunding in the Spotlight: Wrapup

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This post was originally planned for this past Monday, but got delayed thanks to the LiveJournal outage.  I'm planning to reprise it this coming Monday to catch the high-traffic day.

The Spotlight week proved quite a success.  We posted a lot of new content about crowdfunding topics; those are all linked on "Content Posts."  Please check out the posts from later in the week if you missed those.  We picked up a lot of new members.  We learned some interesting stuff and discovered some areas that would benefit from further discussion.  We went from ...

1,148 journal entries to 1,206
55 to 56 tags
26 to 58 memories
208 to 333 members

So we gained 125 new people, more than half again as many as we started with.  That's a terrific boost.  I hope that more of you new folks will speak up here, in introductions and/or comments, whether you are patrons, creators, or just curious onlookers.

We've had a few more posts this week, although the LJ outage has interrupted a lot of the momentum we had going.  There are still some other posts planned, exploring topics of interest to varying aspects of the crowdfunding community.  And to all the folks who posted during Spotlight week, thank you very much for helping to make this event a success!