thanks to all who visited and supported this site - hope 2012 is just as good or better!
Aloha Everyone!
Hope you are having an awesome Friday for this last aloha Friday of 2011. I just wanted to take the time, as I close out for the day to wish you all a happy and safe New Year’s Eve and for a start of a good New Year. In addition, I would like to thank all my friends, acquaintances, clients, readers, supporters, and yes even my Twitter followers for making 2011 a good start for me.
Storytelling in 2011
I appreciate getting to know you all in the various settings that I have and welcome meeting new people and reconnecting with old friends whether it be in social media, IRL networking, or for coffee. Also thank you for allowing me to tell you all my story and journey of an attorney that loves the intersection of law, business, and politics in the realm of small business and startups.
Past Highlights
I would like to highlight thanks to all of you for the positive feedback regarding this site and my services. In particular, I would like to continue to make this site a place a resource for small businesses and startups navigating transactional and compliance issues. Thus from this 2011 you will continue to see posts series like the following:
Because I care about the Hawaii community and am finding that I meet new people of this great state via social media I will continue to do special write-ups on:
- Social Media and the Law – look for one in the first week of New Years of interesting stories on Social Media and the Law
- Leadership – still have two posts left from this year!
- Access to Justice
New Features for 2012
Although like all good growing businesses, their ideas change and grow I will be rolling out new features and ways to get information into struggling business owners’ hands. In fact, I’ll admit that being an attorney who just started going solo there were times I wish there were resources for me, and there were, but I will continue to try to deliver information to the people who want its and need it. I would like to thank various people and organizations that have given me feedback before I talk about my 2012 features.
First the Thank Yous
Thank you to my friends at Off-Menu Catering, all of you give so much support and thoughtful feed back to carry me through continuing to serve small business.
Thank you to The Greenhouse: Innovation Hub and in particular Doc Rock (@docrock) and John Garcia (@johngarcia) for creativity and inspiration, Jill (@swamwine) of SWAM, Danny (@wangchungs) of Wang Chung’s, and Shawn of Small Business Planning Hawaii (@SBPHawaii) for bouncing ideas off of to deliver services and information to small business owners. Melissa Chang (@Melissa808), Jennifer Lieu (@jlieu), and Capsun Poe (@capsun) always guiding lights for social media use.
Mahalo to the Young Lawyers Division, HSBA, and Leadership Institute for providing guidance to an attorney. To fellow attorneys Wayne J. Chi and Scott C. Suzuki thank you for doing talks with me, some more planned in the future! To William (@alohastartups) of Alohastartups.com, much thanks as you are providing a great resource for startups in Hawaii and I am excited for the plan in 2012. However, I think I still owe you a post from 2011! Thanks to Rechung (@TheBoxJelly) of The Box Jelly for providing a space for legal talks and helping Hawaii coworkers.
Finally, thank you to Marcus Landsberg, a fellow Hawaii attorney that has helped out and set down this path of being a solo practitioner like me and showing that solo does not mean alone.
. . . Back to New Features of 2012
Ok, enough with the thank yous and let me get to the new features that you readers can look forward to from me in 2012 for this site in particular:
- PODCASTS – that’s right Hawaii small business owners, no worries if you cannot make it down to one of my talks! I will be providing portions of them for you to watch in your store or at home.
- One-sheets – simple pdfs talking about one particular issue for you to download, print, and share.
- Newsletter – I am not sure what the frequency will be, but definitely watch your e-mail inboxes!
- REVAMP of blog and website – I will be shifting gears and making sure that I deliver to you content in a more user-friendly style!
That’s it for this year! Have fun and be safe this New Year’s Eve and see you in 2012 (Year of the Dragon!).
-RKH