We welcomed our 5,000th member to the community yesterday - quite a milestone for us working behind the scenes of commonground!  You've got to know I rang the bell big time when we crossed that threshold. 

You may have noticed the increase in activity lately with members posting their comments, adding new discussion topics, tossing out questions and offering opinions.  Last week there were well over a hundred new comments made, many to some of our more pressing and controversial topics.

Since we switched to our new platform in late May and debuted "commonground 2.0" as we like to refer to it, traffic to our community has grown exponentially each month.  Nearly 10,000 professionals have visited commonground this September - almost a 400% increase since June.

My guess is that many of our members are beginning to find real value in reaching out to the community for opinions and getting solid answers and recommendations from seasoned cyber-colleagues.  Our newest group offerings, including Due Diligence University, Environment, Health & Safety, Young Environmental Professionals, and Green Building Due Diligence, are each turning out to be an appealing destination for members for whom those areas of key interest.  They are a new source of networking and sharing among an even more laser-focused interest group.  Be sure to check out those that may interested you.

Thanks for coming -- and even more so -- thanks for coming back often.  Your fellow members benefit from all you have to say. Any new ideas for how we can make it even more valuable - we're all ears.

I look forward to seeing you back again soon. 

Enjoy the community,

Barbara