Exciting News About DailyStrength!
Hi DailyStrength friends. I want to be the first let you know about some very exciting news that we're announcing today. DailyStrength has merged with HSW International (HSWI), a leading provider of authoritative content on the Web. HSWI has deep expertise in creating quality, locally relevant content for consumers, and we're excited to merge our wonderful community tools with their excellent content. I bet you're thinking two things: a) "Why?", b) "Now what?" or "How does this affect me?" Let me try to answer both. Why? The inspiration for DailyStrength was, and remains to this day, my cousin Andrew Kirsch, who died of cancer at the age of 20. I wanted to make Andrew proud by helping others on his behalf. With Andrew in mind, I developed a theory which ultimately became DailyStrength. The theory was that I could create a successful for-profit business, but, at the same time, help others in a profound way. I wanted to provide a product or service that improved the lives of the people that used it every day, and I didn't want the people who came for help to have to pay for it. The last 3 years have been a wonderful struggle to prove that theory. Running a business, especially in this economy, has been a challenge, but every time I got down, I'd jump in to one of our communities and see the emotion, the support and the love that you all were offering each other, and I'd be re-energized. Everything we did, from hiring folks to building new features to making money, was done with the view that it must ultimately benefit the folks who come to us for help. HSWI has seen the tremendous value of DS, and wants us to keep doing what we do best. They are offering us the resources to invest heavily in new content and features to improve your experience and bring the power of DailyStrength to others. Now What? How Does This Affect Me? The only effects for you, my friends and fellow DS members, are positive. We can finally throw long-needed resources towards the features and needs of DS. We can expand the reach of communities and content we offer. Most importantly, we can continue to be here in your time of need. In the short term, nothing will be different. Over the coming months, however, you'll start to see both big and small improvements to your DS experience as we offer new and improved services to you, our members. The philosophy will remain the same; we'll just have more folks to help us help you. I can't thank you enough for being a part of DailyStrength and spending your time with us. We look forward to continuing to help improve your life. Doug
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HI DOUG...THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO !!! I AM GOING ON TWO YEARS BEING A MEMBER HERE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS GREAT NEWS !!!BLESS YOU YOUNG MAN :) LOVE YA MY FRIEND....JANET
Just know you\'re dealing with peoples\'s emotions & souls & lives.
Please...THINK WITH YOUR HEART.
That\'s all.
What a sell out. Millions of dollars? And you\'re a shareholder of HSWI? Looks to me, that as far as you\'re a fraud. You have said that your reason for starting DS, was to help people, after your brother died. Sure .....!
I just found DS, and it has been great. I\'ve made friends, here, and I\'ve posted an almost open journal ... and on and on.
Great news! Oh, yeah. FOR YOU, (I WONT CALL YOU BROTHER.) You\'ve attracted a whole lot of people, and now this group is going to be USED FOR MARKETING? So, long cheat, liar, sell out, you name it. Do you have any idea just how many people here really need help, and you really set this up to make money? \"I founded this company,,,,,,,\" . Know what? When all is said and done, you\'re going to have to stand before the judgment throne of Almighty God. How are you going to explain ***this** to Him???
don\'t listen to anything but you\'re heart, Doug.
He is proud of you, you should be too.
never, EVER give up. let someone in first.
Doug, or should I write \"Bozo\". You\'re really something. You should look at what you write, before you put it into print. I quote \"I wanted to organize a non-profit organization **to make money**. Well, that sure worked, at least it seems so, right now.
A) You never asked any of for permission to be used as a list for an organization which is going to use this group **for marketing**.
B) Your wording, actually is contradictory: I wanted to found a \"**non profit** organization ** to make money**.
Know what? So far as I\'m concerned, that is illegal .. ie. to create a sort of \"front group\", **supposedly to be non-profit**, but you reason for creating the group was **to make money**. Since that was your intent in forming the group **and** you have just sold it for over $3.5 million dollars: I think that you have showed that your group **never was**, non-profit, but the whole intention of your forming the group. ... was a **profit motive**.
You scam really made me angry. I am going to take it upon myself, to copy, and print all of the comments here, and send them to the Internal Revenue Service.
My guess is that you will be assessed a part of the $3.5, for each year, and that back taxes will be added on. I have had the occasion to discuss a bona fide similar matter with regard to continuing education ... and they kept insisting \"You must be doing this in order to prepare for a new job\". I wasn\'t.
So, \"good luck\" ... and even if the IRS doesn\'t sting you, God will, you can count on that!
O.K. I am new (very new) to this site and I don\'t adapt well to change, but this sounds to me like it will be a positive thing. I have had to change lots of things in my life recently because of PF and that is O.K. At least we can get on this site and talk about it. Come on let\'s have some positive vibes going.
BLESSINGS ALWAYS, MAEMAEG
Written in the cold month named December, yet not a single noticeable thing changed. If that\'s the case, keep doing what you\'re doing.
Doug, I have been a DS member for over two years. I left and came back. The support that I have received from the Widow and Widowers community has saved my life and I can only thank you for setting up DS. I wonder how people can even think that a site like this can run itself for free. How many people are willing to give up everything and be in a way responsible for letting other people connect? If one is old enough to be on here one certainly can ignore the ads, and by the way, how many free websites have no ads? The chat seems to be a big concern, well if the DS one does not seem to work ( I have never tried it) there are alternatives to instant messaging. You have saved my life and I am forever grateful. BTW nice pix