If all goes as planned, what you’ll get is multiple posts on different topics on the weekend (like a weekly magazine) and then we can talk about the topics during the week.

I’m actually excited about this change and look forward to seeing what our great writers come up with!

Because I’d like to see Weekend Kindness go from being simply a blog to more of a magazine type format with categories.  Each category would then have a sub category:

• Marriage

• Husband
• Wife
• Couple

• Expecting
• Young Kids
• Teens

• Friendships
• Dating / Courtship
• With the Lost

With the setup in Revolution Magazine, we could take advantage of the fact that it already has functionality to split up the types, and it would allow us to present more information in a great display then having it look like a blog.

The benefits of having this theme are the three columns layout that are linked with a category followed by short segments in the center column from other categories.  The home page content looks different regardless of whether one post or multiples were entered simply because there’s been a new post– and there are posts from every angle on the home page (not just one!)

What do you think?  Do you live Revolution Magazine?  Is something that would be ok if we won it, or would you like to go after it even if we don’t win?  Do you like this kind of organization?

I’ve done a lot of postings on my stats on my main blog, but I think this is a great feature and can show you what people are reading.  So, here are some stats for this blog from 2007:

Keeping in mind that this site was dormant until July 2007, that’s some pretty good progress! Here’s looking to another great year and some more ways to be kind.

This week, I’ll be taking time each day to highlight some of the types of changes that you can expect in the weeks to come.  I hope that you’re as excited as I am to read what our bloggers have to say, and if you haven’t subscribed to the RSS feed either with a feed reader or via e-mail you’ll want to so that you don’t miss a post!

From all of us to all of you, here’s wishing you a very happy New Year.  What did you do for New Years’ Eve?  My parents and sister were up for the time and we had a Pretender marathon and played Taboo.

In the coming year I hope to find more bloggers to join us here, and to have some more organization– focused topics, better planning, and I have some great ideas for competitions and a new site layout.

Hope that you all are having a great 2008 so far!

If you know of anyone that you think would like to contribute to Weekend Kindness, drop me a line and let me know and I’ll check them out.

Stay tuned this month as I’ll be unveiling a new competition for Weekend Kindness authors and contributors.  I think you’ll like it!

Top 10 Referrers to Weekend Kindness for September 2007

1. Jess with 86 visits.
2. Brittany Leigh with 58 visits
3. Mary with 25 visits
4. Anna with 25 visits
5. KAlexaLott with 7 visits
6. Mrs. Brigham with 7 visits
7. Dana with 5 visits
8. MInTheGap with 5 visits
9. Colleen Petterson with 3 visits
10. Revka with 3 visits

So, it looks like I have some work to do to get people over to this site too!

I look forward to reading what they have to say, discussing relationships, and learning from one another. 

There’ll still be weekly lists of different ideas, but this way we’ll also get to discuss what’s going on in relationships, read some great poetry, and simply share ways that we can encourage one another.

So, over the next few weeks you can expect a retooling over here at WK, with more emphasis on loving your spouse, challenges and suggestions of how to meet their needs and surprise them!

We’ll still give you something to try out this weekend, and we’ll still give you some suggestions on how to show your love to your family– and maybe to the general public– but we’ll definitely have a new focus, and more content as well as challenges that talk about families and family life.

Here’s to the beginning of a new adventure on WK.

We now have posts even on non-mission days, so come back and check out what people are doing to be kind all around the web– and be encouraged and challenged to be kind to those around you!

We’ve updated the code to make it cleaner– so grab the new code!