{"id":9140,"date":"2016-08-13T01:52:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9140"},"modified":"2016-08-13T01:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T05:54:03","slug":"on-shorebeats-second-anniversary-a-thank-you-and-a-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/08\/on-shorebeats-second-anniversary-a-thank-you-and-a-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"On Shorebeat’s Second Anniversary, A ‘Thank You’ and a Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shorebeat editor Daniel Nee, taking a break from hard-hitting news reporting. (Family Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday marked the second anniversary of Brick Shorebeat\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n

On our first anniversary, I wrote to the Brick community<\/a>, talking about why I started this business and what I hoped to achieve. It was a bit long-winded, but from the heart. This year, I\u2019ll let everyone in on a more humorous side to our start.<\/p>\n

The day after I left Patch.com, two years ago this past week, I had an appointment for wisdom teeth removal surgery. That was a Thursday, and I was gung-ho about getting Shorebeat launched by Monday. Experiencing anesthesia for the first time, everyone laughed as I sang a Billy Joel song on the way home from the doctor\u2019s office in Toms River (for no apparent reason), and as I got together last minute graphics, finishing touches and even the video intro we use to this day \u2013 all in a bizarre daze of throbbing, swelling and (at least there\u2019s a good part) painkillers.<\/p>\n

In the end, the pain subsided by Saturday, and the site got off the ground Monday \u2013 and we\u2019ve never missed a day since. I don\u2019t say that to brag, but rather to reflect on the awe-inspiring response I\u2019ve gotten from this community from day one. Going back six years to the first time I covered our town with Patch, I never imagined this journey \u2013 telling Brick\u2019s story \u2013 would lead me through the ups and downs of working for a major corporation, and the uncertainty and pride of starting my own business in the place I love. I\u2019ve made many friends along the way, and this year was incredibly\u00a0humbled to have been elected by my fellow Brick business owners to the board of our township\u2019s Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the strong readership in Brick helped us launch our second site covering Lavallette and the Seasides, and continues to lay the groundwork for more expansion that we expect in the coming months.<\/p>\n

It is you, our readers, who I have to thank for your unending trust to keep you informed about the most important things in your life \u2013 your town, your neighborhood, and even your children\u2019s schools. It is our advertising sponsors \u2013 those who believe in us so much that they pay to be a part of our team \u2013 that inspire me to do the best I can, every day.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, 505,196 people have read our site, in 1,206,997 sessions. People have viewed our articles\u00a01,677,385 times.<\/p>\n

Those numbers are both humbling and exciting. We have a lot to be proud of in this town, not the least of which is the way we\u2019re engaged, active and working hard to make this place\u00a0the best it can be for our families, friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m incredibly proud to say my journey began right here.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to another great year ahead!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Friday marked the second anniversary of Brick Shorebeat\u2019s launch. On our first anniversary, I wrote to the Brick community, talking about why I started this business and what I hoped to achieve. It was a bit long-winded, but from the heart. This year, I\u2019ll let everyone in on a more humorous side to our start. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,2364,50,49],"class_list":["post-9140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-shorebeat","tag-daniel-nee","tag-shorebeat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-13-at-1.53.12-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2nq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}