The other day someone asked me what eROI did for this new Leadership Portland blog, since their name is proudly at the top as the blog sponsor.

Alex, Amanda, Megan and Stephen, the eROI team. (From top left)

Well, the quick answer is, they did it all. And isn’t it amazing?

I think we all need to take a second, step back and say thanks.

Alex told us what a great job they could do (aka strategy), Megan held our hand during the process and put up with our color indecision (aka project management), Amanda handled the web development flawlessly, and Stephen did the beautiful design work.

You know how you can feel what a great place to work a company is, just by dealing with the people who work there? Well, let me tell you, eROI must be a great place to work, because the people are terrific, and as you can see, they do great work. I wouldn’t ever want to build a blog, website or email campaign without them. If you have a project they would be good for – consider them, won’t you?

On behalf of the Leadership Portland Alumni Association, thanks, eROI for building us this tool to communicate with our members. You were wonderful.

If you get a second, make sure you thank them in the comments.

At long last, this is your site. We’ve tweaked, and worked, and worked to get this site up and running. So bookmark it now. Comeback often. Participate. Comment. Blog. Enjoy.

A couple of housekeeping items:

• You’ll be getting occasional emails from us updating you on what’s going on with Leadership Portland, this blog, and other important updates. Please make sure we don’t end up in your spam filter, and pretty please, don’t opt out!
• Join us March 18 at 5:30 p.m. at Roots Brewing for our monthly event – remember, we buy the first round of snacks and cocktails.
• Have a story idea? Let us know at info@leadershipportland.com

We think we’ll have some interesting content for you, and this is what you’ve asked for – a place that’s your own, where you can get your updates out and find your classmates.

A special thank you goes to the good folks over at eROI who have worked with us to launch this site and provide our email updates. Thank you, eROI, you do terrific work.

Welcome our first site authors who have taken the plunge to provide our first content. Interested in contributing? Let us know, we’d love to hear from you.

Did I mention that you should bookmark the site now? And keep coming back? Good. Now enjoy.