So I get the Friday Ask Me Anything before the War on Christmas peaks and gets put back in its box in the attic/basement/garage/closet until next year. Hopefully, there are some of you still around wanting to discuss all things Daily Kos.
Like Markos' AMA two weeks ago, I'm going to make a pitch for our fundraiser. My main focus in my time at Daily Kos has been to diversify our revenue streams and when we do diversify, we choose one that gives us some level of control. In 2013, we focused on email list building for organizations and growing our community support (i.e. donations.)
Our relationship is the Daily Kos community is the one in which we have the most control. We mess up you let us know. We do good, you let us know. The feedback loop is immediate and LOUD. It's fabulous and that's why we're opening a lot more about how the "sausage" is made here at Daily Kos.
So I'd love to answer any questions y'all have about how we earn the revenue we do. I'm happy to talk about expenses too. As I said the other day in one of our chat rooms that we use here, "Our business and organization is just a bigger, more complex and more effective beast, and that shit costs a lot of money."
But really ask me anything. I feel really fortunate to have my job here at Daily Kos because I do get to touch almost every single facet of the organization.