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Can’t we keep the blog as mean of commu…

mareikeonearthorg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:40:04 +0000

Can’t we keep the blog as mean of communication for posting news and stuff?

The blog is slowly shutting down. We do …

otto — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:13:03 +0000

The blog is slowly shutting down. We do not allow anymore comments from outside the earth.org team members. The team can still post. Thanks for all your positive feedback, which is overwhelming.

Dear all who were involved in such a fan…

catfraser — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:11:45 +0000

Dear all who were involved in such a fantastic project,

I will miss working with you and hope this is just the beginning for our global community that has been created.

Thank you so much Otto and Mathias for founding the project – I have learned so much from you and earth.org will always be so much more to me than just a website….I hope we meet again soon, Cat

Hi everybody, Earth.org may not continue…

Babumohanan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:37:42 +0000

Hi everybody,
Earth.org may not continue but the spirit it has started will continue in our heart. I consider all ambassadors of Earth.org as my friends who are close to my heart. If anyone of you are planning to visit this part of the earth then be my guest. Please send me invitation in facebook to get connected to all of you.
Babu

To All @EDO This is from South Africa – …

frinny — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:45:56 +0000

To All @EDO
This is from South Africa – A HUGE thank you to Otto, Mathias for providing the opportunity to work for such a great team. We down here as just as sad but are hopeful for the future. May it only bring the best to each and everyone. All my love, Fereal

It’s getting quiet here. And I am sad. …

teresa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:26:56 +0000

It’s getting quiet here. And I am sad. It will take some time for me to realize all that. I am writing down my thoughts here cause I want to tell you how much I love this project and everybody around. Within the past three years Earth.org changed my life in many different ways – I went to India, I met some of the greatest people on earth and we became friends, and I could work on a project which filled my life with a deeper purpose.
For me, Earth.org will still be there! It’s us who are Earth.org. It’s Mathias and Otto who had a unique and admireable idea first and started building a house! It’s the tech team who was so passionate about creating a wonderful architecture for that house! It’s the design team who coloured this house! It’s the marketing team with all their great ideas and creative thoughts! It’s the usabilty team and product developers who built the stairs in this house so that everybody could walk in easily! It’s Anne and her HR team who found and invited the best team you could ever imagine to this house! It’s Coni who made all those beautiful pictures in this house. It’s the dedicated volunteers and helping hands who supported Earth.org all the time. And it’s the Earth.org Travellers who left their footprints at Earth.org!

Yeah, definitely, that was lots of fun. It was tough sometimes. But hell yeah, we had an amazing time together and writing down all that makes me smile again! Thank you all!
Special thanks go to my PR team – girls you did a great job – let’s keep in touch and support each other!

See you around. You are always most welcome to my place in Austria.
Teresa

Good Bye my Dear Earthies! it was nice w…

valentinyeo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:14:33 +0000

Good Bye my Dear Earthies!

it was nice working with you all.

life is all about your focus on any experience your lucky enough to encounter. there is good and there is bad in anything. seeing the positive in everything thats what it’s about.

take care and see you soon or as Desmond from Lost says: see you in another life

Hi all, the last two days I had so many …

Mathias — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:42:48 +0000

Hi all, the last two days I had so many really nice – and despite the situation also so positive – talks to you. And these talks make it a bit easier for me to handle this situation. I’m afraid I’ll never work again in such a great environment and with such a great team as I did in the last years with you. I’m really sad that this is all over now, but in the end we had to take this decision. And I think we all grew personally with this project and the project changed ourselfs. So finally even if the website didn’t survive all this will not be useless and it will leave effects also in the long run. Thanks again to all of you!!

@team: And some team members would like …

otto — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:00:37 +0000

@team: And some team members would like to keep their email ID @earth.org. We love this – you are all invited to continue to use longterm your @earth.org email. A good way also to keep in contact, aside from xing, linkedIn, facebook, foursquare and the real world visiting of each other. And I agree with Eva, my house will also always be open for you.

We have decided not to continue with Ear…

otto — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:56:30 +0000

We have decided not to continue with Earth.org – with immediate effect.
Some might think why?
We have ten thousands of users visiting the site every month and they have not done what we suggested them to do: Become engaged and contributing users on the open travel guide Earth.org. And spread the news to friends – the growth base for every website. This is the core of our decision – what else shall it be?
Some might think why so soon?
We have been working over years on this website – always with a 100% positive approach. We can either be 100% positive – or we do not work for Earth.org. This was always our thinking. We do not think there is a world in-between.
And now?
We continue to stay positive – this was by far greatest team experience most of us ever had: We see, also after this decisions and our talks to each other, that we enjoyed working on Earth.org, we have had an incredible learning curve and a small universe of pictures and situations pass bye, maybe even and especially because we have been such an international remote team. Thank you team, you were the best – and you will continue to be!