So these days are important to me. I feel like I personally am living in the end of an era – an era of publishing my book Return on Involvement, an era of ending some areas in my own social media chain and starting on new ones. The first review of Return on Involvement was in my RSS reader this morning (in danish), yesterday I finally got notion from the community that handles the bookselling logistics in DK that my book was actually going to be able to be purchased by the bookstores. And here I am, sitting in front of my computer with my to-do lists, ideas and initiatives to get this book to be sold in Denmark and worldwide (in english) and I am literally holding my breath. As absurd as it seems, I feel like this is the first time I am completely exposed to everything. You can hit me. You can kiss me.

I am a child of the internet. And I have been involved in so many projects and companies and NGO work online since my teenage years. I mean that should make me feel exposed right ? I put my thoughts on the internet, I ramble, I shout, I believe. I have friends here. The book feels different to me. It has been such a relief for me to actually have a product that isn’t really myself and my work. but it’s a product that you can touch and feel and own. A piece of me, and yet again something bigger than me.

Actually I think that these days are the days where my personal growth is on the highest. I have a perfect tool in the hand – to show what I stand for, what the social web stands for according to me and how I believe you should use it as a company, oh and if I play my cards right – this could be really important and change a small part of the world, maybe a bigger part when it’s launched in english – but as you might now, we could use some business unusual in Denmark as well (no Denmark could use some love for sure – to other countries and cultures)

Even though I am holding my breath and continuing my book project as planned, I am happy, excited, proud, loved and scared shitless at the same time. I am having a party tomorrow where you should come if you are somewhere near Copenhagen . It’s all good and I am a changed, provoked and wiser person myself =)

crossposted on henrietteweber.com