I’ve been writing this blog for less than a year, but I’m already staggered by the comraderie, community, insight and fun stuff I’ve discovered this way. Not only through my readers, but by connecting the dots across the community and finding new friends, new blogs, and amazingly smart people all over the place.

Unfortunately for us bloggy types, no matter how good our analytics package is, we can’t see much beyond your email or location to learn about who you are. And you’re far more than a statistic, anyway. I have and will continue to follow my commenters back to their sites and blogs to learn what they’re about, but I know that on any given day, about 5% of you are leaving comments which leaves me far short of knowing as much about you as I’d like to.

So would you do me a favor? If you’re not already, follow me on Twitter and send me an @. Give me 140 characters about what makes you tick. Need a bit more space than that? Send me an email. Give me a picture of who you are, what keeps you coming back, and what I can do to make your experience here and around the web more fun, interesting, whatever. You can even leave me a comment here, or connect with me somewhere like Facebook or LinkedIn. Tell me about your business or your adventures, whatever you like.

This isn’t about inflating a bunch of profile numbers – I don’t really give a rip about that. I’m keen to learn about you, person to person. Build relationships with each of you, qualitatively. And thankfully no matter where you are in the world, this nifty interwebz thing makes that easy.

So I’ll start: You can poke around here to know about what I do for a living so I’ll forego that part. I’m a voracious reader (sometimes 3 or 4 books at a time), I was a music performance major in college (flute, and yes I went to band camp). I have four rescue animals – two dogs and two cats – and an amazing daughter. I’m a huge music nut and a hell of a cook (at least in my own mind). I rode horses for years (jumpy stuff, like they do in the olympics only not quite that high), and I think I’ve broken 11 bones doing it over the years. Most evenings you can find me with a beer in one hand and my laptop on my lap. It’s like an appendage. My friends and family are the riches in my life, and I have little patience for arrogance or snobbishness.

So there you have it. A bit about the Amber behind the blog. Will you share with me a little about you? I mean it. Let’s get to know one another.