We kept asking, and it looks like you kept voting! Thank you so much for making AKAM On-Site the Readers' Choice Awards winner for 'Management Company' two years in a row. We will be on hand at the 2015 Florida Community Association Journal Expo in West Palm Beach on January 15 to accept our award, and to congratulate the other winners of this year's competition. Thank you again for voting AKAM!

As the new year approaches, I found myself rummaging through some old boxes filled with pictures, tokens of appreciation from old friends and co-workers, and pages upon pages of different writings. One in particular caught my eye, and I thought it would be fitting for a throwback post, or is it #tbt? here on the blog. One of my proudest moments occured on May 25, 2011 when I was asked by my alma mater, Stony Brook, to present the commencement speech to graduating class of 201