Shiny new gym membership? Check. Shiny new gym clothes? Check. That’s right, it's time once again for New Year’s Resolutions - or, as the health and fitness industry calls it, "our busiest two weeks." Hoping to actually keep your resolutions this year? Inside the Voxant Newsroom, you'll find the tips, tricks and advice that will help you (and your users) make a plan and stick to it this time around. So resolve to embed our New Years Editor’s Pick feed to your website or blog this month. It's one promise that’s easy to keep.

• Evan

Late last month, while most of us were knee-deep in Holiday Cheer, the Voxant elves were drafting and sending checks to all the good little Voxant distributors. Dozens and dozens of checks were distributed across our publisher network this time around, a number that continues to rise.Expecting a check that you didn’t get? Don't forget to fill out the proper tax forms and send them in so we can put your name on next month's "nice" list.

Updates to the Membership Agrement

Building a network is like building a house - it starts with a strong foundation. If there's trouble in the foundation, the whole house is in trouble. In order to shore ours up, we've made some changes to our Membership Agreement, specifically in Section II: What You May Not Do. We've made these changes to insure our network is the highest quality in the business. Any questions? Visit our Forum.

The end of the holidays is always bittersweet. On one hand, there's the 30 day break we get before the Christmas '08 shopping season begins. On the other, however, there's the end to sleeping in and that first shell-shocked day back in the office - how a backlog of work can accumulate when everyone is on vacation is truly one of life's greatest mysteries.

On top of the hangovers and the overstuffed inbox is the obligation to set important personal goals for the year ahead. Is this the proper environment in which to make Resolutions? I think not. Nevertheless, we all make promises to ourselves that we, more often than not, break mere days later. So this year I've resolved to give myself a break. My resolution? To stop making silly resolutions.

I had another resolution, too: stop using hack cliches in these emails. But, as you can see, that one didn’t make it.

• Evan McMorris-Santoro, Senior Editor