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The new post

1/7/2022

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By Catherine Watson
 
A HEARTFELT thank you for all the messages of goodwill and support for the Bass Coast Post over the past two weeks.  It was like going to my own funeral. No one was allowed to say anything bad about the recently deceased.
 
The Post got some wonderful presents, including a gorgeous  hand-knitted hotty cover from Mary Whelan (best present ever!), a nude painting of the editor from Jeni Jobe and The Secondary Students’ Spelling Book from Liane Arno and Matt Stone.

​“So you can correct our work,” they helpfully noted.

Clearly the Post is filling a role in our community, for readers and writers, who continue to work long hours for no pay.
 
Ten years seemed a good time to assess where the Post is and how to keep it going for a bit longer, while allowing the editor to spend more time floating on a lilo and sipping pina coladas.
 
We could have got in a team of expensive management consultants to explain how to add value and leverage engagement via strategic staircases but my friend Linda Cuttriss came up with a workable plan for nothing. And all before breakfast.  
 
So here it is:
  • A monthly edition of the Post, as you know it, with your favourite writers, photographers and artists – plus some new ones, I hope. Think of this as the Post magazine.
  • Facebook posts for timely stuff like events and newsy stuff that won’t keep. (Yes Linda, you will have to sign up to Facebook.)  
  • Email news flashes for the really important stuff – fires, election results, visits by the queen, etc.
 
Sounds like a plan. Let’s see how we go. 
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Post editor at work
8 Comments
magmlee@gmail.com
1/7/2022 01:08:01 pm

Yes Catherine great plan. Time to float on the lilo a bit more

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Mark Robertson
1/7/2022 01:18:15 pm

Surely that cannot be the mighty Powlett in the photo - it looks far too warm. Thanks for a wonderful celebration on Sunday.

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Clare Le Serve
1/7/2022 03:36:56 pm

Thank you Catherine it was a lovely way to celebrate. Looking forward to another 10 years.

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Anne Heath Mennell
1/7/2022 04:00:19 pm

Bugger the lilo - think of your skin!
Please just keep on keeping on and in the customary format.
Like Linda I'm not on Facebook and don't want to join but don't want to miss out either.

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Margaret Hook
1/7/2022 06:29:51 pm

Yes, great plan, I will sign up to Facebook, and hope not to many
fires etc

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Jeni Jobe
1/7/2022 10:49:21 pm

Nude from the neck up, your modesty left intact, very wise move going to monthly, love your work and love reading the post 😊

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Mary Whelan
7/7/2022 05:02:14 pm

Thank you Catherine for ten years of your own wonderful articles & breaking news alerts, the Post contributor pieces on every subject we love to read about and the connection it has given us all in Bass Coast.
It was Phil Wright who years ago alerted us to the Post, and we now urge newcomers who want to know the real & best of Bass Coast to subscribe to the world of the Post.

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Marjorie Jane Scott
10/7/2022 01:51:14 pm

Thankyou for 10 years of (mostly) good news stories
Its winter season and nettle soup time.

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