It’s coming up in just a few hours….the WEB Ball is about to drop – Just. Like. New. Years….3, 2, 1….
Happy June 1st, Woodstock Early Birds!
This is the first anniversary of Woodstock Early Bird which was started at the Mon Vert Cafe on June 1st, 2011 with a post featuring a photograph of a tree downed by a storm in front of the Norman Williams Public Library. Several neighbors and friends suggested that since Early Bird was always roaming around early in the day, she might as well report on her daily “findings.”
We went on to cover municipal meetings including the Design Review Board (remember the Dormer Issue?) and then that guy protesting his lawyer and then when Tropical Storm Irene struck, we went into overdrive to provide you with as much immediate information as possible. Our aim is to get information to you accurately, quickly and with a journalistic writing style and point-of-view you might not find elsewhere.
In the past year, Woodstock Early Bird has had nearly 300,000 views. There are currently 525 of you who are e-mail alert subscribers. The minute a post is uploaded you are “in-the-know”!
In addition, we have anywhere from 600 to 10oo daily visitors to the blog.
Our readership can skyrocket depending on the news of the day. For example, during the onslaught of Tropical Storm Irene, some 30,000 people checked in to Woodstock Early Bird in one single day.
We have, at this point, posted nearly 700 items. During Irene we posted some 13 distinct news items a day, other times days go by without event.
We will be providing you with more information in future posts about our new fundraising campaign for Woodstock Early Bird.
We need your help to keep this thing going. We’ll be placing a PayPal Donation button on the blog and providing a “snail mail” address to send checks. We think this is the best model for the coming year. So think about how you might like to contribute.
For those who are just itching to “do something” right now and write a check, our snail mail address is: Woodstock Early Bird, PO Box 659, Woodstock, VT 05091. For the “small” subscriber or small “venture capitalist” (because that’s what you are!), may we suggest a donation of $120, which is just ten dollars a month for this service over a year. We, of course, welcome larger donations and investors from the business, academic, corporate worlds and those just-out-back-of-the-barnyard folks who have been burying their money with the kimchi.
But, TODAY, let’s have some FUN! As a way of thanking YOU for your support, Woodstock Early Bird would like to buy you a cup of coffee!
Here’s the deal: If you visit Mon Vert Cafe tomorrow (Friday, June 1st) between the “Early Bird” hours of 7:30am and 10:30am and you speak the “secret password”, Mont Vert will provide you with a free cup of regular coffee courtesy of Woodstock Early Bird! Stop in and say hello!
Here’s the password for the Java:
“THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM!”
Thanks to all who read, subscribe, contribute and participate. Woodstock Early Bird loves this job and hopes to continue plucking out the best and most prime “worms” in the coming year. And, oh yeah, we love it when the birds sing….
Julia Carlisle, AKA, Woodstock Early Bird
Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 