By David Gordon, CVPost board chair
When you next take a look at the CVPost home page, you’ll notice (we hope) an important addition.
At the upper right corner of the page, we’ve added a box containing weather information from the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities area. This came from a CVPost board discussion this week that focused on what we could do to make our home page more useful to our audience, and providing updated weather information was at the top of the list that emerged.
This addition is something that an earlier board discussed and it’s an addition we almost certainly should have made years ago. Weather is a topic that continually interests people, affects their lives and one that is subject to frequent changes.
We hope that making this information easily available will help you keep up with those changes more easily.
More to come
There are other potential home page additions under discussion, as you’ve probably inferred from the mention of a list that was headed by weather information. The board will be discussing these in the coming weeks from several perspectives, including the one that asks “what would we have to drop in order to fit a new feature onto that page?”
If you have any suggestions – both re: what could be dropped or what you would like to see added – please send us an email at cvpostwi@gmail.com. Knowing a bit more about what you would like to find on the home page will enlighten the choices the board makes among an almost endless list of newsworthy options.
A final note: if you’ve been looking at our home page this past week, you may have noticed that Ta’Leah Van Sistine has rejoined the CVPost staff. She reported for us last fall while concurrently serving as editor of The Spectator, UW-Eau Claire’s student newspaper, but stepped away at the end of the semester to focus on her Spectator responsibilities and her classes.
She rejoins us this semester while on a student exchange program in New York City. Because of the increased use if such platforms as Zoom, Ta’Leah will be able to attend various local meetings and events virtually and report on them, as well as writing stories remotely after contacting sources in the Chippewa Valley.
We’re pleased to have Ta’Leah’s experience and news judgment back as part of our news package, which we hope helps meet your needs for news and information about the Chippewa Valley.