Once Upon a Time

This time then I was putting the finishing touches to my application to become a Suite101 Contributing Editor prior to submitting it with fingers crossed. The rest, as the saying goes, is history... or more particularly 156 articles, excluding this one.

Four years is a long time for me to stick with something but I've been fortunate enough to have been able to move up through the S101 ranks along the way. From CE up through Managing Editor to Senior Managing Editor and now there's another change although this one is more of a sideways move. I'm getting a tad too long in the tooth, and too gray of hair, for moving countries or even Canadian Provinces any more but that's the advantage of a virtual office sometimes, the real scenery doesn't have to change.

Until now S101 has been relatively unique among Internet based websites and businesses in not having had to rely on more conventional sources of income revenue such as advertising and commercial affiliate programs. What "banners" we have run on our pages have been restricted to supporting and promoting our own site, and it's features and attractions.

Sad to say, we now find ourselves between the same financial rock and hard place as all other web based businesses and we need to explore every opportunity we can to improve our income. The trick is to do this without detracting from the quality we try to provide to all our members and visitors.

It's into this business and commercial area of the S101 Community that I'm moving and to do the job justice it means me having to hang up my editorial hat, certainly for the foreseeable future.

I will always greatly appreciate all the contact, comments, and feedback that I've received from readers over these four years. I will finish with something of a confession. It's always been a secret ambition of mine to use this title at least once but until today it never seemed to be the right time.

That only leaves me one other to try and squeeze in during this lifetime... "'Twas a Dark and Stormy Night"... maybe one day (or night) I just might be back...

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