Good news, bad news about this blog (mostly good)

The good news is that we are welcoming aboard a third contributor, Catherine Collingwood.

Catherine was one of our first readers, back when we were lucky to see 200 pageviews a week (now we're 300+ a DAY).

She is a longtime blogger, operating CathColl.net, which she describes as "a general-purpose personal web site." It is not, however, a personal-life blog (except for the occasional cat story or pic), but contains well-written, plain-English thoughts and comments on a wide range of news items and issues, including HR and employee benefits.

Catherine is a benefits specialist for a professional employer organization (PEO) in Raleigh, North Carolina. She also spent nine years in human resources with various agencies of the State of North Carolina, beginning as a personnel assistant and ending as a compensation and benefits specialist.

We hope she will provide some useful additional content on PEOs and HR outsourcing, non-technical benefits issues, and general HR topics, all from her HR insider's perspective, which Michael and I -- as lawyer and professor -- lack.

In addition to contributing, Catherine will serve as the site administrator for George’s Employment Blawg. Which brings us to more good news -- and the bad news.

Catherine has been preparing a redesign of this Blawg, which will run using Wordpress rather than Blogger. She calls it "Version 2.0 of George’s Employment Blawg" and promises "many changes to enhance the reader experience."

The bad news is that this will require a brief transitional hiatus in a few days, just as we are seeing phenomenal readership growth. So please have patience if you don't see too many new posts this week, and return soon for further instructions about the new site.