Coordinating Editor for Coolamon

Executive Committee
Written By Angela Hoskins

Christine Gilbert

Christine Gilbert

Christine is a graduate of the Living Well Centre in Melbourne and earned a Graduate Certificate in Professional Pastoral Supervision from the Uniting College in Adelaide. At the beginning of 2023, Christine began focusing exclusively on contemplative ministry which includes spiritual direction, supervision, small group work, retreats and serving in the spiritual direction course at Tabor College.

Christine is grateful to live on Kaurna Country in the Adelaide hills with her husband Sean where she is an apprentice to her garden. When not sharing time with others, Christine spends her days keeping four birdbaths full, making peace with snails and slugs, guarding Wendell & Berry (goldfish) from the neighbourhood kookaburras and experimenting with low-carb recipes. She enjoys reading and writing (especially poetry) and the collaborative work of the Coolamon journal.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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