Another Busy couple of weeks during the heart of July. Crooksville – Roseville Pottery Festival, Perry County Fair, and maintaining a 23 year-old pickup.
As I left class last Tuesday, I was fixated on internet speed testing. Schoonover lobby wifi was 40+ Mbps, up and down. Verizon Wireless at the Athens Dairy Queen, was approx. 7Mbps, up and down. Verizon Wireless at home, was comparable to Athens. Centurylink DSL at home was 4Mbps download and 300Kbps upload! WHIZ wifi is 20+ down and 30 up.
FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn visited Marietta on July 18, to listen to citizens’ concerns about rural internet services, and learned that is a luxury compared to the problems Southeastern Ohio residents face with ‘established’ forms of communication.
Commissioner Clyburn made it quite clear that she wasn’t there to offer anything but a sympathetic ear. “We do not believe in hand-outs,” Clyburn said. “What needs to be done, will need to be done by people in their communities, at the community level.”
While billionaires take their tax-cuts to buy lobbyists to convince congressmen to lower their taxes more, Clyburn implies it’s our duty to hold them accountable for their civic responsibility.
The stories that were recited by the one or two hundred, who were in attendance, were eye-opening, to say the least. Many of the complaints were from Morgan County. While the Main topic was broadband, concerns addressing landline telephone and digital TV were aired. Simple, mindless, communication practices, that are standard everywhere, doesn’t happen here.
Meanwhile, at work, I snatched a Radio World magazine dated July 19, that featured Clyburn on the cover. The persona displayed throughout the interview, matched the persona I witnessed in Marietta. I like her, I believe she’s as good a bureaucrat as we can get.
I wasn’t attracted to this week’s reading about long form. But the hyperlinks were good. Especially, the one “How to keep users on your site.” The Optinmonster page and it’s links are phenominal.
Since Tuesday the 25th, I have straightened up the home page and about page. I believe I have the basic drag and drop stuff figured out. Now it’s time to learn coding, embedding and adding links.
Bottom of the home page I would like to turn into samples of published work. Product 1 into published print; product 2 into published audio; and product 3 into published video.
Eventually, I may need to sell photos and videos form the site. Clearly, that will involve an SSL certificate and figuring a format to make purchasing a breeze for the visitors.
So, for class, I will bring my laptop so that we can see how I arrive at the dashboard, evaluate the go-daddy options and find a more efficient way to navigate. We didn’t get that done last time.I had a company pressing me to join with their SEO program. It was free, but I blew them off. I would like to find links to learn the steps we will need to polish this project off, ie, embedding video and links.
We’re at crunch time and I will devote more time to hammering out the upcoming intricacies. This is where I will definitely need guidance and possibly more face time. Next reading will include Social Media. That’s another weak area that i need to learn more. So, here we go…
