About Me
My name is John McKown and this is my blog. Welcome!
A little about me….
Today I am the president of a company named “Delaware.Net” that I started in 1997. Actually, I own 90% of it and my lovely wife owns the other 10% (the least she should have for her wonderful patience with my career demands). I am 39 years old and I have two children (twins) that my wife and I adopted as infants in 2001. My family is everything to me but work takes a close second as I have invested many years, dollars, and gallons of sweat to build my business.
How do I have time to write this blog?
I resisted blogs for years and I initially felt that they only existed as a time-wasting exercise in narcisistic behavior. Things are different now. Blogs, combined with aggregation sites, tagging, and human networking sites make blogs way more powerful than ever before. IF the blog content is helpful and targeted to help educate readers, then it has value to its visitors. And also, if the content is relevant and tagged well, it can be a good tool for two-way persistent communication between professionals that normally isn’t possible. The reach of business blogs today helps professionals to extend their reach beyond Google. I have some articles on human networking and folksonomy that I will publish soon to the blog, and those articles will talk more about that. Many blogs I have seen are written as a professional or personal diary, and that isn’t all bad, but it certainly is more narcisistic than posting helpful articles. Diary blogs also only really benefit the person writing it. Especially when the blog in question is used as a soapbox for bitch sessions, political ranting, bosses at previous jobs, etc. I think there is a place and use for blogs such as those, but the people writing those blogs don’t “get” the power that is now available with blogs to grow one’s career and social network. My goal with this blog is to share my professional lessons and to explain our latest findings in regards to web development, online applications, online marketing, usability, conversion, and more that just won’t fit well into our web site. The professional web industry changes monthly, so it is also time to publish professional papers almost as fast. Blogs are great for that.
I have experimented with several blog programs recently so if the site has changed since your last visit, that is why. I am standardizing on WordPress and Delaware.Net will now offer WordPress as a blogging solution to all of our customers. If you are interested in how blogging and human networking online can grow your business, then give me a call and I will be happy to share some ideas that could help your business.
