In case you haven’t noticed two of my biggest passions in the digital world are blogging (or rather writing and sharing my thoughts on the web) and digital photography. I lot of people think of me as a “computer guy” or tech geek but in reality I have always been more of a media person. My college major was not computer science. I was Mass Communications major at Winthrop College (now University) where i also worked on the student newspaper as a photographer. In those days I pretty much worked on black and white film and developed everything in a dark room. My have times have changed. To get anything I wrote published it would have to go through a stringent editorial process to show up in newspapers or magazines. I still agree that information in print should go through a serious editorial process but the web and digital devices give us a freedom to just try things without fear of words or images being etched into a permanent record so to speak.

Many times I was discouraged to continue writing (In fact I went for about 10 years with a lost passion of writing because of critical comments of frustrations in getting things published in print format) Photography earlier in my life was more of a challenge and expense that was often beyond my means. I did not have the freedom to take photos of anything because of development costs. Now I have a LOT of photos that have never been printed on paper but have been shared around the world via the web or I have kept them on my laptop or iPhone to share with others.

As I have spoken with a lot of potential clients about the great opportunities blogging, photography and other forms of “instant media” provide I have seen much of the same discouragement I felt about 10 years ago. One of the reasons I got so excited about entering into the profession of new media development which includes web site design and development was the opportunity to share my thoughts and vision through words and images and the ability to do it digitally.

Are you a business owner who is looking to share your unique business, products and service? We are very sensitive to the needs of clients, especially those who don’t have a technical background to be able to add information to their web sites themselves without having to know too many “technicalities.”

Have you been discouraged in the past with the red tape, editing workflow or expense involved with writing for an audience, or getting your images or video into more hands?

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