Yesterday was supposed to be the day I would start up my blog. The plan was to launch the blog Jan 1, 2007, but that date passed without getting the Compton Communications Web site redone. I wanted the newsroom to have a link to the blog. Finally, this week the new newsroom should be up.
 
I used XOOPS as an online newsroom application, but I found it to be too labor intensive to keep going.

I am now using Coranto again for the news and Wordpress for the blog. Coranto is open-source software and has a Web-backend system build specifically to handle news.
So why have I been out of the net (literally) for a year. First we had the launch of the new MPRI website, a defense contractor that I supported at the Pentagon. The launch was followed rapidly by integrating another company into the MPRI Web site and then followed a third company in the fall. The last half of the year was a big blur.

The first half of 2007 was not much different. I am working on trying to be able to do a Web project and still keep my other activities going. But it is tough.

Somewhere in the last year I also managed to get in two seminars on New Media. It convinced me that blogging was better than trying to build newsletters, especially online. Newsletters gather news for dissemination at a specific time whereas blogging is a more immediate and tailored method of disseminating news.