Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

I mentioned on the radio last week that we have a big web development project in the works. Those of you who read my blog often probably noticed something was slowing my posts a bit.

Schrock Innovations went head to head against Washington DC design firms to win the bid to do Phase 1 of Mike Johanns’ 2008 US Senate Campaign Website!

This is the first website we have done for a candidate seeking Federal office. Phase 1 of the website was pretty straight forward. We had four business days to complete an index page and a contribution page. The site had to be simple, yet appealing to the eye. It was to include a video as well as a form that allows people to subscribe for future updates.

This is the video we shot for the site. Read More

Last year we experimented with web casting the video and audio of my weekly radio program, Compute This, with mixed results. I am thinking about resurrecting the idea again – if you want to watch it.

The web cams were buggy and the software we used to syndicate the web cam event was less than reliable. The result was a hit-and-miss live web event. Needless to say we put the idea on the back burner for a bit.

Last week I decided to poke around to see if any of the web conference software out there might make life a little easier on us the second time around.

There were a lot of companies who had the lowest price, but bad service reviews. There were also a lot of companies who promised the best of everything – at a price. After some searching, I found a web conferencing company that seemed to split the difference called The Conference Depot. Read More