Mr. Kennedy's destiny was
evidenced early on when, as a youngster, one of his favorite things to
do was to "break" things, and then fix them. It didn't matter what the
items was, as at about 8 or 9 the item was bikes. As he grew up, he
would fix his mother's adding machine by using two machines to make one
working machine. He later discovered his love of computers. The first
computer that he owned was a Tandy purchased from Radio Shack, which
was followed by a string of Atari's and even a Colecovision.
In 1987, his parents bought a "real" PC. A Packard Bell with a whopping
8086. Before moving the computer you had to park the hard drive, which
is very different from the PCs we know and love today. Mr. Kennedy
spent hours upon hours learning DOS and playing old DOS games. About
two years later, his father bought a new Packard Bell with a 286
processor in it and this PC also had Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
It was heaven! Mr. Kennedy would spend every waking minute on this new
PC often pulling little tricks to amuse himself, and his family. One
trick that he pulled was installing a password on the system, that when
entered would display "Richard is the best". One day, his father
accidentally deleted a program shortcut and asked Mr. Kennedy to fix
the
problem. Not sure how to fix it, he called the Packard Bell help line.
While on the phone, tech support walked him through how to recreate the
shortcut. That was the hook - from that point on, just because of
needing to fix that one problem, he had to know how to fix anything
that would go wrong.
Mr. Kennedy currently holds an A+ certification, a Network +
certification, a CCNA, and is working towards a CCNP, CCSP, and an MCP.
He is continuing his studies and is working towards a Bachelors
Degree in Computer Technology, with an expected graduation date of May
2005.
A professional website designer and freelance
writer is on staff to help both the individual and the business
with their web presence. Ms. Craig started by creating her first
personal/professional site, TTC Dreams,
by utilizing a basic design that is both welcoming and comforting
to the site’s thousands of visitors. She has also been
a freelance writer for several years now, and is best known
for her work with Suite101.com.
Here, she writes about infertility, manages the Health Community,
and also manages several editors in five different communities.
Because
of the work that she has done with Suite101.com’s
University,
she has learned a great deal about marketing and promotion of web
sites. She is
one of the University’s Senior Deans, and is the author of three courses with
several
more in the works. She does marketing and promotion work for each of
the
courses in her school and each course has seen an improvement in
student
enrollments within two months on average.
“There
are two ways to get noticed on the web today. Sit
back and hope that the search engines and customers find you, or be
pro-active,
and spread the word yourself. Spreading the word yourself is the best
thing to
do, but only if you know how to do it correctly. Too often, individuals
and
businesses are not sure how to get noticed by search engines and
customers, and
either end up wasting their time and money or worse yet, find
themselves
“banned” from search engines because of how they submitted their site.”
Search
engines are constantly changing how they list
and rank sites, and if your site is not in the top 50, chances are, no
one
knows that you exist. Making it into the top 50, unless your site is so
unique
that it is the only one of it’s kind, takes a lot of work, research,
and time,
all of which many individuals and business just don’t have enough of.
Hiring a
professional that knows what they are doing, because they have done it
before
successfully, is the best thing to do. That is why we have Ms. Craig,
and why your
current or future site can be one of the best.
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