So, that was a rather awkward an unexpected layoff.
The good news is, though, that after a week of trying to get our Web host provider to figure out where they had put our lost database, the TOG Solutions site is back and fully functional.
It’s been a good news/bad news day for TOG Solutions. The good news, as many you have seen, is that The Statement, our free newsletter, is back and was sent out to our subscribers. If you are interested in receiving out newsletter, please feel free to submit your e-mail address on the form on the right.
The bad news, it would appear, is that all of our recipients that happen to use AT&T as their e-mail provider didn’t get their copy of The Statement. Why? Because evidently, AT&T has taken the liberty of blacklisting the togsolutions.com mail server.
Sometimes, taking a step back is the best thing you can do. And one of the things that we have come across while stepping back is the idea of simplicity.
When talking about simplicity, we thought about some of the services we offered. Then, we openly wondered, “Have we ever done this for anyone?” Some of these services as ones that have been offered by TOG Solutions since its inception in 2003.
Slow burns, to be sure. But is anyone really interested in them?
Over the course of the past two weeks, we have been undergoing several changes to the TOG Solutions Web site, thie first of which being the merging of our blog and pages. Most visitors to the site and the blog would likely not have noticed too many differences from before and after.
After careful consideration, we also determined that it would be a good idea to expand our audience to cater to the mobile browsers, which, as you probably know, has exploded in populatity over the years with the introduction of the iPhone and growing power of other smart phones such as the Blackberry.
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Define irony: Posting a blog article about how social media is about trial and error, then, soon after, you made an error with your own.
That’s kind of how it went down on Friday, the day after we put up When Your Fans Turn Against You. I had the opportunity to speak with Susie Hall at Aquent, the organization whose Facebook activity was the subject of that article. While we were pleasantly surprised by their openness and receptiveness towards bettering their efforts, we ended up finding a shortcoming on our end.
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