Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Alright, here we go...

The reason for creating Unravel Media LLC as a corporate entity was to make sure there was a "licensed" and "official" way to help people, artists, entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporations best leverage technology to their advantage. While most of this is via the web, most people still manage to wrestle with an array of audio, video, mobile devices, laptops, physical media and news. This is where I believe Unravel can help.

A bit about me...

For as long as I can remember I have been around media. From vinyl records and 8 track tapes in my early youth, to cassettes, computer games, the CD, and now the MP3 player, audio media is everywhere. For computers it started with the Atari, the Commodore, the Apple and finally the PC Jr. in the 1980's. It was then I learned how to write, debug, and run computer programs. I tinkered with every electronic kit I could find and took apart and reassembled more items than I care to mention, sometimes successfully.

In the late 1980's, with an IBM PC connected to a dial-up modem, I was exposed to the strange new world of dial-up chat rooms (via 300 baud modems) and Bulletin Boards (where people traded software and documents). Little did I know this would give way to the Internet as we know it today through publicly available "portal" providers like AOL and Prodigy. High school and College gave way to email, the GLOBAL Internet (not just interconnected College networks), network gaming and a deep connection with a larger community of like-minded misfits and hackers. During my internship I learned about corporate-wide enterprise software, which gave way to me eventually selling this software, and the consulting services to go along with them, to large corporations.

Now here we are, facing the tidal wave of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, all these have their own unique issues of user interaction, integration with everyday life, access for those with disabilities, and general frustrations for those that weren't born with a silver transistor in their mouth. I simply don't know a world without technology, pure and simple. But not all of us are fortunate enough to have a comfort level with technology.

So allow me to help you. Ask me questions. I may not have all the answers, but I probably know where to get them. There's a lot to do, let's get started.