I spend a lot of time looking at websites about college and high school. Many of those have to do with the online world, but others do not. One of the more intriguing websites is this one about college drop-outs hosted by publishing guru John Kremer. The College/High School Dropouts Hall of Fame lists many people that you might recognize. Bill Gates is certainly a famous dropout, but there are others. Some of them are:
Julie Andrews (Really! Mary Poppins dropped out of high school to pursue an acting career).
Roseanne Barr (Okay, maybe that isn’t all that big a surprise.)
Warren Buffett (Dropped out, but did go back and earn a degree.)
Kirk Kerkorian (Billionaire investor and casino owner; dropped out to become a boxer.)
I like to believe that I keep up with the latest technology, the latest websites, and such. The day job certainly relates to technology. So I have a Tumblr now that I am using for my online high schools and free online high schools websites. Except that I really have not figured out much that I should be doing with it.
Is this one of those things that I need to have my 14-year-old explain to me?
Do you know someone/anyone who is using Tumblr in a way that works well? Let me know in the comments.
I have decided to spend the next month finding and posting the best of TED. Well, the best of TED that relates to me and what I do. The first is Mike Matas discussing the first feature-length interactive book.
So this morning I get an email from the fine folks at HostGator letting me know that I have exploits in scripts installed on my websites. Lovely. They were nice enough to remove the malicious files, but I now need to go log-in to most of my websites and make some changes.
Did I mention that I have about sixty websites? It’s never dull.
I direct your attention to my brand-new website affectionately known as Best Online Private Schools. I hope that you will consider taking a look at it and let me know what you think.
And, yes, this is one of the secrets of which I have been speaking.
A short while back, I mentioned an “Amazingly Secret Web Project.” Today if you go over to Best Online High Schools, you will discover that a brand-new design went live last night. It is my hope that it provides a better resource for the online high schools community.
It also provides what I hope is a better format on the back-end for me to use. The previous design was done in Joomla and ultimately it did not work as I would wish. This new design is actually a WordPress theme and was designed by my regular developer, Bob Martin.
To say I am pleased with how it turned out would be an understatement.
What? Part 1? You mean there’s more?
Yes. Yes, there is, but you will need to be patient.
I am hip-deep in an amazingly secret, but more than a little interesting, web project that will greatly increase the web presence for online high schools as we now know them. It is so very secret that I can’t even tell you all (even though I know you wouldn’t rush out and tell others). Yes, it is that secret.
That being said, I am hopeful to be able to show you by next weekend what Stage 1 of ASWP (Amazingly Secret Web Project) actually looks like. How many stages are there? Probably nine. Or 59. Depends on how you break it all down.
I am excited to show you the beginnings, so I hope you will come back and take a look.
