90 Days Later we have a Website --- 3 months!

Up until this summer/fall, I was used to suggesting, emailing, pleading, begging and haranguing tech staff to add things to the website of what ever organization at which I was working at the time. And then........

I started my open entity, and suddenly was faced with needing to develop a website. Being conscious of the cost of these things, and being wedded to the "free" tech support I was receiving with my Mac extended warranty, I decided to build the website for OpenSky-wi on my "own" using their weekly personal project sessions and their IWeb, etc, programming. Which meant, of course, that it would be my fingers and my brain staying up late, getting lost for weeks inside shapes and animation, learning about hyperlinks and all sorts of other connections for which I needed new contracts and new user codes and passwords.

I've been trying for weeks to make the acquaintance I-Movie and YouTube, but could never become friends with either of them, though sometimes they tolerated me enough to let me slide in the door to stand awkwardly in the dark lobby.

90 days, 3 months or 3 of the 12 days we have to save the world each year, the Website is launched, and I'm only finding 4 or 5 kinks each day. Of course I will eventually have it hosted with a stronger server, but I am happy now that it is up and running, out there in the public space for everyone's comments, criticisms and thoughts of "what is she thinking about?"

What I came to realize is when you are building a new organization and you are the builder, you move from being a private person always presenting the "company" to others, to having to really open up and present yourself. Even if you are a leader of one or two or three, you still have to get up each morning and lead the charge to the next hillside.

And that is what I have found, building a website or building an organization is a series of hills that you must scale, "take", and then there is another hill, and another hill. A helicopter doesn't show up out there somewhere at the edge of your wilderness and provide you a free ride to milk and honey or paradise or even a building on Park Avenue. And some days you can only see the hill behind you and maybe the base of the hill ahead of you, and some days there is only fog, Then every once in a while you scale a hill, and it's a bit higher and harder, but once on top, you realize you can see the next three hills out there, can actually see there is a path to the other side of where you are trying to arrive.

So, many apologies for any of my past behaviors to any of my past tech people at those other places of employment.

And now, I can actually get back to blogging and creating public will to change the world.

Have a good day, take a long walk and smell the fall air. I know that is where I am off to right now!