Wired Wisconsin Website Down: The Reality of Being Unconnected
This past week, we at Wired Wisconsin experienced what many do every day—the inability to maintain and build our organization because we didn’t have access to technology. In our case, it was our website being down. I tried to log on and post a new blog, but was met with an error message. A call to our hosting company confirmed it; the server had experienced a corruption during file backup and no time line of service reinstatement was available. Grrrr!
It was so frustrating not being to post a blog or news story or hear that potential coalition members couldn’t sign up.
Because we don’t have a traditional brick and mortar office like many businesses do, we rely on our website to be the one-stop-shop for all things Wired Wisconsin.
When the website was down, we had a lot of time to think about all the people in Wisconsin who experience these types of frustrations everyday.
But the silver lining of this situation? Our coalition’s commitment to advocating on behalf of broadband deployment as a means of economic development was further justified.
We will continue to work with our coalition members and strategic partners, businesses, and policy makers to make broadband access a reality for all of Wisconsin’s residents.