Proactive Networking, Inc.

I presented How to Install WordPress via FTP to a beginning level CMS class at MATC (Milwaukee Area Technical College) as part of the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup (which I am co-organizer). There were a lot of great questions asked by the students, please feel free to ask in the comments and I’ll address each as [...]

I often customized email marketing efforts for our clients in order to make their newsletters look more professional and match their websites. I’ve used Vertical Response, Constant Contact and we have our own in-house system that allows from custom HTML/CSS emails (me like). Here’s an example of a customization I did today for friends at [...]

Paul Baverey found on his trip to the UAE that our little site was blocked! He was doing some research on WooThemes (where we are Affiliated WooWorkers) and found that pronetindy.com was unavailable. I’m not sure how to feel about that really. Maybe some things are meant to be. Read Paul’s story here: http://www.paulbav.co.uk/uaeblock/

I have believed for a while that quality of life depends directly on the amount of risk you are willing to take. Part of a person’s risk tolerance must be genetic, but a portion of it is certainly choice. I took very little risk in my life until my late 20’s. Even since then, I’ve [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates, but August has been a busy month for us. A short list of what we’ve been up to this month: upgrading network infrastructures, new servers running Small Business Server 2008. Decommissioning old PC’s/memory and donating them. Working on network projects for various clients. Setting up new offices, network printer/scanners, [...]

I have spent over two hours on the phone with ATT Friday and today trying to get a simple DSL account provisioned at one of our client’s remote offices.  Everyone I talk to at ATT is very nice, except for their automated attendent who is incompetant and should be scrapped – the slightest background noise [...]

We’ve been approved by the Woo themes team to be Affiliated Woo Workers! What does that mean? Well, we’ve been customizing Woo Themes for our clients pretty much exclusively since 2008. Their code base is solid and their out of the box design is top notch! They often collaborate with top web designers in the [...]

I am continually amazed how in life there really are no shortcuts.  In sports, one can take performance enhancing drugs to get to where one wants in a short time.  In college I lifted weights with some guys who were “juicing.”  I was amazed at their ability to lift hard and recover quick.  While I [...]

Last week I was at a client’s office doing some good ol’ IT support – I ordered a new Dell laptop to replace a dead one and I upgraded the memory in another – and I stopped to chat with the owner. We were talking about the economy and how it’s affecting business and in [...]

Is the future of TV in doubt. Why pay for cable or the dish if you can watch all your shows online?