Connecting Tomorrow

It seems like the biggest problem I have when it comes to writing anything is how to start.  Once I’m rolling, I’m rolling, and while I might not be the best writer on the planet, I don’t think I’m the worst.  A cheesy way to start?  Perhaps.  Time to get rolling.

Connecting Tomorrow is a philosophy that drives the way we think, do business and live our lives.  Who are we?  We are entrepreneurs.  We are people that love technology; every size, shape and form of it.  We are people that seek to help people.  We are a company that loves building relationships with customers.  We are a happy family opening our ideas in order to build said relationships that define who we are today and who we will become tomorrow.  We are Horner Networks, and our core purpose is our responsibility to our customers, employees and the community to solve problems and improve life through technology.

While this will serve as the official blog of our company, it will in no way be “just another sales tool”, this I promise.  Who am I?  I am Terry Horner, one of our company’s co-founders.  This is my first foray into the exciting world of blogging, and I want to use Connecting Tomorrow as an easy and effective way of communicating with our customers, friends and anyone else that wants to listen.  My main goal is to improve our ability to serve our core purpose without which we could not exist. 

Many of you reading this blog in the weeks after its inception are people like me, people who can’t live without technology, technology evangelists.  People like us get it, simple as that.  The inherent problem with people like us is that we’re in the minority; those that think they get it might get it but most likely don’t, and those that don’t get it are completely lost.  It’s up to us to help since we’re the ones who get it, and by help I don’t mean adding more features or creating snazzier marketing campaigns.  The only way we can help is to create an open dialogue that aims to educate.

Growing up in a blue-collar town has taught me many lessons.  Most of my friends and neighbors wouldn’t know what a blog was if it hit them in the face and if that’s true, then how can blogging really help educate them?  How do we hand our blog over to someone that finds technology frightening and help them realize the benefits of it?  How do we show them that it’s really not as scary as it looks and it really can be reliable if it’s done right?  I intend to find out and use that knowledge to improve the way we live and do business.

That’s Connecting Tomorrow in a nutshell.  The day it becomes “just another sales tool”, I’ll quit blogging.  I’ll leave it up to you to keep me on my toes and respect everything you have to say along the way.  I’m looking forward to seeing you tomorrow and can’t wait to help show you how to enjoy technology as much as I do.