First Week on the Job at TownNews

This isn’t exactly about building a successful website, but it is related.

I just finished my first week on the job as a programmer at TownNews. TownNews is a company that helps newspapers make the transition online. We do this by offering a completely customizable solution for papers to extend their business to the Internet with full support for our products.

We have a sales team that trains customers for selling ads online and a complete design and development team all in-house. We also have systems administration and customer service divisions, all under the same roof.

This allows us to offer a complete package you won’t find many other places.

Now am I praising TownNews just because they’re my new employer? Of course not–TownNews was my first pick for employment here in the Quad Cities. They are bringing innovation to a declining market, which from a business perspective I find fascinating.

The founder, Marc Wilson, started the company way back in 1989–before the Internet hit its growth spurt and saw an opportunity for existing papers before the medium was fully established.

That takes an amazing ability to see a vision before all the pieces are complete, something I’ve been working towards developing lately.

The people I’m working with are all very talented and passionate about what they do–and it shows by their work. I’m extremely lucky to work in a field I love and for a company thats passionate about what they do.

I won’t be posting too much more about TownNews here, but I wanted to give a small update and talk about an opportunity I have to see an innovative technology company first hand.