Marketing and Management Thoughts

On Tuesday this week (3/3/09) President Obama nominated Julius Genachowski as new Chairman for the FCC. While normally this would be of little importance or interest to the Church this time around it should be. With the issue of Net Neutrality (allowing companies to charge for bandwidth placement) that could potentially destroy the ability of any ministry to have a dynamic website.

We can let a big sigh of relief, for now anyway. The Obama nomination of Genachowski is seen as someone who will maintain and push forward the democratization of the Internet.

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You might have heard about this net neutrality issue, or you might not. It’s a topic of grave concern for web-developers. In a nutshell this is net neutrality.

I bring this up today because the FCC is in the process of defending Net Neutrality against Comcast this Friday. We’ll post the results of their ruling them.

Currently every bit of information sent over the Internet is treated the exact same, no priority is given to anything. The email the US President goes just the same as one I send. Some congressmen/women in D.C. believe in-correctly that the volume of traffic currently experiencing is causing massive delays in the deliver of some of these information bits.

To be far, there is more traffic on the Internet than ever (thanks to video sharing sites like you-tube). Yet everything is still clipping along just fine.

So why the problem here?

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