deafbiz.com

I think it’s inevitible. We’ll be seeing more of this when businesses just “get it”.

Several RE/MAX Offices Become First in U.S. Industry to Team with Deaf Link for Access to Deaf America

Am I correct to guess that there’s some kind of a vise squeeze going on?

Video Relay Services is exploding and call centers (especially by Sorenson) are being set up all over the country. However, there’s only so many ASL interpreters to go around and whenever a call center is set up, it causes a shortage of local interpreters available for on-location assignments.

I think this will bode well for a company like Deaf Link.

Any other solutions to solve the shortage?

JSG

Why do I have consumer articles on deafbiz.com?

1) Because I want deafbiz.com to score higher on Google! And the key is… content, content, content! Right now, I don’t have any articles so am using the public domain articles, courtesy of my tax dollars.

2) As a manager of WinfreePCS Inc., which is an authorized dealer for T-Mobile, I am responsible for processing customers orders. I’m very dishearted when a deaf customer is denied to purchase a Sidekick due to their credit history. So by placing consumer related articles on the website as a public service, I hope the visitors learn how to be better consumers. It’s still a work in progress!

JSG

Hello, My nickname is JSG and I’m the webmaster of Deaf Resource Center (deafbiz.com) This website has been in existence for nearly 10 years, going through a lot of transformation until settling down with Mambo as Content Management System (CMS).

I originally started as a list of Deaf Owned Businesses on the Internet until I was getting requests for links removal because so many Deaf MLMer’s were using my list to recruit them!

Then I decided to broaded to deaf-related websites because at that time, no one else was doing a good job of it. Deaf World Web was the closest link directory and then the domain was hijacked and I feel sorry for the webmaster who was not able to get it back. It probably costs her thousands of dollars in monthly income because she could make a good fortune with ads like Google’s Adsense.

I discovered Zeus (by cyber-robotics) which made it easier for me to find and classify links. However, once I wanted to expand to add articles, blogs, then it was obvious that Zeus outlived it’s purposes. Hence Mambo.

I’ve also tried to patronized deaf owned business starting with ISP and web hosting. I tend to switch web hosting every 6 months, usually because the website would be offline for hours or that email server stopped working. To make the long story short, I’ve settled down with Host Gator and I highly recommend them! They do offer live support but I find their email support F-A-S-T!!! Also, they offer a feature called Fantastico, which makes it easier to install Mambo and Wordpress with a press of a button. Did I mention that Mambo and WordPress are free??? It’s well worth the monthly service charges because it’s truly a bigger bang for the bucks.

Feel free to contribute to the weblog! Due to spambots, please be patient if your comment doesn’t show up right away as I have to read and approve each comment.

See ya around,
JSG