by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 31 October 2010
WEAVERVILLE – I have come to the conclusion over the last 15 or so months that at my age of 57 no one wants to hire me. Although I have tried to interview, and have applied for many positions–many of which I am overqualified for–I never seem to get an interview or the interview ends with, “I’m sorry, but you are certainly overqualified for the position you’re applying for.” Many times I’ve applied online for positions and never even get a response. That’s simply just unacceptable.
So, I’ve decided if no one will hire me, then, as a result of this obvious age discrimination on the part of employers these days, I have started my own small business and hired myself as the company’s President and 100% voting stockholder. The staff of Chronicler’s Web, LLC is in the business to design affordable and professional-looking websites for worldwide clients.
I have prepared and filed with the Department of the Secretary of State for the State of NC the Articles of Incorporation to form my own small business. The business name is Chroniclers Web, LLC. This limited liability corporation is a click-and-mortar business and is wholely-owned and operated by Dan Calloway.
Chroniclers Web, LLC is a website design business that specializes in Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal site construction. My staff and I are experts in all three of these open source website design platforms–recently bringing Drupal into the fold.
In addition, I have recently added a Chronicler’s Scholar blog site to my domain, which I have created in Drupal. If you’re interested in blog articles of a scholarly nature, then you will certainly enjoy the site. Please consider following it through the site syndication and sign up for a new account to get access to information to which anonymous visitors don’t have access.
Please help me promote my new business by letting all your friends, family, co-workers, and colleagues know about Chroniclers Web, LLC. If you would like to send written correspondence to the Chroniclers Web, LLC, our physical address is:
Chroniclers Web, LLC
PO Box 2228
Weaverville, NC 28787
Our hours of operation are M-F, 9am – 6pm Eastern. The business telephone number is located on the business website. Thank you for your loyal support of The Chronicler’s Web, Dan Calloway’s personal blog.
UPDATE! — The Chronicler’s Web, LLC was officially accepted and filed in the Office of the Secretary of the State of North Carolina on 3 November 2010. I’m now a small business owner. Time to get to work.



WEAVERVILLE, NC - Reich and Benbasat (2000) argue that the establishment of a strong long-term alignment between IT and organizational objectives received its greatest influence from shared domain knowledge between the two factions. Here, shared domain knowledge is defined by Reich and Benbasat (2000) “as the ability of IT and business executives, at a deep level, to understand and be able to participate in others’ key processes and to respect each other’s unique contribution and challenges” (p. 86). Research conducted years later by Luftman and Kempaiah (2007) appeared to modify the findings of Reich and Benbasat (2000) by indicating that there are three reasons why attaining IT-business alignment has been so elusive: (1) the definition of alignment is frequently focused only on how IT aligns with the business organization; (2) organizations have often looked for a silver bullet wherein mature alignment cannot be attained without effective and efficient execution and a demonstration of value, but this is not sufficient; and (3) there has not been an effective tool with which to measure the maturity of IT-business alignment—one that can provide a descriptive assessment and a prescription on how to improve. Luftman and Kempaiah (2007) went on to identify six components of alignment maturity: (1) communications, (2) value, (3) governance, (4) partnership, (5) scope and architecture, and (6) skills. Furthermore, they identified five levels of alignment maturity within organizations: (1) Level One – initial or ad-hoc processes, (2) Level Two – committed processes, (3) Level Three – established focused processes, (4) Level Four – Improved managed processes, and (5) Level Five – optimized processes. They determined through their research that the majority of organizations are at Level Three on their alignment maturity scale.
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