Donovan AdkissonTifton, Georgia
Donovan Adkisson
Technologist, author and podcaster. Thirty years of building networks, businesses and shows in South Georgia.
AboutA South Georgia technology veteran
I took apart my first IBM PC at twelve and never really stopped. I have spent more than thirty years in technology, most of it in South Georgia: building and running the City of Tifton's broadband system, then founding SouthTech Network Solutions to look after the networks of businesses across the region.
Along the way I wrote two books, one about learning to podcast and one novel, and I have been behind a microphone on and off since 2011. Today I run SouthTech, produce shows through Tifton Media Works and WRTO.FM, and keep a journal-style podcast called The Book of Donovan.
WorkCompanies and roles
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SouthTech Network Solutions
A managed IT company in Tifton, Georgia, looking after networks, phones and security for South Georgia businesses, built around its TECHsurance managed-IT plan.
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Tifton Media Works
A Southern-based media production company and home to my podcasts, including The Book of Donovan and SouthGeek News.
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WRTO.FM
A freeform online radio station broadcasting around the clock from South Georgia.
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Plant TiftNet, Inc.
When Plant Telecommunications bought Tifton's municipal broadband system in 2009, I stayed on to run it as Plant TiftNet.
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CityNet, City of Tifton
Helped bring the city's broadband and cable system online in 1999 and led it from 2004. For ten of those years I was also the City's MIS Director.
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Earlier ventures
An online media network and its successor, home to my early podcasts and "Content for Generation X", from 2012 to 2015.
BooksPublished work
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Podcasting: Year One
A candid diary of my first year as a podcaster: what worked, what did not, and what I would tell anyone starting out. Reviewed by Dave Jackson of the School of Podcasting.
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PodcastsBehind the microphone since 2011
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The Book of Donovan
An introspective journal in audio form.
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SouthGeek News
Tech news with a Southern accent, revived from the original SouthGeek with co-host Ben Rehberg.
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Call Me Donovan
Southern life, technology and whatever was on my mind that week.
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Earlier shows
The SouthGeek Ramble & Review, My Podcasting Experience, Fired Into Freedom, Tifton Talks and The Donovan Adkisson Show, among others.