Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by Bill Coleman
Senator Klobuchar has scheduled a Rural Broadband Roundtable for December 29th at 10:00 a.m. at the State Capitol, Room 125.
Roundtable participants will discuss the need for rural communities to have greater investment in and access to high speed broadband internet. Attendees will provide real world examples of the challenges rural communities face as well as [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Bill Coleman
The RiverCentre in St. Paul was buzzing with around 1,000 government IT staff and IT vendors this week. By the looks of the agenda, network security and cost-effective network management were two critical topics on the agenda. The goal of my presentation was to let these IT staff understand details about who is online and [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2008 by Bill Coleman
Pew Internet & American Life recently released the results of their third survey to tech leaders on what they predicted/hoped for the Internet’s future.
Here’s what the research indicated:
The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.
The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Bill Coleman
The Blandin Broadband conference was a great success last week. More than 140 people registered. I was involved with the Community Broadband Awards as well as the planning of the conference.
It was great to help the award winners celebrate their hard work. Each community had different challenges and their own definition of success but they [...]
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