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A Pioneer For Its Customers
“It was a long-term solution,” said Catherine Moyer, General Manager of Pioneer Communications, a Communications Service Provider (CSP) serving rural Western Kansas. Moyer was referring to their decision to offer its customers the Google platform for email and associated applications via the Google Apps Partners Edition™ program. They chose the platform both because of its…
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Google – “Talk to Us”
What is Google’s motivation for discontinuing its Google Apps Partners Edition™ program? In this video interview, filmed at the 2014 NTCA Fall Conference, WCVT’s Kurt Gruendling asks that question of Google. Many operators want to know the answer to that question, as none that I have spoken to regarding this topic want to disrupt their customers’…
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Stepping Into the GigaZone – A Commitment to Local Economic Development
Helping with economic development for the communities they serve is part of Paul Bunyan Communications’ mission statement. Economic development is one of the motivations for PBC’s restructuring of its offering to one that is centered around an all-fiber, broadband vision. Paul Bunyan’s GigaZone, announced last Thursday, made a big splash in the news (featured on the…
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Budgeting and Accounting Are Cool
The rolling budget as a way to help an organization be more nimble and react to changing times is discussed in the above interview with Camille Christiansen and Ira Taylor of Moss Adams. They had just given a very interactive presentation at the 2014 NTCA Finance and Accounting meeting on the importance of and techniques…
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A Quantitative Cultural Transformation
Translating mission statements and vision statements into to transform corporate culture is what Albert Bodamer of Bodamer Consulting, LLC discusses in the above interview filmed at NTCA’s 2014 Finance and Accounting Meeting in San Jose. Bodamer talks about how his clients have used a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to quantify their high-level goals. The Balanced Scorecard converts the…
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Dave Lowe with an IP Possibilities’ Summary
Dave Lowe, Innovations and Technology Manager with NTCA, provides an overview of some of the highlights of IP Possibilities 2011,
