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A Cooperative Form of Crowd Sourcing
“It’s what a cooperative is about; sharing ideas and bringing a community together,” said Corey McCarthy, CFO and SVP of Business Development of the National Cable Television Cooperative. He was referring to the NCTC’s efforts to crowdsource ideas from its members, as well as bringing together members to devise technology solutions that would be impossible…
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Local Grants Help Educators Help Community
Local educators teaching neighbors is what Consolidated Telcom of Dickinson, North Dakota is enabling with their new $20k grant program. As Rhonda Dukart, marketing and public relations director for Consolidated Telcom, explains, this program is about helping people stay current with technology. The grants leverage the existing computer and communications resources of local schools in communities Consolidated…
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Digital Logistics Suppliers for the World
“Incredible change…more in the last 10 years than the earlier 100 years”, is how Geoff Hollingworth of Ericsson characterizes the impact of technology on society. As an interesting proof-point, Hollingworth’s son makes an appearance talking about the high expectations that the customers of tomorrow have. Companies will need to transform their businesses in order to meet…
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Technology to Attract Tenants
Technology as an amenity is one technique multi-tenant unit property owners can use to attract and retain tenants. Steve Sadler of Post Properties contributed to the program at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit that delved into the types of amenities that tenants are demanding and that are available in the future. One of the more…
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Day One With Zach – The Mayor of Wisconsin Rapids
Roger Bindl and Ken Pyle meet Zach Vrumink – the 2012 mayor of Wisconsin Rapids – on his inauguration day and first day in office. This was a highlight of our week of broadband documonials in rural America. Say what you may, but small companies do what large companies say (or claim)… small telcos are…
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A Cost Effective Way to Use 3DTV as a Teaching Tool
Look closely at the background of this video and you will see an autostereoscopic 3D display. The cool thing about this type of display is that one doesn’t need glasses to view the 3D images. As explained by Rob Koplin of Elixir XES 3D, the first application for the displays was in the medical industry…
