A Webinar Series: Realizing Our Broadband Future, is being offered this fall by the Blandin Foundation – Broadband Initiative, prior to the annual Blandin Foundation Broadband Conference.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 8:00-9:30AM
A Futurist's View of Rural Minnesota
Presenter: Delore Zimmerman of Praxis Strategy Group, Grand Forks, ND
If you are interested in rural community and economic development trends, this webinar is for you. Delore Zimmerman will provide guidance for rural community leaders about development trends and the steps communities must take to increase their investment attractiveness.
The role that technology plays in increasing economic vitality will be presented both in theory and practice, and Delore will include information about successful regional economic development strategies.
Delore is a strategy consultant with twenty-five years of domestic and international experience working with local and regional economic development groups, companies and universities. He co-developed the High-Performance Community Initiative while a Senior Fellow at the Denver-based Center for the New West and has spearheaded its development and deployment for 10 years.
Webinar Series: Realizing Our Broadband Future
Sponsor: Blandin Foundation – Broadband Initiative
For more information and to register, click here.
http://broadband.blandinfoundation.org/events/events-detail.php?intResourceID=991
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 8:00-9:30AM
Broadband Best Practices in Greater Minnesota
Presenter: Bill Coleman of Community Technology Advisors, Mahtomedi, MN
Broadband is an essential asset for community and economic development. Greater Minnesota faces many challenges in keeping up with larger metro areas in Minnesota, across the country and around the world.
Community leaders are faced with navigating a whirlwind of dynamic technologies, policy discussions at the federal and state level, and funding through the ARRA stimulus programs as they wrestle with the the challenge of ensuring world-class broadband infrastructure and services and motivating the adoption of new technologies by businesses, institutions and citizens. This session will provide an overview of community best practices for network deployment and broadband-based economic development.
Bill Coleman has been helping communities make the connection between broadband and economic development. He specializes in helping communities accurately assess their situation, devise improvement strategies and implement projects. He brings equal attention to infrastructure and end-user technology adoption that leads to economic vitality.
Webinar Series: Realizing Our Broadband Future
Sponsor: Blandin Foundation – Broadband Initiative
For more information and to register, click here.
http://broadband.blandinfoundation.org/events/events-detail.php?intResourceID=991
Tuesday, November 3, 8:00-9:30AM
Telling a Story with Social Media
Presenter: Ann Treacy, Treacy Information Services
Everyone has a story to tell, whether you’re recruiting people or businesses to your region, selling a product or preparing a presentation on future of broadband in rural areas. Social media tools such as YouTube and podcasts can help you establish your story, social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn help you spread the word and ongoing blogs or Twitter can help maintain the story. We’ll talk about how to tell your story with social media.
Ann Treacy is a former librarian with 13 years of experience working with businesses and other organizations to get their message to prospective clients on the Internet. She works with resorts, realtors, manufacturers, nonprofits and others throughout Minnesota to develop Internet and social media strategies to meet business goals.
Webinar Series: Realizing Our Broadband Future
Sponsor: Blandin Foundation – Broadband Initiative
For more information and to register, click here.
http://broadband.blandinfoundation.org/events/events-detail.php?intResourceID=991
Wednesday, November 18 - Thursday, November 19, 2009
Blandin Foundation’s 2009 Broadband Conference
The webinar series is being offered in advance of the annual Blandin Foundation Broadband Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is: Realizing Our Broadband Future: Getting from Here to There. It will focus on the future of Minnesota communities, providing community leaders with the information and tools they need to position their communities in the future.
Location: Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Duluth MN
Cost: $105
For more information and to register, click here.
http://broadband.blandinfoundation.org/events/events-detail.php?intResourceID=988
