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  • Has Facebook Peaked and Other Tidbits……

    A mix of consumers made for a very entertaining and informative panel at the OPASTCO Summer 2010 Convention. Scott Meyer of Innovative Systems did an excellent job of moderating this panel that featured consumers from 16 to someone who didn’t identify his age, but had to be in his fifties or sixties. The panel was…

  • ViodiTV @ OPASTCO – Day 2 On-Air

    From throwing fish to throwing out ideas on how the broadband plan should be modified, day two of OPASTCO had a little bit of everything. Workers from the Pike Place Fish Market entertained and provided a fresh look at customer service. There is nothing like passing a fish among a couple of hundred people to…

  • ViodiTV – Day One @ OPASTCO

    A large library of content overcomes multiple flight delays. Let me explain what this fragment means. Roger was supposed to arrive in Seattle from Madison around noon today. Unfortunately, airplane mechanical problems delayed his arrival until around 5:30. The good news is that he had enough material to create a best of ViodiTV reel that…

  • Viodi View – 07/21/10

    In light of the yesterday’s FCC report, suggesting that approximately 7.7% of U.S. households are unserved by broadband, Dave Burstein's investigative work trying to understand where the NTIA money is going becomes especially relevant. His early analysis suggests that the NTIA money is not meeting the goal of getting broadband to the unserved.1 In a…

  • Viodi View – 07/09/10

    Seeing people smile at the camera is one of the most rewarding things about producing video content. Looking back on it years later, the combination of audio and video captures memories that print and photos alone cannot match. Editing the following video brought back fond recollections of past OPASTCO tradeshows and friends made at these…

  • Viodi View – 06/23/10

    A goal of the Viodi View is to be a proxy for independent telephone companies at conferences by reporting on those events. For various reasons, it is difficult to provide a detailed report when I am participating in the conference, as I was yesterday at the Georgia Telephone Association’s Annual Convention. So, a few high-level…