Tag: community

  • Viodi View – 03/23/12

    Viodi View – 03/23/12

    Will Google Hangouts and other virtual get together’s replace the advantages of face-to-face communications one sees at a trade show or conference? Sure, the immediacy and the zero travel cost of an online conversation plays well in a world that changes ever faster and needs an instant response. Still, being able to see people in…

  • From Diamonds to Ringtone, It’s All About Community

    From Diamonds to Ringtone, It’s All About Community

    To paraphrase former House Speaker Tip O’Neill, all communications is local.  On an NTCA webinar a couple of weeks ago, Kent Larson of CHR Solutions made a statement that reinforces this idea, when he said that, “Loops cannot be outsourced.”   He made the argument that, to some extent, parts of a telecom operators’ business can…

  • Online Strengthens the Real World

    Thanks to a post from the Western Telecom Alliance, I noticed a little heralded report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding the value of broadband Internet for rural America. At this point, I have only scanned through the report, but the one section I did read pointed to how broadband can strengthen community ties,…