Tag: Local Content
Viodi View – 10/19/12
Panels and presentations provide the skeleton for a conference, but sometimes the hallway conversations, sparked by something a speaker said or didn’t say, are the real meat of a conference. This thought occurred to me at last week’s TV Next 2012 conference, as organizer Greg Fawson did an excellent job of bringing together the various players from the…
Viodi View – 10/05/12
Where the road leads is not always clear, but eventually it leads us home. Last week, that road led me to the digital home; that is, the Digital Home Summit in Dallas. It was great to help Bernie and Tocia of Telecompetitor document this conference, which focuses on the digital home from the operator perspective.…
Viodi View – 09/21/12
Words are great, pictures are better, video is best, but none of these can compare to being there. Experiencing the rural roads of this great country – the ones off the beaten path of the Interstate – and meeting the people who are finding creative ways to keep their communities vibrant has been one of…
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
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…
Viodi View – 10/12/11
The forces of creative destruction unleashed by the combination of broadband and computing power have transformed virtually every industry in the past 20 years. Two closely intertwined sectors, government and education, have been relatively untouched through this time of tumult. A growing chorus from a variety of groups indicates that at least the education part…
