Comments on: Broadband Summit in the Fall – Nominate a Speaker http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/ News and information on broadband use, policy, and trends Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John M Scanlan http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-170 Tue, 01 May 2007 20:01:11 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-170 Speaker Nominee. Nina Antoniotti, RN, MBA, PhD, Director of the Marshfield Clinic Telehealth Program, a widely distributed, system offering a broad range of medical and dental telehealth services in rural Wisconsin. I understand that they are exploring joint ventures with Canada and China as well. It will be interesting to learn how a clinic system, headquartered in a rural community of 18,000 people, decided to reach out so far beyond the horizon. John

]]> By: Ann Treacy http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-149 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:12:24 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-149 Those are great ideas. I like the idea of getting someone from the Pew Internet Life project and I like the idea of talking to the Closing the Gap people. I went to their conference years ago and found it fascinating!

]]> By: Rick B http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-128 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:19:18 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-128 What about Tim Penny?

Humphrey Institute Senior Fellow Tim Penny has been named president of the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) and will begin serving in April. SMIF was established by the Minneapolis-based McKnight Foundation in 1986 to foster growth and vitality in southern Minnesota communities. SMIF’s key interests include workforce development, early childhood development, and economic development with a focus on bio-ag and bio-medical. Past SMIF presidents include Trixie Ann Golberg (1993-2006), who was a Policy Fellow in 1994-1995.

]]> By: Rick B http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-120 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:11:05 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-120 What about someone from Pew who worked on the Pew and American Life Project?

Andy Carvin, formerly of the Benton Foundation and now with NPR? He is now doing some work with video blogging.

What about a current or former legislator who worked on some of the early rural broadband work (I don’t know who that would be)?

]]> By: Mary Treacy http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-117 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:24:00 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/broadband-summit-in-the-fall-%e2%80%93-nominate-a-speaker/#comment-117 I had two very different thoughts for potential speakers:

Joe Amato http://www.southwestmsu.edu/regional/Staffpages/JosephAmato/

He’s from Marshall, longtime faculty at Southwest State. He talks about place, celebrating the place your in, the wonders of greater Minnesota, etc. etc. He’s actually from Detroit but found his place in Marshall. He has spoken at lots of non-academic places, e.g. the League of Minnesota Cities. He’s also on MPR fairly often. He’s retired now, I think, but has a center for rural living or some such thing in Marshall. People REALLY like him as a speaker, because he understands technology and politics, and he’s also a scholar, makes people feel good about wherever they are.

Closing the Gap http://www.closingthegap.com

It’s a network/resource for and about people with disabilities. They operate out of Hector, Minnesota. They’ve been around for 25-30 years. And they are now a big operation, still in Hector. They have a huge web presence, I see, and people come from around the world to their annual conference.

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