Yesterday at the Minnesota Rural Summit, I got a chance to speak with Bernadine Joselyn, from Blandin Foundation (and occasional Blandin on Broadband blogger) about her recent trip to the Killer App Conference in Fort Wayne Indiana.
It sounds like it was a great conference. I was most interested to hear about the potential for more interactive remote meetings. Currently it sounds as if the telepresence technology is allowing people to actually make eye contact virtually – but someday the interaction may go further.
Click below to listen to a 10 minute podcast of our conversation.
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[...] People mention local efforts that have been successful and should be held up as models: Connect Kentucky, Connect Maine, and Fort Wayne (which we talked about in an earlier blog). [...]
By: FCC Commissioners at US Senate Session « Blandin on Broadband on September 28, 2007
at 4:37 pm
[...] Telepresence will make it feel as if remote meeting attendees into the room with you. I know that Bernadine Joselyn mentioned it after his trip to the Killer App conference in May, 2007 and she was [...]
By: Videoconferencing is ready for prime time « Blandin on Broadband on September 22, 2008
at 2:31 pm