I think I’ve mentioned the Blandin Community Broadband Award earlier – but I wanted to post a reminder in time for folks to nominate a community. And when I say that I mostly mean nominate yourself. We’ve heard from a couple of communities already – both rural and urban, well suburban have been represented – but I’d love to see more representation.
The nomination form is straightforward and brief. The award is worth $2,000. I’m hoping to get some good stories to write some fun bragging blog posts about the cool things we’re doing in Minnesota.
Here’s our official announcement
Minnesota Community Broadband Awards
Organizations eligible for awards up to $2,000!
The Minnesota Community Broadband Awards recognize communities that have successfully implemented strategies that improve the deployment and use of broadband. Awards will be announced at the Connected Communities: Making the Net Work for Minnesota conference in Eden Prairie.
Award Categories
- Broadband Infrastructure and Services; recognizing the provision of high speed broadband capacity and services to a community, area or region.
- Broadband Market and Application Development; recognizing efforts to stimulate community demand for broadband services and/or to deploy advanced broadband applications in business, education, government and healthcare.
Applying is easy!
Go to http://www.blandinfoundation.org/BBConf08/application.html and complete the four question application.
For more information
Denise Pfeifer, dpfeifer@pfeiferconsulting.com, 507.828.5559
The Minnesota Community Broadband Awards is a project of the Blandin Foundation Broadband Initiative