Blandin Plans Broadband Pre-Conference Webinars

The free sessions will be a great way to bone up on topics before the November conference

Leading up to its Fall Broadband Conference November 16-17 in Duluth, Blandin Foundation will host a series of free webinars.  These sessions will offer a great preview of the type of topics likely to come up at the conference itself.  You can register by following the links below.

• Pre-Broadband Conference Webinar - Public-private partnership in broadband
  Wednesday, October 26 - 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
• Pre-Broadband Conference Webinar - Community Transformation via Technology
  Wednesday, November 2 - 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Your Support Needed for an Evening at Zeitgeist

Bigger Better Broadband: A video retrospective produced by you!

In conjunction with its annual broadband conference, of which MHTA is a supporter, the Blandin Foundation is looking for video shorts (less than 10 minutes) on bigger better broadband in Minnesota to showcase at a Broadband Film Festival!   MHTA members are asked to support the festival through contribution of goods or services to be used as festival prizes; and/or submit your own video!

All video’s and prizes contributed will be noted and recognized on the evening of the showing. If you contribute a prize to the festival and are interested in helping to announce prize winners that evening, please email Denise Pfeifer denise@pfeiferconsutling.com and she will provide you with more details.

The Film Festival will be part of the 2011 Broadband Conference: Policy and Progress: Border to Border Broadband, November 16-17. The Film Festival will take place on November 17 from 5:00-9:00 pm at the Zeitgeist small theater in Duluth, Minnesota.

Organizers are looking for locally developed videos to showcase what's happening in broadband adoption, deployment and/or policy in Minnesota. The creativity is up to you - They will be showing as many of the best videos intermingled with "broadband classics" as time allows at the Festival.

Here are the details: 

• What: Videos shorter than 10 minutes that relate to broadband in Minnesota. 

• How: Please upload your videos and send a note with your name, contact info, and link to the video to broadband@blandinfoudnation.org. Email questions to kpeterson@kpgrants.com

• Where: Please upload to YouTube, Vimeo or other online video sharing site

• Who: Anyone in Minnesota is invited to submit a video

• Why: Because we want to learn about bigger, better broadband in Minnesota from the people who experience it and there are prizes!

• When: Submissions will be accepted until November 1.