[v=SA-vE0qAt-w] I’m struggling to get my head around video. I’m a book guy, not a movie guy—I have a face for radio, not TV. But I know people learn through stories and the oral storytelling tradition is far more ancient than the written word. As I’ve adapted to adopting broadband this last year, I’ve also […]
Buy Ag Land? They ain't making any more of it
An interesting news bit from the Red River Farm Network‘s FarmNetNews newsletter: Land Values Called Unbelievable — The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says farmland values in the Plains increased in the third quarter due to generally rising farm incomes and robust demand for land. Murray Wise, with Murray Wise Associates, sells farmland. “The […]
SRDC Kicks Off Broadband Project in SW Minnesota
Press Release–Immediate SRDC Kicks Off Broadband Project in Southwest Minnesota Slayton, MN—The Southwest Regional Development Commission (SRDC) has been named as a partner in the Blandin Foundation’s Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities (MIRC) project, which will facilitate broadband deployment and use in rural areas of the state. The $6.4 million, ARRA-funded project will support promotion and […]
Spending Some Time in the Future at #mnbb2010
[v=CVLoXWaXJ5Y] Abraham Lincoln said “The best way to predict the future is to create it” (as did Peter Drucker and other creative thinkers). I was able to spend some time this week with other Minnesotans trying to do just that—creating the future—at the Blandin Foundation’s Annual Broadband Conference. After a day of workshops, the opening […]
Broadband Use Growing in Greater Minnesota
For Immediate Release For information contact: John Shepard, AICP; jshepard@swrdc.org 507.836.1633 Broadband Use Growing in Greater Minnesota Slayton, MN—Three quarters of Greater Minnesota residents now have computers in their homes and two-thirds have broadband internet access, according to a survey by Minnesota’s Center for Rural Policy and Development. Broadband adoption in Greater Minnesota has grown […]
Center for Rural Policy & Development MN Broadband Survey
NEWS RELEASE Broadband Use Explodes Statewide, But Adoption in Rural Minnesota Still Inconsistent Center for Rural Policy and Development Minnesota Internet Survey Measures Broadband Adoption and Use SAINT PETER, Minn. — Comprehensive research conducted by the Center for Rural Policy and Development has found that broadband adoption and use has exploded throughout Minnesota since the organization […]
When the World Stopped Turning
[v=Tq8PBdR3pg4] Alan Jackson Where Were You? “Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty…” —Andrew Jackson, 1837 Never Forget 9.11.2001 .
What part of "do not build in the floodplain" do people not understand?
One impetus for the All-Hazards approach to mitigation has been our experience with sometimes conflicting local-state-federal efforts on the public’s behalf. Often it’s one local effort conflicting with another local effort. The perfect example is one agency promoting development in a floodplain, which by definition one might think is inappropriate. What part of “do not […]
SoMe for the Practical E.D. Pro
Not an authorized advertisement! Social Media for the Practical Economic Development Professional August 31, 2010 from 2 PM to 3:30 PM EST. Join Mark James, CEcD, ED Solutions Inc. and Sara Dunnigan, SVP, Existing Business Services, Richmond Partnership (VA) for a very practical approach to how economic development organizations and Chambers of Commerce can take […]
Consumers Don't Want "To Get Sold"
[v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng] Even if you haven’t jumped on the Social Media bandwagon, somebody somewhere is claiming the webspace that should belong to your company, organization or cause. Minnesota Business last month offered a “primer” on social media, with this paragraph that caught my eye: Consumers are getting harder and harder to target. They are bombarded with […]
