The communications landscape is changing forever 787_ FEB 8/2010
Larry asked Jeff Tench, President of the business Market Group at Level 3 asked how the business landscape had changed over that time. The division Jeff runs and is responsible for selling to and handling the requirements of enterprise customers across the U.S. So, the retail arm of Level 3. Jeff replied, "One of the biggest changes we've seen is the use of video to the desktop and the amount of bandwidth that's required in order to deliver a high quality video experience. That's not just folks at work downloading YouTube, it's also using video as an important business tool. That has far reaching implications in how you handle a network to support the requirements of an IT perspective of any enterprise. It has gone beyond some people's expectations, from Level 3's perspective we're just at the beginning. . If you think about the way multimedia is being used in the enterprise, if you think of that trend along with some of the other trends that are very popular right now, the term 'cloud computing' for example is one that is in popular use today. For Level 3 what that really means is that IT processes..." Jeff was a guest panelist at a popular Communications Technology Professional (CTP) event. Listen to this interview and you'll learn how the communications landscape is changing for small and medium-sized businesses; what Cloud Computing really is and what it means to enterprises; how increased demand for video on wireless devices is being addressed by landline providers; and what impact federal broadband stimulus is set to have on rural America Listen for more...
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The challenges and choices of building a company 785_ FEB 1/2010
Brad Feld and Brad Bernthal had an interesting discussion at the Entrepreneurs Unplugged program with Ryan Martens, Founder and Chief Technology Officer and Tim Miller, CEO of Rally Software. Brian Patrick, founder of Colorado Tech TV video and audio taped yhis discussion and you can choose to watch or/and listen. Ryan Martens brings to Rally proven leadership in dynamic, high growth software companies and is an expert in assisting organizations transition from traditional development processes to more Agile techniques. Before founding Rally Software Development - his fourth software start-up. Prior to joining Rally, Tim was CEO of Avitek, which was sold to BEA Systems in 1999. Tim helped create BEA's highly successful Portal Development Group and then served as Vice President of BEA's Accelerated Development Centers. Entrepreneurs Unplugged is a meeting place where faculty, students and community members with technical backgrounds learn about and get involved in entrepreneurship. In particular, the program offers students and faculty an opportunity to learn how a successful start up is created as well as an opportunity to network.
Related Links: Entrepreneurs Unplugged || Silicon Flatirons || Colorado Tech TV || OnSightMedia || Mastering Change || Keywords: Ryan Martens, Tim Miller, Brad Feld, Brad Bernthal, Rally Software, Entrepreneurs Unplugged, Colorado Tech TV, Brian Patrick, OnSightMedia > Channel: Entrepreneurs 79946713 bytes - 2/8/10 LISTEN to Ryan Martens, Tim Miller, Brad Feld and Brad Bernthal

783_ Communication rules in a bumpy economy 2/1/2010
In an article that appeared in cobiz.com Sherry Law, founder of Evergreen Communication wrote about, "The counterintuitive communicator: How to make the Great Recession a mere blip in your company history." The article really caught Larry's attention so he pursued an interview with her. Larry asked, "What does communication have to do with managing through the recession?" Sherry explains in detail and there are three primary benefits, "Productivity, retention and ultimately performance." She went onto explain, "If your best employees are satisfied and loyal, and not just marking time, you’ll be way ahead of your competition during the recession and long after. Communication will help generate the high levels of employee engagement and performance you need to recover from the mess we’re in. Employees need clear, transparent, frequent communication about what your company is doing in these extraordinary times, and how and why. Following are three tips that may be counter to your intuition, but help ensure your company’s continued success. Counterintuitive Tip #1: Express your feelings along with the facts; you’ll show strength. Conventional wisdom dictates that when CEOs and other leaders reveal their personal feelings it’s a sign of weakness. Don’t believe it. Counterintuitive Tip #2: Don’t hype or spin the message. Tell it straight. In an effort to “protect” employees or to keep from de-motivating them, well-intentioned leaders put a positive “spin” on news. This results in exactly the opposite of what is intended. Counterintuitive Tip#3: Communicate even if you don’t have all the information yet. Certainty doesn’t exist. Remember a time when you’ve sat on a plane waiting, and waiting, for it to take off. No word from the pilot, and the flight attendants have no information about the delay. How productive were you while you waited for information? Not very. Listen for more...
Related Links: Evergreen Communication || Colorado Biz Article || ACG Denver || M&A Channel || Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference || Keywords: Sherry Law, Evergreen Communication, Communication, CObiz, Economy, Productivity, Retention, Performance, ACG Denver, Counterintuitive Communicator > Channel: ACG/Entrepreneurs 8543547 bytes - 2/1/10 LISTEN to Sherry Law, Evergreen Communications

781_ Broadband and the future of communications 2/1/2010
The Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) serves as the oversight body of the Colorado.gov portal. The Colorado.gov portal is the gateway to Colorado government, and it is intended to be Colorado's single most comprehensive delivery channel for eGovernment services. John Conley, executive director of SIPA was interviewed by Larry to specifically address the issue of broadband in Colorado. John said, "The federal government and specifically the FCC and the NTIA have started to play a large role in wanting the nation to deploy more broadband throughout the rural and even into the metropolitan areas. In February of 2009, about a year ago, they released through what is commonly referred to as the Recovery Act, $7.2 Billion available through competitive grants, to be released to the private sector and the public sector, to deploy broadband technology. Before 2009, broadband was viewed very much as a utility, a commodity, but also as a cusp priority, for a lot of states it was viewed as something if there was time left over to do, state governments would get involved. Colorado had a different approach early on, but as time went on we forgot we had to keep deploying more and more broadband and upgrading our technologies. The federal government has put a spotlight back on it and that's good for Colorado." Larry asked, "What will the impacts of increased broadband be in Colorado?" John replied, "Economic development, is sometimes over hyped, but it will allow small businesses to expand their store front hours. People can continue to purchase and do transactions during off hours - that's a good thing for our lifestyle in Colorado. Also the nation is moving toward telemedicine, transportation, education, we're going to need high speed connectivity throughout all parts of the nation for our citizens to be able to interact and benefit from those initiatives." John is the keynote speaker at at the Broadband Now - the Future of Communications program on February 3, 2010 hosted by the Communications Technology Professionals....there's more...
Related Links: SIPA || Future of Communications || Communications Technology Professionals || CTP Channel and Archives || Change || Keywords: John Conley, Statewide Internet Portal Authority, SIPA, Broadband, FCC, NTIA, Communications Technology Professionals, CTP, Future of Communications Channel: CTP 7953802 bytes - 2/1/10 LISTEN to John D. Conley, Executive Director, Sipa

Today's economy and the airline industry 788_ FEB 8/2010
"Today's economic environment has had a major impact on the airline industry. Not only from a cost structure perspective, but because of fuel going up, the slowdown in the economy, we've seen weakening in the demand and if you look at the industry, industry revenues are actually down about 10 percent, that's a significant amount of the market place in just one year," said Sean Menke who is most recently the CEO and President of Frontier Airlines. Chet Marino, Programming for ACG Denver, introduces Sean and goes onto point out, "Sean navigated this entire company through one of the most difficult times in the history of the airline business. Frontier Airlines just came out of bankruptcy, there was an auction process with two parties involved, Southwest Airlines and Republic Airways. At the end of the day, Republic Airways was the successor in the process and with that Sean joined the organization as the executive vice president and chief marketing officer, so he actually oversees the two branded airlines that Republic owns, Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Larry asked Sean what he saw coming down the road for the industry. "I think the entire market place has changed and I mean business market place. Travel budgets are down, people aren't spending as much and we're seeing that in the airlines that leisure travel is actually pretty strong, but..." Listen for more...
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Digital Broadband Migration: Ecosystem 786_ FEB 1/2010
The Digital Broadband Migration 2010: Examining the Internet's Ecosystem. Dale Hatfield kicked off the early Sunday morning conference introducing Phil Weiser... who is currently on leave from the Law School here at CU, and he currently holds the position of Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Anti-Trust Division at the Department of Justice. Phil Weiser introduces the topic of discussion lending background for understanding. Innovation is critical to our economic future and the tools we talk about today, entrepreneurship and the role of competition policy are critical ingredients. Part of the reason why this is so, is when you have established firms they may not be as inclined to experiment with disruptive technologies, deploy them, and they may even see them as a threat and try to stop them. This creates a real challenge...Join us next week as Phil Weiser, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice moderates the panel with Meredith Attwell Baker, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission; Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Dale Hatfield, Exec. Dir., Silicon Flatirons Center, Former Chief Engineer, Federal Communications Commission; Larissa Herda, Chairman, President and CEO, tw telecom, inc.; Michael Powell Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, Sr. Advisor, Providence Equity; Lisa Tanzi, VP and Deputy General Counsel for the Business Division, Microsoft Corporation. See the Event Photos
Related Links: Silicon Flatirons Program || SF Home || CTP Channel || Change || Keywords: Dale Hatfield, Phil Weiser, Digital Broadband Migration, Silicon Flatirons, Internet's Ecosystem, Innovation, Competition Policy CTP, > Chnl: CTP bytes: 24942043 - 2/8/10 LISTEN to Dale Hatfield, Exec. Director, Silicon Flatirons Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, Law School and Phil Weiser, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice

784_ Future of the broadband stimulus program 2/1/2010
The future of rural broadband, opinions on broadband stimulus program, including the new “satellite project” fund, and satellite services industry in Colorado was the focus of an interview with Lisa Scalpone Vice President and General Counsel for WildBlue Communications, now a ViaSat company. Larry went onto explore what’s new and different in next 18 months for satellite broadband. Lisa oversees the legal and government affairs for WildBlue, a Colorado-based satellite broadband provider. Prior to her position as General Counsel, she held other functional positions within the company, including VP of Business Development. She was responsible for handling the company’s stimulus applications under the Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Larry also asked, "What changes do you expect as a result of WildBlue’s merger with ViaSat? What is the roadmap for satellite broadband? How does it keep up with wireline? What are the biggest challenges in serving rural America? Listen to this interview and you'll have a better understanding of what issues face us in getting broadband to rural US and what economic impact satellite broadband has on both local and national economies. Did you know that Colorado continues to lead the nation in communications innovation, especially in Broadband? Lisa is on a high-profile panel at the Broadband Now - the Future of Communications program on February 3, 2010 hosted by the Communications Technology Professionals. The future of communications is dependent on the evolution and availability of broadband. You'll hear what industry experts are saying about latest trends in broadband, see exciting applications only made possible through broadband proliferation, and weigh in on where the broadband evolution will lead the communications industry.
Related Links: WildBlue Communications || Future of Communications || Communications Technology Professionals || ViaSat || CTP Channel and Archives || Keywords: Lisa Scalpone, WildBlue Communications, Satellite Broadband, Stimulus Program, ViaSat, Communications Technology Professionals, > Channel: CTP 6839633 bytes - 2/1/10 LISTEN to Lisa Scalpone, WildBlue Communications

782_ Benchmarking: Are women leading alongside men? 2/1/2010
In 1998, Marie Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy – one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women’s leadership. An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004). The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) hosted the White House Project Benchmarking study. Marie led the eye-opening program. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed Marie after the program. The White House Project, a national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization, 501(c)(3), aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women, we make American institutions, businesses and government truly representative. Through multi-platform programs, The White House Project creates a culture where America’s most valuable untapped resource—women—can succeed in all realms. To advance this mission, The White House Project strives to support women and the issues that allow women to lead in their own lives and in the world. When women leaders bring their voices, vision and leadership to the table alongside men, the debate is more robust and the policy is more inclusive and sustainable. Listen, there's much more...
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Help for Haiti or HELP Haiti Now 2/1/2010
The nonprofit humanitarian relief group Project C.U.R.E. http://www.projectcure.org/ is accepting donations of first aid and hygiene supplies to help Haiti in the aftermath of its devastating earthquake. Donations can be sent to or dropped off at Project C.U.R.E. distribution centers in four cities nationwide: Denver, Phoenix, Nashville and Houston. To assist with transportation costs for medical relief supplies, Project C.U.R.E. seeks the support of individuals, groups, and organizations who are interested in contributing to relief efforts in Haiti. Donations can be made online http://www.projectcure.org/ or by cash, check or credit card. thank You! 2/1/10

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