Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 10:57
As the e-Vermont partners continue to work in communities around the state, we are generating a lot of new knowledge about using broadband resources for rural development. In 2011, we will be developing many different materials with this information - case studies, interviews, videos, images, links to key websites, worksheets, and interactive platforms.
Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 18:27
Thank you to the Champlain Initiative for drawing our attention to the new Basic Needs Budget for 2010. Below is a summary of its connection with broadband.
Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 21:10
The Know It All by AJ Jacobs is a 2006 book of the “I’m going to do a weird thing every day for a year and write about it” genre. In the most famous book of this category, Julie & Julia, blogger Julie cooked every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In The Know It All, AJ read the entire Encyclopaedia Brittanica. . . all 33,000 pages of it. He was reading the encyclopedia because he suspected that, as he grew older, he was forgetting more things than he learned.
Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 17:10
In October, I wrote a blog post on the business trainings offered by the e-Vermont advisor at the VT Small Business Development Center. Another service that VtSBDC brings to e-Vermont communities is individual advising sessions with small businesses, and modest funding for selected business projects.
Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 09:19
The Internet offers many programs to build a website for free. Some examples are Wordpress, Joomla, Fat Cow, Intuit, Google Sites and Weebly. Searching for free website builders uncovers many more.
Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:10
This week, West Rutland offered local residents a workshop on Computer Basics as part of the e-Vermont program there. The Vermont State Colleges are running this workshop, and similar ones, in e-Vermont communities around the state through the winter and spring.
Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:17
The Vermont State Legislature has always had a wealth of information available online - now it has a new organization and updated look for the 2011-2012 session. If you are interested in following the activity of our legislature, a good starting place is their web-based home at: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/
Submitted by Helen Labun Jordan on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 09:51
Vermont is a leader in Community Supported Enterprises - businesses that use the investment of many, individual community members (instead of one or two large funders) for start up, transition and expansion phases. Online tools may make these enterprises even more common in the future.
ent 1:1 computing in their classrooms. 