University Wisconsin Extension Broadband & E-Commerce Education Center High Speed Bits: Conversation with author and Speaker Craig (CJ) Settles on "Getting People Excited About Broadband

1. On Wisconsin! Getting People
Excited About Broadband

2. Problem Solving vs Creation Orientation
• Problem fixing: something sucks,
everybody’s pissed
• Solve the lack of broadband, average
folks are “meh”
• Create something great, broadband rocks

3. Chattanooga & the Sexy Gigabit
• Chattanooga first to make gigabit sexy
• Created economic engine
• Creating innovation centers
• Creating, nurturing entrepreneurs
• Creating 21st Century city

4. What Kind of Economy Will We Create
• What if we re-define an industry
• How do we create new opportunities
for existing businesses
• Forget jobs! How do we create new
ways to make money

5. Creating the New Healthcare
• How do we create a new healthcare
delivery system
• Let’s create a telemedicine heaven
• What happens when we create true
patient-driven medical care

6. When Broadband Re-creates Education
• Creating a classroom without walls
• New world order: student teaches
teachers while teachers teach students
• If we create international study groups

7. Government of the People
• New world of more people online,
not in line
• agency-constituent partnerships
• Creating new-age crisis
prevention/response centers

8. Making Creation Orientation Real
• Flip the script
• Ok to fail if failure breeds success
• Write creation narrative
• Tell the story often and loud

9. Q & A

10. Q & A