The rapid pace of changing work environments and competition requires that Vermont businesses and service agencies have access to resources that support evolving business models. Information packets must be dynamic and available electronically. Training schedules must accommodate work, home, travel and family routines. Collaboration must be enabled through access to high quality interactive media tools and social media. Use this resource section to find free online tools that help all organizations improve efficiency and develop fluid communications that are critical to future success.
Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues releases a themed issue, with Guest Editor James Barnes, focusing on broadband expansion into rural areas. Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the United States will spend almost $12 billion dollars to develop infrastructure and provide education to encourage rural adoption of high-speed Internet or broadband. But will rural America finally get connected? Many National e-Commerce Extension Initiative contributors and colleagues collaborated on this rural broadband themed edition that discusses the potential role of land-grant university faculty.