by JAM | Feb 13, 2012 | Broadband, DOL, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills, Workforce Development
Time Warner Cable is cutting 155 jobs in Albany and the closure of the Sealed Air Corporation plant in Glenville will eliminate 70 jobs in the region. Sealed Air says it is relocating the work to other North American facilities. According to notices filed with the...
by JAM | Feb 13, 2012 | Broadband, DOJ, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills
In the last couple of days, a number of blogs and stories have popped up questioning whether the Senate cybersecurity legislation to be introduced next week incorporates the ill-fated SOPA/PIPA legislation or is somehow going to harm the Internet as many claimed...
by JAM | Feb 13, 2012 | Broadband, Foundation Work, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills, Social Media, Workforce Development
When it comes to ensuring that all 311 million Americans have access to broadband, we still have a long way to go. Although the FCC reported in its Seventh Broadband Progress Report and Order on Reconsideration that nearly 208 million people have adopted broadband,...
by JAM | Feb 13, 2012 | Broadband, DOJ, Foundation Work, Government, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills
Takeaway: Outlook is complex enough to confuse your users and create support headaches. These basic concepts will give them a better grasp of how things work. Â Training users on Outlook is often as simple as showing them how to download their mail. But some users...
by JAM | Feb 8, 2012 | Broadband, Health IT, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills
Takeaway: Many of your users are coasting along without adequate computer knowledge. Help them close the gap by sharing this list of essential skills. It is tempting to think that because you have used a computer for a long time, you are “computer literate†or...
by JAM | Feb 8, 2012 | Broadband, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Policy, Skills
Six months into the program, Comcast released a progress report on its Internet Essentials program – the low-cost Internet and training offering that Comcast led the pack with as a condition to its merger with NBC Universal. The program provides low-cost broadband...
