[Hidden-tech] Rural Broadband: Messages bouncing to TownAdmin in Buckland

[Shel Horowitz, Ethical/Green Marketing Expert]

Rich, I sent my support letter to townadmin at town.buckland.ma.us but 
it has bounced twice.

This is what I tried to send--any ideas about how to get it to them?



Subject: Please support funding to bring broadband to partially served towns

To:
The Honorable Antonio Cabral
The Honorable Brian Joyce

From: Shel Horowitz, owner, GreenAndProfitable.com

Dear Representative Cabral and Senator Joyce:

I have run a small business in Massachusetts since 1981.I went online 
in 1994, and was very frustrated by the difficulties of dial-up 
Internet.  About 12 years ago, I watched Comcast lay cable past my 
home/office in Hadley, MA. I was instantly on the phone to find out 
how I could get signed up.

As the owner of an international business, I rely on broadband 
constantly. High speed Internet makes possible many things that would 
otherwise be impossible, and without which I could not compete in a 
global market place. For example:

A three-way conference over Skype when I was project managing a 
project with a client in Germany and a graphic artist in Wisconsin

Research-intensive endeavors that frequently arise, involving having 
a dozen or more websites open at once, and moving rapidly among them

Accessing, in a typical day, 80-120 web pages in order to keep up 
with developmets in the field of green marketing

Attending resource-intensive webinars and teleseminars to foster my 
professional development and learn new skills (and for which current 
broadband is barely adequate)

Processing 200-300 inbound e-mail messages a day without completely 
typing up both my computer and my phone

Distributing my monthly newsletter and syndicated column

Failure to support decent high-speed Internet access is an economic 
wrecking ball. In fact, our local paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, 
recently published an article about the difficulty of selling homes 
in communities lacking broadband--because, like me, many other 
business owners see high-speed access as just as essential to their 
businesses as a telephone.

I urge you to give your full support to broadband in every community 
and neighborhood in the Commonwealth.
-- 

_________________________________________________
Shel Horowitz
Marketing consultant/copywriter, author, speaker, book shepherd
Affordable, ethical, effective marketing materials and strategies
"Reach Green, socially conscious consumers with
marketing that has THEM calling YOU"

Twitter: @shelhorowitz

* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame

http://greenandprofitable.com/ http://guerrillamarketinggoesgreen.com
mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388
Award-winning author of eight books. Latest:
Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)
Blog on Green Marketing/Ethics/Politics:
http://greenandprofitable.com/shels-blog/
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