01/17/97 RMIUG Meeting - How will Colorado Compete in the Information Age?

The Tuesday, January 14th meeting of the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group (RMIUG) will feature a presentation by Al Kolwicz called "Beyond The Browser - How will Colorado Compete in the Information Age?" Mr. Kolwicz (email 71722.1070@compuserve.com), the past President of the Colorado Open Systems Consortium, will describe a business-education-government partnership that is being created in Colorado to help the state keep pace as the rapid evolution of technology changes our economy. The Center for Interactive Multimedia Business Applications will create the education and commercial infrastructure needed to develop and deploy customer-operated business applications over high speed networks.

The meeting is Tuesday, January 14th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start for informal networking and refreshments). The meeting will be held at the Department of Commerce (NIST) Building at 325 Broadway in Boulder, one traffic light South of Baseline. This facility holds 510 people. Park in the Dept. of Commerce lot, go in the main door (faces East), and find the main auditorium just to the right of the main entrance. The meeting is free and open to the public, thanks to the generosity of our sponsor.

RMIUG would like to thank BBN Planet for sponsoring this meeting. BBN Planet (http://www.bbn.com) is a national ISP which provides a full range of Internet services to commercial clients. For more information about BBN Planet, please contact David Moser, Colorado Sales Manager at (303) 672-1885 or dmoser@bbnplanet.com

RMIUG also appreciates the ongoing support from XOR Network Engineering for administration of RMIUG's electronic discussion lists & WWW site and Internet One of Boulder for sponsoring refreshments.

Consultants and companies are invited to bring Internet-related product information, brochures, and business cards which will be displayed on an information table.

There is an email mailing list set up for this group. General information can be obtained by sending an Email to rmiug@rmiug.org which will generate an auto-reply message that tells you about the lists and how to subscribe. You can also reach the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@rmiug.org. Our WWW site is at http://www.rmiug.org/

Dan Murray

Other upcoming topics:

• How the Internet is irrevocably changing the medical profession and consumer's approach to health
• Email Publishing and Marketing - "Boring Old Timer or the Killer App of the Net?" - Industry Panel Discussion
• Financing (VC, IPO, private funding, etc.) for Internet companies in Colorado
• "Local Web Content" -- City-centered Web sites coming to a metropolitan area near you (ie, Denver)
• Games on the Internet - Panel Discussion