IIA Reception Connects Members the Old Fashioned Way

By IIA

At IIA we’re big believers in the power of the Internet to connect people to one another - promoting broadband connectivity is what we do. Nevertheless, there is something to be said for making connections the old-fashioned way, face-to-face.

In hopes of transforming online relationships into personal ones, IIA recently hosted a cocktail reception for its members. IIA members hail from different worlds - we represent non-profit organizations, corporations, and advocacy groups, to name a few broad categories. But we all share a common goal, expanding broadband deployment and adoption, which we can only accomplish by working together.

At the reception, participants discussed the challenges facing the telecom sector, and how we might advance our goals in the midst of the economic crisis. Bruce Mehlman and Larry Irving, co-chairs of IIA, were there to demonstrate the IIA Web site and to show off the new Broadband Fact Book. We plan to make the recent gathering the first of many, and hope it will point the way to closer collaboration in 2009.

Larry Irving, Brent Wilkes of LULAC, and other IIA members

Bruce Hahn of the American Homeowners Grassroots Alliance and Leroy Watson
of National Grange

Bruce Mehlman with IIA members

Chris Katopis of CompTIA and other IIA members

IIA members listen to remarks by Bruce Mehlman (Larry Irving pictured)

IIA members listen to remarks by Bruce Mehlman