Google Fiber the battle to land high speed internet.
A social media push that got amazing results and was captured by Time Magazine. Google on Main was Greenville’s visual shoutout to Google to pick the city for a revolutionary fiber line! Internet 100 times faster. Who wouldn’t want that!
NEW there’s a blogpoll up with thousands of votes that turning into a real online battle for GoogleFiber between Greenville and Asheville NC
VOTE here: http://www.googlefiber.com/fiber-optics/
If you want to help Greenville get the line, keep tweeting and facebooking about it. Use the hashtags #googleonmain and #luckygvl when you post about it.
Put in your official nomination to Google here.
Let the organizers know the color of your glow stick and where you were located here.
And get a DIGG account and DIGG the story and tell all your friends to do the same. Could help get more national coverage. Here’s the link. http://digg.com/d31Lz8d
City of Greenville is backing it with this proposed resolution.
Check out coverage:
News Channel 7 stories on Google On Main Monday at 5 and 6
LA Times Blog
First video from the helicopter in Bobby Rettews blog
Tech Crunch Google’s national broadband plan
Greenville News Photo Gallery
Mashable Watch out Topeka
News Channel 7 web story
Great Photos
Greenville Daily Photo blog Google on Main Feature
Dan McCord photo gallery
Official Google On Main PIcasa gallery
Great VIdeos
Harder Faster Longer by Camiecake
Gone to Carolina by JeffreypJacobs
MY LINKS: experiencing the glow:
Listen to my Podcast: Experiencing Google On Main Mania
my interview with Trey Pennington
Video I made walking down to Falls Park with my glowstick
Google On Main Blog posts
Historical Precedent for Wooing Projects to Greenville by TheHistoryBluff
Why Google on Main was Important by John Hoyt
Greenville’s first Rave I mean Wave by Heroic Leigh
Greenville Gets it Done by Topolk
Google Eyeing Greenville by Grant Lankford
Free video streaming by Ustream
Google is creating a high speed network, and it’s looking for a city to call home. And Greenville, SC is throwing itself into the race.
Sign the petition to help make it happen.
Nominate Greenville for Google’s fiber line, that promises to be 100 times faster than what you are experiencing now. (video describing this fiber line is below)
On Twitter @nathanduvall: told me : “Hey @tvamy You can also support #GoogleOnMain now by adding a #twibbon to your avatar here: http://bit.ly/cQdUBB #LuckyGVL”
Listen to my PODCAST on why you should care
Here’s a webpage that explains Greenville’s We Are Feeling Lucky campaign.
They are holding a rally Saturday March 20th, to show how intense the community support is creating the first and longest Google Human Chain. Learn more on this Facebook Event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=350492394591
Read more about the competition for this fiber line on the website Mashable one of the hottest tech blogs in the U.S. with 2.4 million followers http://tinyurl.com/ybxoota
Check out the You Tube channel too, where they are urging you to send in mobile video! They can be emailed to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Or you can tag your You Tube video with #LuckyGVL
Here’s a clip of some of the videos submitted.
Here’s my clip I sent in to be included.
Learn more about the google fiber network in this video
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