The mission of the Frankfort.net initiative is to provide the Frankfort Area Chamber of Commerce members with the education and technology necessary to understand and implement Internet related technologies. The initiative is free of charge to Frankfort Area Chamber members who are in good standing with the Chamber and who have also joined the initiative as a member.
"There is no single tool more essential to success in today's and tomorrow's economy than the Internet," said Mary Ellis, executive director of Frankfort Area Chamber of Commerce. "Access to and capabilities with the Internet will benefit businesses of all types and sizes. Electronic commerce is opening doors to new revenue potential, while e-mail is revolutionizing communication and responsiveness to customers."
As of October 2000, only about 30% of the Frankfort business community regularly uses e-mail and the Internet, and even less have a web presence. Recognizing that Frankfort's economy needs to embrace new technologies in order to achieve continued long-term growth, the Frankfort.net Initiative seeks to raise this statistic to above 50% within the first year and continue to do so each and every following year until Frankfort area is completely wired.
In order to provide the community with a greater understanding of the initiative's partners, a biography for each Frankfort.net partner is listed below. Enjoy a look into the promising future of Frankfort.
Click on a Frankfort.net Partner to read their biography:
ExecuTrain of Kentucky, locally owned and operated, is proud to serve the state from two central locations: Lexington and Louisville. Backed by ExecuTrain corporate which has 250+ locations strong in 40 countries worldwide.
We offer on-site, customized training at your facility or at ours. Our comprehensive, customer-focused solutions include instructor-led and technology-based training for popular desktop applications like Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Plus course development and training tailored to your specific software applications and proprietary systems.
ExecuTrain offers certified technical instruction from leaders like Microsoft, Lotus and Novell—including skills-based certifications like A+, Network+ and Internet Webmaster certifications. ExecuTrain’s unique learning model is based on adult educational methodology and is a process of Preparation, Presentation, Performance, and Validation, integrated with Motivation and Interaction. This learning model, combined with certified, experienced instructors, results in what is considered to be the highest quality computer technology training in the business, with quality scores exceeding all other training providers.
ExecuTrain technical instructors bring “real world” experience to the classroom. Additionally, all of our technical instructors come from the IT industry and are Microsoft certified in the specific courses they teach. They’ve spent years working in the technology environment; dealing with the same issues your own IT department faces every day. So they know how IT people think—and how to best communicate information to make it relevant and fully comprehensible to the student.
Add to all this our innovative assessment tools, fully customized course development and global administrative support services, and it's little wonder we've been the computer training partner of choice for more than 6.4 million people worldwide.
DCR.NET: Drew Curtis is President and CEO of DCR.NET. He has a degree Computer Science from Luther College in Decorah, IA, and is a Kentucky native, born and raised.
He worked for several months for the Department of Personnel for Kentucky State Government until he hit the experience-based pay-scale glass ceiling, and decided to work elsewhere. At the time, there was no unlimited Internet access in Frankfort, so he founded DCR.NET in Frankfort, Kentucky in February, 1996. Nearly five years later, DCR.NET has access in a coverage area about 50 miles out from Frankfort in all directions, covering most of central Kentucky. DCR provides dial-up Internet access, DSL Internet access, dedicated T1 Internet access, and beginning in December will be the first local Internet Service Provider in the United States offering cable Internet access (in cooperation with the Frankfort Plant Board).
Drew Curtis is also President of the Kentucky ISP Association.
Frankfort Area Chamber of Commerce:
Business People United to Enhance the Area Economy and Quality of Life
The Frankfort Area Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary non-profit membership organization. We are business and professional people who recognize our stake in this region and have joined together to advance and enhance it. We coordinate ideas, energy and financial resources to accomplish collaboratively those goals that none of us could accomplish individually.
The Chamber currently represents over 600 businesses and organizations. We have a full time professional staff that works to implement the membership driven objectives of promoting, representing, and assisting the business community.
The Chamber also provides direct benefits to members. Some of these include discounts on high quality group health insurance and long distance telephone service, business and technical training and advice, advertising and promotional opportunities, a full complement of information services, networking, and business image enhancement.
For more information on Chamber membership, contact the Frankfort Area Chamber of Commerce office by telephone to (502) 223-8261 or via email to chamber@dcr.net.
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