How to help:
• Visit www.googleaustinmn.com.
• Click on the Facebook icon on the right side of the page.
• Join the Google Fiber for Austin Minnesota Facebook group. You can also post a comment of support.
• Encourage others you know to do the same! You can invite your friends on Facebook to join; click “Invite People to Join” in the top left corner of the Facebook page and send them an invitation.
Google Fiber benefits:
• Access to a system 100 times faster than currently available in most
parts of the country.
• Magnet for business investment and people interested in moving to Austin.
• Opportunity to bring a new generation of applications and resources to our
homes, workplaces, schools and institutions.
We need everyone’s help to maintain or improve this ranking!
Austin is currently ranked in the top 10
in community support.

R. L. Knowlton
Chairman, The Hormel Foundation
301 N. Main St.
Austin, MN 55912

• World Class Research Institute  – Hormel Institute
• World Class Medical & Innovation – Mayo Clinic Health System
• Comprehensive Primary and Post primary education system
• Fortune 500 Company home base
• Budding Entrepreneurs
• A city owned utility transmission system (great for Fiber and much more cost effective for deployment than other cities!)

Austin Minnesota!  We GIG it!

We Gig It!

Help Us Crack the Top 10!

Austin is currently ranked #12 (gunning for the top 10!) for the Google Fiber Initiative by FIBERForAll.org! That’s #12 out of nearly 1100 communities competing nationwide! Join our effort by signing up as a member of our GoogleAustinmn Facebook page, today.

Check out our jump in the past week!!

To acknowledge receipt we’ve generated a confirmation code for you to save to your computer.
Your confirmation code for response: City of Austin is aghmaWJlcnJmaXIUCxILQXBwbGljYXRpb24YqPKrAgw

As a rural community with a major corporation headquartered here we are fortunate to have economic stability, employment opportunities, and community support.  Google Fiber would take our community to the next level and be an example for other smaller communities in the country on what can be done with technology.

Google Fiber for Austin, MN is our future.

Chris Grev

Marketing & Communications

United Way of Mower County

					David M. Krenz – Superintendent of Schools
					Austin Public Schools – 401 Third Avenue NW – Austin, Minnesota 55912 Phone: (507)433-0966 – Fax: (507)433-0950 – Email: david.krenz@austin.k12.mn.us

March 25, 2010

To Whom It May Concern:

This letter is sent on behalf of the Austin Public School District to express our strong support of the Google broadband project proposal being submitted by the Google for Austin, MN, Committee. By way of background, the Austin Public School District is a PK-12 public school district which serves 4452 students and is proud of the high-quality education we provide to a diverse student population.

High speed broadband access will prove essential in our mission to educate our students for a global economy.  As Austin Public Schools are currently experiencing growth and intense demographic change, we have to move beyond the traditional structures of education and provide e-learning experiences for our students.  If educational institutions do not provide the high speed access to students, we are in jeopardy of not only losing the competitive edge, but also could possibly lose students to online learning opportunities.  It is in our best interest to stay competitive in the global market and support teachers and students with opportunities to communicate, collaborate and cultivate technological skills for the 21^st Century.

We hope that you will award Austin, MN, as a Google Fiber finalist for the high-speed broadband network as proposed. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely

David M. Krenz

David M. Krenz

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The company is urging lovers of the SPAM(R) family or products everywhere to help amp up the presence of SPAM(R) products — the right kind, that is — on the Internet. Austin, Minn., the hometown to the SPAM(R) family or products is vying to become a Google Fiber City, a community willing to serve as a test bed for ultra-high-speed Internet access, so Hormel Foods is asking consumers to sign onto http://googleaustinmn.com , click on the “Nominate Austin” tab to support the hometown bid, and encourage others in their social circles to do the same. Voting ends on Friday, March 26.

“No matter where they live, lovers of the SPAM(R) family of products have a unique connection to Austin, where their favorite luncheon meat was born 73 years ago,” said Julie H. Craven, vice president for corporate communications at Hormel Foods Corporation. “Now’s the time for these fans to act as one and help us bring the SPAM(R) brand — and all of the other things Austin has to offer — to the rest of the world and vice-versa more quickly and with greater connectivity than ever before.”

Although it’s competing against much larger cities, Austin, Minn.’s diversity makes it an ideal candidate for Google’s Fiber City project. In addition to being home to Hormel Foods, the city offers a “heart-of-America” mix of large and small businesses, cutting-edge research and medical facilities, city-owned utilities and rural and agricultural interests.

To SPAM(TM) fans, though, Austin has a more important mark of distinction: It’s where 400 cans of their favorite food are produced every minute.

“We’re excited about Austin’s bid and want to give others an opportunity to be part of this movement,” Craven said. “That’s why we’re reaching out to the best fan base in the world: Who better than SPAM(R) lovers to make the Internet safe for SPAM(R) products again?!”

Dr. M. Saleem Bhat

Dr. Naomi Oi

Dr. Madhu Mottamal

Dr. Ann Bode

Dr. Yong Yeon Cho

Dr. Jinhui Zhang