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  1. Sound tech finds outlet at SDN for his love of electronics
    As a student, Chris Aeilts wanted to be a traveling sound technician for a big-time rock ‘n’ roll band. Playing in a band during grade school and high school helped him develop a keen interest in electronics and sound technology.
  2. School TV channels and service venture help Santel stand out
    It’s not unusual for Tony Kinneberg and his student crew to hear from TV viewers in other states or even other countries when they’re broadcasting a Parkston High School sporting event. Remote viewers are especially likely to tap into an online service to view local cable coverage when the school district’s TV channel is carrying a significant basketball game, says Kinneberg, who is the school technology coordinator and a teacher at Parkston.
  3. Employee training and development is a good investment
    Developing workers internally can help a company on multiple fronts. Good training can increase employee productivity and promote worker satisfaction. It also can enhance the appeal of the company, which is useful in attracting new employees.
  4. SDN networking equipment meets new, higher standard
    SDN Communications has achieved a level of networking certification that will help its business clients pursue local, regional and global opportunities.
  5. Employee health is valued asset at SDN Communications
    SDN encourages its employees to be active and healthy and not just with verbal encouragement. In addition to hosting wellness presentations and competitions for employees, the company offers its workers cash incentives for good health practices.
  6. Community service is big deal at small, future-minded co-op
    Community service is encouraged by example rather than by mandate at Midstate Communications in Kimball, S.D.
  7. DoD honors SDN for supporting SD Guard, Reserve
    SDN Communications accepts an Above and Beyond Award in recognition of extraordinary support of its employees serving in the South Dakota Guard and Reserve.
  8. SDN to help deploy, maintain microcell wireless technology
    You know the feeling. You’re at a crowded venue trying to text a friend, send a photo or simply pull up a web page. All you get is the eternal spinning wheel. Nothing goes through. Even with an unlimited data package, if the data network is maxed out by users, no one connects.
  9. Avera Health keeps information secure with help from SDN Communications
    It’s not surprising that hackers and data thieves are attracted to large, successful health-care systems. Hospitals and other health-care facilities are entrusted with enormous amounts of personal information about patients.
  10. School bandwidth needs rise along with computer use
    The Sioux Falls School District will begin the third year of its Student Technology Initiative in September with more broadband power than ever. Education officials determined last school year that middle schools, in particular, needed more Internet connection speed, and they will get it.
  11. DSU camp helps stir girls’ interest in field of cybersecurity
    Interest is running high in a cybersecurity camp designed for girls that will be held at Dakota State University.
  12. TrioTel provides big-time connectivity to a rural market
    Although TrioTel Communications Inc. serves a relatively small market in South Dakota farm country, its customers enjoy a level of connectivity that companies serving some of the largest cities in the United States cannot beat.
  13. Internship program helps SDN find, groom good employees
    Finding good employees is a constant challenge. One good way to combat the problem is to hire promising interns and groom them into full-time employees. SDN Communications is among the companies that has been making greater use of its internship program in recent years.
  14. At SDN Communications, everything starts with 'why'
    At SDN Communications, 'Enjoy the Uptime' is more than a slogan. Providing uptime for businesses is the bottom line.
  15. Golden West strives to keep huge area well connected
    Denny Law, chief executive officer of Golden West, jokes that his cooperative doesn’t convene many all-employee meetings. The gatherings would require employees to drive too much.
  16. Alliance Communications to begin new era of leadership
    Before 2016, Alliance Communications will begin a new era. The next chapter in the history of the telecommunications cooperative will start with a new leader. Don Snyders, longtime general manager of Alliance, has announced his plans to retire later in 2015.
  17. SDN Communications CEO Named Progressive Rural Network Evolutionary by International Publication
    OSP, a telecommunications trade magazine reaching an international audience, has named SDN Communications CEO Mark Shlanta a Progressive Rural Network Evolutionary.
  18. Kennebec Telephone Co. helps keep small town going
    Kennebec Telephone Co. Inc. is one of the smallest phone companies in South Dakota. It’s also the most diverse.
  19. 10 ways businesses benefit from SDN Ethernet service
    Ethernet technology has grown through the years to become a highly popular, industry standard in electronic communications.
  20. SDN edges SONIFI, but United Way is the real winner in contest
    SDN Communications won bragging rights and lunch for more than 100 of staff members by signing up more Heart Club members for the Sioux Empire United Way than SONIFI Solutions.