Expanding Opportunities for Collaboration
and Next Generation Access
May 7, 2004
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Worcester, MA
25th Year of Incorporation

About Our Guest Speakers
NELINET Keynote Speaker: David B. Liroff	DAVID B. LIROFF David B. Liroff is vice president and chief technology officer at the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts. Liroff joined WGBH in 1979, and during his tenure with the station, he has had senior management responsibility for broadcasting, local program production, creative services, membership, major gifts and capital campaign fundraising, and for national “how-to” program production. Currently, he is responsible for production services, engineering, information technology, telecommunications, digital asset management, and audience research. He is also credited for overseeing WGBH’s transition to digital production and broadcasting. Prior to joining WGBH in 1979, Liroff was director of broadcasting at PBS member station KETC-TV9/St Louis, where he was responsible for programming, production, and audience research. From 1971-1977, he was PTV program director at WOUB-TV20 at the Ohio University Telecommunications Center in Athens, Ohio and was an assistant professor in the College of Communication, School of Radio/Television at Ohio University. Liroff holds a Ph.D. in radio, TV and film from Northwestern University, a Masters in speech and theater from Brooklyn College/City University of New York, and a BA in political science from MIT.
NELINET Award and Distinquished Lecture: Ellen Goodman	ELLEN GOODMAN Ellen Goodman is a syndicated columnist whose Pulitzer Prize commentary appears in more than 450 newspapers. Goodman began her career at Newsweek as a researcher. She later landed a job as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press in 1965 and, in 1967, for The Boston Globe where she began writing her column. Her column was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group beginning in 1976. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary, Goodman has won many other awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award in 1980. She received the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in 1988. In 1993, at its Seventh Annual Exceptional Merit Media Award Ceremony, The National Women’s Political Caucus gave her the President’s Award. In 1994, the Women’s Research & Education Institute presented her with their American Woman Award. Goodman’s first book, Turning Points, detailed the effect of the changing roles of women on the family. Five collections of her columns have been published. Her most recent book is Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times (Simon & Schuster, 2004). She is also co-author with Patricia O’Brien of I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women’s Lives.

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