128 THE POWER OF POSSIBILITY NISC | 50 YEARS OF INNOVATION AND MEMBER SERVICE Numbers in italics indicate images ——— A ABS. See iVUE: Accounting and Business Solu- tions ActivTrace, 93 Addison, Michaela, 81–84 addressographs, 44 Adidas, 88 Advanced Metering Infrastructure, 101 Agliata, John, 100 Aichele, David, 90 Alexa, 110 Alls, John, 56–57, 79 Amazon, 110, 114 American Diabetes Association, 60 American Heart Association, 60 “American Idol,” 35, 36 AMI. See Advanced Metering Infrastructure, 101 AMS. See Automated Mailroom Services Anderson, Jared, 112 Annual Meeting app, 85 Annual Membership Meeting, 5 AT&T breakup of, 35 NCRPC, 36 Aubin, Chet, 86 Automated Mailroom Services, 93 B Bakken oil field, 116 Barnes, Harry, 88 Barth, Denise, 34–35 Bartsch, Jason, 113 Basin Electric Power Cooperative, 8, 59, 65, 108 Bass, Linda, 15, 22 Beat the Peak Energy Challenge, 108–10 BEK Telephone Mutual Aid Corporation, 9 Bell telephone companies, 7, 35–36 Benhoff, Craig, 117 Bernard, Kaye, 4 Birdsall, Leon, 8 Birdsall, Ralph, 9 Bismarck-Mandan Young Professionals Network, 89 Blackman, Louise, 53, 55 Blanchard, Ken, 64 Blessing, Paul, 81 Bloomfield, Shirley, 112–13 Bogren, Jamison, 70–71 Bogren, Shanon, 70–71 Bonnett, David, 86 Bono, Char, 47 Boone Electric Cooperative, 108 Boyd, Leslie, 86 Brian Wolf National IT Learning Center, 64 broadband, access to, 110–13 Broadband Measured Service, 112 Brothen, Ron, 36 Bryant, Jeff, 85 BT2016 (Block-and-Tackle 2016), 92 Burd, Justin, 80 Burke, Deb, 61, 65 Burroughs mainframes, 15, 34 C CABs. See Carrier Access Billing CADP. See Central Area Data Processing Callaway Electric Cooperative, 85 CalltoOrder® , 51 capital credit refunds, 15 Capital Electric Cooperative, 64–65 CAPS. See Cooperative Attached Processing System Capturis, 89, 90 Carlson, Bruce, 20 Carney, Matt, 93 Carrier Access Billing, 36 cell service, in rural America, 45 Central Area Data Processing, 2, 9, 12, 13–14 cost management by, 38 culture of, 44 data transmission operations, 22 e-billing product, 39 mainframe computer room, 23 mainframe upgrading, 18 microcomputers at, 33 programming for, 16 Y2K, 40 Central Indiana Power, 63–64, 65 CenturyLink, 37 CFC. See National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation Christensen, Maynard, 9 CIS (Customer Information System-Utility), 69 Clark, Tony, 68 Clinton County Electric, 115 Clouse, Ray, 18–19, 36, 94, 95 Collier, Steve, 39, 45 Collins, Jim, 70 Co-Mo Connect, II Co-Mo Electric Cooperative, II, X, 100 comptograph, 8 computer age, co-ops moving into, 12–13 Computer Systems LLC, 90 Computerworld, 88, 94, 95 computing, evolution of, 24–25 Consolidated Telephone Cooperative, 9, 34–35 Cooper, Andrew, 111 Cooperative Attached Processing System, 30, 58 implementation of, 30 redesign of, 34 support for, 67 Cooperative Building Solutions, 45 Cooperative Cloud® , 108, 111 cooperatives belief in, XI, 44 business model of, 5–7, 29 NISC’s success with model, 121 principles of, 94 Cordeal, Joe, 60–61 Cornog, George, 9 Crabbe, Don, 6, 7 Cumberland Electric Membership Cooperative, 85 Custer Telephone Cooperative, 45 CyberAcademy, 111