The BEV offers a wide variety of Internet-based services to Blacksburg area
citizens, civic groups, and non-profit organizations. Following is a list of
our most commonly requested services for community organizations.
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Email
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Individual mail accounts are available to anyone in the community for
personal or non-commercial use. Cost is $22.50/year. Addresses are of
the form jsmith@bev.net.
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Civic Web Sites
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The BEV offers two packages to community and civic organizations.
The standard Community Connections service provides groups with a web
site, two email accounts, and a mailing list for $20/year. The URL is
of the form http://civic.bev.net/your_group.
The premium Community Connections service provides a web site using the
organization's domain name, three email accounts, two mailing lists, and
an online calendar, for $87/year.
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Arts/Personal web sites
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A web site and one email account is available to artists, musicians and
for personal use, for $25/year.
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DNS
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Domain Name Service (DNS) is available for any organization, business,
or person in the Blacksburg area. See the DNS page for more information.
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MSAP (Multimedia Services Access Point)
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The Blacksburg MSAP is offered as a community service to ISPs. The MSAP
can provide dramatic network performance improvements for data traffic
that does not have to leave Blacksburg (i.e. local Internet traffic).
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Mailing lists
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Additional mailing lists are available to our Community Connections customers
for $12/year.
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Online calendars
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Fully interactive, forms-based online calendars are available to our
Community Connections customers for $18/year.
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Newsgroups
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The BEV provides a Usenet newsgroup server with several local groups.
Posting to these groups is provided as a free service.
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Online forums
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Online forums (discussion groups) are available for community and civic
organizations for $65/year.
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Online small group collaboration
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The BEV is currently testing a web-based small group collaboration tool
with a rich variety of features like shared calendars, shared address
books, project management tools, email, and many other features. If your
group or board is interested in using this system, write to BEV
Info.
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Streaming audio/video
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The BEV is currently experimenting with providing streaming audio and
video as a community service. If your group or organization is interested
in trying this service out as an experiment, write to BEV
Info.
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