Great Plains Communications Residential Blog
Find ideas to maximize your Great Plains Communications services, tech tips, and learn about upcoming shows and other exciting trends and news in our bi-weekly blog!
BTN Bringing you the Spring Game this Saturday
If you aren't planning on being in Memorial Stadium this Saturday, don’t worry about missing the big Husker spring game. You can still catch every minute of the action with BTN and BTN2GO. The game will be televised on BTN at 1pm CT this Saturday, April 11, and don’t...
COMPTEL PLUS Business Expo 2015
COMPTEL PLUS is produced by COMPTEL, the leading industry association representing competitive communications service providers and their supplier partners. COMPTEL members are entrepreneurial companies driving technological innovation and creating economic growth...
Throwback Thursday: Forgotten Easter Television Specials
1. It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974) Leave it to Charlie Brown and friends to take part in the colorful traditions of Easter, such as painting Easter eggs and having an egg hunt. In case you forgot, Linus is determined to believe in the Easter beagle, as...
Easter Crafts by Disney
No matter if Easter is a celebration of your religious beliefs, or simply a time filled with sunshine, family and pastel colored eggs, it is quickly approaching. Has your Easter dress been bought? Have the eggs been dyed? Is the Easter menu planned? Great Plains...
5 Social Media 101 Tips for Businesses
Networking is no longer just updating your business card and dispersing as needed. It has become more than just rubbing elbows with fellow business owners at the annual banquet and making calls to potential clients. Today’s definition of networking includes an array...
Stay Informed with Severe Weather Awareness Week
It’s Severe Weather Awareness Week and Great Plains Communications wants to remind you of some important tips and procedures to help keep you and your loved ones safe during severe weather situations. We provide local Weather on Channel 2 through GPC-TV, bringing you...
Throwback Thursday: Great Plains Communications Comes to Blair
The year 1925, Main St. Blair, NE As a Throwback Thursday, Great Plains Communications (GPC) would like to look back on their beginning in Blair. As a four-generation company with 105 years of experience, GPC is proud to service 90 communities throughout Nebraska with...
5 Fun Facts about St. Patrick’s Day
No matter if you are 100% Irish, 10% Irish, or just enjoy the land of Saints and Scholars, St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday enriched with history and culture. Great Plains Communications wants to highlight five fun facts about St. Patrick’s Day and the origin of the...
Spring Cleaning your Computer
Has your documents folder become the junk drawer of your computer? You don’t notice until your once fleeting load time has become more of a bathroom break between tasks. Well, it’s that time of year. Open up the windows, let the fresh air in and clean out those pesky...
Troubleshooting Home Network Issues
Having problems with your Internet connection can be frustrating and confusing. After your first 12 tries at the refresh button, you restart the device. All that does is gives you a few minutes to contemplate just how frustrated you are. It still doesn’t work. Great...
What Sunspots Mean for You
As you watch a thunderstorm, it’s hard to miss the immense power from a strike of lightening. Most people aren’t aware that the Sun also has the ability to create a magnetic disturbance similar to lightening. When energy from the Sun expands, solar flares are created,...
Tech Home – Keep Your Technology Secure
Living in a world of technology has made it easy for us to stay connected. We have friends, businesses and online information all at our fingertips. Our lives have become a constant stream of emails and newsfeeds connected between multiple devices. Great Plains...