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Have You Resolved to Blog in 2012? Small Business Bloggers Unite in Alexandria, Virginia.

By On January 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

So, you’ve created a Facebook Page, updated your LinkedIn profile, and you have a Twitter profile, yet you’re not swimming in “Likes” and “Followers” in either social network. While you hear about new Social Media sites launching every month, you feel it’s a waste of time to invest in every tech start-up that [...]

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DC Launches New Internet Infrastructure. Will it Help Anyone?

By On December 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

As you might very easily presume about me, I’m a strong proponent of advancing broadband and wireless Web access in the United States. So, when I learned that the DC government (using federal stimulus funding) launched their new high-speed, 100 Gb/s fiber-optic network, DC Community Access Network (DC-CAN), I was pretty excited. What’s 100 Gb/s? Let’s [...]

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