BroadbandCensus.com, the Mission Small Business Contest, and the Need for Better Broadband

June 27, 2012 – Small businesses are the livelihood of any thriving economy. Increasingly, these start-up businesses need access to broadband to drive their products and services. BroadbandCensus.com has been no exception to this rule.

BroadbandCensus.com has always been focused on ensuring that the public has access to the information that it needs about the speeds, prices, availability, reliability and competitive position of broadband providers.

And now, using broadband and social media, we encourage each of you support BroadbandCensus in our application for the Chase Bank and Living Social competition, “Mission: Small Business,” Make sure to log-in and search for “BroadbandCensus”!

For more background about the work that BroadbandCensus.com has been engaged in, since 2008, please see this series of articles, published in the fall of 2009.

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2009/09/broadbandcensuscom-leading-the-charge-for-public-and-transparent-data/

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2009/09/broadbandcensuscom-starting-the-ball-rolling-on-crowdsourcing/

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2009/09/%E2%80%98broadband-census-for-america%E2%80%99-united-scholars-and-state-officials/

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2009/10/broadbandcensuscom-setting-the-table-for-the-national-broadband-plan/

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2009/11/broadband-census-launches-broadbandbreakfast-com-for-news/

Drew Clark is the Chairman of the Broadband Breakfast Club, the premier Washington forum advancing the conversation around broadband technology and internet policy. You can find him on Google+ and Twitter. He founded BroadbandCensus.com, and he brings experts and practitioners together to advance Better Broadband, Better Lives. He’s doing that now as Executive Director for Broadband Illinois, based in Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield.