30th Annual Loudoun Small Business Awards Finalist Spotlight: SciGenie

by Andrea Winey

Thank you to Alicia McEldon, owner of SciGenie, for sharing your story. Congratulations on being a finalist for the 30th Annual Loudoun Small Business Awards! View all finalists here and event info here. Tell us the story of your business and how it’s evolved. As a working mother, I found myself searching for a high-quality after-school […]

30th Annual Loudoun Small Business Awards Finalist Spotlight: CodeLock, Inc.

by Andrea Winey

Thank you to Brian from CodeLock, Inc. for sharing your story with us. Congratulations on being a finalist for the 30th Annual Loudoun Small Business Awards! View all finalists here and event info here. Tell us the story of your business/nonprofit and how it’s evolved. In 2019, I started a government-focused services company specializing in big […]

Black Business Month: Biff W. Clark & Dennis Moore

by Andrea Winey

Thank you to Biff W. Clark & Dennis Moore, Co-Owners of Coefficient Technologies, LLC, for answering our questions! Learn more about the Chamber’s DEIA Committee and get involved here. Where were born and raised and, if it was someplace else, when and why did you come to Loudoun? Biff Clark – Born and raised in Omaha, NE. I […]

Asian-American & Pacific Islander History Month Spotlight: Jay Conolly, Voyint

by Andrea Winey

Thank you to Jay Conolly, President of Voyint, for answering our questions for this week’s spotlight! Learn more about Voyint here. Where were born and raised and, if it was someplace else, when and why did you come to Loudoun? I was born in Steubenville, Ohio, but was only there for a year. Following that, […]

Meet the ’19 SBA Finalists! TextP2P

by Andrea Winey

Congratulations to TextP2P for being a finalist this year for the 25th Anniversary of the Loudoun Small Business Awards! View the full list of finalists here. These awards will be held on November 8, 2019 at The National Conference Center. Register Here! TextP2P is a finalist for Technology Innovator of the Year. Post submitted by Owner, […]

Meet the ’19 SBA Finalists! Conflict Kinetics

by Andrea Winey

Congratulations to Conflict Kinetics for being a finalist this year for the 25th Anniversary of the Loudoun Small Business Awards! View the full list of finalists here. These awards will be held on November 8, 2019 at The National Conference Center. Register Here! Conflict Kinetics is a finalist in the Technology Innovator of the Year category! […]

2019 Committee Spotlight: Loudoun Technology Committee

by Andrea Winey

Thank you to Vanessa Wagner, Chair of the Loudoun Technology Committee, for answering a few of our questions. The Loudoun Technology Committee meets the 3rd Friday of each month at 9 a.m. Learn more about the Loudoun Technology Committee.   1. What is the mission of your committee in your own words? The Tech Coalition […]

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Leveraging Q&A to Take Advantage of Google’s AI Strategy

by Andrea Winey

By Kristine Jacobson, CEO, Conveyance Marketing Group Last year Google announced the addition of FAQ and Q&A formats to the structured data it collects from websites to generate “search snippets,” or “knowledge panels”. Websites with a question and answer function can now be featured in the carousel or right-hand panel views that the search engine […]

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Small Business and Cyber Security Threats: A David and Goliath Story

by Andrea Winey

Written By: Sindi Major-Martinez, CEO and Founder of CEM Solutions Group To learn more about the Loudoun Technology Coalition, click here. For many small businesses, dealing with cyber security can feel daunting and like an unfair fight.  Like David vs. Goliath, it can feel like we are weak compared to all the cyber threats out […]

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Policing the Cloud: Event Preview

by Andrea Winey

Thank you to Joel Scharlat for this blog post. Register for the event, “Policing the Cloud,” on October 29, 2018 here. Cloud computing is not a new concept (as a matter of fact, we’ve moved beyond the cloud to ‘fog’ computing for some applications, but we can discuss that more later). Within the information technology […]