Greensboro Is Talking

Here’s your chance to help with Greensboro’s RFI application.  The city has provided the narrative portion of the application for folks to contribute/add/subtract.  Time is winding down so step in, see what’s there and add your golden nugget that will make Google want to come to Greensboro!

Tom Lassiter does an outstanding job showing Google why Greensboro is the right choice.

Got to wondering this morning why we’ve just been concentrating on promoting Greensboro’s efforts just on Facebook.  I realize that Facebook is the largest social network in the world and all that, but some targeted niche marketing might go a long way also.  Seems to me it might help if we spread the word among [...]

A small but diverse group met last night at the Greensboro Public Library to discuss ways to help bring Google Fiber to Greensboro…and that meeting has already shown results. Roughly a dozen citizens turned out at the session to share their ideas and brainstorm new concepts.  Assistant City Manager Denise Turner was on hand to share some [...]

Where: Greensboro Public Library – Central Branch  – 219 N. Church St. When: Thursday,  March 11, 2010 6:00pm-8:00pm What: Informal gathering of community members interested in sharing ideas on how Greensboro can distinguish itself from others in the Google Fiber for Communities Initiative. Who: Everyone is invited Why: The Greensboro Google Fiber Application team is meeting Friday (March 12) at 8am [...]

In an opinion letter to the News-Record today, Luke Shaver of Greensboro says:

I would like to have faster Internet, but I would rather not have potholes all over our city and not have my classes at Page High School torn apart by budget cuts. The idea behind this is nice, but the timing is anything but [...]

GIT would like to thank Fecund Stench over at Vie de Malchance for adding the Google Fiber Bar to his site. Click here for info on how to add it to your site and then let us know so we can add you to our blogroll.  Email me at theshu (at) gmail.com or leave a [...]

Greensboro is talking about bringing Google Fiber to town. Stay on top of the conversations with the Greensboro Google Fiber toolbar at the bottom of this page. Help us spread the word by putting the sitebar on your website as well. Here’s how: For standard .html pages: 1. Enter the following code above your  </body> in [...]