Like a lot of businesses and families, I will not be sorry to say goodbye to 2009. The global economic collapse hit the commonwealth hard this year, and caused a lot of damage. But we stayed true to our values, adjusted promptly and responsibly, and, as a result, look forward to better tomorrows ahead in 2010. Here’s why.
BusinessWest Editorial
Let’s face it, 2009 certainly wasn’t anything for the business community to write home about.
For many, this was a year to simply hang in and hang on, a time when ‘flat’ translated into ‘pretty darned good.’ For businesses large and small, this was a time best forgotten — and soon.
The City of Holyoke has developed a promotional video to market the City to potential business, industry, realtors, and developers. The video/dvd, titled, “Holyoke: Green Business Grows Here”, touches on the city’s historic past as the “Queen of Industrial Cities,” while at the same time demonstrating that Holyoke, MA is the ideal place for any kind of modern business. You can view the video by clicking on the link below. The video is also on Holyoke’s website at www.hged.com/video, and you can contact the Holyoke Office of Planning and Development for more information.
Here at Xconomy, the stories we cover give us great ideas for networking events, and at our events we meet great people who give us ideas for more articles. Our Cloud3 Forum on Thursday was a perfect example. Every company on yesterday’s agenda is working on technologies we’ve chronicled—and will keep chronicling—in these pages, including Akamai, Allurent, Cloudswitch, EMC, Iron Mountain, Litl, Microsoft, Pixily, and Sonian.
