Digest Celebrates 15 Years; SSTI Now on Facebook

Fifteen years ago this week, the SSTI Weekly Digest launched with two pages faxed to a distribution list of 56. We faxed it on Fridays because, at the time, Sprint offered free faxing on Fridays. When we started the Digest, one of our board members expressed concern about not having enough material to produce a weekly newsletter; as it turned out, that's never been a problem. As technology has changed, so has the Digest, and we're always looking for the best ways to communicate and get out the news. It seems fitting that after 15 years of publishing the Digest, SSTI would launch a Facebook page. Betty White said on her Facebook-generated appearance on Saturday Night Live, "I didn't know what Facebook was. And now that I know what it is, I have to say it sounds like a huge waste of time." We promise that if you "like" us on Facebook, it won't be a waste of your time. It will be a primary mechanism for getting you the latest news as fast as we can. The Digest will remain the weekly source for the most important news to the tech-based economic development community, but Facebook will provide us an opportunity to get breaking news to you (and some news about SSTI) as soon as we learn about it. So take a moment, Facebook users, and join us by going to http://www.facebook.com/ssti.org.

Oh, and if you're interested in seeing the very first issue of the Digest (and the original distribution list), go to: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/2011/firstdigest.pdf. From our avid supporters who have read nearly every article over the last 15 years to our new subscribers who may have just read their first Digest article, we sincerely thank you for your readership.