Sacred Wind Communications, Inc., a New Mexico telecommunications company, has completed its installation of new telecommunications equipment that enables it to provide high-speed Internet service to 97 percent of its customers.

This is up from less than 2 percent coverage when it started its operations in December 2006. Over 2,500 homes and businesses, mostly on Navajo lands in northwest New Mexico, are now able to order broadband.


New Mexico Community Capital has named Michael Emerson as its nonprofit executive director. He will join NMCC on Sept. 1.

Emerson is currently senior director of business development with ABS Consulting, an independent global provider of risk management services to commercial and government clients.

Emerson will work to develop and implement NMCC's nonprofit vision. He has an in-depth working knowledge of New Mexico's vast and growing technical and scientific resources, an e-mail said.

For more information, about NMCC visit info@nmccap.org or call 505-924-2820.


The SBA's upcoming Web chat will highlight small-business health care with a focus on how the Affordable Care Act can benefit small-business owners through available tax-saving incentives.

John Tuzynski, chief of employment tax and specialty programs for the Small Business Self-Employed Division at the Internal Revenue Service, will host the August web chat.

SBA's Web chat series provides small-business owners with an opportunity to discuss relevant business issues online with experts, industry leaders and successful entrepreneurs.

The event will take place 11 a.m.-noon Thursday MDT.

Participants can join the live Web chat by going online to www.sba.gov, and clicking "Online Business Chat." Web chat participants may post questions before the chat by visiting http://web.sba.gov/livemeeting/Aug10/ and posting their questions online.


The New Mexico Department of Veterans' Services and several business organizations will present a seminar titled "New Mexico Franchise Opportunities: A Seminar for Veterans, Women and Minorities" Saturday at the Hotel Albuquerque, 800 Rio Grande Blvd. NW in Albuquerque.

Subtitled "How to be in Business for Yourself, but not by Yourself," the program will have information about the fundamentals of running a business franchise, how to apply to be a franchisee, and more.

The seminar is from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. Registration is $25 and includes a continental breakfast. (According to the International Franchise Association, the normal cost of this event is $150). For more information, call NMDVS Veterans' Business Resource Center Director Lloyd Calderon at (505) 841-2956.