SOUTHFIELD ? Oakland County will host its first tech248 networking event January 20 at Blue Water Technologies in Southfield, kicking off a new partnership with MITechNews.Com.
Tech248, the brainchild of Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, will use MITechNews.Com, and its media partners, to tell the tech stories of thousands of tech entrepreneurs and companies in the state?s second most populous county. Tuesday?s event starts at 9:30 am and features Jason Raznick, Founder and CEO of Benzinga.
By submitting press releases to at [email protected]
, Oakland County technology companies will reach a dozen Michigan technology news outlets at one time.
?Oakland County tech companies of all stages will now have the opportunity to put their latest developments in front of Michigan?s tech-savvy audiences.? Patterson said. ?With one click of the button, our tech companies can reach a dozen Michigan technology news outlets.?
Four technology news websites, three technology news podcast channels, two eNewsletters, an Internet radio station, a Clear Channel radio station, and the Michigan Talk Radio network comprise the distribution list. They include Oakland County?s Prosper newsletter, MITechNews.com, News/Talk 760?s (WJR-AM) Internet Advisor show (InternetAdvisor.net), Michipreneur.com, and ITintheD.com. Collectively, they reach more than 133,000 tech news consumers each month.
?We?re looking to cover what?s happening in Oakland County, one of the hot beds for technology activity in Michigan,? said Mike Brennan, editor and publisher of MITechNews.com. ?That not only includes what?s happening with Oakland County?s technology startups, but also any companies developing great technology products.?
A second tech248 is scheduled for Feb. 20 at Rochester Hills Production Company in Auburn Hills.
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