YPSILANTI - The Michigan Usability Professional Association invites you to another evening of networking and fun on December 8th at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti. Enjoy the networking aspect of our meetings? Feel like the speaker or panel gets in the way of the good stuff? This is your chance to skip the speaker and
ROCHESTER ? Business consultant Dan Walker, author of "The Customer's Way," will share his proprietary process Nov. 30 at 4 pm at the Mind, Body & Spirits ? Inspired Dining. Enjoy thought-provoking presentations, exciting announcements, and high-powered networking with other green business and community leaders, at a world-famous eco-conscious restaurant. The MI Green Team Meeting
TROY ? THE Center for Computer Resources has hired Richard Rodriguez as a Service Desk Engineer. Rodriguez possesses proficiencies in the implementation, analysis, optimization, administration and troubleshooting of Windows Operating Systems as well as Server and Desktop Hardware. Prior to his employment with CCR, Rodriguez worked as an IT Support Technician and Field Support Technician
ANN ARBOR - ForeSee Results announced the creation of a new benchmark for its proprietary Social Media Value Calculation that allows clients to quantify the direct impact of their social media marketing efforts on revenue going beyond traditional social media metrics such as referring URLs or raw counts of tweets and Facebook followers. "The Social
ANN ARBOR ? WriteSteps won the Best of Boot Camp Nov. 18 at the Ann Arbor SPARK Boot Camp program at the SPARK Central business incubator. WriteSteps will receive $5000 in business consulting services. WriteSteps addresses the demand for curriculum programs providing K-5 teachers with the most effective techniques and strategies to meet National Common
LANSING ? Gov.-elect Rick Snyder has said he wants to see state employee wages both in line with the private sector and affordable, but he will have to sort through some conflicting information in determining what that level is. Snyder, at a Republican Governors Association meeting this week, said he wants to work with state
ANN ARBOR - Senate Fiscal Agency Director Gary Olson said Friday that Governor-elect Rick Snyder and the incoming Legislature will have to make the massive, painful and necessary structural changes that are overdue for state government. Olson, who is retiring at the end of the year after two decades at the helm of the fiscal
ANN ARBOR - Government assistance to General Motors and Chrysler enabled orderly bankruptcy proceedings and led to the saving of more than 1.14 million jobs in 2009 alone, according to a new study from the Center for Automotive Research. The research also showed the bailout averted huge unemployment and welfare payments and as a result
ANN ARBOR - State policymakers could better coordinate with local economic developers to improve the economy by cultivating existing businesses in their communities, a new report from the University of Michigan says. The report from the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy indicates more local jurisdictions are using "economic gardening," a new strategy to
DETROIT - Detroit Edison has issued a Request for Proposal to add more Michigan-based renewable power to the company's energy portfolio. The notice of intent to bid is due Jan. 21, 2011. The utility is seeking about 245 megawatts of renewable energy from wind, solar, hydro, biomass or landfill gas facilities that would be operating