WARREN - Social learning has become the latest application of social media functionality in the business world - the Next Big Thing. What exactly is social learning, whom is it appropriate for and how does it benefit organizations? When the phrase ?social learning? gets thrown around, what people are referring to is a learning environment
WARREN - Cloud computing services offer numerous potential advantages. Customers pay for such services on a subscription or on-demand volume basis, thereby eliminating the fixed costs associated with purchasing, implementing and maintaining IT capabilities in-house. The scalability of those services offers considerable appeal, too. At the Software as a Service (SaaS) level of cloud computing,
WARREN - Today, most independent software vendors (ISVs) are pondering their plan down the future software path called Software as a Service (SaaS). Some of these ISVs have embarked on the journey of re-architecting their software for SaaS and some are testing the waters with a few customers using hardware virtualization (such as VMware) that
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - The Business Performance 2.0 Executive Series will meet June 14 to discuss cost cutting and search engine optimization, blogs and Internet marketing. Seminar to be held at the Birmingham Tower, 280 N. Old Woodward, LL Conference Room, Birmingham, from 4 to 5:30 pm. Seminar Details: June 14, 2011 from 4:00 pm to
MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan and all states need to do seven things to be considered business-friendly, Michael Porter, a top business professor at Harvard, told the Detroit Regional Chamber Policy Conference. None of the seven items directly had to do with lowering taxes, and some should not have to cost the state any money, he
MACKINAC ISLAND - A nationally known educator who has developed a pioneering school in Harlem said the United States will destroy itself if it fails to take full notice of demographic trends and educate children to meet the challenges those trends will mean. Geoffrey Canada, president of Harlem Children's Zone, said that by 2040 the
MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan's new budget has put the state in a better position fiscally than many other states, Budget Director John Nixon said, and after a decade of struggling with budgets Michigan now finds other states contacting it to see how it constructed its 2011-12 budget. Nixon, who will join Governor Rick Snyder in
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder has asked the Michigan Supreme Court for a wide-ranging advisory opinion on the constitutionality of taxing pensions from public sector jobs that will take place under the tax legislation he signed into law. Snyder's request, filed Tuesday, should short-circuit an expected attempt by public employees to file litigation against the
MACKINAC ISLAND - Nobody is quite ready to claim victory for a new international bridge in Detroit but supporters have expressed confidence that legislation authorizing the bridge will win passage, and legislators once solidly opposed to the project are taking a more open stance on the proposal. With getting a new bridge, called by Governor
MACKINAC ISLAND ? Michigan's businesses will have new ways to buy and sell, raise capital, and connect with each other through the $3 million Pure Michigan Business Connect initiative announced Thursday. Huntington National Bank's guarantee to loan $2 billion over four years for commercial and small Michigan-based companies, makes up the bulk of it. Governor