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 - After losing nearly 850,000 jobs since 2000, the Michigan economy will gain jobs next year for the first time in more than a decade, say economists at the University of Michigan. "It is our sense that we are now approaching the turning point from negative to positive net job creation," said George
ANN ARBOR - The Great Recession may have technically ended with gross domestic product growing again, but consumer attitudes and expectations remain at such historically low levels that the current economic situation still resembles a recession, one of the nation's leading experts on consumer economic sentiment said Thursday. Unlike the 1990-91 and 2001 recessions, the
PORTAGE ? Manatron has been awarded the contracts for Iowa's Polk and Linn counties, which will use Manatron's GRM integrated property tax software and related professional services. No dollar value was announced. Through a competitive RFP process, Polk County selected Manatron. Polk, Iowa's largest county, which also includes the state?s largest city (Des Moines), serves