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
ROLLING MEADOWS ? TG Fluid Systems USA Inc. of Brighton has received a 2010 Award from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence maintaining global competitiveness throughout unstable economic conditions and positioning its organizations as leaders during the economy's recovery phase. AME?s Manufacturing Excellence Awards honor companies that demonstrate significant progress in their journeys toward enterprise excellence
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of Plex Online, the No. 1 rated SaaS manufacturing ERP software, has released a new new paper from researchers at Aberdeen Group that sheds light on the acceptance of software as a service (SaaS) ERP systems. The report is titled ?Leveraging SaaS ERP for Impressive Results? and is available
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
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
ANN ARBOR - While the nation's economy will gain some momentum in the second half of next year, it will take until 2012 before unemployment finally begins to subside, say economists at the University of Michigan. After losing more than 8 million payroll jobs from the end of 2007 to the end of 2009?the highest