Wanted: Entrepreneurial Designers and Coders. Be part of Detroit’s next cool startup at SWD.
Originally posted by Charlie Wollborg on the TEDxDetroit LinkedIn group. I just had to spread it. I attended the first Startup Weekend Detroit a few years ago and had a great time and met some amazing people. I would recommend the event to anyone! We love to highlight the many cool startups springing to life [...]
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Help me climb 70 stories in the Fight for Air!
On March 4th, 2012 I am going to take on Michigan’s tallest building (the Renaissance Center) all the way to the 70th floor by climbing 1,035 stairs. I am climbing in the American Lung Association’s Fight for Air Climb to help raise money for lung disease research, education and advocacy. I am doing so because I [...]
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Time lapse: From the suburbs to the city – Detroit
Inspired by a video I stumbled upon years ago (can’t find the link anymore), I decided to bring everyone on a journey through an hour of my life every day. Detroit is a unique environment because the majority of people who work in the city live out in the suburbs. While talking to people that [...]
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TEDxDetroit Wrap Up
This last week I attended TEDxDetroit. An independently organized TED event held at Lawrence Tech University in Southfield, Michigan. The idea of TEDxDetroit is to spread positive ideas for the world from Detroit. Seating was limited and I was one of the lucky 150 hand picked attendees. Although the videos from all the speakers will [...]
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Refresh Detroit March Meeting
So I attended the Refresh Detroit meeting a few days ago in Ann Arbor, MI. The speaker was Barb Hernandez, User Experience Manager at TechSmith. She talked about refreshing the UI of SnagIt. SnagIt is a screen capture application for Windows. I am not familiar with too many trialware applications for windows since its not [...]
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