The very anticipated Startup Weekend Detroit will take place May 14 – 16 on the campus of Wayne State University. For those of you not familiar with Startup Weekend, it brings together a hodgepodge of creative and ambitious developers, Web and tech geeks, startup enthusiasts, marketing pros, business developers and jack-of-all-trades. Attendees are charged with… Read More

Ernie Harwell, a Detroit legend who was the broadcaster at Detroit Tigers games for 42 seasons, passed away on May 5. I didn’t grow up listening to Ernie’s voice on the radio as he gave the play-by-play at games. I don’t associate summers from my childhood with Ernie narrating the games like many baseball fans… Read More

Yesterday I featured Sharise Crumley as part of the Help a PR Pro Out event taking place this Friday on Twitter from noon to 2 p.m. ET. Today, Courtney Curran, a recent graduate from Michigan State University, is in the spotlight. What work experience do you have that makes you a great candidate for an… Read More

The first recent PR grad I’m featuring this week as part of the second Help a PR Pro Out (HAPPO) day event this Friday is Sharise Crumley. Sharise is from West Bloomfield, MI. She graduated from Howard University with a major in journalism and a concentration in advertising. Here’s my Q&A with Sharise: What work… Read More

Back in February, I joined the Help a PR Pro Out national initiative to help connect Michigan PR job seekers with companies that are hiring. I featured Angela Minicuci, a metro Detroit recent grad who was seeking a full time PR position, as well as my now current employer, Identity Marketing & Public Relations, in… Read More

Aside from my personal blog, I write for two other outlets: the Identity (my employer) blog id tags and Metromix Detroit. I decided I want to avoid sharing the same content on the three outposts, but I will break my own rule occasionally. 🙂 I wrote an Earth Day article for Metromix Detroit and featured… Read More

To say that FutureMidwest induced a whirlwind of emotions would be an understatement. This past week was crazy chaotic, but in the best way possible. For anyone who isn’t familiar with FutureMidwest, it was a two-day technology and knowledge conference (technically it was a conference, but I prefer “movement” because it meant so much more)… Read More

Imagine dogs of all breeds and sizes running around in contained quarters and having the time of their lives. Add in Yelp Detroit raising funds for the Animal Welfare Society of Southeastern Michigan and you have metro Detroit’s first Dog-Up, which took place this afternoon at Canine to Five in Detroit. The purpose of Dog-Up… Read More

There was an interesting op-ed piece titled The Sandra Bullock Trade in The New York Times this past week about happiness and what teams of researchers have discovered about happiness in the past few decades (hat tip to the Zappos for tweeting this article). One of the key research findings is that “worldly success has… Read More