Event Archive
January 2012
1/4/2012
Goal Setting! Making 2012 Your Best Year Yet
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
How to be productive, positive and passionate at home, at work and at life.
Every year, Terry Bean and Charlie Wollborg (both recent presenters at LA2M) host a series of goal setting seminars. We're happy to bring them back to Conor O'Neills and share this presentation with LA2M members. Admission to this event is $20. Tickets will be sold at the door. Price includes Lunch.
Is this going to be your year? Do you have a big dream, goal or resolution that you’re going to achieve in 2012? Good luck. You’ll most likely fail.
While most people set New Year’s Resolutions, a recent study showed only 12% achieve them. That’s less than 1 in 8. Luckily for us, there are a few tricks that can turn the odds back in our favor. Join us for GOAL! Making 2012 Your Best Year Yet – a goal setting workshop on Wednesday, January 4th. Learn how to be productive, positive and passionate every day. Get your business and life on track for incredible successes.
1/6/2012
Entrepreneurship Hour
Center for Entrepreneurship
Join MPowered and the Center for Entrepreneurship as they present Ted Dacko for an Entrepreneurship Hour.
1/10/2012
Ann Arbor OpenCoffee
Ann Arbor SPARK
This is a networking event for entrepreneurs, investors and those who work with innovation businesses, particularly in IT, cleantech and life sciences.
1/10/2012
Marketing Roundtable - Town Hall - The Knights of the Marketing Roundtable
Ann Arbor SPARK
We kickoff the 2012 Marketing Roundtable season with the ever-popular Town Hall forum, a lively Q&A session that's always timely and topical. Meet the "Knights" of the Marketing Roundtable who will field your questions on advertising, branding, marketing, PR, search, and more.
1/11/2012
Executive Networking: Gray Hair Management
Gray Hair Management
The Gray Hair Management® corporate mission is to help professionals get jobs. All of our activities are focused on this mission, whether it is to help organizations and recruiters find qualified candidates, provide our members with networking events and job leads, or to help individuals secure their next position with our exclusive Pathways Through Transitionsm Coaching program.
1/11/2012
Internships - The How's and Why's
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
Today, many companies are joining the trend in using interns as a way to achieve progress within the company. Student internships provide opportunities for students to gain experience in their field, determine if they have an interest in a particular career, create a network of contacts, or gain school credit. Do you own, or are part of a company, looking to jump into this new trend and hire interns?
Paul Jacques will answer the questions most companies have about internships. Some topics he’ll discuss include:
Decisions on paid, unpaid, stipend, or for-credit internships
• Hours in a typical internship
• Best seasons for internships, and when students are most looking
• Graduate and International students in internships
• Transition from internship to full-time employment
• Top trends companies are using
Paul will also speak on how companies can connect with MSU and other universities in Michigan to gather the best pool of intern candidates.
1/11/2012
BioArbor - Harnessing Information Technology to Create Breakthroughs in Healthcare
MichBio, Ann Arbor SPARK
The Power of Big Data:
Life science companies increasingly are driven by vast quantities of information. Are you trying to truly understand your data, leverage data to make your product easier to operate or change the behavior of your customers? You are not alone! Massive amounts of data need to be processed and analyzed to discover and develop new innovations, from therapeutics to devices to diagnostics. Even the representation of data creates better user interfaces, more useable diagnostic equipment and smoother, consistent operation. At this session, BioArbor probes the use of information technology in healthcare and the life sciences through a panel of experts who have successfully executed on all the products above. You’ll have a chance to ask our experts how they leveraged “big data” to build successful products in the life sciences.
1/11/2012
Fit for Life
Women Making Connections
Did you resolve to get in shape?
Maybe stay in shape?
1/13/2012
Entrepreneurship Hour
Center for Entrepreneurship
Join MPowered and the Center for Entrepreneurship as they present Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud for an Entrepreneurship Hour.
1/16/2012
Business Law & Order: Intellectual Property (Part II): The Keys to Technology Licensing
Ann Arbor SPARK
This is the sequel to SPARK’s popular IP–1 session in October 2011. In this installment, we will provide the keys to technology licensing and university technology transfer. Mark Malven of Dykema Gossett PLLC will start by explaining the essentials entrepreneurs need to understand about technology licensing. Jim Deane from the UofM Tech Transfer Office will then talk about the many opportunities that exist for entrepreneurs to acquire cutting edge technology from universities, and how to work with university tech transfer offices.
1/18/2012
"Small & Smart" Seminar Series
Ann Arbor SPARK
So you’re small and your resources are limited. You can still apply the tested and proven tools of sales and marketing to build your business and improve your bottom line. It’s a matter of being small … and smart.
1/18/2012
Blogging & Curation, Business Lessons Learned using Traditional and New Social Media Tools
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
A choice in social media for business today is blogging or curation, or some of both, or developing a hybrid. How do you make smart choices among traditional and the newest social media tools? In today’s discussion, Deb Nystrom, a local consultant and owner of the Social Media Learning Lab; and JT Pedersen, a product strategist and blogger with Tech.li; will illustrate & banter with LA2M on the practical applications of blogging and curating, and how these approaches help your business grow.
JT and Deb will demystify the blog and/or curate process and provide practical examples as well as what they have each achieved in just the past two years. You'll leave this session with a better sense of how social media "traditional" blogging tools (Wordpress, Twitter, LinkedIn) as well as newer social media curation tools (ScoopIt, Pinterest, paper.li) can help your business grow.
Come get first-hand exposure to how these tools are applied. See how two local professionals have used them. Then, ask yourself: What would be best for me to grow my business and help me move from an unknown to becoming a true partner to my customers?
1/18/2012
Refresh Detroit: How To Do Multisite Web Development and Promotion
Refresh Detroit
Join Refresh Detroit as we kickoff the new year with a discussion by Shane Sevo on managing and promoting your content across more than one website.
Which content management system should you use? How do you manage consistent branding across multiple sites, but still have a unique voice for each audience?
As Webmaster and Media Developer at Marygrove College, Shane has dealt with these issues. Learn what strategies he used, as well as the planning and development required to implement the decisions.
1/19/2012
How to Double Your Income Making 2012 Your Best Year Ever
Excellerate Associates
Over and over again I watch small business owners make easily correctable mistakes that cost them BIG — not only do they walk around discouraged, with empty wallets and few clients but they damage their reputation as a business professional and risk not getting their message out. The problem is, these mistakes aren’t always obvious. In fact, in the wide majority of cases, the owners don’t even realize what they’re doing is a mistake. But I’m here to correct all that with my BRAND NEW training call “How to Double Your Income Making 2012 Your Best Year Ever – avoiding costly marketing mistakes for good!” on Thursday, January 19 at 5 p.m. Eastern.
1/20/2012
Starting Your Own Business
Ann Arbor SPARK
At this forum you will learn about personality traits that impact entrepreneurialism, creating a marketing plan for your business, legal, accounting, and risk considerations, product development, business plans and financing options. You will have an opportunity to get advice from a variety of business experts and organizations that are available to support new ventures.
1/20/2012
Market Research Workshop
Washtenaw Community College Bailey Library
Learn to use print and electronic library resources to do market research for your business, including potential customers and competitors, as well as business-to-business marketing.
1/20/2012
Entrepreneurship Hour
Center for Entrepreneurship
Join MPowered and the Center for Entrepreneurship as they present Erol Ahmed and Verdi Ergun for an Entrepreneurship Hour.
1/20/2012
Startup Weekend Ann Arbor
MPowered Entrepreneurship
Build and launch business in 54 hours!
Come with an idea or join a team.
1/20/2012
Whither Installation
U-M Taubman College of Architecture
This symposium, organized by the Architecture Program of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is intended both as a survey and interrogation of the variety of scopes (historical, theoretical, discursive, and institutional) by which "installation" as a genre of work has been formulated over the last decade, and brings together a group of makers, teachers and thinkers whose work speaks of the relation of architectural production to the idea of the installation today. The hypothesis being tested is that installations have emerged, or have perhaps re-emerged, as the conceptual framework by which the discipline of architecture imagines itself. In the midst of the increasing institutionalization of the installation as a form of practice, pedagogy, and polemic, the question is, for a format that privileges means, what are the ends?
1/20/2012
Research Through Making Faculty Presentations
U-M Taubman College of Architecture
The 2011 Research Through Making Faculty research grant recipients were announced by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon and awarded to Taubman College architecture faculty on April 1, 2011. Five grants were competitively awarded for the production of a research or creative project that is predicated on MAKING.
The faculty will present their research on Jan. 20, 2012, at 6 p.m. with a reception following to view the accompany Research Through Making exhibition at Taubman College Liberty Research Annex, 305. W. Liberty St., at 7:30 p.m.
1/25/2012
2012 – The Year Mobile Changed the World
LA2M, Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
When is it time to take mobile seriously? That was last year! It’s 2012 and mobile has already officially arrived. The impact is being felt across all areas of business, online and off. Given all of its capabilities and its far reach into every facet of our lives, mobile could very easily become the most pervasive marketing channel we have ever seen.
Hi-tech GPS-enabled devices brought the web right into the local store, new types of mobile devices of all shapes and capabilities have opened up new ways for businesses to interact with their customers, and we saw mobile become a significant force in eCommerce.
1/25/2012
WordPress Ann Arbor - WordPress and Blogging
3.7 DESIGNS & Cake.ie
While WordPress continues to evolve as a web platform it's roots have always been in blogging. Come by this January for our expert blogging panel. We will have 2 - 3 long term bloggers discuss what they have learned over the years and mistakes they have made. The panel will be taking questions throughout the evening, or feel free to suggest questions on the event page.
1/26/2012
archiCRITICAL: Evolving Detroit's Architectural Discourse
rogueHAA, TechTown
rogueHAA is a design, architecture and urban advocacy collaborative. We are pleased to announce the next event in our 2011-2012 panel discussion series: Provocations: Challenging Detroit’s Design Discourse. rogueHAA would like to formally thank TechTown for their contributions towards archiCRITICAL.
1/27/2012
Entrepreneurship Hour
Center for Entrepreneurship
Join MPowered and the Center for Entrepreneurship as they present Andrew Bank and Gregg Hammerman for an Entrepreneurship Hour.
1/31/2012
Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship (ACE'12)
The Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship is the place where Great Lakes region entrepreneurs gather to network, learn and connect. Each year at ACE, you'll join an exciting, forward-thinking community of innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders – people like you — who have the vision and drive to build new ventures for a new future.