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Keith Woolcock, founder of 5th Column Ideas, a technology research firm, says “Google has become the Microsoft of its generation: big, bad and quickly becoming irrelevant.” You’ll never hear the same said about Detroit music. Read More

Facebook users are being advised to change their passwords after it was discovered that spare keys to user accounts were accidentally leaked to advertisers. Read More

A few months ago, Jamawn (Jay) Woods was just another Detroit anecdote, a classic lead on a tired story. This week, he’s transformed from stereotype to superstar.

That’s American reality television for you. I prefer another take – this is what the real Detroit is all about. Read More

Detroit is growing the IT ecosystem and Tracy-Ann Palmer is playing a leading role.

When Palmer moved to Detroit seven years ago, she was surprised to see how few opportunities existed for C-Level Information Technology (IT) executives to network with each other. That surprise begat action, and Read More

If Shifting Gears had been around when I was younger, I swear I would never have entered a rodeo and ridden an unbroken wild horse in front of a few thousand amused onlookers. Read More

Or try to be the next Old Spice guy. Or the next.. anything. This question came up at a meeting this week, where a business contact asked, “How do I become the next Stephen Clark?” And I said.. you don’t. Read More

I am against wholly third party managed Twitter, Facebook and other accounts. Because they simply don’t work as well.

I know. Some of my colleagues in the space are having a heart attack right now. But I don’t care as much about my company’s bottom line as I do the client’s, and the maximum bene Read More

Walking into the classroom at Ann Arbor’s Skyline High School, I was a bit hesitant. I’ve been to a lot of “entrepreneurship” events, and I’m admittedly a cynic around the value of many panels.

This day, I had no reason to be hesitant.

Here are some of the key takeaways from the session.. Read More

A major part of combating a national fixation on ruins and the “bad” side of Detroit is showing images and creating storylines that are just as compelling and show the rest of the city. Read More

You and your marketing team come up with what you think is a killer hashtag to try to spread the word about something. (Not sure what a hashtag is? It’s a way that you can, by putting the # sign before a word, make it easy for people see the entire public conversation about a topic on Twitter).

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