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Adrian Pittman
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Albert Abbou
Albert Abbou - Post 1: My First Real Lesson in Life
Albert Abbou - Post 2: What now?
Albert Abbou - Post 3: Why Michigan?
Albert Abbou - Post 4: Explaining IP Law
Albert Abbou - Post 5
Amanda Edmonds
Post 1: Not Your Average Rosy Speech
Post 2: Good Deeds = Good Seeds
Amanda Uhle
Post No. 1: It's Really Free?
Post No. 2: Tall Tales & True Stories
Post No 3: Tall Tales & True Stories (continued)
Post No 4: The Many Faces Of 826
Post No. 5: 826Michigan The Movie
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman - Literacy In Michigan, It's Worse Than You Think
Amy Goodman - Post 2: The Case for Each One, Teach One
Amy Goodman - Post 3: Literacy builds sustainable communities
Andrew Brix
Post 1: A Conservation State of Mind
Post 2: The LED Revolution
Post 3: Keeping PACE
Andrew Clock
Post 1: The Model Volunteer
Post 2: Long Live Ypsi!
Post 3: Spearheading the Water Street Trail
Post 4 - Michigan Roots Jamboree: Politics, a name change, and pride
Angela Kujava
Angela Kujava - Post 1: Employers—talk money even when there is none to give
Angela Kujava - Post 2: Speaking of those social safety nets
Angela Kujava - Post 3: Serve rather than preside
Anya Dale
Anya Dale - Post 1: Who Is Ann Arbor For?
Anya Dale - Post 2: Playing Up The Huron
Anya Dale - Post 3: Washtenaw Avenue Potential
Anya Dale Post 4: Washtenaw Avenue
Aren Stobby
Aren Stobby - Post 1
Aren Stobby - Post 2
Bob Guenzel
Post. No 1
Post No. 2: Literacy in Washtenaw County
Post No. 3: The Eastern Leaders Group
Post No. 4: Summer, Finally
Brian Tolle
Brian Tolle - Post 1: To Be An Innovative Entrepreneur
Brian Tolle - Post 2: Start Behaving…Like An Innovative Entrepreneur
Brian Tolle - Post 3: Business Dynamics Ripe for Innovation
Brian Tolle - Post 4: Spotting Opportunities for Innovation Final Exam
Carless Commuters
Post 1: Jeff Gaynor
Post 2: Conan Smith
Post 3: Lynne Fremont
Post 4: Nancy Shore - The Commuter Challenge: What's the Point?
Catherine Juon
Catherine Juon - Post No. 1: Setting up your business for a great yields
Catherine Juon - Post No. 2: Measuring the Yield of Your Online Marketing Efforts
Catherine Juon - Post No. 3: Is working in a woman owned company different?
Chad Wiebesick
Chad Wiebesick - Post No 1: Advertising & Marketing In A2
Chad Wiebesick - Post No 2: How Would You Rebrand Detroit?
Chad Wiebesick - Post No 3: Michigan’s Growing Film Industry – How Ann Arbor Marketers Can Get a Sli
Chad Wiebesick - Post No 4: Ann Arbor Advertising Awards Show Honors the Best in Creative Excellence
Conan Smith
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Dan Wickett
Post 1: Dzanc Books Defined
Post 2: New York is NIMBY and that's just fine
Post 3: Beyond the desk: Authors head up community outreach programs
Daniel Moulthrop
Want to fix education? Start with teaching.
David Lahey
Post 1: Cafeteria fries be gone! New growth in the Farm to School Movement
Post 2: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Donald Harrison
Post 1: Michigan Plays Los Angeles
Post 2: Film Beyond the Formulas
Post 3 - Ann Arbor Illuminated: 50th Anniversary of the AAFF
Doug Neal
Post 1: Simulate This
Post 2: Entrepreneurial Distractions
Dug Song
Dug Song - Post 1
Dug Song - Post 2: Ann Arbor - The Curiously Startup (and Skatepark ;-) Deficient Community
Ed Vielmetti
Post No. 1: Why I Blog
Post No. 2: Civic Wikis
Eli Cooper
Post 1: Why we need to step in Complete Streets
Post 2: From celebrating a baby's first steps to celebrating all walks of life
Post 3: One car = A dozen bikes
Post 4: Train commute talk isn't just whistling Dixie
Post 5: Transportation Map for 2041
Elizabeth Ziph
Post No 1: So What Do You Do Here?
Post No 2: Evangelism & Choice
Post No 3: Commercial Open Source Software?
Post No 4: ISO 9001:2000 Certification
Post No. 5: What's the culture of your small business?
Gene Alloway, Robin Agnew, & Bill Castanier
Gene Alloway - Opening Up the Book Festival
Robin Agnew - The Bookseller Backbone of Ann Arbor
Bill Castanier - Book City, Ann Arbor
Gretchen Driskell
Please Loiter
The Train Stops Here
We Built It So They Would Come
What Makes a 21st Century Community?
Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston (NEF)
Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston - Post 1: Who are the new entrepreneurs?
Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston - Post 2: Who are the professionals who serve entrepreneurs?
Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston - Post 3: It’s who you know that really counts
Jason Bing
Post No 2: Very Different Messengers, One Message
Post No 1: A Municipal Energy Bond for A2?
Post No 3: Washtenaw County’s "Deep Green" Talent
Jason Stewart
Jason Stewart - Post No 1: Finding The Tech Community
Jason Stewart - Post No 2: Music Mecca
Jeff Helminski
Jeff Helminski - Post 1: Why I Live Here
Jeff Helminski - Post 2: Don't Assume It'll Happen
Jeff Helminski - Post 3: If you attract them, prosperity will come
Jeff Helminski - Post 4: What if we did something radical?
Jeff Kass
Post 1: A Perfectly Knuckleheaded Rationale
Post 2: Reinventing the Ann Arbor Book Festival
Post 3: One of the Big Problems I have with School
Jeff McCabe
Jeff McCabe - Post 2: From Plot To Plate
Jeff McCabe - Post 1: It all started with pastrami
Jeff McCabe - Post 3: Investing In Our Farms
Jeff Meyers
Jeff Meyers - What Is Ann Arbor's Artistic Identity?
Jennifer Cornell
Jennifer Cornell - Post 1: Dear Michigan
Jennifer Cornell - Post 2: A Balanced Diet For Michigan
Jennifer Cornell - Post 3: Let's Joust
Jenny Koppera and Erin McDonald
Post 1: Youth Voice In Our Community
Post 2: What is YOUR Truth?
Post 3: Figuring out the In-Between
Jeremy Peters
Jeremy Peters - Post No 1: A Bit More Cooperation
Jeremy Peters - Post No 2: The tale of two (or more) downtowns
Jeremy Peters - Post No 3: Michigan's Unkindest Cuts
Jesse Bernstein
Jesse Bernstein - Post 1: Where Are We Going?
Jesse Bernstein - Post 2: Let's Not Get Ahead Of Ourselves
Jesse Bernstein - Post 3: The Future Is Ours
Jessica Soulliere
Post 1: Rising Stars vs. Rock Stars
Post 2: Connecting With the Rockstar in You, and Your Community
Post 3: Getting on the Tour Bus
John Austin
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Post No. 5
Jon Zemke
Jon Zemke - Dear Mr. Mayor...
Josie Parker
Josie Parker - Post 1: The Fate & Funding of Public Libraries
Josie Parker - Post 2: Downtown Development & The Library
Josie Parker - Post 3: Will public libraries exist at the turn of the next century?
Joy Naylor & Diane Bennett
Post 1: Art Speaks About Your Business
Post 2: Artists Up Close and Personal
Post 3: Joy Naylor - Feng Shui Design is Energy
Justin Fenwick
Post 1: A Third Way to Look at Art
Post 2: You Want Free? At What Cost?
Post 3: Social Media, the Bellwether of Generation Gaps in Organizations
Karim Motawi
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Ken Kozora
Ken Kozora - Post 1: Horns For The Holiday
Ken Kozora - Post 2: EcoHistory
Kirk Westphal
Post 1: Why Banks And Offices Are The Bane of Downtown
Post 2: It's okay?I napped through Civics too
Post 3: Why Peak Oil is the most important thing you'll never hear
Larry Eiler
Post 1: What A Difference A Decade Makes
Post 2: How Things Turned Around
Post 3: Getting On The Right Path
Laura Rubin
Post No 1: So, How's The River
Post No 2
Post No 3: Dams, Dams, Dams
Post 4: Bringing it home
Lawrence Almeda
Lawrence Almeda - Post 1: A Defining Experience
Lawrence Almeda - Post 2: More Work to be Done
Lawrence Almeda - Post 3: Enhance Your Client Service Practices
Mahendra Ramsinghani
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Mark Maynard
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Mark Tucker
Mark Tucker - Post 1: What's Your Visual Literacy
Mark Tucker - Post 2: Curing Visual Illiteracy
Mark Tucker - Post 3: Festifools
Matt Grocoff
Matt Grocoff - Post 1: Ann Arbor’s Mission Zero
Matthew Naud & Jamie Kidwell
Matthew Naud: Sustainability hums with the cross-pollination of city departments
Jamie Kidwell: Ann Arbor has 200 sustainability goals... and counting
Matthew Naud: Sustainability? NOT!
Matthew Naud: Why the Huron is the cleanest urban river in Michigan
Jamie Kidwell: How Do You Measure Zero % Waste?
Mel Drumm
Mel Drumm - Post 1: The Magic Of It All
Mel Drumm - Post 2: Teamwork - Through the Eyes of a Cartoon Character
Mel Drumm - Post 3: Innovation – I’ll Choose Door Number…
Melissa Milton-Pung
Collaboration Is Not a Dirty Word
Will You Know This Place In 50 Years?
Lessons From the Back Seat
Michael Benham
Post 1: Mass transit isn't a horse of another color
Post 2: Sneak Preview – A Transit Vision for Washtenaw County
Post 3: What can the Transit Master Plan do for you?
Michael Drake
Post 1: Welcome to Kyrgyzstan
Mike Finney
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Molly Notarianni
Post 1: Mixing Community with Your Vegetables
Post 2: Hand-to-Mouth Economics
Post 3 - Food by the way of ice shanty: Farmers Market veterans brave the winter
Nancy Shore
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Nancy Short
Post 1: Ten Thousand Voices
Post 2: A New Year, A New Era
Post 3: The State Answers Its Citizens
Post 4: From Ten Thousand Voices to Ten Million Voices
Newcombe Clark
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Pam Labadie
Post 1: Save Water, Save Energy, Save Money, Save the Planet
Post 2: RiverUp! The Time Has Come
Post 3: The United Nations of the Huron River
Patrick McCauley
Post 1: What's the Difference Between Vermont and Michigan?
Post 2: Historic Neighborhoods, NIMBYs, and the Fleeing Young Professionals
Post 3: Old Buildings Aren't Throwaways!
Priya Gogoi
Post 1: The DeNovo Story: How an Indian, an Iranian and an American built an enterprise over tea
Post 2: How cancer led to innovation
Post 3: Children of the Dark Lord
Rebecca Lopez Kriss
Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 1: When Trees Grow Out of Your Gutters
Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 2: Underground Parking Blues
Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 3: Do something
Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 4: My Three Favorite Marketing Ideas for Washtenaw County That No One Lis
Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 5: A Plug
Richard 'Murph' Murphy
Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 1: The knowledge economy is not made up of hyphens and PhDs
Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 2: Educating for the local economy vs. education as export industry
Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 3
Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 4
Richard Murphy
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Rick DeVos
Rick Devos - Post No. 1: ArtPrize
Rick Devos - Post No. 2: Why Michigan Needs To Support The Arts
Rob Cleveland
Rob Cleveland - Post No 1: Tired of being number one? Tax incentives have to stay.
Rob Cleveland - Post No. 2: Film Industry Credits Take Time To Take Root
Rob Cleveland - Post No. 3: Supporting Health Care Reform: The Small Business Perspective
Robb Woulfe
Post 1: Ah, Yes, The Business of Show
Post 2: The Feds Are Using the "F" Word
Post 3: Our Festival's Future, Or Will "Capital Steps" Be Back in 2025?
Ron Suarez
A Purely Digital Play Business in the Land of Manufacturing
The Politics of Change and Upheaval in the Music Industry
A podcast is not just putting audio or video on a web page
So You're Thinking About Doing a Podcast
Creating your own podcast
Ryan Rybolt
Satish Malnaik
Post 1: If it's broke, DON'T fix it
Post 2: Preventive Maintenance for Health and Cars
Sean Mann
Post 1: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Post 2 - Simply Put: Place Matters and We Need to Create Better Places
Post 3: Personal Action and a Culture of Opportunity
Post 4: Advocating for Michigan and Appreciating What We Have
Post 5: Having Fun Arguing For Cities, the Arcade of Fire, and the Sexiness of Density
Sean Reed
From a Folding Chair to $55 Million in Funded Clean Energy Projects
Life With the Maasai: Why Feeding the Starved Doesn't Work for Long
"You Cannot Speak to a Frog in a Well about the Ocean"
Stephanie Chueh & Jordan Garfinkle
Stephanie Chueh: What King David Could Learn From Efficiency
Jordan Garfinkle: Passionate Young People as a Renewable Resource
Steve Pierce
Steve Pierce - Post 1: Why Do Most Free Wireless Efforts Fail?
Steve Pierce - Post 2: Building Ypsi Wireless
Steve Pierce - Post 3: Ypsi Wireless spreads the gospel
Steve Pierce
Post 1: What I Found In My Name
Post 2: The Squelching of Self-Employment
Post 3: What I think of our financial collapse
Tamara Real
Post No 1: What I Know
Post 2: The Business Of Art
Post 3: What Bugs Me
Tamara Real - Post 4
The Concentrate Team
Post No. 1: Paul Schutt
Post No. 2: Newcombe Clark
Post No. 3: Jeff Meyers
Post No. 4: Dave Lewinski
Thomas Meloche
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Tom Rieke
Planetary Coincidence
It Isn't Easy Being Blur
The Next 30 Years
Tracy Koe Wick
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Trenda Rusher
Post No 1: Access Points
Post No 2: Washtenaw County’s Katrina
Post No 3: Rethinking Customer Services In The Public Or Private Sector
Trevor Staples
Post 1: It's Yours To Do
Post 2: Yes, You Do Have a Care in the World
Post 3 - FAVORS: Fundraising and Volunteering for Organizations
Women’s Exchange of Washtenaw
Post 1: Carrie Hensel - Do Women Really Do Business Differently Than Men?
Post 2: Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Women Need to Know it Isn't Either-Or
Post 3: Marisa Smith - Build Your Own "Old Girls Network"
Post 4: Debra Power - The POWER of Women
Post 5: Carole Baker - Taking the WORK out of Networking
Jason Stewart
Jason Stewart is a student at U-M, pursuing his Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction. Jason weighs in with his thoughts on young talent in The Deuce - whether it's high tech or music.
Jason Stewart - Post No 1: Finding The Tech Community
Posted By: Jason Stewart
Posted: 3/18/2009
There is a lot of talent in Ann Arbor. Sometimes, you have to dig for it, but it's there. Not just in the universities or in the businesses either; there are talented people just sitting around. You might have seen one of these individuals at your local coffee shop… you know, the guy or girl whom you've seen sitting at that same table before, perhaps many times before, drinking the same low cost beverage while intently focused on their laptop screen in front of them.
Have you every asked one of these individuals what they’re doing?
I took the opportunity to speak to one of these individuals to learn more about this talented pool of people seemingly flying under the radar. Trek Glowacki can be found at
Bigby Coffee
on East Liberty at pretty much any time during the day on Monday through Friday. Point your nose in the direction of pomegranate tea and look for a black Apple MacBook without a power adapter.
"I never plug in, but I always need to," he admits. Trek is one of the many area software developers who are working on independent projects and using community or business places as their workspaces. For smaller organizations, such as Trek’s "Backtick" company which is comprised of himself and one other individual, it doesn't financial sense to go the traditional business route of renting office space and generating other overhead; his needs are few.
If you're a software developer, entrepreneur, and/or "ideator" and would like to get involved in this community, there are a number of monthly events you could attend:
Coffee House Coders is weekly event where software developers meet at coffee house to talk about ideas and help each other out with technical problems. More information can be found at:
http://a2geeks.org/display/geek/coffeehousecoders
A Python and Ruby user group meets on the first Tuesday from 7-9pm of every month to discuss programming related issues and ideas. Location of this event varies.
The Coworking Group is another programming interest group that’s been gaining some momentum lately. They meet at 118 S. Main on Wednesdays from 9am to 12pm.
Ann Arbor has a very rich independently inspired technical community; sometimes it just takes a little digging to know find out who they are and how to get involved.
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