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- ExpressionEngine Certification Program
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I’m pleased to announce that – along with the help of EllisLab – I’ve begun the groundwork of putting together a certification program for ExpressionEngine. The work is still in the early stages – but as it will be the focus of my involvement in some other upcoming EE events I needed to get it announced.
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- Startup Weekend West Michigan Wrapup
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Looking at the clock as I write this it’s been right around 24 hours since we finished emptying trash, packing up, turning off the lights and locking the door on Startup Weekend West Michigan.
I needed that time to catch up on sleep, re-connect with my family, and just sort of let the experience sink in before I could begin to gather my thoughts for this post.
Even now I can’t quite figure out how to summarize, analyze or synthesize anything out of the weekend because all I keep doing is shaking my head and wondering - “Did that all really happen? And in roughly 48 hours?” Amazing!
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- Our Digital Heritage: Blessing or Burden?
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What you see above is the scanned-in image of a postcard mailed by my grandparents to one of my grandmother’s sisters while they were traveling in 1957 (interesting to note the lack of a house address or zip code). I scanned it in because it’s one of the few samples I have of my grandmother’s “voice” and handwriting and I wanted my kids to be able to see it. Scanning it was a great way to both preserve it, back it up, and not have to worry about storing the physical postcard.
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- Frustration with Foursquare
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Over the last couple of weeks a couple of new site/service/apps have started getting popular on Twitter - and it’s causing me a bit of frustration. Since 140 characters is too short to explain myself, a blog post was in order.
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- Startup Weekend: West Michigan
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Huh…I announced this on Twitter a few days back but seem to have neglected announcing it here as well.
So - I’m happy to announce that along with the ElevatorUp folks I’m getting the ball rolling on hosting Startup Weekend in Grand Rapids on February 26th - 28th.
What is it?
48 hours of pure business-building madness.
There’ll be speakers, food, whiteboarding, coffee, ideation, creation, bootstrapping, networking, learning, teaching - and overall just a loud buzz of activity that will hopefully burst forth with new businesses, new relationships and some positive press for the West Michigan area.
Encouraged to attend are: techhies, marketers, lawyers, business folks, designers, doctors, dentists, linemen, bowling alley managers—anyone with a passion for business and a chance to have a great time. If your business would like to sponsor the event please contact me. I’ll be calling you anyway…you might as well beat me to the punch..;)