Boyink! - Spring Forward on the Web

I’m very happy to announce that Garmin - a global leader in the GPS navigation, communication and sonar device industry - has hired Train-ee to lead ExpressionEngine training for its staff. 

I’ll be spending a week of August at Garmin’s headquarters in Olathe, Kansas teaching a mixed team of IT, Marketing and Communication folks the essentials for developing websites using EE.

My greatest fear at this point is getting lost trying to find the conference room…;)

Wow…a blog post..how do I do this again? ;)

This week I’ve been involved with in a couple of conversations around the web that have served to remind me just how young the web is.  While other mediums of communication have had years to grow, evolve and be studied the web is still so young. In each conversation I found myself wishing some better research had been done to provide clearer direction.  Here are the two assumptions I’d like to see proved out with high-quality research studies.  If they exist and you can link me to them then I’d be eternally grateful.

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I’m pleased to announce that another ExpressionEngine class has successfully wrapped up - this one out in beautiful Portland Oregon.  You can read a more lengthy post regarding the class over on the Train-ee blog or just skip to the pictures on Flickr.

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.

I came across this site and idea yesterday and was immediately hooked.  Take the vibe of a BarCamp and focus that energy on something deliverable.  So—I decided to see if I can get the ball rolling on a StartupWeekend for West Michigan.  I’m so tired of hearing news stories and advertisements that start with the words “in these tough economic times” that I want to do something to give the press and the West Michigan community something positive to talk about. 

So meet StartupWeekend:West Michigan.  I have no idea what it takes to pull one of these off, but have scheduled an initial meetup for July 1st, 4:00PM at the HopCat in Grand Rapids.  If you have any interest in helping plan or just attend a StartupWeekend event come on out to join the discussion.

I’ve been quoted - along with several other local W. MI web-heads - in an article on Rapid Growth Media.  No almost-scary photos though…;)