WordCamp Detroit 2011 is coming on November 12-13, 2011. Just like last year, the schedule is filling out nicely with great speakers and sponsors.  Get your ticket now – at only $40 tickets it’s a steal.

WordCamp Detroit 2011 will be held at Detroit’s own Renaissance Center.  The event will be on Saturday, November 12th and Sunday, November 13th, 2011.  We’re really excited about this year’s event and location!

For More Information and Tickets:
Website: 2011.detroit.wordcamp.org
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The Arc of Oakland County advocates for the rights and full participation of all children and adults with intellectual and other related developmental disabilities. We strive to improve systems of supports and services; connect families; inspire our community and influence public policy. We are a non-profit, charitable organization funded in part by the United Way for Southeastern Michigan, and through the kindness of our most generous individual donors.

Website: www.thearcoakland.org

Connect with the Arc on…
FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Arc-of-Oakland-County/228901763624
YouTube: youtube.com/user/ArcofOaklandCounty
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Are social media just for saying, “Look what I’m doing! See what exciting place I’m visiting! Don’t forget about me!”?Much of this is so very uninteresting. I just don’t care. But a simple shift and things start to attract my interest. Stop talking about yourself and talk about other people.I’m…

via Take A Moment To Brag About Someone Else.

Facebook announced the anticipated changes to Fan Pages. After a bumpy start — Page tab width was temporarily reduced to 492px, creating quite an outcry! — things seem to have settled down.

But as the dust settles, and Page admins begin to work within the confines of the new layout, one begins to see the downside to these new “improvements”…..

From www.hyperarts.com…

The Changes, as Presented by Facebook

• Photos at the top: The most recent photos that you post to the Wall of a Page you admin, or photos you tag your Page in, will appear here. This area will not include any photos posted by people who …read more
  

WordCamp Detroit Conference offers WorPress boot camp for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts.

Saturday and Sunday October 9th and 10th are the dates for the Detroit areas first WordCamp. This exciting new conference, held at the Novi’s The Rock Financial Showplace, will showcase both local experts and talent from around the country. Sessions include all key aspects to creating a website or blog in WordPress. It starts with an introductory application, moves into choosing themes for websites and blogs, finding affordable plugins to extend your site’s functionality, search engine optimization, social media and more. The conference has …read more

Children’s Leukemia Foundation of Michigan (CLF) is a statewide organization that provides information, financial assistance and emotional support to Michigan families affected by leukemia, lymphoma and related blood disorders. CLF offers a variety of services that help to meet the needs of its patients and families.

The primary focus at CLF is to support its patients, which is why the majority of funding directly benefits patients and families. Fundraising is crucial for continuation of CLF’s services. However, it is important to note that CLF does not phone solicit and donations the Foundation raises in Michigan stay in Michigan.

Website: www.leukemiamichigan.org

Connect with CLF on…
FaceBook: facebook.com/pages/Troy-MI/Childrens-Leukemia-Foundation-of-Michigan/60712243707?ref=ts
Twitter: …read more

Long time client Axis Records has gone social. Futuramic Media assists Axis Records in mapping out and maintaining their online social strategy. Instead of blanketing all outlets with the same information, Axis took a different approach, utilizing the strength of each social media channel for specific purposes.

Facebook
Mainly used for more industry and internal information. Since a lot of people in the music industry use this to communicate, we try to keep the content similar to talking about projects before they happen.
FaceBook page: facebook.com/JeffMills

MySpace
Mainly designed for all public access. The material that generally goes here is usually party/tour/release oriented announcements.
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The Sleeper Wakes is a project created by Jeff Mills that focuses on the proactive aspects in Electronic Music. Using the architectural concept of Compression – Release conceptualize by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mills creates a scenario whereabouts he makes a profound gesture through a concept entitled “One Man Spaceship” CD/Events – Womb/Tokyo 2005; an adventurous approach to Electronic Music by applying Classical orchestrations in ways that were uncompromising and without much explanation. Immediately following the debut this release, he choses to step back and disappear from the Japanese Electronic music scene for a scheduled timespan of (4) four years. In this time, Mills has been constantly creating a new style of music for the next and final phase of the …read more

One of our longstanding clients has been Slavik Management. With 8 apartment properties in Metro-Detroit/Ann Arbor, they wanted a web based solution so property managers could update the site themselves. They also wanted to update the look and feel and visually showcase their properties. We looked at all the solutions out there in terms of a Content Management System (CMS) and settled on Wordpress. The site is now live and was completely designed and built using Wordpress. Now we are at the phase of beginning the training process for the Slavik team.

On a related …read more

Planet E – Setting the standard for independent labels everywhere… This is the official website of Planet E Communications

www.planet-e.net