HOLLAND – Looking for a job in information technology? Want to move to West Michigan? You could be in luck according to the latest staffing survey done by Paragon Recruiting.
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KALAMAZOO - The Southwest Michigan Innovation Center and MichBio have teamed up to offer a quarterly series of networking and educational events for life sciences companies in southwest Michigan. The first event is scheduled for Jan. 15 at the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center.
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TROY - Barry Demp of Barry Demp Coaching will serve as a coach and facilitator for a new Mentoring Program that will be offered in early 2008 by ConnecTech, the successor organization to the GLIMA Network. To learn all the details about this innovative new program listen to this special edition of News Maker Interview.
LANSING - Dan Wholihan, founder of the Republican Michigander political blog, talks about how sites like his will reshape the political landscape in the 2008 elections. Wholihan will participate on a ConnecTech panel Jan. 8 with other political bloggers.
LANSING - Julielyn Gibbons, also known as Liberal Lucy, joins a webinar panel on Jan. 8 that will examine the role the Internet will play in the 2008 elections. Gibbons is the founder of a blog that champions Michigan Democratic Party causes, campaigns and politics.
TROY - Rick Pluta, the Lansing bureau chief for Michigan Public Radio, will moderate a ConnecTech webinar Jan. 8 on how new Internet communication tools will change the way politicians campaign in the 2008 elections.
TROY - Michelle Zellen, the communications and events director for Automation Alley, talks about the technology marketing and networking group that represents the 10-counties of Southeast Michigan. Zellen also discusses what Automation Alley can do to help technology businesses in this special edition of News Maker Interview, and the second installment on the new Automation Alley podcast channel.
LANSING - Ken Theis, who will become Michigan chief information officer on Jan. 1, talks about continuing the legacy of his former boss, Teri Takai, who will become California’s CIO in January. Theis outlines his agenda for 2008 and beyond in this special edition of News Maker Interview.
LANSING - A new Michigan energy plan is developing in the House, which could result in a bill by the end of the year. What the house is trying to do is keep alternative energy providers in the mix and not return the state to the monopoly control of Consumers’ Energy and DTE Energy. Terry Harvill Vice President, Regional Regulatory and Government Affairs for Ohio and Michigan, for Constellation Energy, the largest alternative energy supplier in the state, talks about what’s at stake in this News Maker Interview.
LANSING - Teri Takai, Michigan chief information officer, will leave her post on Jan. 1 to take the same job in California. Takai in this News Maker Interview talks about her five years in the Granholm Administration, what is left undone, and what challenges await her successor, the state deputy CIO Ken Theis, who will be on the show next week.
TROY - ConnecTech replaced the GLIMA Network throughout Michigan in December. Danielle DeLonge, the former GLIMA Network Manager, now heads up the ConnecTech chapters statewide. In this special edition of News Maker Interview, DeLonge talks about why the change was made and what new features it offers to former GLIMA members.
GRAND RAPIDS – David Brenner, former chairman of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest, has been appointed director of a new technology incubator under development by the University of Notre Dame, the City of South Bend and Project Future, the regional economic development organization.
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GRAND RAPIDS - Creative Byline, which uses proprietary software to match up people who write books and publishers who buy them, has appointed Keith Brophy, President of NuSoft Solutions, to its Board of Directors.
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GRAND RAPIDS - The City of Grand Rapids has pledged to obtaining 20 percent of its electric supply from Michigan-based renewable sources by the end of 2008, becoming the largest participant in Consumers Energy’s Green Generation program.
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GRAND HAVEN – eTool Developers has hired a new president, John Zinn who most recently served as director of marketing for Stillen.
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LANSING - Over the weekend, the Michigan legislature passed changes to the former Single Business Tax, now called the Michigan Business Tax, that included a surcharge to make up for a $700 million budget shortfall. If all of this remains confusing, we’ve got Brendan Ringlever from BL Government Affair’s Lansing office to explain it all to you.
HOWELL - Skip Simms, a senior executive with Ann Arbor SPARK, and the director of the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, said it’s a great time to be an entrepreneur in Michigan. Over the past half dozen years, more than a dozen Venture Capital companies have sprung up in the state, along with a half dozen angel capital investing groups and a myriad of start up incubators. All of these groups make it far easier now than at the turn of the century to start a life sciences, technology, homeland security and web-related services company in Michigan.
HOWELL - Marine Gen. Bradley Lott, the newly appointed Director of the Michigan Defense Contract Coordination Center, administered by the Michigan Economic Development Corp., thinks Michigan can again become the Arsenal of Democracy - like it was during World War II - by harnessing the expertise developed in the state’s dominant auto industry to build military hardware. It’s Lott’s task to bring federal contracts to Michigan and he thinks a new Marine Corps. vehicle now under review could become the first of many new manufacturing deals Michigan could attract.
