Category Archives: Web Design & Media Production

Google Search Stories: Ypsilanti’s SolarYpsi Project

February 6, 2012 – 8:27 am

YouTube and Google have a feature called “Search Stories” about people who are using Google’s search to find new ways of doing things. One of the people they profile is Dave Strenski of Ypsilanti, who you can learn more about in the video below. Dave and some like-minded individuals created SolarYpsi in 2005 with the [...]

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Why We Went Dark

January 19, 2012 – 8:03 am

Along with many sites on the Web, Absolute Michigan went dark on January 18th to protest a pair of truly awful bills that are on a fast-track for passage, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA). Neither of these new laws would stop piracy, which Absolute Michigan [...]

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Future Midwest Conference this week in Detroit

April 26, 2011 – 10:11 am

Painting A Picture Of Optimism by DetroitDerek Photography Later this week (April 27-29) the 3rd annual  Future Midwest Conference kicks off in Detroit. It’s the largest digital business conference in the Midwest and  seeks to accelerate business and cultural transformation by uniting community passions with emerging technologies. In 2011, they’ve selected Eastern Market in Detroit [...]

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Baffling Budget Beatdown: Axe to Fall on Michigan Film Incentive?

February 21, 2011 – 1:29 pm

If you care about this issue, visit Tell Rick on Facebook or Rick’s Wrong (About the Michigan Film Industry Tax Credit). You can also try to contact your legislators and impress upon them the importance of this tool to Michigan’s future. If you have more ideas, post them in the comments below! The budget process [...]

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City Recycling + Film Incentive = Raleigh Michigan Studios

February 8, 2011 – 12:02 pm

On Michigan in Pictures we recently wondered whether the road to Oz will wind through Michigan. Here’s a feature on where the Wizard’s balloon may land in Michigan. Crow’s Nest by Jeff Gaydash Great Lakes Echo has a cool series about City Recycling in the Great Lakes Region that looks at how brownfields and abandoned [...]

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Michigan Businesses using social media

July 8, 2010 – 10:11 am

Grand Rapids Chalk Flood 2009 by RichardDemingPhotography The Detroit News has an interesting feature on how Michigan companies are learning to use Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other social media sites. Social media advertising is projected to climb 68% to $7.5 billion this year and jump to $38 billion by 2015, so it’s definitely something [...]

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Pure Michigan takes you behind the scenes of “Fresh”

April 26, 2010 – 6:35 am

Pure Michigan takes you behind the scenes of the filming of their new “Fresh” TV spot. The spots are done by McCann Erickson and it’s amazing to see what 30 seconds requires. Many more videos from Pure Michigan TV at YouTube. Share this:

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AbMich Mobile

March 2, 2009 – 6:25 am

We’ve added support for mobile users including iPhones and Google Android phones. If you’re on a phone and want to look at pages in the normal Absolute Michigan template, there’s a link for that at the bottom too. To do it, we used the WordPress plugin WPtouch – something you could probably use too if [...]

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AMP and the Arsenal of Creativity

February 12, 2009 – 8:19 pm

Untitled by Vanessa Miller Vanessa has a great set of photos from allied media conference oh8 Wiretap’s Jenny Lee has a great article called In Detroit: Arsenal of Creativity. It begins: “Michigan will be the next film capitol of the world,” Clint Eastwood said in a recent interview following the release of his new film [...]

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Get your Green(s) at the Great Lakes BIONEERS Conference

September 27, 2008 – 1:34 pm

SEEDS director Sarna Salzman talks about the Great Lakes BIONEERS Conference which takes place October 17-19th, 2008 in Traverse City, Michigan @ Northwestern Michigan College (click through to view in high quality). The music is “Greens” by Seth Bernard & May Erlewine from the very tasty disc Something Fresh. Hear more at earthworkmusic.com. Sarna mentions [...]

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