Category Archives: Chambers of Commerce

ArtPrize Artist registration opens … and a great video!

April 18, 2011 – 7:12 am

ArtPrize – Vision by David Spriggs by Canon Screwdriver (gary syrba) ArtPrize (Sep 21 – Oct 9, 2011) is a radically different art competition that gives away huge cash prizes, $250,000 to the winner and nearly a half a million dollars total and it’s all decided by a public vote! Venue registration has closed and [...]

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Pure Michigan Facebook: Leading the Nation

March 21, 2011 – 8:31 am

“Winds of Change” Point Betsie Lighthouse by Michigan Nut The Pure Michigan Facebook fan page topped 200,000 fans over the weekend. According to the Street, this makes Pure Michigan one of only four state tourism Facebook pages with more than 100,000 fans and the first state tourism Facebook page with over 200,000 fans: “We could [...]

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Grand Rapids LaughFest ~ March 10-20, 2011

March 7, 2011 – 8:11 am

The first-ever Grand Rapids LaughFest kicks off this Thursday (March 10) in Grand Rapids. The city-wide festival runs March 10-20, 2011 and is presented by Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids, an independent branch of Gilda’s Club Worldwide. The organization was founded in honor of comedienne Gilda Radner with the goal of helping men, women and children [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism

February 21, 2011 – 9:44 am

Mack-in-touch Apples by ( Jennifer ) A month ago, Absolute Michigan participated in the the Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations conference (read our live blog) where the Michigan Culinary Tourism initiative was launched. For the video below, we spoke with Melody Johnson of the International Culinary Tourism Association, keynote speaker Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s, Linda Jones [...]

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Live at the Michigan Culinary Tourism Conference

January 10, 2011 – 8:26 am

Click here for a video from the conference! All day today the Absolute Michigan team is at Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations, Michigan’s first conference on Culinary Tourism. The conference was a hot ticket, and nearly 200 tourism industry stakeholders are getting ready to learn about Michigan’s new initiative to increase tourism. You can learn all [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism taking off!

December 20, 2010 – 12:52 pm

Great Lakes Echo is a project of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University. The site uses Creative Commons reporting to to help the news community cover the environment of the Great Lakes watershed. Absolute Michigan supports the mission of Great Lakes Echo and will feature articles they produce. This article by [...]

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If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you

August 31, 2010 – 9:55 am

Seeking Michigan was established to connect you to the stories of our great state. Visit them regularly for a dynamic & evolving look at Michigan’s cultural heritage. Here’s a great old Michigan travelogue… Look About You from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo. Share this:

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Grand Rapids gets ready for ArtPrize 2010

August 26, 2010 – 8:47 am

via Michigan in Pictures… Face Paint by TerryJohnston Last year ArtPrize in Grand Rapids launched and was the most successful art event in Michigan’s history, attracting 200,000 visitors to see the work of over 1000 artists in every media from fine art to paper airplanes. In 2009, Absolute Michigan was on location for ArtPrize and [...]

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Detroit Entrepreneur Launches “Facebook for Communities”

June 21, 2010 – 8:56 am

inveiglement by TerryJohnston In Q&A: Keith Zendler on Detroit’s Tipping Point, TIME magazine interviews serial entrepreneur Zendler about his newly launched Peoplemovers.com. It’s a free social media venture designed to serve as a kind of Facebook for governments, non-profits, foundations, service clubs, block clubs, school districts, churches, mosques, temples, etc. Q: What is Peoplemovers.com and [...]

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Absolute Michigan Radio: Doug Luciani of the Traverse City Chamber on Pure Michigan Funding

February 11, 2010 – 10:03 am

Pure Michigan funding is the topic of Michigan Senate Finance Committee today, and across the state, businesses and chambers of commerce are asking state lawmakers to permanently fund the popular campaign. In our first Absolute Michigan Radio feature co-sponsored by Traverse Legal, we talk with Traverse City Chamber of Commerce director Doug Luciani about Pure [...]

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