Mt. Pleasant Tech Economy Growing, Diverse There's innovation and tech-based economic development all over Michigan -- including right smack dab in the middle of the Lower Peninsula.
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Tech Tour Day Four: Magnificent Marquette It's always a great treat when the IT Report Tech Tour reaches the UP, and Saturday was no exception. In fact, the only unusual thing about the Marquette stop on the 2008 Spring Tech Tour was that yours truly was on the agenda.
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Tech Tour Day Three Terrific In TC I spent seven years in Traverse City early in my career and met my wife there, so I still have a serious soft spot in my heart for Michigan's beautiful city by the bays. What I didn't fully realize until Friday is that a serious technology industry is emerging there, helping diversify the economy beyond tourism.
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Tech Tour Lands In Tech-Booming Grand Rapids Day Two of the 2008 GLITR Spring Tech Tour covered Michigan's second largest metropolitan area, Grand Rapids.
And there's just no better way to start it than at the Van Andel Institute, Michigan's most impressive home of groundbreaking research into cancer -- and soon, much more research.
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Tech Tour Kicks Off In Kalamazoo The 2008 Great Lakes IT Report Spring Tech Tour kicked off with a bang Wednesday in Kalamazoo, where the fine folks at the veteran IT shop BlueGranite made space available for me to visit with the best tech in southwest Michigan.
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Matt's A Fan Of The Tahoe Hybrid -- Mostly People have been asking me all over the Tech Tour -- and in e-mails -- how I like the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid that I've been provided as this spring's Tech Tourmobile. The answer is that I love it, almost wholeheartedly.
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Tech Tour Videos Check out some video clips shot by Matt along 2008 Spring tour.
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Tech Tour Photo Gallery Follow Matt across outstate Michigan.
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