Our Refresh Detroit Site is Refreshed

About page on the Refresh Detroit website.

Woohoo! We have a refreshed and updated Refresh Detroit website.

Refresh Detroit is a local web design meetup group focused on accessibility, usability, and web standards.

I’ve been a member of the group for 13 years and co-organizer of the group since 2007. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ve seen my promotions of our Refresh Detroit events.

With the annual web hosting invoice looming over me, I finally took the leap and updated the site. Continue reading Our Refresh Detroit Site is Refreshed

Photo of the Week: Osprey Family on the Move

Two white-faced adult Osprey and an Osprey check sit atop a nest of sticks and mud on a platform.

It’s not often I can observe an Osprey family relatively close up.

Most Osprey nests I’ve seen in Michigan are a few hundred feet away from shore, making a spotting scope required to observe the birds.

Not so with this Osprey family nesting on the western shore of Lake Erie near the Michigan/Ohio border. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Osprey Family on the Move

TEDxDetroit 2019 Returns November 6: Call for Speakers, Early Bird Tickets Available

David Zinn uses his colored chalk to create sidewalk art

Save the date! TEDxDetroit returns to the Motor City with a day of inspiration, ideas, and innovation on November 6, 2019.

This year’s event returns to the historic Masonic Temple in downtown Detroit.

The one-day conference brings together entrepreneurs, creators, designers, makers, doers, artists, and geeks talking about and sharing positive ideas for the world from Detroit. Continue reading TEDxDetroit 2019 Returns November 6: Call for Speakers, Early Bird Tickets Available