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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 (Coverage: May 24 - June 6, 2005) |
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HEADLINES
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MAY 24 - 30, 2005
* Alpena: Many residents like idea of e-mail notifications
* Harrison Township: Farewell "Fuzzy TV" - New technology enhances government access channel
* Lansing: Offender e-mail notification bill advances
* Tecumseh: Tecumseh Acres students host Michigan studies open house
* Commerce Township: Even techology writers get the blues
* Fenton: Teachers object to tech cuts
* Oakland County: MIKE WENDLAND: Exec seeks wireless Net covering Oakland County
* Warren: Job-seekers know they need an edge to succeed
* Grand Ledge: City to lease wtare tower property for broadband
* Lansing: New state schools chief draws praise, criticism
MAY 31 - JUN 6, 2005
* Muskegon: Somthing fishy at R-P Intermediate
* Saugatuck: Kid Zone to be added to CVB site
* Detroit: HEATHER NEWMAN: In Detroit, e-mail is big, inboxes are messy
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: New support or advice? Try online communities
* Detroit: BUZZ: Tech camps for kids
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Verizon wants to cover metro Detroit with its wireless Net
* Linden: Linden schools approves major technology purchases
* Mackinac Island: Granholm touts plan
* Shelby Township: Davenport and Cisco team up to promote tech careers for women
* Lansing: Snoops comb Web sites for neighbors' home price
* Lansing: A closer look: K-12 education
* Lansing: MIKE WENDLAND: Virtual schools on the Internet: Could this cure education's woes
Cyber-state’s gets a new name: CyberMichigan
On May 18, 2005 Cyber-state changed it’s name to: CyberMichigan. This name better reflects whom we specifically serve – Michigan citizens. The name change process officially began in February 2005 and took a combined effort from both CyberMichigan and Altarum’s staff, including the overall support of Altarum’s executive management team. The official press release can be found at: www.cybermichigan.org/13_0/pr_cybermichigan18may05.pdf.
CyberMichigan originated in 1998 under the name of cyber-state.org as a result of a recommendation from the Michigan Information Technology Commission (MITC), a group convened by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, and the Council of Michigan Foundations. In their ground-breaking report, the Commission called for an independent entity responsible for providing on-going analysis and long-term guidance on the direction of information technology in Michigan.
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CyberMichigan
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Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1579
phone: (734) 302-4755
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CyberMichigan, an Institute of Altarum, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit ICT policy research, analysis, and advocacy group that is committed to bringing together the private, public, and nonprofit sectors to work with communities so that all Michigan's citizens and organizations have quality access to information and communication technologies and the knowledge to maximize the use of these tools. One of our priorities is to assist state and local policymakers as a resource for their creation and deliberation of ICT policy. With these email news briefings, we hope to increase the awareness of the importance of information technology for Michigan's local governments, schools, health care, nonprofits, and the economy as a whole.
OTHER IT NEWS SOURCES
* Detroit Free Press / tech
* Detroit Tech News
* Michigan CrainTech
* Great Lakes IT Report
* Michigan Technology News
* Federal Computer Week
* Government Computer News
* Government Technology
* New York Times: Technology
* Washtech.com (Washington Post)
* eGovernment Resource Centre |
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MAY 24, 2005
* Alpena: Many residents like idea of e-mail notifications
A bill approved by the state Senate Tuesday would allow people to be receive free e-mail notification whenever a registered sex offender moves into their zip code area. The service would be available to anyone who signs up to receive the notices.
Source: The Alpena News, http://www.thealpenanews.com/Archives/2005/may/25/local2.html
MAY 25, 2005
* Harrison Township: Farewell "Fuzzy TV" - New technology enhances government access channel
The days of “Fuzzy TV” — as Trustee Michael Rice so fondly dubbed the township’s government access channel — are over. The installation of new equipment at Rosso Memorial Hall, including a whole new audio system and new cameras, is intended to eradicate the picture and sound quality problems that have plagued re-broadcasts of township meetings for years.
Source: C&G News, http://www.candgnews.com/editorial/2005/may/25/journal/cable%20equipment.html
MAY 25, 2005
* Lansing: Offender e-mail notification bill advances
The state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would let residents be notified by e-mail when a sex offender moves into their zip code.
Source: The Macomb Daily, http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/052505/sta_sexoffend001.shtml
MAY 26, 2005
* Tecumseh: Tecumseh Acres students host Michigan studies open house
Fourth graders in Jeanette Meyers class at Tecumseh Acres held a Michigan Open House Friday, May 20, to celebrate a yearlong study of Michigan. During the second semester, the students turned their textbook into a resource tool, along with many other sources, including the Internet.
Source: The Tecumseh Herald, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14592925&BRD=2078&PAG=461&dept_id=380356&rfi=8
MAY 26, 2005
* Commerce Township: Even technology writers get the blues
Sometimes I get really sick of technology. Sick of my cordless phone, which is so bloated with features we need the manual just to speed-dial a number.
Source: Observer and Eccentric, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=106458
MAY 27, 2005
* Fenton: Teachers object to tech cuts
A group of Fenton teachers is rallying around a colleague in an effort to save technology instruction at Fenton Intermediate School.
Source: Tri-County Times, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14586833&BRD=2524&PAG=461&dept_id=494488&rfi=8
MAY 27, 2005
* Oakland County: MIKE WENDLAND: Exec seeks wireless Net covering Oakland County
Call it L. Brooks Patterson's high wireless act. When the state's top business and political leaders gather at Mackinac Island next week for the Detroit Regional Chamber's annual Leadership Conference, Patterson will host a party to draw more attention to his plans to make wireless Internet access available throughout Oakland County.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland27e_20050527.htm
MAY 28, 2005
* Warren: Job-seekers know they need an edge to succeed
Like plenty of other people these days, Nina Anderson is looking for a job. But while the Warren woman has been looking for a while, she's not too worried. She figures that eventually she'll come across an employer who sees that she's going back to school and will hire her.
Source: The Macomb Daily News, http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/052805/loc_teenjobs.shtml
MAY 29, 2005
* Grand Ledge: City to lease water tower property for broadband
The city council introduced a resolution to lease property owned by the city to the Shpigler Group to install telecommunications equipment on the city''s West Front Street water tower.
Source: Grand Ledge Independent, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=107506
MAY 30, 2005
* Lansing: New state schools chief draws praise, criticism
Michael Flanagan's administrative experience and broad knowledge of issues affecting public education in Michigan helped make him the front-runner for the state superintendent's position.
Source: The Oakland Press, http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/053005/loc_20050530005.shtml
MAY 31, 2005
* Muskegon: Something fishy at R-P Intermediate
Drew Morris, technology teacher at Reeths-Puffer Intermediate School, provided a unique opportunity for his fifth and sixth grade students to get some real world experience - planting Chinook salmon in the Muskegon River.
Source: White Lake Beacon, http://www.whitelakebeacon.com/news.php?story_id=7260
JUN 1, 2005
* Saugatuck: Kid Zone to be added to CVB site
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a Web site created by kids telling other kids why Saugatuck and Douglas are such great places to visit? Source: Commercial Record, http://www.thecommercialrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14621199&BRD=2153&PAG=461&dept_id=457118&rfi=8
JUN 1, 2005
* Detroit: HEATHER NEWMAN: In Detroit, e-mail is big, inboxes are messy
Detroit, you're addicted to checking your e-mail. Now, if you could just get it under control. A new survey from America Online shows that Detroit-area e-mail users check their Internet inboxes an average of four times a day, spending just less than an hour each and every day writing and responding to messages.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/newman1e_20050601.htm
JUN 2, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Need support or advice? Try online communities
Think of the Internet as a worldwide support group for whatever it is that ails you. Or puzzles you. Or frustrates you.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland2e_20050602.htm
JUN 2, 2005
* Detroit: BUZZ: Tech camps for kids
With the summer camp season fast approaching, kids across the country will be stocking up on hiking shoes, bug spray and other necessities for adventures in the great outdoors. Thousands of others, however, will be enjoying indoor adventures: creating video games, building robots and designing Web pages.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/techbuzz2e_20050602.htm
JUN 3, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Verizon wants to cover metro Detroit with its wireless Net
News flash for the movers and shakers on Mackinac Island listening to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson hype his plan to turn the entire county into a Wi-Fi hotspot: It has already happened. And it isn't Oakland County that did it -- it's Verizon Wireless.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland3e_20050603.htm
JUN 3, 2005
* Linden: Linden schools approves major technology purchases
The Linden Board of Education has approved several technology purchases. The school district's technology director, Debbie McPherson, provided information for the board.
Source: Tri-County Times, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14623930&BRD=2524&PAG=461&dept_id=494488&rfi=8
JUN 4, 2005
* Mackinac Island: Granholm touts plan
Gov. Jennifer Granholm stumped here for a $2 billion state bond proposal to bolster the state's technology-related job base. The governor said a "Jobs for Michigan Fund" bond that lawmakers expect to put before voters in November would help diversify the state's economy and create more than 70,000 new jobs in the life sciences, alternative energy and homeland security industries.
Source: Traverse City Record Eagle, http://www.record-eagle.com/2005/jun/04gran.htm
JUN 4, 2005
* Shelby Township: Davenport and Cisco team up to promote tech careers for women
She loves to read, write and like many women, Tammy Leonard of Shelby Township graduated from Oakland University with a bachelor's degree in English.
Source: The Macomb Daily News, http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/060405/loc_tech%20for%20women001.shtml
JUN 4, 2005
* Lansing: Snoops comb Web sites for neighbors' home price
It's not enough to keep up with the Joneses. Now, homeowners want to know how much their neighbors paid for their house and how much their own is worth - even if they have no intention of selling.
Source: Lansing State Journal, http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050604/LIFE01/506040305&SearchID=73210434332875
JUN 5, 2005
* Lansing: A closer look: K-12 education
What it is: The state has provided wireless laptops to more than 20,000 middle school students and 1,200 teachers in 95 school districts through the Freedom to Learn Program. The districts that get them have high poverty levels, and the goal is to help students who are less likely to have computer access at home enhance their skills at school.
Source: Lansing State Journal, http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050605/NEWS04/506050334/1005/ARCHIVES
JUN 6, 2005
* Lansing: MIKE WENDLAND: Virtual schools on the Internet: Could this cure education's woes?
Michigan Virtual University, the nonprofit organization created by the state to offer online training and education, is changing its focus to concentrate exclusively on high schools.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland6e_20050606.htm
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