Just a little cross promotion on the blog. I've been happy to attend a few meetings now with the group Refresh Detroit which is part of the Refreshing Cities initiative. I've enjoyed attending these meetings because the group consists of a variety of web professionals (designers, developers, and information architects) who are committed to promoting usability, accessibility, and web standards in their work. Normally the group meets in Ann Arbor, or thereabouts, and at a previous meeting it came up that the group has never actually met in Detroit (despite the name reference). I offered, through the Wayne State Chapter of ASIS&T (which I've just started my service as President of the organization) to try to find a Detroit location for the group's October meeting. Well, with the help of several individuals in the Wayne State Library & Information Science Program, we were able to get some space to host a Website Demo Night in Detroit with the group.
I'm looking forward to attending, especially since I work in the same library where the event is hosted and I only have to walk up one flight of stairs to get there. :)
If anybody is interested in attending or even demoing their work you can find more information on the Refresh Detroit website.
Heidi,
Thank you (again!) for coordinating our first Refresh Detroit meeting in the city of Detroit.