Color adds visibility to your desktop Outlook items. Color categories can be assigned to email messages in Microsoft Outlook, which enables you to quickly identify them and associate them with related items. This is especially helpful for those who do not use folders to sort emails. Categories can be renamed and additional ones can be…

It is widely understood that students benefit from the collaborative wisdom of their instructors and classmates. A number of free online resources have expanded this notion into different ways to crowdsource – that is, to pull together from the general public of internet users – knowledge and materials, allowing students to work with and learn…

StudyBlue is an online tool for students, faculty and even staff, who work with students, that makes learning more accessible. StudyBlue allows faculty to create flashcards, quizzes, and other easy-to-use tools to make studying easier for students. Since learning is moving into the digital age, why not advance studying as well.

A meeting is an appointment that includes other people. If you know how to set up an appointment, the steps are similar to set up a meeting. Responses to your meeting requests appear in your Inbox.

If you have research papers in your future (and you know you do!), here’s an incredibly useful tool that can make those papers a little easier to finish and, hopefully, reduce your stress level (at least a bit).

Reverend Barry Randolph is pastor of Church of the Messiah, a Detroit church that has developed four social enterprises to date, one of which is a private community-based business, and three of which are owned by the Church directly. The Church has also sponsored a CDC for the past 35 years. In addition to being…

On one ordinary Sunday in Detroit’s Island View neighborhood, a very able pastor, regaled in his ecclesiastical vestments, was heatedly preaching to his congregation. There seemed to be an unfortunately inverse relationship between his enthusiasm and the assembly’s. The stronger he delivered his meticulously-crafted sermon, the less interested his parishioners seemed to be. The church…

[Updated 4/18/12, 8:51 p.m. See below.] When the Mt. Elliott Makerspace, the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, and Detroit Future hosted a DiscoTech event at the Museum of Contemporary Art last weekend, it was a uniquely Detroit affair. As kids and their grown-up escorts bounced between stations that offered lessons on everything from beat-making and computer…

The Rev. Barry Randolph of the Church of the Messiah in Detroit doesn’t take the conventional approach to addressing the masses. He smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol during a sermon while making a point that faith and doing good can be just as addictive as drugs and liquor. Once, he pulled out a gun in…

Pastor Barry Randolph and Jeff Sturges talk to us about the Mt. Elliot Makerspace, which is located in the basement of the Church of the Messiah in East Detroit. The role that the church plays in the community is explained, and the bright side of urban blight is explored. Subscribe to the Meet the Makers…

Ron Scott interviews Reverend Barry Randolph of the Church of the Messiah, the Messiah Housing Corporation and Churches and Citizens United For Safety. Established by the Church of the Messiah in 1978, the Messiah Housing Corporation, a non-profit, manages more than 200 units of affordable housing in the Islandview Village community located on the east…

#NewEraDetroit is not a religious organization. But we do not hesitate to open our arms to our people who are in fact religious and/or spiritual beings; simply because our people NEED TO UNIFY, regardless of belief or practice. That is the bigger picture. It has been no secret that due to our church demonstrations (of…