Category: News + Notes

You’ve seen and heard of infographics; now is the time to create one yourself! An infographic takes a large amount of information in text or numerical form and condenses it into a combination of images and text, allowing viewers to quickly grasp the essential insights the data contains.

Scenario 1: You’re an avid gardener/quilter/cake decorator/craftsperson and want to share what you’ve done with others. A website is a great way to do this.

In recent years, electronic portfolios have gone from being just a good idea to an essential tool for college students and job seekers. In an effort to introduce our students to the value of presenting their academic accomplishments and professional goals in a simple, but well-organized format, we’re now provide training and support for an…

A rule is an action that is done automatically to incoming or outgoing messages, based on conditions that have been specified. It can be created from a template, from a message, or using your own conditions.

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…