Nicole H. Garrett

Last night, I attended DemoCamp Lansing held at Harper’s in East Lansing.  It was my first “un-conference” and I had a great time!

It was fun and interesting to learn about new applications and tools being developed in my local community.  Some were more useful for me than others, but overall, it was a very well done event.  I’m very excited to try out snagit for my next presentation.

I have taken web design classes using HTML, CSS and Javascript, and so I was a little worried that the presentations would be too complicated for me to follow; I was glad to find that they were not.  I learned new CSS tricks to create custom fonts that I’m looking forward to playing around with.

There was also a demo of Seeking Michigan.  It was great to see “techies” excited about our website and what we have done.  One of the goals of the site was to make it sleek and integrate Web 2.0 technologies, and it was rewarding to get such great feedback.

The cutest part of DemoCamp?  The cupcakes! How can you beat eatable iPods?

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A few weeks ago, I took the interns at the archives on a tour of the Turner Dodge House.   The original home was built in 1858 by James Turner.  Between 1900 and 1903 his daughter Abby (Turner) Dodge remodeled the structure into what we see today.

I’ve lived around Lansing all my life, but have never visited the house.  When I visit historic homes, it usually was usually owned by a famous family.  This tour was interesting because although the Turner family figures prominently in Lansing history, they are virtually unknown outside of Ingham County.  It was a nice experience to tour a home that has a connection to buildings, streets, and parks that I see on a daily basis.

The tour also included tea time complete with raspberry tea and cookies.   It was quite scrumptious!

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