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Some Light Reading on Libraries

by Kevin Lawver on August 10, 2011

Refresh is on Tuesday, and we’ll be talking about the future of libraries. We’ll have the director of the local library system and he wants our feedback on how the library should prepare for the digital future and how they (…)

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August’s Refresh: Retooling the Library

by Kevin Lawver on July 27, 2011

I know I said we were going to have the guys from Unmatched Style come down in August, but they had something come up so they’re now speaking in September. So, for August, we’ve got something special. What is it? (…)

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June’s Refresh: Not On The 20th, It’s On The 21st!

by Kevin Lawver on June 6, 2011

You’d think after thirty-six years on this planet, you know, the blue one with the calendar that hasn’t change in all of that time, I’d know how to read a calendar and pick out the third Tuesday from a month. (…)

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June’s Refresh: It’s All About Coffee!

by Kevin Lawver on June 1, 2011

What happens when two local independent coffee roasters each ask two different local design studios to develop branding for them? How does each designer go about solving the problem of branding a coffee roaster? Well, that’s what we’re going to (…)

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June’s Refresh: I Dunno, What Do You Want to Talk About?

by Kevin Lawver on May 25, 2011

The speaker I had lined up for June bailed on me yesterday, and I don’t have time to prepare anything (unless you guys want to hear one of my old presentations). So, unless someone steps up and volunteers themselves, we’re (…)

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May’s Refresh: The Internet of Things

by Kevin Lawver on April 21, 2011

We’re announcing May’s Refresh a little early so you have almost a whole month to get excited about it! In May, Phil Peterman is going to give us an introduction to hardware hacking with arduino in a presentation he’s calling (…)

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Refresh on 4/19: Get Ye a Rapid Prototype!

by Kevin Lawver on March 30, 2011

If code scares you, April would be a good month to come to Refresh! Why? We’re going to help you get over your fear by introducing you to a friendly little framework called Sinatra! Will Farrington is going to present (…)

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Refresh March: Five Secrets to Building a Successful Project Team

by Kevin Lawver on March 9, 2011

It’s March! It’s almost the middle of March! That means it’s time to tell you what’s going on at Refresh this month! Well, Shannon James and Patricia Holliman will be presenting this month and sharing their experience building a team (…)

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February’s Refresh – Let’s Do It Backwards!

by Kevin Lawver on January 27, 2011

We’re going to do something different next month. How different? How about flip the whole idea of a presentation on its ample patoot?! How’s that for different? Erik Shultz has agreed to MC this potential bonanza (or disaster) of an (…)

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