Category: Community Service
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WordPress Meetup Detroit – Feb 2015
I’m speaking at the WordPress Meetup Detroit on Feb 9, 2015. From the promo: WordPress Presents! How to Boost (or Even Replace) PowerPoint With WordPress Monday, February 9, 2015 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM United Way – Campus Martius 660 Woodward Ave. Suite 300, Detroit, MI (map) Price: $5.00/per person Refund policy If you make…
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Community Presentation: How to Get Started Blogging
A presentation I’m doing March 27, 2014 for SCAN-Wayne, a metro Detroit community group/network of aging services businesses. They’re interested in how to build a web presence.
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Busting the Medicare “Crisis” Myth – Again
I’ll be presenting to the Senior Coordinating Aging Network (SCAN) – Wayne County Thursday, January 23, 2014. It’s a slightly shorter version of the the Busting the Medicare Myths I gave last fall. I’ll be showing how a lot of the rhetoric about the future of Medicare and the Federal budget deficit is fear-mongering…
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Busting the Medicare Myths
I’ll be presenting to the Michigan Intergenerational Network again Wednesday, November 13. This time the talk is about Busting the Medicare Myths. I’ll be showing how a lot of the rhetoric about the future of Medicare and the Federal budget deficit is fear-mongering intended to cut benefits for seniors. The reality is more complex and…
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Intergenerational Transfers Presentation – Again
I repeated the Intergenerational Transfers presentation to Jill Reglin’s writing classes today. It’s especially timely given the efforts by some well-heeled Wall St types and some “journalists” to convince college-age students that somehow older Americans can only benefit if younger people lose – a pit-the-generations-against-each-other concept. But that’s not really how it works. For the…
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Reprise: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?
Today, I reprised my presentation from last July to the Michigan Intergenerational Network. The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young? An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. This time the setting and audience was a guest lecture to the Madonna University Gerontology Dept.’s Policy The…
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The Cloud and WordPress – Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup
I’m speaking Sunday, Sept 8, 2013 to the Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup group: Amazon doesn’t just sell books. They’re also the largest provider of “cloud” computing resources. Jim will give a simple intro to Amazon Web Services “cloud computing” and demo how you can use Amazon S3 in WordPress to speed up downloads of media…
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Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?
I gave a presentation today to the Michigan Intergenerational Network. The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young? An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. The Powerpoint file, MIN-IntergenerationalTransferPrograms-30jul2013 is available here. An overview of the talk below the fold:
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TEDx Lansing 2012
An opportunity I’m pretty excited about. I’ve been invited to speak at TEDx Lansing. From the college’s announcement: LCCTV is once again teaming up with organizers of TEDxLansing to live stream the upcoming event featuring more than a dozen presenters including one of Lansing Community College’s own Jim Luke. When: April 13th 9am-2pm Where: Washington…
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HLC Conference 2012
I attended the Higher Learning Conference, including the AQIP Colloqium (HLC) in Chicago, IL as one of the representatives for Lansing Community College, March 29-April 3, 2012.