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Directors of GVSU ‘Come Sail Away’ lip dub talk to The Urbane Way … and this is what they said If you haven’t already seen the Grand Valley State University lip dub, you’re definitely missing out. The video already has more views on YouTube than students at the university.Students Greg Kort, Chris Coleman and Lucas Flora provided the brainpower behind the project and, along with 630 of their peers, put......
Stephen Clark's Backchannel's gets an upgrade For years as a journalist, I heard metro Detroiter's complain of a lack of "good" news. It didn't matter how many heartwarming feature stories I wrote. The masses only seem to remember the shocking hard news stories, the ones that leave us all forever changed.Finally, someone has stood up to......
Unexpected — and older — iPad user a testament to Apple's appeal and ease-of-use My fiance’s aunt, who’s been retired for several years now, made a big purchase recently. But it wasn’t a new, big-screen TV or a trip to the Bahamas or a Cadillac CTS.She purchased an iPad.This is significant for a number of reasons, one being that she’s never owned an Apple......
Residents Verses Prospects Series One of Three at the Urbane Lab The Myth of Brand LoyaltyIn follow up to a tweet today from the ApartmentExpert.com also known as, Lisa Trosien, regarding an excellent blog post by Chris Brogan titled The Myth of Brand Loyalty,what if anything are you doing to separate your residents from your prospects? The general gist of the......
Grand Rapids-based Rob Bliss uses social media to promote his larger-than-life urban events Grand Rapids-based Rob Bliss, 21, has a pretty impressive resume. He hosted a giant pillow fight in September 2008 and 3,000 people showed up.A month later, he broke the world record when he hosted about 4,000 people in a zombie walk that started at Rosa Parks Circle.Then he gave life......