Instilling Hope in a Community

By Jami Gibson This month, I started volunteering at a local community center. Baxter is an inner-city neighborhood in Grand Rapids that has a 33% poverty rate in addition to crime and drug issues. In order to help and restore hope to the residents of the...

Opportunities for Health Insurance Carriers

By Jami Gibson After conducting research for a local health insurance company, I wondered what kind of pressures these companies would face as the healthcare industry is in the process of being radically transformed. How do health insurance carriers plan to compete...

Snack Food Trends

By Jami Gibson This month, my research was focused on the snack food industry. After studying over 100 companies, I came away with not only an increased appetite, but also with some insight about where the industry stands now, and where it’s headed. Here are a few...

Good News Network

By Jami Gibson Everywhere we turn, it’s impossible to get away from negative news. Radio, newspapers, T.V., and the Internet bombard us with headlines about the failing economy, war, high profile lawsuits, crime, and the list goes on and on. While we know that...

Google+ Features

By Jami Gibson Google+ is rapidly expanding its reach since it was launched three months ago, and it will definitely give other social networking giants a run for their money. The new service seems to be everything that Facebook, Twitter, and other sites are not,...