Michelle Jones

Founder, Publisher, Baker

Why, hello there!

Let's Get Connected

Hi, I'm Michelle

I am the founder of Consuming Louisville, LLC. Named after the award winning weblog that I founded in 2007 and still publish today. Consuming Louisville, LLC builds beautiful, intuitive mobile apps and creative, content-driven websites.

I'm also a community builder and connector. Through involvement with organizations like the Louisville Digital Association, Let Them Tweet Cake and volunteer projects I am an active member (and sometimes leader) in several different niche communities within the larger Louisville technology community.

I'm also a pretty good baker.

Current Projects

Menu and Hours

Menu and Hours is an iPhone app conceived as a response to the frustration of using restaurant websites on a mobile device.

The Menu and Hours app contains categorized listings for 70+ restaurants in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Each listing contains the location, contact details and menus (including item descriptions and prices) of the restaurant. In short: it's all the information you actually want about restaurants in a beautiful, easy to use app.

Menu and Hours will be for sale in the iTunes app store in May 2012.

Consuming Louisville

Consuming Louisville is an award winning blog focused on arts, culture and food in Louisville, Kentucky.

Founded in 2007, Consuming Louisville is not only one of the oldest hyperlocal blogs in the region it is also one of the most respected.

Innovation Commonwealth

A new site currently in development that will feature news, commentary and video features about the tech community in Louisville. There is a lot of innovative stuff happening here in "Possibility City" and it's time everyone knew about it.

Let Them Tweet Cake

I founded Let Them Tweet Cake in October 2008. The initial goal was to offer women an alternative to typical tech meetups that happened in bars. Since the very first Let Them Tweet Cake event dozens of women have come together regularly for discussion, socialization and networking around the broad topics of technology and social media.

Community

Louisville Connector

Along with the current mayor of Louisville, the former mayor of Louisville and 125 other folks I was named to the Leadership Louisville Connector List (2010). The criteria for selection to the list was to be "successful in getting things done because of their distinctive style of trusted leadership."

Board Memberships

Volunteer Activities

  • Jewish Family and Career Services

Recent Speaking Engagements

  • "Your [Social] Media Life" - LFPL February 2012
  • "Learn the Dos and Dont's of App Development and Business" - LDA February 2012

Accolades

  • Louisville Connector
  • Velocity Magazine's "A Good Woman To Know"
  • Multiple best blog and best website nominations for Consuming Louisville (Louisville Magazine and LEO)
  • "Michelle is great!" - Michelle's mom