Episodes

Wow. Just…”wow”. What a great episode. Phenomenal conversations with guests from Uber, Digerati Girls, Daily Detroit and the producer of Wrestling’s Battles, Bouts and Brawls, covering an entire host of topics that left little untouched… We didn’t even get around to opening up with any ranting this time around since the studio was packed to capacity with guests, and so with a quick mention of our event this coming Thursday night at Stray Cat Lounge and then Motor City Comic Con this weekend…...

IT in the D, Episode 41. Another great episode, that wandered a bit, and yet hit on some great information for things in the area. With Templar Games in studio, a chat about the National Day of Civic Hacking, and various topics like how the Department of Justice is doing some odd things with banks… You can find us at http://www.ITintheD.com, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ITinTheD, on Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/, and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/itinthed Templar ga...

Tonight was one of those nights in-studio where we got to basically next to none of the topics we had queued up for the night. Which isn’t a bad thing. It means that the flow with the guests was outstanding, and that we had an incredible series of conversations going on. Which is exactly what happened tonight as we were joined by Hajj Flemings and Delane Parnell to talk about Starterfest, other events in the area, and we even dove into the debacle with the Clippers’ owner… To be honest, there...

IT in the D, Episode 39…another rant to kick things off, this one based on a stunning revelation that came our way last week about a group member. Then we dove into the 2014 Motor City Comic Con, roller derby, the Assemble Detroit event tomorrow night and a whole bunch more. Lots of fun this time around, as well as some great information, so let’s go ahead and dive in… Our first segment usually kicks off with introductions, some light banter, and then a back and forth banter about news items ...

IT in the D, Episode 39 We decided to go ahead and isolate the segment with Michael Goldman of Motor City Comic Con since we knew it might be of specific interest to people… So…don’t forget to listen to listen to the entire episode…but if you just happen to be interested in this one topic, here you go. Tickets and full details are out at http://www.motorcitycomiccon.com/ [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/145872916″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_...

IT in the D, Episode 38…from an opening rant to training classes that can help you with your career to the whole heartbleed debacle that’s ripping through the internet…a really fun show. Well, most of us had fun. Bob was feeling a little under the weather, but he carried on like a trooper. He should be back to normal by the time our event on Thursday night over at Blackfinn happens. You’re coming to that, right? Our in-studio guests were Christy Rowe from New Horizons and return guest Mark Sta...

IT in the D, Episode 37…and what a great time we had tonight. Bob and Dave flew without their safety net as the Voice of Reason was out of town, and miraculously, nothing seriously went awry. We were joined in-studio by Adam Kaump of One Month Apps, Tolly Marcus of Air Packet and Zing, and our go-to, unofficially official fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Jeff Haase. Couldn’t have asked for a better show. Great conversations with the guests, lots of insight into cool stuff they have going on...

IT in the D, Episode 36 We’re joined in studio by Mike Dennis, who valiantly tried to help us understand WTF bitcoin is all about, and the Daily Detroit guys to talk about their stories and the blurring of lines between bloggers and journalists. And it was Opening Day downtown, so there might have been some drinking involved. I know, that shocks you greatly, so listen on for the fun… As always, in our first segment, we wandered through introductions and chatter, discussing some of the news st...

IT in the D, Episode 35. This time around we were joined by Andy and PJ from Go Comedy! Improv Theater and Neil Nosakowski of Activ8 Gaming. Both companies are located in Ferndale, and have a lot going on that you’re going to want to know about. And we actually got to that in between the usual mayhem that always takes place during these shows… As per usual, we started off with introductions, babbled and covered some stories that have caught our eye in the past week. From my wife’s birthday pa...

IT in the D, Episode 34. For those listening last week, Bob was horrified when he realized that last Monday being the 10th meant that this Monday was the 17th, and so we’d be in the studio on St Patrick’s Day. We’re all very proud of him for struggling through. Some great guests also made it in-studio with us on this greenest of days, including Gary, Elyse and April from Brightwing, our old buddy Russ Dotson who’s back on leave for a couple weeks from his deployment overseas, and Adam from th...

IT in the D, Episode 33. I’m pretty sure that my favorite part of tonight’s episode was when Bob had the stunning realization that tonight was the 10th… …which means next Monday is the 17th… …which means we’re in the studio on St Patrick’s Day. He didn’t seem amused. However, that didn’t get in the way of us having one hell of a time tonight with Steve from Arrow Strategies, one of our sponsors for Thursday’s Pink Slip Party event at St Andrews Hall, along with David, Bryan and Amanda – the ...

IT in the D, Episode 32. We experienced some serious technical difficulties with the show last night – the live stream had some problems, and it turns out that the recording did as well. So…publishing this partial version which contains the first hour of the show for now, with the hope that recovery efforts will be successful and we’ll have the rest available shortly. Because oh, man did we have some cool stuff happen during tonight’s episode as Adam “D Lux” Lux joined us in-studio tonight… ...

IT in the D, Episode 31. We’re joined in-studio by veteran guest Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media, as well as newcomer Julie Van Ameyde of Simply Social Media, along with Jeff Haase, who somehow keeps getting roped into these things. As you’d expect, we covered a whole host of social media topics with those two on-hand, but that hardly begins to cover everything we talked about in this episode… The details on our 3/13/2014 Pink Slip Party can be found here: http://www.ITinTheD.com/7253/313...

IT in the D, Episode 30. We had Hajj Flemings as our in-studio guest to talk about his areas of expertise like branding, social media personas, and everything else he’s got going on these days. Detroit’s Largest Selfie. The #DetroitWeek hashtag and activities. And a bunch more. He’s a busy guy with a lot of irons in the fire, and it was great to sit down and chat with him about it all. That just scratches the surface though, because oh, did we have some fun with the latest news and events… We...

IT in the D, Episode 29. No guests this time around, and it’s just Jeff and Dave in-studio, joined a bit by Karen from The Corner with K-Hubb and Marcus from the band My Perfect Nightmare. A lot of the basics about our upcoming events got covered, as well as a whole bunch of the latest news, stories, and all sorts of fun. So let’s go ahead and get to the recap… The night started off early for me sitting in with K-Hubb’s show from 7-9 before our show got started, and I had an absolute blast. ...

IT in the D, Episode 28: Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls We’re joined in-studio by our guests from Agile and Beyond, making a repeat appearance to talk about their conference coming up in a few weeks…and they’ve got a special offer for you. So let’s go ahead and dive in… Return guest Tom Churchwell and his partner in crime Jason Dinkelmann came in to talk Agile and Beyond. Along the way we learned that Bob doesn’t understand how landmines work. Or how hovercraft work. We also talked about cops ...

IT in the D, Episode 27. Our second broadcast of the year. Just the three of us hanging out and talking about quite a few topics that caught our eye in the past couple of weeks… Why do a solid chunk of information technology professionals say they love their career…but won’t tell people what they do? Why does Governor Snyder want the US Government to rewrite immigration laws for Detroit? Writers can, perhaps, get a free house in downtown Detroit…and we might want one. We’re writers, after a...

IT in the D, Episode 26. Our first broadcast of 2014. We had no guests when we hit our pre-show meeting spot…and then suddenly we had a full house. Great set of guests too, with some really solid topics… We had Ben Fraser and Mike Evans in from PishPosh.tv, as well as our recurring friend of the program Jeff Haase. Covering everything from 3D printing to 80s music to the Insane Clown Posse and more, this episode was a blast. We’re definitely going to have these guys back in for another rou...

IT in the D, Episode 25. We decided that the last broadcast of the year would be just the three of us hanging out, chatting about news, events, and just about any topic that popped into our heads over the course of two hours. We even had the saucy little minx who hosts the show before ours, K-Hubb, join us to try and keep us in line. Didn’t really work… [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127491611″ params=”color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”16...

IT in the D, Episode 24. It’s almost Christmas, and so let’s chat about some good stuff going on in the area… Recapping our last event of 2013 at Rochester Mills, talking Code Michigan and all sorts of fun stuff with guest Cliff Nowicki. Oh, and we came up with a great new business model for any company that needs development done… Not going to even try and hide it, we had some serious technical difficulties with the raw recording on this one. It’s a little blown-out sounding and wound up be...

IT in the D, Episode 23. IT in the D learned all about IT in the O.C. last night, as we were joined in-studio by Phil Bertolini, CIO and Deputy County Executive for Oakland County. Great episode, and we learned a lot about things going on with Oakland County that a lot of folks probably don’t even think about or realize are taking place… In our first segment, as always, we handled basic introductions and then dove into news and events that have caught our eye…which turned out to mostly involv...

IT in the D, Episode 22 This was a GREAT episode. One of the ones where we could have sat there for anther two or three hours easily, and never run out of things to talk about. With our guests Elaina Farnsworth of Mobile Comply, Nate Hughes of Detroit Labs and Amber Coffman of Spark Digital Strategy, there was no shortage of things to talk about or topics to dive in…and a bit of ranting, naturally… In our first segment, we went through our usual round-up of news items that had caught our eye...

Episode 21 of the IT in the D show was exactly what we needed. We were joined in studio by long-time friend of the program Jeff Haase in-studio. That of course led to a little hardcore geeking, some laughter, a dose of witty banter, a little mocking, some history of the group, a rant or two…you know, “Us 101″… In our first segment, we talk through the basics of our upcoming Support The Troops event on December 12th, we chat about our event last week at Falling Down Beer Company, and we dive in...

Episode 20 of the IT in the D show with April Boyle from D:Hive Detroit and Stephanie Goodrich of Secure-24. In our first segment, we talk through news and events that have caught our eye including conspiracy theories, Google forcing Google+ integration on Youtube and the public backlash and more. In our second segment, we dive in with April to learn about all of the cool things that D:Hive has going on. They’re the folks behind one of our former show guests, Spielhaus Toys, getting setup with...