I'm on a Podcast

Yesterday Andy Erickson interviewed me for a local podcast called Cincinnati IT Podcast.  You can find the podcast here.  We talked about the history of CINNUG and the newly dubbed Central Ohio Day of .NET.

One of the things I’d like to point out is that Andy indicates at the beginning of the talk that he thought I took up a good leadership role for IT in Cincinnati.  While I might be visible in the IT world around Cincinnati because I’m one of the Directors for CINNUG, there are a LOT of people that are helping me out.

With CINNUG I get a lot of feedback, moral support and ideas from Nino Benvenuti.  More recently, Dan Hounshell has come on board to also help out at the meetings and share new ideas with us regarding the group (sorry I didn’t mention your name in the interview Dan!).

For the Central Ohio Day of .NET this year Jim Holmes and I are getting lots of help from Bob Sledge, Carey Payette and Justin Kohnen.  We also have a good number of volunteers that will be helping us out on the day of the event.

Without the help of these people I would be looking out from a circular window in a padded room somewhere. 

There is a great community in the IT around Cincinnati.  If you are a .NET developer I highly recommend coming to a CINNUG meeting, or attending one of the free events from Microsoft.  If you are a developer of another platform there are several other user groups in the area that may be more to your line of interest.  Andy Erickson has been attending a lot of the various groups and posting reviews of the meetings.  Check out his blog for a good summary of what’s going on, but better yet, get out and experience it.