Episode 125: Diva Tech Talk, Living and Working Overseas, Career Academy Training Opportunity

Kicking off 2016 with a bang, we had a great set of chats for episode 125 of our weekly live broadcast of our podcast.  We were joined by Nicole Johnson from Diva Tech Talk, friend of the program Jeff Haase for some additional insights and commentary, and Jennifer Trovato to talk about her adventures moving overseas to Italy, and what the past two years have been like from a personal and family standpoint while there.  And, of course, our upcoming events, a phenomenal new training opportunity that we’ve got out here for you, and all of the news, events and items that caught our eye over the past week… Our announcement with a $29/year all you can eat training opportunity that you should be taking advantage of immediately: https://itinthed.com/18214/career-academy-podcast-1-4-2016/ 20 phrases you should never, ever google image search: http://www.viralthread.com/20-phrases-never-ever-search-google-images-1/ The cable industry, cord cutters, and price increases: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151229/09332733189/cable-industrys-response-to-banner-year-cord-cutting-massive-across-board-price-increases-2016.shtml Uber surge pricing and New Year’s Eve: http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/uber-hangover Michigan State fan threatens violence on Alabama campus: http://bamahammer.com/2015/12/31/michigan-state-fan-threatens-violence-on-alabama-campus/ “Where White People Meet” website story: http://fox13now.com/2015/12/31/white-people-meet-dating-site-billboard-turning-heads-in-utah/ The latest “kid racks up huge bill on dad’s iPad” story: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2497323,00.asp 5 Things that will Disappear in 5 years: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/03/5-things-that-will-disappear-in-5-years/ GM invests $500 million in Lyft: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/gm-invests-500-million-in-lyft-to-bolster-alliance-against-uber Hacker shuts down power grid in Ukraine: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/first-known-hacker-caused-power-outage-signals-troubling-escalation/ [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240499520″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Diva Tech Talk can be found at http://www.divatechtalk.com/ That training deal with Career Academy is at http://vip.careeracademy.com/itinthed IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit On Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDetroit On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit