Gary Baney has a long and distinguished career in the IT world. He has been a CIO (named one of the Top 100 IT Leaders), University Professor and CEO.

He is a risk taker and change agent who sees the opportunities and threats of a global and virtual economy.

In these podcasts, Gary offers some frank commentary on what we need to do to compete in this new world order. He shares his thoughts on China, immigration, the green initiative, CWRU, entrepreneurs and more.

Computer enthusiasts will recognize Steve Bass because of his longtime column in PC World Magazine and/or his popular PC Annoyances books.

In this podcast, Steve talks about user groups, PC annoyances and how he went from counselor to tech writer. Steve now has his own business -TechBite - that you can subscribe to for free.

Senator Birch Bayh was known as an advocate of civil rights. One of his accomplishments was co-authoring legislation called Title IX that led to a complete reordering of sports in schools regarding how boys and girls are treated.

He appeared at the 35th anniversary conference of Title IX in Cleveland in conjunction with the NCAA Women's Final Four.

Gene Barlow has over 45 years of computer experience.

Because of his tremendous support for user groups in general and APCUG in particular, Gene is often called the Father of PC User Groups.

In this interview, Gene talks about the early days of APCUG, his relationship with Jerry Schneider and even tells about those Looney Tunes shirts he always wore.

Robert Bell and the Intelligent Community Forum assist and recognize communities that are working to improve themselves in the global broadband economy.

In these podcasts, Robert Bell explains what happens to communities that don't adapt to the new economy.

Cleveland State University is crucial to the health of the city. As an urban university it has particular challenges and opportunities. Dr. Berkman addressed these in a presentation at Corporate Club at Landerhaven July 13, 2010

Many of us have been so wrapped up in social media - Linked In, Facebook, Twitter and the like - that we haven't really considered how they change things from an employer's perspective.

Can you screen job prospects by what's on their Facebook page? Can you ask an employee for their social media password?

In this podcast 2 expert attorneys from Brouse McDowell answer some of the legal questions of social media.

National IT companies have to be located on the Coasts. You can't find enough talent in the Great Lakes Region. You can't provide world class services from this area.

These are just a few of the myths that Bill Bradfield and his PerceptIS team are helping to dispel. PerceptIS is a young company but is growing in customers, revenues and employees from their headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Rick Burnes was the keynote speaker at the 3rd annual eMarketing Techniques Conference in Cleveland.

Rick is the editor of Hubspot's inbound marketing blog, which is consistently featured on the Adage Power 150 Top Media Marketing blogs. In addition to his work on the blog, Rick develops videos, research, case studies and webinars on new approaches to online marketing.

After the keynote, Rick shared some of his tips and free tools to make your eMarketing work better for you.