Who We Are

Bob – The Sales Guy: Bob Waltenspiel is the consummate sales guy, with a decade and a half of experience in selling products, commodities and services all up and down the information technology food chain.

Dave – The Geek: Dave Phillips is the geek that’s been pushed into management roles over the years, but still keeps his hands dirty so that he can translate from the board room to the server room and back.

Jeff – The Voice of Reason: Jeff Mackey has over 15 years of industry experience; he’s done the programming thing and the management thing, and is good at explaining the technical to the not so technical.

 

What We Do

  • Jun 21

    PINK SLIP PARTY: Networking Event for Metro Detroit IT Industry Professionals and Job Seekers and Recruiters

    Venue: Woody's

    Our next Pink Slip Party is going to be Thursday, June 21st in Royal Oak.  It will take place at Woody’s, and we’ll be taking over the entire second floor. These are bigger and more organized than our smaller, more casual events and tend to have 50+ recruiters, HR folks and hiring managers in attendance ...

  • Jul 19

    July Casual Networking Social

    Venue: Clubhouse BFD

    July Casual Networking Social for Information Technology Professionals in metro Detroit. So, you know the drill: No agenda. No sponsors. No 30-second commercials. No cover charge. No free lunch. Never. Just networking with IT professionals. Plain and simple. Detroitnet.org was started by IT professionals for IT professionals. We didn’t like any other group out there, ...

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What We Say

All we ask is that you Don't Be That Guy. Allow us to share wit and wisdom on networking.

Don’t Be That Guy: Klout Score Guy

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I’m just going to go ahead and get this out of the way – yeah, I joined Klout.  Yeah, I still have an account.

But no, I don’t give a rat’s ass what my “klout score” is.  In fact, up until the other day when I read a few articles about Klout that annoyed the hell out of me (and triggered this entry), I hadn’t logged in…oh, probably in over a month or two.   Long enough that it had lost the association to my Facebook account and I had to re-authorize it and a few others.  Why hadn’t I logged in for so long?  Because I quickly realized how ridiculous it was.  Why do I need some random third-party to keep score for me?

In fact, now that I’ve read those articles in the past few days, I care even less about it…but there are those who apparently live and die by it, and now companies are starting to pay attention to it, and I want to throatpunch all of them.

Especially Klout Score Guy…

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