Category: Social Media
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My new role at Voxeo: Director of Conversations
Continue Reading: My new role at Voxeo: Director of ConversationsTwo weeks ago, I took on a new role within Voxeo, but rather ironically I’ve just been too straight out to write about the role change with the Tropo.com launch, our activities at eComm and, well, the new role itself. I’ve given some teasers in my Twitter stream, told a number of folks out at eComm and outright gave it away in my weekly report into FIR #426, but I haven’t written about it. Some of you may laugh, but I also, quite frankly, find it a bit odd to write about, well, me. I prefer to tell the story, rather than to be the subject.When I joined Voxeo back in October 2007, I wrote about the move and said that a part of my role in the Office of the CTO was this: Basically I get to help tell Voxeo’s story. And for the past 1.5 years I’ve been doing that through blog posts and podcasts over on blogs.voxeo.com, through my external blogging, through my many presentations at all sorts of conferences, through Twitter and Facebook and probably a hundred other venues and services.
Now, though, telling Voxeo’s story is no longer a part of my role… it…
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Directory forming of Twitter users related to Telephony/VoIP/Asterisk/etc.
Continue Reading: Directory forming of Twitter users related to Telephony/VoIP/Asterisk/etc.Do you use Twitter and are interested in finding people on Twitter to follow related to telephony, VoIP, Asterisk, communications, etc? Well the folks over at the VoIP Users Conference have put together a website that provides a directory of twitter users related to those topics. If you’d like, you can add yourself using this form.It’s nice to see a directory like that, although it’s unfortunate that you can’t simply click on the person’s twitter name to see their page. Perhaps this was done to counteract spammers because if live links were allowed the directory might be rapidly overrun with spammers looking for SEO. I don’t know… the good news is that Twitter names are all short.
Naturally I added myself, both with my personal ‘danyork‘ Twitter account as well as the ‘voxeo‘ Twitter account I use for our blog posts and other communication.
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VoIP blogger/analyst Jon Arnold has a new blog address…
Continue Reading: VoIP blogger/analyst Jon Arnold has a new blog address…My friend and fellow VoIP blogger Jon Arnold (who interviewed me not too long ago) has a new home for his blog:
As Jon explains in a post, he had been blogging at the same location off of Pulver.com since 2005 but recently found that the server was no longer online. He is neither able to post to the server nor are all of his older articles online. This was perhaps inevitable with the continuing changes within "the assets formerly owned by VON / Pulvermedia", but Jon had hung on at that site for as long as he could.
So now he's got a new home and is trying to get the word out to people who used to subscribe to him over there. If you linked to Jon from a "blog roll" or other list of blog sites, he would definitely appreciate you changing your link.
And if you haven't followed Jon in the past, I'd encourage you to check out his writing… Jon has been in the telecom industry a good while and writes a lot about the service provider space. Being in Toronto, he also frequently provides a Canadian perspective on larger telecom issues – and also…
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Sheryl Breuker: “10 people you should follow on Twitter” (related to VoIP, telcom, etc.)
Continue Reading: Sheryl Breuker: “10 people you should follow on Twitter” (related to VoIP, telcom, etc.)I was rather humbled to find myself included among Sheryl Breuker’s list of “10 people you should follow on Twitter” related to VoIP/telecom/communications. I appreciate that she and others find value in what I post in my Twitter stream… or at least… they find enough value to outweigh the other random posts I put out in my Twitter stream. 🙂Seriously, Sheryl’s list is a good one and if you are interested in the VoIP / telecom / communications space, I’d definitely encourage you to follow the others on Shery’s list (it’s probably not a surprise that I have been). If I were doing my own list, there’s probably a few more I’d add… and maybe I’ll have to do that sometime…
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Skype group in LinkedIn…
Continue Reading: Skype group in LinkedIn…I’ve been a LinkedIn user for years but only recently started paying attention to the “Groups” feature… and noticed a group related to Skype that does include people associated with Skype, such as Peter Parkes. It’s not clear to me yet how much discussion will occur within the group, but if you are a LinkedIn user also interested in Skype, you may want to check it out.Technorati Tags: linkedin, skype, social media
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Good to see James Enck blogging again at EuroTelcoblog…
Continue Reading: Good to see James Enck blogging again at EuroTelcoblog…It’s good to see that James Enck is blogging again at EuroTelcoblog. For quite a few years, I enjoyed reading James’ blog largely because he provided this North American writer with some perspective into telephony/telcos in Europe and also because he wrote about Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) a good bit and I learned from that.Then in April 2007, after about 3 years of writing, James just… stopped.
But now he’s back… with an interesting explanation.
Welcome back, James! I look forward to reading more of your views…
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How do YOU see social networking changing enterprise communication?
Continue Reading: How do YOU see social networking changing enterprise communication?How do you see “social networking” and “social media” changing communication within companies, enterprises, etc.? How do you think blogs, wikis, etc. will change enterprise communication? What about Facebook and other similar sites?What would you say on this topic to an audience at VoiceCon Orlando this week?
That’s the task ahead of Irwin Lazar and I as we talk with Eric Krapf and Fred Knight in a keynote “conversation” from 10:30-11:00am on Wednesday. The panel, called “Social Networking Meets Enterprise Communication“has this for a description:
It’s no secret that world of enterprise communications is undergoing a transformation; IP Telephony and Unified Communications are changing the nature of the game. Now new forms of interaction, which began in the consumer/personal communications market — blogs, wikis and online services like Facebook are migrating into the enterprise. Where do these social networking systems and mindset fit into the enterprise communications landscape? Join us for a discussion about what’s real today and what’s likely to happen in the future.
Obviously, this is a topic about which I am rather opinionated and have been writing about in my various blogs for years (including this blog, as well as on Disruptive Conversations and in my reports…
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RIP, Marc Orchant… you will be missed in the world…
Continue Reading: RIP, Marc Orchant… you will be missed in the world…The world is a bit darker tonight. Oliver Starr relayed the tragic news that Marc Orchant passed away earlier today. I’ve sat here tonight saddened… with my thoughts very definitely going out to his family… especially at this time of year.
And then, as a writer, I feel compelled to write. It seems really the only way to honor Marc’s passing.
By most measures, I did not know Marc well. We never met face-to-face. I did not work directly with him. He had not ever interviewed me, nor I him. We had not participated in any joint projects. But in this crazy world of interconnected social media, it sure felt like I knew him. I’d been reading his ZDNet “Office Evolution” blog all along up until August when he left to join Oliver Starr in starting up us.blognation.com. There on blognation I enjoyed his writing and followed along as wrote about the latest Apple happenings, talked about how he liked his Kindle reader and ultimately how he removed himself from Facebook. Since he occasionally wrote about Skype, something I cover here as well, I did pay attention especially to those posts.
Marc and I did “meet” virtually through Robert…
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My interview on PulverTV today…
Continue Reading: My interview on PulverTV today…Today at Fall VON in Boston, Jeff Pulver hosted a special version of his Pulver TV show where he interviewed a number of people from the conference including me. First up was Jason Calcanis of Mahalo fame. Next was James Tagg, Founder and CEO of TruPhone. I followed and then the show wrapped up with Bob Frankston who is perhaps most widely known as one of the inventors of VisiCalc.
My part of the show starts at 14:30 and goes until 23:24. (When I nicely leave the stage without taking off the lapel mic! Oops! Sorry about that… ) We talked about my presentation at VON (on Thursday), application platforms like Facebook, my new role with Voxeo, social media in general and much more. It was a good bit of fun to do and I have to thank Jeff for giving me the opportunity to participate.
Technorati Tags: applications, danyork, facebook, fallvon, socialmedia, socialnetworking, voip, voip security, voipsa, von, voxeo
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MySpace is NOT giving away free cell phones but instead launching a free ad-supported phone VERSION (of the site)….
Continue Reading: MySpace is NOT giving away free cell phones but instead launching a free ad-supported phone VERSION (of the site)….In what looks like a classic case of someone leaving a critical word out of a headline, the Associated Press this morning came out with this report that MySpace is apparently launching an advertising supported free cell-phone. As indicated in the news release:
The company already offers premium, subscription-based versions of MySpace through AT&T Inc. and Helio wireless services. Those versions include special features integrated into specific handsets, such as uploading cell phone photos directly to a user’s profile page.
The new version set to launch Monday will work on all U.S. carriers and will allow users to send and receive messages and friend requests, comment on pictures, post bulletins, update blogs, and find and search for friends.At first I went along with the headline but the more I read it the more it made no sense whatsoever. There was no mention of phones… rate plans… or anything else. Gradually it dawned on me that while the AP headline was this:
Myspace to launch ad-supported cell phone
what they really meant was this:
Myspace to launch ad-supported cell phone version
Oops!
And here I was getting all excited that News Corp. was doing something truly stunning and had…
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