Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Itexpo East 2011by Dave Michels On February 22, 2011 In Tech Itexpo East Took Place At The Beginning Of Feb In Miami.probably The
Lotusphere | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Lotusphereby Dave Michels On February 12, 2011 In Tech Last Week Were Two Very Interesting Events. Lotusphere And Itexpo. I Ended Up Taking The Long Way To Flordia, And All In All It Was 7 Flights Over Seven Days. I Don’t Much Care For Flying. I Don’t Like The Airlines. Regardless Of These “loyalty” Programs – I Am As Loyal To Each Of Them As They Are To Me. Nuff Said. Lotus...
My Grim Prediction | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup My Grim Predictionby Dave Michels On February 14, 2011 In Tech I’ve Always Liked Rim. I Remember Being In A Meeting Where Everyone Had A Blackberry And I Had A Sidekick – I Think That Was When My Feelings Of Inadequacy Really Began. A Cellular Form Of “genius Envy”. Rim Was A Revolutionary Product That Brought Email To Mobile – Resulting With The Affectionate Term Of ...
10 Comm No-nos Part 1 | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup 10 Comm No-nos Part 1by Dave Michels On March 21, 2011 In Tech Dr. Evil Said It Best With “i’m Surrounded By Frickin’ Morons.” Here Is My Top 10 List Of Telecom No-nos. Don’t Do These Things, They Are Simply Unacceptable. Why? Well, For Lots Of Reasons Including Common Sense, Common Courtesy, Technological Progress, And Because They Annoy The Hell Out Of Me. It Is Time To ...
10 Comm No-nos Part 2 | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup 10 Comm No-nos Part 2by Dave Michels On March 24, 2011 In Tech Dr. Evil Said It Best With “i’m Surrounded By Frickin’ Morons.” Here Is My Top 10 List Of Telecom No-nos. Don’t Do These Things, They Are Simply Unacceptable. Why? Well, For Lots Of Reasons Including Common Sense, Common Courtesy, Technological Progress, And Because They Annoy The Hell Out Of Me. It Is Time To ...
Apple Targets Smb It? | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Apple Targets Smb It?by Dave Michels On March 11, 2011 In Tech Apple’s Journey Over The Past Decade Has Been Truly Fascinating. They Do Everything Wrong, Yet It Continues To Work. The Latest Move – Joint Venture – Consumerization Of It Services Starting At $499. The Topic Of Consumerization Of It Is Becoming A Frequent One, And Nearly Always Includes The Word Apple. When We Talk...
My Keychain | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup My Keychainby Dave Michels On March 29, 2011 In Tech A Lot Of Things Are Changing These Days – Books, Newspapers, Retail, Communications, Etc. But This One Snuck Up On Me. Take A Look At My Keychain:look Ma, No Keys. I Have My Car Fob Which Is A Remote With Rfid, A Handy USB Thumb Drive From The Folks At Nokia, And A Box Cutter Key For Opening All My Bills. I No Longer Carry A House...
Telecom Industry Report Card | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Telecom Industry Report Cardby Dave Michels On March 15, 2011 In Tech Enterprise Connect Was A Great Time To Meet With Vendors, End Users, And Other Media And Analysts. The Event Was Filled With News, Keynotes, And Alcohol Resulting With A Distinct Impression About The Industry. I Figured Fresh From The Conference, It’s A Good Time To Reflect. In Many Ways, The Conference Reflects T...
Uc Summit | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Uc Summitby Dave Michels On March 12, 2011 In Tech Next Conference Is Ucsummit, Hosted By Ucstrategies.uc Summit Takes Place In La Jolla (san Diego, Ca) March 27-30. The Attendees Are Generally Either Consultants Or Dealers/resellers – And The Hosts Are Ucstrategies Experts (consultants And Analysts) And Multiple Vendors That Want To Get To Know You Better.it’s Fairly Unique. Vend...
Defending Avaya | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Defending Avayaby Dave Michels On April 7, 2011 In Tech Avaya Sure Looks Stupid, Their Desktop Video Device Is The Most Expensive Tablet On The Market. But Armchair Quarterbacks Don’t Always See The Whole Game. Eric Krapf In I’m With Stupid Discusses The Intelligence Of A Proprietary Tablet Strategy. Both Avaya And Cisco Released Their Own Android Based Tablets – Alu, Polycom ...
Expert Guide For Pbx Buying | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Expert Guide For Pbx Buyingby Dave Michels On April 5, 2011 In Tech Jon Arnold And I Collaborated On A Focus Expert Guide: Purchasing Enterprise Phone Systems. Online Collaboration Is Really Changing The Way We Work – For The Better. A Single Online Draft That We Could Both Access Individually Or The Same Time Really Made This Project Go Much Faster. The Guide Helps Enterprise Buyer...
Flip, Kin, Wave | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Flip, Kin, Waveby Dave Michels On April 16, 2011 In Tech Did The Smartphone Kill The Flip? Horseshit. Cisco Killed The Flip. Evidently Murdered Just Before Its Newest Version Was To Ship. Pogue Reported That The Company Was Set To Release A New Feature To Enable Live Streaming – But The Flip Division Was Shut Down One Day Before Its Release Date. He Wrote: That New Flip That The Pro...
Logitech, Lifesize, And Slim Devices Oh My | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Logitech, Lifesize, And Slim Devices Oh Myby Dave Michels On April 26, 2011 In Tech I Posted News About Lifesize Now Supporting Skype. I Think It Is Significant News Because The Enterprise World, Where Lifesize Resides, Has Pretty Much Ignored Skype. But Skype Is Too Big Too Ignore. Skype Is On Fire This Year. They Crossed Over 30 Million Simultaneous Users. They Are Doing Everything ...
Microsoft Office 365 Getting Closer | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Microsoft Office 365 Getting Closerby Dave Michels On April 18, 2011 In Tech Microsoft Is Rapidly Moving Office To An Internet App That Will Run In A Browser. It Is Called Office 365. It’s A Huge Part Of Microsoft’s All-in Cloud Strategy. Office 365 Was Introduced In Limited Beta Last Year, Bringing Together Microsoft Office, Sharepoint Online, Exchange Online And Lync Online In A...
More On Interoperability | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup More On Interoperabilityby Dave Michels On April 4, 2011 In Tech Interop Was A Big Topic At Both Enterprise Connect And The Uc Summit. Here’s The Painful Fact About Commitment To Standards–it’s Only A Starting Point ,and Effectively It’s Just Rhetoric Without Additional Effort Of Alignment. Simply Stated, Standards Are Not Enough. Sip, For Example, Has A High D...
Multi-modal Communications 1 | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Multi-modal Communications 1by Dave Michels On April 24, 2011 In Tech One Term We Use Fairly Often In Unified Communications Is This Notion Of “multi-modal Communications”. There Are Some Interesting New Features And Services That Fall Into This Category.as With Nearly Everything In Unified Communications, We Start With The Obligatory Definition Section. The Way I See It Is There ...
New From Cisco: Cmbe 3000 | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup New From Cisco: Cmbe 3000by Dave Michels On April 28, 2011 In Tech At Enterprise Connect 2011, Cisco Announced A New Phone System Called The Unified Communications Manager Business Edition 3000 With Planned Availability Later This Year. The Product Is Aimed At The Mid Market – Organizations That Need Up To 48 Trunks. Cisco Has Some Rich Uc Solutions For Larger Organizations, Even Sm...
Next Conference: Aastra User Group | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Next Conference: Aastra User Groupby Dave Michels On April 12, 2011 In Tech This Is My Year For Conferences, About One A Month. Next Up Is The Aastra User Group Conference In Santa Monica, Ca May 1 – May 4th. I Am Really Excited About This One Because I Don’t Normally Attend Very Many User Groups – And When You Boil It All Down – It’s The Users That Matter The Most. I Didn...
Time Flies | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Time Fliesby Dave Michels On April 29, 2011 In Tech Relatively Speaking, Time Flies. I’ve Worked In Big Fortune 100 Companies, My Own Company, And Now Just Me – And I Am Amazed At How Relative Time Can Be. I Am Currently Involved With A Large School District That Has Numerous It Projects. Typical List Of Projects And Priorities, You Can Probably Guess The List: Pc Budgets And Supp...
Type This | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Type Thisby Dave Michels On April 26, 2011 In Tech Yesterday, It Was Reported That The Last Typewriter Manufacturer In The World (located In India) Closed Its Doors. Http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640visit Msnbc.com For Breaking News, World News, And News About The Economyno More Typewritersi Still Have My Ibm Selectric (and A Box Of Ribbons). It Goes With My Phone Booth (with Rotar...
Uc Is Free | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Uc Is Freeby Dave Michels On April 25, 2011 In Tech Phillip Crosby Published “quality Is Free” In 1979, And It Became A Key Contributor To A Global Revolution In Manufacturing Practices. Previously, “quality” Was Associated With Goodness, Or Luxury Rather Than Conformance To Requirements. Quality Was Also Considered Intangible. Crosby Both Defined And Explained How To Measure ...
Uc Summit Podcasts | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Uc Summit Podcastsby Dave Michels On April 6, 2011 In Tech At The Recent Uc Summit, I Recorded 5 Podcasts.at Enterprise Connect, I Brought With Me My Kid’s Mp3 Recorder He Uses With Music. I Used As An Aid To Note Taking And Assured Each One I Met With That The Recordings Would Be Kept Private. I Regretted That As Some Of These Folks Were Quite Elegant And Say Things Better Than I C...
Ucstrategies Podcasts | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Ucstrategies Podcastsby Dave Michels On April 17, 2011 In Tech I Cross-link Most Of My Posts On Other Sites Here, But Have Not Been Particularly Reliable With My Podcasts On Ucstrategies.com. Almost Weekly I Participate In A Ucstrategies.com Podcast. The Podcasts Are Filed Under Industry Buzz, Which Includes Many Topics And Interviews. The Uc Expert Podcast Isn’t Easily Sorted, So I...
Upcoming Conference: Interop | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Upcoming Conference: Interopby Dave Michels On April 14, 2011 In Tech I Used To Love Interop. Back In The Late 90s It Was The Show For It Topics. I Used To Bring Lots Of My Crew Too. We Would Compete To See Who Could Collect The Most Shirts. Boy We Were Whores – Anything For A Shirt. I Remember One Year We Could Not Get A Hotel – Interop Was So Big That Las Vegas Was Sold Out. We ...
Upcoming Conference: Mitel Freedom Partner Event | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Upcoming Conference: Mitel Freedom Partner Eventby Dave Michels On April 21, 2011 In Tech Busy Time Of Year For Conferences… The Next Event Is What Used To Be Known As Mitel Forum. Many Of You Know That I Have A Long History With Mitel. I’ve Always Been Impressed With Their Products And Their Chairman Terry Mathews. Mitel Should Be More More Successful And Larger Than It Is. As A ...
Air Travel Sucks! | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Air Travel Sucks!by Dave Michels On May 20, 2011 In Tech Airlines Suck! What Happened To Air Travel? This Is Normally A Telecom Blog, So Let’s Just Say This Post Is Pro Videoconferencing. I Am Writing This From An Airport Will I Will Be, If All Goes Well, For A Total Of 7 Hours (then Another Airport Before I Get To Denver). Air Travel Used To Be Glamorous. Twenty Years Ago It Was Co...
Cisco 3000- Upcoming Webinar | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Cisco 3000- Upcoming Webinarby Dave Michels On May 27, 2011 In Tech Cisco Is Getting Pretty Close To Releasing Its New Unified Communications Manager Business Edition 3000 Phone System.this Phone System Represents A New Strategy For Cisco – Simple And Cheap.with Power Comes Complexity – This Is Fairly Evident With The unified Communications Manager Business Edition 5000...
Clarity On Cloudy Voice | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Clarity On Cloudy Voiceby Dave Michels On May 20, 2011 In Tech Hosted Voice Is One Area Of Voip That’s Booming. It Isn’t Just For Smb Any More – Enterprises Are Showing More Interest. Nor Is It A Hobby Or Experiment For The Service Providers. It’s Pretty Clear, Hosted Is Here To Stay… The Question Is If That’s Still True For Premise Equipment.this Y...
Interop | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Interopby Dave Michels On May 26, 2011 In Tech May Is A Crazy Month For Conferences, And It Is Hard To Keep Up With The Posts.the Interop Conference Is A Shadow Of Its Heyday Years, But Still A Significant Event For Networking Technologies. It Used To Attract More Of The Telephony/telecom Vendors, But Not As Much Any More. The Handful Of Uc Equipment Vendors There Did Draw Pretty Dece...
Lync 101 | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Lync 101by Dave Michels On May 29, 2011 In Tech We Had A Great Conversation On Lync On The Vuc – It Was Intended As An Introduction For Folks That Know Other Voip Products, But Had Little Direct Exposure To Microsoft’s Lync Solution.the Vuc (voip Uses Conference) Is An Open Conversation About Voip, Featuring Some Really Smart Regulars. The Call Takes Place Weekly, And Reco...
Microsoft Should Buy Skype | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Microsoft Should Buy Skypeby Dave Michels On May 9, 2011 In Tech Update: About 20 Hours After This Post, The Wsj Reported A Microsoft Skype Deal Was Very Likely. The Wall Street Journal Reported Earlier Tonight That Microsoft–in What Would Be Its Most Aggressive Acquisition In The Digital Space–was Zeroing In On Buying Skype For $8.5 Billion All In.sources Told Boomtown Tonight Th...
Mitel Changes | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Mitel Changesby Dave Michels On May 2, 2011 In Tech Mitel Announced Several Significant Changes Today – About Three Months After Hiring Rich Mcbee As Ceo. I Am Traveling This Week, So Just A Quick Review Of The Press Release.mcbee Was To Smplify The Business! Mitel Has Become A Very Complex Organization. This Is Not The First Time They Have Announced The Obvious Need To Simplify...
Ms Skype | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Ms Skypeby Dave Michels On May 28, 2011 In Tech “ms Skype”does That Sound Weird To Anyone Else?the Ms Skype Thing Is Big For A Lot Of Reasons. One Obvious Big Reason Is The Valuation – $8.5 Billion For A Company That Is Losing Money And The Vast Majority Of Its “customers” Don’t Pay A Dime. It’s Big Because It May Actually Be Worth It. At A Ti...
Multi-modal Communications 2 | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Multi-modal Communications 2by Dave Michels On May 1, 2011 In Tech Continuing The Series On Multi-modal Communications, I Thought I Would Start With Some Examples In The Consumer Space. Three Examples Are Below, And They Are Just Scratching The Surface Of The Possible. Multi-mobile Adds Dimension To Voice Communications – It Is Currently A New Thing To Explore, But Soon It Will Be H...
Multi-modal Communications 3 | Talkingpointz
Enterprise Unified Communications Homeservicesresearchappearancesinterviewspodcastsaboutask Davepindropsoup Multi-modal Communications 3by Dave Michels On May 11, 2011 In Tech In This Third And Final Post To This Series, I Will Take A Look At A Few Enterprise Focused Examples Of Multi-modal Communications. Companies In This Post: Avaya, Fonolo, Gold Systems, Google, Proton Media, Radish Systems, Radvision, Siemens-enterprise, And Skype, Let’s Start Off With Avaya And Their One-x Mobile Ag...