Thursday, April 30, 2009

Video Email and Seminars for a Dollar a Day

Yep! Video email and seminars to develop your brand, provide customer service, show appreciation to vendors and partners and more at Altamedia Group. Listen to my friend Dennis at http://www.covideo.com/playback.php?t=MjYwOTQ5NzI2NzY5NTM3NzA3NTMz.

If anyone want a very quick demo on the product, let me know. Dennis Eodice, in my Facebook network, who I met at the DIDX party during ITEXPO West 2008, will show you how easy it is to set up a video e-mail as well as the video conferencing and presentation.

How you are or can use your mobile phone via SIP

On May 14, 2009 at 10 AM EST (USA time)*, you can listen to a seminar titled SIP Goes Mobile: the Case for RCS via the registration link. Find out how the people who may, the end-users are using mobile, how they want to use mobile, and how many companies are searching for ways to make the end-users' wishes come true. SIP, SIP, SIP.**

Speakers include:
Diane Myers, Directing Analyst, Service Provider VoIP and IMS, Infonetics Research

Diane Myers is widely regarded as one of the VoIP industry’s top analysts. She brings to Infonetics 14 years of telecom industry analyst and marketing experience, including over 3 years as Strategic Marketing Director for VoIP application software vendor BroadSoft.

Aude Pichelin, Head of Multimedia Services Standardisation in Orange, and chair of RCS

Aude is responsible for FT/Orange’s standardisation and technical strategy for multimedia services and applications. She is actively contributing to FT/Orange’s implementation of IMS based services, 3rd parties framework and APIs, identity management and devices platforms.

Kevin Mitchell, Director, Wireless Solutions, Acme Packet

Kevin leads Acme Packet's communications, marketing and events for the wireless and mobile markets. This role encompasses the role their session border controllers, multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies fulfill for mobile operators, MVNOs, IPX carriers, mobile VoIP ASPs, and other relevant verticals.

* Not sure what time the seminar will be in your time zone? Check http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_DO.aspx

* * Mobile SIP search

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

We appreciate you beats ta ta and regards

From my experience worldwide...

"We appreciate you," when you mean it...

beats "ta ta" or "Regards" in the closing of emails any day.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Hiccups here, but Collaboration Rocks in IP Communications

I had a few hiccups in the last six months which I determined not dwell on much: dislocated shoulder (work travel injury), car wreck resulting in totaled car and minimal injuries, and surprising company changes and experiences.

But I'm back on stronger than ever, loving your and our global industry of IP communications!

I'm not really everywhere, but I do recognize certain professional qualities and features among global IP communications-related companies and those who can help them:

Honesty
Collaboration
Integrity
Excellence in customer service
Innovative but at the same very practical services and products
Global reach
Ability to explain anything well, keeping in mind a variety of learning styles, and those who speak ESOL
Ability to use criticism of one's company to better one's company

Thanks for the nice compliments, Jaymie Scotto & Associates: http://www.jaymiescotto.com/jsablog/2009/03/31/jaymie-scotto-podcast-interview-by-suzanne-bowen-of-didx/.

Super Technologies, Inc. since 1999 has always included in its mission to recognize and encourage companies in our industry who exhibit the qualities listed above.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Get involved with Internet Telephony online and offline!

Since 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY has been a powerful force in the IP communications space. That's one year before our company Super Technologies, Inc. started up.

Its product-focused editorial creates a platform to put readers in the frame of mind to think about evaluating and purchasing products. It's a big favorite worldwide among early adopters, entrepreneurs, incumbents, wireless operators and more in the IP communications-related industry.

INTERNET TELEPHONY boasts more than 225,000 readers each month* and offers strong online impact with its accompanying website, TMCnet, which attracts nearly three million unique visitors each month, according to Webtrends. We at DIDX have always been impressed with the interaction promoted, the quality of the advertisements and articles and decided last yeart to sponsor an advertisement on a monthly basis.

I'm copying the following from an email I received this morning that gives you a glimpse of the June 2009 issue:

The IP-Enabled Contact Center
IP-enabling the contact center continues the revolution that started when computer intelligence was first applied to call centers in the computer telephony era of the 1980s and 1990s. The IP-enabled contact center brings many new features and capabilities including Unified Communications, and essentially converts your entire organization into an extended call center. Benefits include reduced costs, enhanced visibility, supervision, and all-around management. The flexibility of IP communications allows for multiple configurations of contact centers, such as the typical hybrid VoIP/circuit-switched center, single-site/multi-site VoIP, home based agents, and off-shore outsourcing based on VoIP connections.

Designing the Mobile Enterprise
Unless you're starting a totally new operation, supporting your increasingly mobile workforce typically requires you to work with your existing equipment and services. Fortunately, there are now many ways to project advanced IP PBX and business functions out to road warriors and other roaming employees.

Billing
Many carriers and service providers don't quite realize that they're in the business of accurately billing customers. Their lapses in this area made possible a whole industry, Telecom Expense Management. But many companies now exist with advanced products and services that not only can help service providers, but take the concept of billing to a whole new level.

Location-Based Services
Location-Based Services (LBSs) are becoming increasingly popular, perhaps the most familiar being those involving navigation, e.g. Google Maps for your Phone or Nokia Maps. And there are such things as geo-tagging photos and mobile social networking. The original LBS was E911 service, mandated by the FCC. Nearly all present-day LBS applications are based on GPS or other workarounds, not on operator provided location services.

Open Source Selection Criteria
Open source telephony has revolutionized the world of small- and medium-sized business communications. Digium's Asterisk platform was the first cost-effective way to provide big-enterprise telephony functionality to smaller organizations. While the basic versions of such software is free, business users will want to deal with companies that provide support and additional features for a reasonable fee.

Note that TMCnet is a media partner for *Cluecon 2009 and Digium Asterisk World, conferences that focus with emphasis on open source developers but also entrepreneurs and more. See www.cluecon.com and http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/east-09/digium-asterisk-world.htm. Both are extremely effective experiences.

Related URLs:
Get a subscription now: http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/

Begin your own successful advertisement: http://images.tmcnet.com/mkt/media-kit/IT_Rate_Card_2008.pdf

Submit an original article and apply for publication: http://images.tmcnet.com/mkt/media-kit/IT-Editorial-Calendar-2009.pdf

Contact a professional sales representative at TMCnet: http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/contacts.aspx#IT

* DIDX is a media partner for Cluecon 2009. Special note to DIDX.net members: check your DIDX email soon for how important you are to Cluecon 2009.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Gravity Wants to Bring us Down?

More is not always better at work, in love, in money, in sex, in food, in drink, in anything. Even if the glass is half empty, at least there's something there. Make the best of it. Lesson to self and anyone else who cares to read... ;-)

Watch the video, read the lyrics, and add on your Facebook if you like!



Gravity
By John Mayer

Gravity
Is working against me
And gravity
Wants to bring me down

Whoa I'll never know
What makes this man
With all the love
That his heart can stand
Dream of ways
To throw it all away

Whoa Gravity
Is working against me
And gravity
Wants to bring me down

Oh twice as much
Ain’t twice as good
And can't sustain
Like one half could
It's wanting more
It's gonna send me to my knees


instrumental

Oh twice as much
Ain’t twice as good
And can't sustain
Like one half could
It's wanting more
It's gonna send me to my knees

Oh gravity
Stay the hell away from me
Oh gravity
Has taken better men than me
Now how can that be?

Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where keep me where the light is


http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/John+Mayer/track/Gravity



Love ya!
Suzanne

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Praise that Makes a VoIP Company's Heart Warm

I am copying an email that I just received where a wholesale client (industry giant) of DIDX is recommending an industry friend to use DIDX. I have replaced the actual name of the company they refer with "Company X" and left out the name of our lovely current client.

Here we go...

"I want to make an introduction to Suzanne who is the CEO of DIDx. See: http://www.didx.net. This is who we uses for our callin numbers and I highly recommend them as a solution for your company. Here's what I can say about her/them.

We have had a multi-year relationship with them and they are trustworthy.
Suzanne is very responsive to our needs.
Their web portal is superior to any other DID providers.
They have broad availability of numbers.
They have a real time API which makes it efficient to purchase and assign DIDs.

I recommend you work directly with them for your DID needs."

Besides friends and family, the above is what I live for... working hard/smart with our team to be productive and see the rewards gained by our clients and have them refer others to us! We love you, "industry giant."

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Take the Chance and Apply for Inc.com 500|5000 list today!

You could still be one of America's fastest-growing companies...even if you're off to a slow start this year.

Remember, this year's Inc. 500|5000 list ranks companies by overall revenue growth from 2005 to 2008.

Extended deadline: today, Wednesday, April 15.

Click here to apply (if you haven't already) or call us at 1-800-248-0308.

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Virtually Experience Buy/Sell DID/DDI at CTIA

DIDXchange is showcasing its partners Speechphone, Grandstream, BlinkMind Communications and Comtel-Networks this week at the CTIA Wireless 2009 trade show in Las Vegas.

The DIDXchange has set up shop at the event to demonstrate the many ways it integrates direct inward dialing (DID) through solutions such as virtual office assistant, Skype GXV3000 Grandstream video phone and GXP2000 IP phone, and Eyebeam’s soft phone - on both IP data side and voice side.

The 12,500 DIDX members, wired and wireless, who use DIDXchange are well positioned to meet the needs of a crucial segment of the wireless industry, true mobility via international and domestic DID with real lucrative, innovative mash-up and even traditional feeling services," said Suzanne Bowen, vice president of Super Technologies, Inc.

... Read more at TMCNET.com.

http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/did-ddi/articles/53522-didxchange-showcasing-wired-wireless-did-interconnect-ctia-2009.htm