Suzanne Bowen
Helping to connect the most unlikely entities in order to create the best stories. I have 32 yrs of experience in telecom, teaching, blog and grant writing, business development, marketing, communications and public relations. My favorite pastimes are spending time with family and friends inside and outside, my career, the industry, running, traveling.
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell
November 2009
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SMBs Get Easy to Understand and Use FreedomIQ IP PBX
November 30, 2009It's tough to find the right business communications solution these days. Do you go analog, hosted VoIP, IP-PBX, or use a virtual office solution? Plus, once you've figured that out, how do you know which carrier to choose? The staggering number of options can be daunting to the most competent. Luckily, there is a company like FreedomVOICE. Recognized for their industry leading virtual office product, the company is becoming equally praised for FreedomIQ, a hosted VoIP PBX product revolutionizing business telecom.
Below is a transcript of interview between me and Candice Malmstrom of FreedomVOICE.
Suzanne Bowen: Welcome to DIDX podcast media channel where we bring you the expertise of IP communications leaders around the world.
Heba Nawar, Woman in VoIP Today
November 27, 2009Some believe that there is a lack of female business and technical developers in the voice over internet and IP communications industry, but I think it is just that they are quiet. It's my job to find them. Think back to the Facebook group I started in 2008 called Women in VoIP. Next... to share their expertise with you.
Social Networking Members are the Producers, TelecomYou
November 27, 2009I interviewed Osama Katanani this week on our DIDX podcast channel. (Listen to or download the MP3.) Why? The wealth and variety of telecom experience in his background but also his present professional career which includes:
Current
Executive Manager, Marketing Branded Resellers at Mobily
CEO of http://www.telecomyou.com
Past
Technical Marketing Asst. Manager at Mobily
System Architect at Zain
Systems Developer at Solutec
Suzanne Bowen: Welcome to DIDX podcast media channel where we bring you the expertise of IP communications leaders from around the world. I'm your host Suzanne Bowen.
Nigeria Scam? Nigeria Will Wow You
November 25, 2009Victor Adoga, Manager of the National Numbering Plan for the Nigerian ommunications Commission (like USA's Federal ommunications Commission), was someone I was not expecting to meet at NXTCOMM in 2007 in Las Vegas. We discussed that day the stereotypical depiction of Nigerians as opposed to the reality of innovation, hard work, entrepreneurship, and integrity evident in many.
Victor shared with me once, "I proud and happy being a Nigerian. With the right kind of leadership, given the vast natural and human resources we have, Nigeria has the potential to be great. It is a country free of natural disasters and blessed by God but corrupt and bad leadership has being our tsunami.....laugh! but gradually and hopefully with the planned electoral reform, the fraudulent process that brought us most of this inept and corrupt leadership will forever be thrown into the abyss of history."
I told him I wanted to keep in touch with the NCC.
Gas is the New Little Guy Gone Big Plus Saudi Arabia VoIP
November 11, 2009"There is enough natural gas in the United States to supply the country with its energy needs for the next century", said energy advocate T. Boone Pickens.
I surveyed several in my Facebook and Linkedin business networks to get their opinion on this, so check out what some had to say.
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PTC's Q & A with Jeannie Diefenderfer, Verizon
November 4, 2009Q&A with Jeannie Diefenderfer
Jeannie Diefenderfer is Senior Vice President of Global Engineering and Planning for Verizon Business. Please read on to learn more about Jeannie and her participation in PTC'10.
Why are you attending PTC'10?
Verizon (and its predecessor company MCI) has supported and attended the PTC for well over 15 years. PTC provides an excellent opportunity to share ideas. I see PTC as a key conference that attracts a wide range of global senior industry representatives.
