Suzanne Bowen
32 yrs in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, & PR. Favorite moments in life involve time w/ family & friends, networking, IP communications industry verticals & horizontals, running, traveling, foreign languages
| 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
How is Successful Marketing like a Successful 401K?
I was recently interviewed by Content Marketing Examiner on the topic of content marketing and in this interview you get to hear...
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Effectively Telling Your Product's Story
One of the most interesting aspects of my career is watching the thousands of companies I have met over the years make...
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Dialogic and Cisco Round Out Day's NFV News
It’s been a busy week regarding NFV and the software telco (R)evolution. First off Dialogic had some solid thoughts on six of...
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The Big Deal about Big Data Analytics
By Greg Owens, Senior Director Customer Experience Solutions Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
The rise of big data is causing service providers to ask some big questions: How should we store our data? How long should we keep it? What parts of it are relevant to our business? Most importantly, how do we get value from it? To turn big data into a big deal, service providers need to extract insights that can help them make smart business decisions and improve the customer experience.
The value of big data is all in what useful and actionable information it can provide. I find it exciting to see how service providers use big data analytics to gain new insights and solve complex problems. With this post, I’ll look at some new research by industry analysts and three key opportunities that big data analytics presents to service providers.
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WebRTC: The Revolution Won't Occur Without a Media Server
Next Thursday at the WebRTC Conference and Expo, I’ll present a conference keynote that might not be exactly what attendees expect...
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Software Telcos Based on NFV Want Less Equipment Provider M&A
Mergers are nothing new but about a decade ago in the telecom market they reached a fever pitch when SBC purchased AT&T...
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Linux Foundation Embedded Solutions Director's Case for Open Source and Connected Car
The car of 2013 is different from the one I learned to drive, a 1974 Ford Maverick with rear federal bumpers, aluminum...
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August 15, 2008
I met Ahmed Sajjad Zaidi at ITCN Asia this week. He's the serious, thoughtful guy behind Orgoo, the one place for all your IM, video chat, SMS, email and I can't wait to see what else next. Orgoo has been reviewed by all the big names: TechCrunch, Webware, VentureBeat, Podtech, PCWorld, ZDnet, Digital Daily, Barron's...
Jehan Ara, President of PASHA, listed his company as one of the most innovative startups in the South Central Asian area during her presentation on day 2 at ITCN Asia 2008.
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Jehan Ara, President of PASHA, listed his company as one of the most innovative startups in the South Central Asian area during her presentation on day 2 at ITCN Asia 2008.
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Zomma Mohiuddin, PTCL first in Pakistan with IPTV
August 15, 2008Zomma Mohiuddin, executive director of PTCL, shares the excitement of Pakistan's first IPTV service in the form of smartPTCL. Watch and listen on one of my video Google galleries. (I recorded this during ITCN Asia 2008 where I was also a speaker.)
What is IPTV? Find out at http://en.wikipeda.org/wiki/IPtv.
Monetizing FWD
August 10, 2008
Jeff Pulver and Daniel Berninger and the rest at FWD (also known as FreeWorldDialup) have decided to monetize with a $30 annual membership fee beginning Aug 1, 2008. See the blog post and an interesting rebuttal.
Free mobile roaming in 22 countries
August 10, 2008There are no USA mobile companies who offer me this opportunity, but I found it somewhere else. Zain.
Zain Group ( formerly MTC or Mobile Telecommunications Company) is Multinational Corporation specializing in Mobile Telecommunications. Its area of operations include the seven countries in the Middle East, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan ,and in Lebanon as mtc touch, and in 15 sub-Saharan countries in Africa Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon,Ghana Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Free roaming in 22 countries!
USF funds and issues, quite global
August 7, 2008First, in case, you're not familiar with USF. Wikipedia does a good job among its global contributors in defining and describing it. USA "was created by the United States Federal Communications Commission in 1997 to meet the goals of Universal Service as mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The 1996 Act states that all providers of telecommunications services should contribute to federal universal service in some equitable and nondiscriminatory manner; there should be specific, predictable, and sufficient Federal and State mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service; all schools, classrooms, health care providers, and libraries should, generally, have access to advanced telecommunications services; and finally, that the Federal-State Joint Board and the FCC should determine those other principles that, consistent with the 1996 Act, are necessary to protect the public interest."
I'm in Karachi for a couple weeks to participate in ITCN Asia and visit with some of the 10,000 or so extremely valuable ITSPs we serve with DIDX.
Ethnocentricity De-$tizes IP Communcations...
August 6, 2008
and really just about anything. I first participated in a debate regarding the concept, benefits, and disadvantages of ethnocentrism in 1980 during an Economic Geography class under a professor Dr. Doerr at the University of West Florida. In Wikipedia, it is defined as "Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. Ethnocentrism often entails the belief that one's own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups." Laura Guevin refers to it in her 2000 article, in a positive way.
This is one of the biggest blocks to moving a company ahead in the global economy of IP communications.
This is one of the biggest blocks to moving a company ahead in the global economy of IP communications.
TMC University and other ITEXPO West 2008 Educational Opps
July 30, 2008Jorge Rodriguez is the best source I've found of fantastic testimonial as to how empowering ITEXPO is. He has completed the trixbox workshops and now runs Telecomm Managed Networks Inc in which he sets up and hosts 180 call centers in his very successful business based on open source technologies. He recommends trixbox and DIDX in this video and cannot seem to say enough about his happiness with monetizing IP communications because of ITEXPO conferences.
See all the workshops and professional certifcations available at http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/west-08/tmc-university.htm. For a limited time, I believe there are also scholarships you can apply for. ITEXPO West 2008 is scheduled for Sept 16-18, 2008. Sign up at http://www.itexpo.com. (Come meet at exhibit 153.)
Pilates Anyone?
July 30, 2008
It's my new office chair that I frequent, thanks to Lauren's example. I feel really creative in it while working with 10,000+ NGNs that we serve and the world of many more out there to monetize or at least benefit highly from IP communications.
Using IAX2 for your VoIP Business?
July 29, 2008
Let me give you a chance to further $$$tize IP communications by offering for you to share your IAX2 vs SIP protocol experience in using DIDX. Each person who uses IAX2, SIP, or a combination AND also DIDX who answers this survey fully with complete contact information to me on Facebook or my regular email will be entered in a drawing for $100 gas card or a $100 American Airlines voucher. I want to hear from you. Email me on my regular email or on Facebook with these answers and your name, phone number and email where I can contact you ASAP.
Again, please reply to this survey asap, plus your name, company, DIDX account number, cell phone and email for contact, so I can call you about your answers.
Again, please reply to this survey asap, plus your name, company, DIDX account number, cell phone and email for contact, so I can call you about your answers.
Update All Social Networks with Biz Message: Ping.fm
July 27, 2008Ping.fm is a simple service that enables you to update just about all your social networks. Use AIM, Google Talk, iGoogle, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or E-mail and let Ping.fm relay your message to a multitude of social networking sites such as twitter, jaiku, wu, tumblr., Pownce, Livejournal, Blogger, Mashable, Xanga, plaxo, brightkite, facebbok, myspace.com, identi.ca, hi5, bebo, friendfeed, and Linkedin.
I did say Biz Message in the title of this post because many people don't realize how valuable and how natural business development and networking can be on social network sites. I've always wanted to see a good debate regarding this topic as to which social networking sites feel and seem the most conducive to natural business networking, (not forced).
