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| Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO, Inc. talking telecom, Cloud, VoIP, CLEC, and The Channel.

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What Happened to LinkedIn?

May 18, 2017

This week there have been two posts on my feed about "We can connect but don't spam me!" The discussion was the same on booth threads: "that is cold calling / social selling". Well, no it isn't. If you did the exact same thing at a face to face event, no one would come near you.

Show some creativity AND Patience.

Posted in linkedin, social network

Some Thoughts for the Day (Part 2455)

May 3, 2017

Despite growing 93 percent from a year ago, Microsoft's Azure hasn't made a dent in Amazon's share of the $10 billion cloud market, according to Synergy Research. Amazon's AWS held steady at 33 percent of the worldwide market share of cloud infrastructure service providers in the first quarter, according to Synergy. And though it grew just 43 percent in the first quarter, Amazon's cloud revenue is more than the next five providers combines, Synergy estimates.

It isn't a sprint.

Posted in Marketing, amazon, channel, data center, linkedin, mergers, training

Stats on Mobile as It Eats the World

February 1, 2017

Yesterday I put up some stats in emerging tech. Today I have a bunch more.

There are 2.5 billion smartphones on the planet now, according to Ben Evans.

"China now has 656 million internet users.

Posted in IOT, Internet, amazon, apps, economy, linkedin, social network
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Doing Business in a Busy, Blurred Environment

October 13, 2016

Logging on to LinkedIn these days, I have to remind myself that it is in fact LI and not Facebook. The feeds look the same.

I know we have blurred the lines between work and life, but come on. I often wonder if that isn't a symptom of why we are so unproductive.

Posted in linkedin, organizations, social network
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Change: Musical Chairs

June 28, 2016

This has to be the busiest year ever for musical chairs. People are company hopping like crazy. And companies have been chopping people like crazy.

The Conference Group laid off channel people.

Posted in jobs, linkedin

LinkedIn to Join the Microsoft Suite

June 13, 2016

Let's start Monday with some small transactions.

First up, Blue Coat is selling itself to Symantec for $4.65 Billion. The cyber-security software company was going to go public via an IPO, but chose the private sale route, which seemed a safer bet for the PE firm, Bain Capital, that bought Blue Coat in 2015 for $2.4B and financed acquisitions to bolster the product portfolio to annual revenues of $598 Million. Blue Coat lost $289 million in those same 12 months.

Posted in im/chat, linkedin, mergers, msp, security, social network
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Open Letter to LinkedIn

May 25, 2016

What started as a neat online rolodex evolved into a business networking site, but now is a lousy version of Facebook. (I am not alone in this opinion, see here and there.)

People have a shortage of time, because we have to do way more per day to keep above water. Social media is an admitted time suck (see Hubspot story; or the nextweb post; or this article about social ruining your life; and wired's social is a waste of time.) So why would a business social network make it more noisy; more of a time suck?

Discussion is missing in many of the groups.

Posted in linkedin, social network

Tidbits # 2436

May 18, 2016

I know I just did a tidbits but there is a lot going on. Here is some of it in small bites, like tapas or potato chips.

UC&C transitions closer to Workflow platform as task management is added to the UC&C system from Cisco:

Channel Vision magazine reports, "Redbooth has announced an integration with Cisco Spark to unite task-centric Redbooth workspaces and communications-centric Cisco Spark rooms.

Posted in BPI, BPaaS , CLEC, SDN, broadband, channel, fiber, hosted uc, linkedin, master agency, sdn, security, unified communications, video, voip

By the Numbers

February 10, 2016

Some interesting stats I have seen.

Saw stats that Vonage has 514,000 business seats.

"Birch recently announced the addition of 80,000 buildings to its Metro-Fiber network in November 2015." I wonder which cable provider they signed a wholesale agreement.

"Broadvoice brings its significant growth trajectory to the initiative: It serves more than 200,000 customers, with its business segment growing by 125% in 2015 alone." [CV mag]

Posted in amazon, channel, fiber, jobs, linkedin, master agency, voip

People on the Move

July 31, 2015

I don't usually blog about people changing jobs but there has been an exodus of talent from the CLEC world mainly to the cloud world. I find that interesting because the CLECs for the most part are floundering. Getting rid of talent just to make the quarterly numbers look good is dumb. Reading Seth Godin's blog, Three things that make CEOs stupid, you can see it happening every day.

Posted in jobs, linkedin
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