Season 4 of Watch This Space continues with an episode titled “The New Voice – Exploring New Worlds Beyond Telephony”. The “New Voice” is my moniker for the new forms I see voice taking in my research, and it’s got nothing to do with telephony. Aside from being a fascinating topic, the podcast explains how this will be the focus of a new course we’ll be offering on PulveREDU, Jeff Pulver’s latest venture, built around targeted, immersive learning. Details soon!
For those of you who don’t subscribe to our podcast directly from a commercial platform, you can access it any time here on the new Watch This Space website.
If you don’t know where to subscribe to Watch This Space, it’s posted now on many of the leading platforms. More are in the works, and I’ll soon be adding links to all of these on the WTS website. Currently, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Stitcher.
The Watch This Space website will host our episodes for 2020 and beyond. The site is formatted specifically for podcasts, including an embedded player so you can listen directly from the site – check it out here: www.watchthisspace.tech. Our earlier podcasts – Seasons 1 and 2 – can be accessed here on my JAA website.

What’s Up? Part 2 – More Highlights and Insights from February

While the Watch This Space podcast is the main form of original content for this newsletter, Part 2 here is a digest of JAA activities from the previous month, including my other forms of original content, and my social media stats.
Virtual conference roundup – had three one-day events last month – all very different, but all very interesting:
- February 4 – Alcatel Lucent Enterprise Connex21 Analyst Conference
- February 17 – Learning with Google – G Suite for Education
- February 24 – Voicebot.ai Live
Project work - key highlights for last month, and links to some of these can be found in my February blog posts:
- Wrote a guest article about telephony in Teams that will run this month on BCStrategies
- Prepared a webinar presentation coming this month with Mitel
Podcasts and video – here as well, links can be found in my February blog posts:
- A Conversation About Conversational AI, BCStrategies podcast
- CPaaS Vendors and Tech to Watch. UC Today video panel
- Unleash the Potential – I was a guest on Rob Barlow’s video interview series
February writing spotlight – my latest No Jitter post: The Hybrid Workplace – New Opportunities for Collaboration, Part 2
Here’s my Writing Roundup post for February – it’s a monthly digest of my thought leadership across various channels, including Tech Target, No Jitter and BC Strategies
Media citings – none for February
Social media highlights - since these stats change every day, the metrics are just a basic snapshot, but they provide a good sense of reach beyond my blog and newsletter. For my business, I use Twitter and LinkedIn, and here are some approximate tallies for February:
- For LinkedIn – I had 13,252 views and 22 posts – down a bit from last month.
- My top LinkedIn post registered 1,419 views and overall, 7 posts had 700+ views.
- For Twitter – there were 16,900 impressions, 878 profile visits, 39 mentions, and 25 tweets – stats were generally up a bit from January.
- My “top tweet” was for news about Poly’s Studio P series, with 4,138 impressions. Overall, 6 tweets had 500+ impressions – as with January, a pretty light month.
Updates were recently added about my musical interests, with both new video clips and photos. You can find all this on the My Music tab, and I continue to mention this here in case new subscribers don’t know about my fun side.

What's Coming? JAA Outlook for March

Got five virtual events on tap so far for March:
- March 2-4 – Microsoft Ignite
- March 4 – Vonage Analyst Day
- March 9-10 – Enterprise Connect Virtual
- March 16 – Fuze, Analyst Update
- March 30-31 – Cisco Live
Other activities to watch for during March:
March 4 – webinar presentation with Mitel
March 10 – webinar presentation with Huawei
March 18 – webinar presentation with RingCentral

Hey Did You Know?

…that it’s been a year – one whole year – since I had travel of any kind, business or personal.

Seems like a lifetime ago, and over that time, I would have likely travelled to 20+ industry events. Here we are in 2021, and while I miss the travel, my business has never been better. Virtual events are the norm now, but nothing beats being with your colleagues in person, and we sure hope we can get back to that soon.

Until then, here’s a quick flashback to early March, 2020, and this was that last time I’ve travelled anywhere since. I was conducting focus groups for a client in Tampa Bay, Florida, and let’s just say we got them done in a nick of time – a week later, and we couldn’t have done this.

This was early days of the pandemic, and in the photo below, you can see the hand sanitizer and wipes on the table. Good measures, but that was about it. There wasn’t any social distancing, masks, restrictions on sizes of gatherings, or lockdowns of any kind.

Seems unthinkable now, but thankfully, I’m healthy, and the client was happy with the work. And since, then, Tampa has become Titletown in the sports world. Being a Boston guy, I didn’t see that coming, wow!