JAA’s Communications and Collaboration - November Edition 2022

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Season 5 of Watch This Space continues with an episode titled “October Events Roundup – Surveillance, Audio Watermarking, Intelligent Customer Service, Private 5G and Another SIPtones Gig”. Industry conferences were in full swing last month, and the topics in this title provide a sense of what Chris and I talked about. October travel took me to three continents, so our perspectives are broad, and we don’t think you’ll mind this being a longer-than-usual episode. 

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What’s Up? Part 2 – JAA Highlights from October

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 industry event calendar, other forms of original content, and my social media stats on LinkedIn and Twitter. More detail for most of these activities can be found on my blog.

  • Industry events – maybe my busiest month ever – I attended all six below in person, declined an invite to another in-person event, and simply ran out of time to track another one that ran virtually:

    • Canadian Technology and Communications Consultants Networking Forum, Toronto, Oct. 6 – I gave the lock note presentation

    • NICE Analyst Summit, Marrakesh, Morocco, Oct. 10-11

    • UC Expo 2022, London, Oct. 12-12 – I spoke on two sessions

    • Cisco WebexOne Analyst Summit, San Jose, Oct. 20-21

    • SCTC 2022 Conference, Dallas, Oct. 24-26 – did the lock note, and our SIPtones gig

    • RingCentral Analyst Summit, Napa, Oct. 27-28

  • Video segments – got three to share, including one that I forgot to post from last month:

  • Writing roundup – just one public posting; one of my regular contributions for TechTarget

  • Media citings – there were five for October, and you can see them here

  • Social media highlights - since these stats change every day, the metrics are just a basic snapshot, but they provide a good sense of JAA’s reach beyond my blog and newsletter. For my business, I use Twitter and LinkedIn, and here are some approximate tallies for October:

    • For LinkedIn – I had 63,571 views from 342 posts – seventh strong month in a row – all with 23,000+ views – the second-highest tally since I started tracking this in 2020, and by far, the largest so far for 2022

    • My top LinkedIn post registered 11,741 views, and overall, 6 posts had 2,000+ views, and 16 posts had 1,000+ views

    • For Twitter – there were 5,420 impressions, 1,464 profile visits, 56 mentions, 26 tweets, and 9 fewer followers – numbers are mixed from prior month, but impressions were up quite a bit

    • My “top tweet” was about Cisco’s Analyst Open House event, with 663 impressions

    • Am wondering with Musk taking over now, will this be peak Twitter, and be all downhill from here?

  • SIPtones highlights – if you don’t know, we’re a music band of consultants, and we perform when we can at industry events. You can check out video clips and photos on the My Musictab, and new clips are coming from our still-fresh gig the 2022 SCTC conference, and eventually something from our 2021 San Diego gig. 


What's Coming? JAA Outlook for November

  • At the moment, there are three in-person events on tap for November:

    • Twilio SIGNAL, Nov. 1, San Francisco 

    • Zoomtopia, Nov. 8-9, San Francisco

    • Mavenir Analyst Summit, Nov. 15-17, Dallas

  • In terms of active client work, here are some highlights for what’s coming:

    • Two white paper projects - one going now, and one that’s done and should launch this month (and a follow-on podcast coming)

    • December webinar in the works now for a leading CCaaS vendor

    • Doing another EM360 podcast, where I’ll be interviewing a leading cloud communications provider

    • Continued guest posts coming for different vendors in the CCaaS space

    • Research underway for a series of articles coming for a VoIP services start-up

    • Programming mostly in place now for the Future of Work Expo 2023 


Hey Did You Know....

…. My October travels took me to three continents, four countries and six cities. Not nearly enough sight-seeing, but got my usual share of photos, many of which are on my blog and LinkedIn, and some others on my Facebook page. Got two sets here that I though summed up October pretty well.

First – a tale of two cities 

Hotel room views; the lushness of Marrakesh, then the cramped quarters from my London hotel, where the shower literally steamed up the whole room. Where would you rather be?

Second – group shots are a thing now

Well, it takes three instances to call it a trend, and this is my version of trendspotting. This almost never happens at events, but all of a sudden it’s a thing, and there were three of them from last month’s travels. First, from the Cisco WebexOne analyst event, and last, a similar effort from the RingCentral Analyst Summit. Takes a lot of work to get everyone in, so kudos to the photographers. 

Finally, in the middle, at the SCTC event in Dallas, a group shot after our SIPtones gig. Joining us were members from the opening band, Southern Flight, who jammed with us to close out the show – the fun side of life on the road, huh? And, in case you’re wondering, I am the only person in all three of these group shots. Call me Forrest Gump, call me Zelig, but last month I definitely got around!