Voxeo Talks

Next week is a bit of a marathon speaking schedule for me (Dan York) out in San Francisco. VoiceCon and Enterprise 2.0 are co-located at the Moscone Center in downtown SF and I’m actually speaking at both events. Full details of my talks can be found on our event pages at:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/voicecon-san-francisco/
http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/enterprise-2-0/

The overall schedule looks like this:

Monday, Nov 2 (VoiceCon)

3:15 – 4:15 pm – Presence – Current Progress and Future Trends

Tuesday, Nov 3 (Enterprise 2.0)

11:15 am–12:00 pm – Case Studies In Enterprise Micro-Blogging

4:15 – 5:00 pm – The Future of Social Messaging in the Enterprise

Wednesday, Nov 4 (VoiceCon)

3:15 – 4:15 pm – Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA

Thursday, Nov 5 (VoiceCon)

8:00 – 9:45 am – Web 2.0 and Enterprise Communications – Fad or the Future?

I’m very much looking forward to both events, both to participating in the sessions I’m in and also to seeing all the other great sessions at both events.

In the Presence session on Monday, moderator Don Van Doren will be getting the panel involved in a discussion around what we need for truly making presence be more useful in an enterprise environment. (As to my involvement there, do recall that Voxeo has a product, SIPoint, which provides a SIP-based presence server among other services.)

On Tuesday, the first session on microblogging should be a good tour inside different ideas of taking Twitter-like microblogging inside the company, something I wrote about at some length in the past. The second session is a reprise of the “reactor” panel at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston earlier this year – only with different panelists. Should be a fun and interactive session.

Wednesday brings a session on voice mashups where I will be demonstrating what can be done with our Tropo.com platform and then a gentleman from IBM will be demonstrating mashups on their platform. And finally Thursday wraps up my participation with a almost two-hour “deep dive” into the role of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise with my frequent co-presenter Irwin Lazar.

All in all it should be a great event. (And add in speaking at an event on Wednesday night (more on that in another post) and… well… I think I’ll be tired by the time Friday rolls around! )

If you are going to be out at either VoiceCon or Enterprise 2.0, please feel free to say hello or drop me a note in advance. You can also expect that I’ll be tweeting throughout the time at both my own @danyork account as well as the @voxeo Twitter account.

With all the current explosion of news about the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook, I thought I’d just post a reminder that Voxeo is on FriendFeed at:

http://friendfeed.com/voxeo

We started using Friendfeed back in May 2008 and, as I wrote then, primarily use it for aggregation of all our online content. If you are a Friendfeed user – or are just checking it out now – please do feel free to subscribe to our feed and keep up with what we are posting online and join in the conversations there.

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Like many companies out there, we have been continuing to experiment with using a Facebook “Page” as another way to engage in conversations with customers, developers, users, etc. A challenge, though, is that the URL to the Voxeo page on Facebook doesn’t exactly roll of your tongue:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Voxeo/31673279702

Now, Facebook has started to experiment with offering “vanity URLs” (something like “http://www.facebook.com/Voxeo”) but so far such URLs seem to be very limited to only special partners of Facebook.

So since there seems to be no way for us to simplify the Facebook.com URL, we just made our own:

http://www.voxeo.com/facebook

So if you are a Facebook user, please do feel free to check out our page. (And hey, why not “Become a Fan”?) Over the weeks and months ahead we will be continuing to experiment more with using it as a communication and conversation tool.

P.S. And to that end, as well, if you know of examples of Facebook Pages you have found work really well, please do let us know. I’m always curious to see what others are doing.

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