Posts Tagged ‘Slides’

Voxeo’s Dan York’s slides from VoiceCon: Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA

Monday, November 9th, 2009

At VoiceCon SF 2009 last week in San Francisco, I (Dan York) spoke about “Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA“. In the talk, I discussed what voice “mashups” are, gave a couple of examples, and then went on to show one of the Tropo.com examples found on the documentation page – the specific one I showed was the Yahoo!Weather example in python. I logged into my Tropo.com account, created a new application, indicated that I wanted to use a hosted file, copied/pasted text from the example, and then set up a phone number and IM address.

You can do all this, too, since Tropo.com accounts are free. :-)

Here are the slides I used in my voice mashups talk:

VoiceCon: Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA
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Slides for Dan York’s “Securing Cloud Telephony” SpeechTEK talk now available…

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

On Monday, August 24th, at SpeechTEK in New York, I (Dan York) gave a talk called “Securing Cloud Telephony” with the abstract:

As voice and self-service applications move increasingly into the cloud and to IP communications, what do you need to be concerned about with regard to the security of hosted solutions? If you grow to trust the cloud, how can you be sure it will be there for you? What protections can you put in place? What backup plans can you establish? What questions should you ask potential hosted/cloud vendors? In this session, security professional Dan York will walk you through the basic risk areas of voice-over-IP security, explain how those relate to both hosted and hybrid configurations and leave you with a concrete list of questions to consider in considering hosted/cloud options.

My slides are now available here:

http://www.slideshare.net/voxeo/speechtek-2009-securing-cloud-telephony-aug2009

SpeechTEK 2009: Securing Cloud Telephony Aug2009
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Given that SpeechTEK records all the sessions and sells the resulting CD, I doubt that I will be able to publish a recording of the talk. Perhaps at a future time I’ll be able to give a similar talk at conference that allows open recording/distribution… or maybe I’ll just have to do a webinar some time on the topic. :-)

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Did you miss eComm 2008? You can now see the presentations…

Friday, April 11th, 2008

ecomm2008.jpgDid you miss out on attending eComm 2008 last month? Well now you can at least view the presentations. Shortly after I wrote about our own use of SlideShare I was pleased to get a note from eComm organizer Lee Dryburgh indicating that almost all of the eComm 2008 presentations are now available (also on SlideShare). You can view all the different presentations and download them as well.

Lee also said that he’s working on getting the audio recordings of the presentations up online as podcasts, too, which is good because the audio is really required to understand many of the slide decks.

On that note, as a frequent presenter, I am delighted to see that so many of these eComm 2008 presentations (including RJ’s that I posted earlier) have done away with mindless bullet points and dense slides of text and instead used the slides as a way of complementing the spoken presentation (rather than replacing the spoken presentation as people read the slides). It looks like there were some great presentations there.

While this presentation approach is great in my opinion for attendees, the challenge with this approach is that without the audio the slides don’t mean as much. For instance, here’s this deck which looks quite interesting:

That’s one I’ll probably go get the audio for once Lee gets it up online. This one from longtime VoIP blogger Martin Geddes (also here) also looks quite intriguing:

Many more presentations (58 currently) await your browsing in the eComm 2008 presentation area – which one is your favorite?

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We’re now using SlideShare to display our presentations

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

slidesharebeta.jpgI’ve long been a fan of SlideShare.net as a tool for sharing presentations and today I’m pleased to announce that we’re now starting to upload public presentations to:

http://www.slideshare.net/voxeo

SlideShare offers capabilities for presentations similar to what YouTube offers for videos: reviews, comments, tags, “related” presentations and much more. They also provide the very nice ability to embed a presentation directly into a web site. Here is an example with a presentation RJ gave last month at Asterisk World 2008 / VON 2008 in San Jose:

What’s also cool is that if we had the audio for a presentation like this, we can sync the audio to the slides so that you can listen and see the slides move with the audio. Here’s an example I did for a VoIP security talk: “The Black Bag Security Review.” You can also download the PDF file for each set of slides if you go to the page on the SlideShare site for the specific presentation (allowing download is an option at SlideShare, but one we’ve enabled for our presentations so far).

We’ve uploaded three current presentations from RJ to our SlideShare area right now and in the months ahead we’ll upload more presentations as we speak at other conferences or just have presentations we’d like to share. (We’ll also add audio when we can.)

What do you think? Do you find seeing presentations in this format useful? Comments about our presentations – or about our use of SlideShare – are definitely welcome.

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