Category Archives: Blogs

All About Nortel Starts to Wind Down

By Mark Evans | Published: April 5, 2010
As many of you have probably noticed, AAN hasn’t been that active recently. Part of it has to do with the fact the amount of news coming out of Nortel has dropped considerably, which is understandable given there aren’t many assets left in the portfolio. As well, my digital marketing and social media consulting business, [...]
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The Restructuring of All About Nortel

By Mark Evans | Published: June 24, 2009
After much thought and analysis, I’ve decided to follow the Mike Z. business approach by placing All About Nortel in blog-ruptcy protection. Although disappointing, the rapid and troubling gutting of Nortel has left me no choice but to consider strategic options for AAN’s future and its single shareholder/creditor (aka me). At best, AAN may have [...]
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John Roese’s New Blog

By Mark Evans | Published: May 6, 2009
If you’re interested in keeping up with the thoughts of ex-Nortel chief technology officer John Roese, he has a new blog called The ICT Optimist. Technorati Tags: john roese, nortel
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Nortel Adds Another Blog

By Mark Evans | Published: March 7, 2009
Nortel’s social media efforts took another step forward earlier this week with the official launch of a new blog, Nortel Greenroots. Written by Wilson Korol, Greenroots is “devoted to all things green with respect to our company and industry”. The fact Nortel launched a “green” blog is not surprising given how green has played a [...]
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What Could Have Been: Nortel-Huawei JV

By Mark Evans | Published: January 25, 2009
If you look back over the past decade, Nortel has made a series of strategic mistakes – ranging from multi-billion dollar acquisitions that bombed to asset sales that failed to materialize at the right time to questionable CEO hirings. On the list of what could have been is a proposed joint venture between Nortel and [...]
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An Update on Comments

By Mark Evans | Published: January 18, 2009
I’ve received a few e-mails about comments. In particular, people have asked about a disconnect between the number of comments that appear beneath a post, and the actual number of comments that exist. The gap happens because Disqus, the comment system used by AAN, immediately counts every comment made. However, the comments don’t appear until [...]
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