All About Nortel

I’m supposed to be on vacation but figured I could sneak in a quick post given AAN reached the 500 RSS subscriber mark for the first time!
I guess it shows that people need their daily Nortel fix so RSS it’s an easy way to get it. That said, the vast majority of traffic to AAN [...]

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I was going to write something really insightful today but figured it’ll wait given it’s Canada Day and, as important, the first day of NHL free-agency.

Technorati Tags: Canada Day, NHL, puppy

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Nortel’s embrace of social media is, if anything, enthusiastic.
The company has launched yet another blog on voice and multimedia security called the Voice Security Blog. It’s far from the most creative blog name but it now joins Nortel Buzzboard, Hyperconnectivity, Phil Edholm’s Enterprise Technology and John Roese’s blog within Nortel’s blog portfolio.
Voice Security Blog [...]

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Here’s something pretty amazing: since the new comment system went live a few months ago, there have been 1,416 comments on AAN.
That’s impressive, and reflects the passion, enthusiasm, frustration, disappointment and interest in Nortel. Most of it is constructive, articulate, objective and critical while being fair. A small number of comments, however, are unfair, crude [...]

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For anyone who closely follows Nortel, you may have noticed that the company has been enthusiastically embracing social media with a growing number of blogs as well as the use of podcasts and streaming video.
It got me thinking, why is Nortel using social media and what’s the big-picture strategy? So, I fired off an e-mail [...]

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You may notice over the next fews days that AAN may change appearances.
I’m looking for a new Wordpress theme so there will be some experimentation happening. Hopefully, I can find something that has a little more sizzle but still works well in different browsers.
Update: I think I’ve found the new theme - Cutline by Chris [...]

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Boy oh boy, Nortel’s really embraced social media and the InterWeb. Every time you turn around, you discover another tool.
This time, it’s RSS feeds. There are no less than seven - yes, seven! - Nortel RSS feeds that you can slide into your RSS reader with just a couple of clicks.
Of course, there’s no need [...]

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Given how much Nortel likes to talk about “hyperconnectivity”, it comes as no surprise at all that it’s launched a new blog called….”Hyperconnectivity“.
Phil Edholm said the blog, written by Alex Lewis and Carl Longino, will “look at the Hyperconnectivity revolution from the view of Nortel’s key initiatives addressing the Hyperconnectivity challenge - UC, WiMAX, [...]

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First, apologies to anyone who actually believed my post yesterday that Mike Zafirovski was leaving Nortel to become Motorola’s CEO. I figured people would figure out it was an April Fool’s joke as soon as they read that every Nortel employee was going to receive a ROKR or RAZR.
In any event, the most [...]

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I’m taking some vacation so posts will likely be few and far between for the next several days - unless there’s major news.

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