All About Nortel

Om Malik, one of the blogosphere’s most influential voices within the tech sector, has some nice words to say about Nortel CTO John Roese, who will be doing a fireside chat at GigaOm’s Mobilize 08 conference next month in San Francisco.
“John Roese, chief technology officer of Nortel Networks, is one of my favorite technologists; he [...]

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The Financial Times did an interesting Q&A with Mike Zafirovski but couldn’t have picked a worse time to publish it given the RCMP decided this week to file charges against Frank Dunn, Doug Beatty and Michael Gollogly.
If you missed - and I’m sure many of you did - you should check it out.

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I noticed that Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski with reporters and editors at the Globe & Mail earlier this week. Now, that he’s apparently on a media tour, I’m wondering when his one-on-one with All About Nortel is scheduled to happen?

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Globe & Mail columnist Derek De Cloet takes a healthy run at Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski, suggesting that despite all the work over the past 2+ years, Mike Z. is not doing enough because Nortel’s stock price has performed badly during his time at the corporate tiller.
The column is interesting because while Nortel has been [...]

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Nortel’s Bo Gown (aka Nortel Buzzboard) liveblogged Mike Zafirovski’s keynote earlier today at the Global Connect conference. To read it, start at the bottom, and work your work to the top.
# I’ll wrap with these comments. Thank you for your business and more importantly thank you for your support. We are putting all our efforts [...]

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Yesterday, I ran the first part of an interview with Ronald Alepian, VP, corporate communications with Nortel, who talked about why and how the company is using social media tools such as blogs, podcasts and streaming video.
Below, you’ll find part II. What’s particularly interesting is how Alepian and Nortel differentiate between journalists and bloggers - [...]

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The always-optimistic Mike Zafirovski had some bullish things to tell investors at today’s AGM. If you couldn’t make it, here’s the Nortel press release.

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Hey, I almost forgot that Nortel’s AGM is tomorrow in Ottawa.
Given that Nortel is embracing social media so enthusiastically, the AGM features a Webcast for everyone who doesn’t find themselves in Ottawa tomorrow.
Speaking of AGMs, I still look back fondly at the five-hour marathon in Halifax in 2002 where shareholder activist Robert Verdun went [...]

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Don’t be too surprised if you see Nortel ads on television over the next little while after it launched a new campaign around the tag line “Business Made Simple”.
The 30-second spots feature senior executives discussing how Nortel’s technology helped their businesses. For example, the general director of India’s Mumbai International Airport talks about how Nortel’s [...]

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Michael Pangia must have been doing some good things for Nortel in Asia and/or they really need to fill the newly-created position as senior vice-president, global sales operations and strategy.
Here’s the official statement from Bill Nelson, EVP, global sales:
“We are driving towards world-class sales operations and customer focus, and Michael Pangia, with his recent experience [...]

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