Digium IP Phones Demo

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This week, a demo of the long-awaited Digium Phones. A preview was give earlier this year by Kevin Fleming.

Digium’s family of IP Phones are the first on the market built specifically for use with Asterisk and Asterisk-based systems. All models include HD audio and plug-and-play deployment at a price that fits any budget. With multiple line appearances, context-aware soft keys, and advanced applications that integrate directly with Asterisk features, the Digium phones offer a better user experience than any other phone on the market.

More about the phones from Dave Michels on No Jitter

Facebook Ads: The Could, the Sad and the Ugly

Hangout On Air scheduled: May 17, 2012 at 4PM Paris/Berlin (10 AM EDT, 3PM BST) – Follow Plus Real Time page for stream..

✓Are Facebook ads worth doing?
✓What are the best use cases for FB ads?
✓How are they targeted?
✓What return can be expected?
✓Skill set needed to create and disseminate FB advertising?
✓In-house or outsource?
✓FB advertising vs. FB community management? What can you expect from each?
✓Best practices, DOs and DON’Ts
✓How much of your total advertising budget should go to FB?
✓Why did Procter & Gamble fire 1 600 “traditional” marketers?

PGP, GnuPG and Why and When You Need Encryption


An open discussion about privacy

  1. What is a reasonable expectation of privacy without encryption?
  2. Who can read your email, your social networks and listen to your calls
  3. What is PGP and GnuPG?
  4. How do public and private keys work?
  5. What situations really require encryption and how secure is it?
  6. Installing applications to use GnuPG

Time permitting…

Encrypted VoIP

The ZipDX Experience

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We’ve used ZipDX for over three years now, and I don’t know how we could manage to produce a busy, high audio quality  weekly conference with anything less. ZipDX conferencing is very well-thought out. It is obvious that the people behind it, like David Frankel, have extensive experience in this area. The platform is constantly improving, too, adding new useful features more often than most similar business offerrings.

Programming conference times and configuring options couldn’t be easier. There are several ways to do this. Below is the web site interface.

 

During the conference, the ZipDX console allows the moderators to not only control mutes,both hard and soft, but also adjust volume, turn recording and transcription on and off, see who is speaking and see who is called in. There is a voting feature, and multiple rooms.

 

Read the full ZipDX Users Guide online.

The Business Hangout #7

Circle Plus Real Time to join the panel on business, wine, music and more.

FreeSWITCH Cookbook

Friday April 27th at 12 Noon EDT, 9AM PDT, 6PM Western Europe is the time to meet the FreeSWITCH community and the co-authors of the new FreeSWITCH Cookbook. Quoting one Amazon review,

“There are many solid reasons why FreeSWITCH is the best telephony platform but being the best comes at the cost of complexity. This book makes working with FreeSWITCH so easy. Clearly displayed in a format capable for any beginner to quickly grasp and comprehend this piece of art platform. This book is essential reference material.”

The Business Hangout: Networking

The Business Hangout #6 was all about business networking. Christopher Guillau, who works for a small web agency in Nantes, France, cam in to ask opinion on the best approach to enticing others into a topic-based hangout. With the help of Jaana Nystrom and Randy Resnick we were able to offer some suggestions, and also open it out to the wider G+ community.

During the discussion we covered:

  • Hangout promotion
  • Public v private hangouts
  • The best time and day for your target market
  • Youtube adwords
  • Google+ books, and why they are a moveable feast
  • Hangout extensions/apps

The home of The Business Hangout is www.TheBusinessHangout.com. Colman Carpenter put together a shared Google Doc for the links mentioned.

Meet Allison Smith

The Business Hangout: VoIP for Business?

A few years ago, VoIP was the way a business could cut operating costs. Our office had its own pbx, running on open source software (Asterisk) and connected to VoIP as well as standard phones lines (PSTN). Later, we moved to a hosted solution. We’ll discuss both on premise and hosted VoIP for business in this meeting of The Business Hangout.

The Business Hangout #5

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Friday the 13th: Beer Afraid, Beer Very Afraid – WebRTC with…

Friday the 13th: Beer Afraid, Beer Very Afraid – WebRTC with the #VUC

WebRTC, a standard for streaming media inside web-pages

We hope to attract a great panel of WebRTC people to this discussion, part of which is:  Voxeo Labs and Phono.com will present the latest on what they're