Busy September

Can we say "traffic jam?"

We've just gone through the editorial calendar for September and it's jam-packed with events and news. Not to mention some changes in the contributor category.   And have you checked out our new "FierceVoIP Leaders" series?

With IT Expo and InterOp falling on the same week (September 15), participants in those events are working to secure briefings for their announcements. A number of them want to make announcements the week before - September 8.  This means most of them want to brief the week before - September 2-5, since Monday is a holiday.

Fortunately, Pete Wylie - our (relatively) new Associate Editor -- is here to help out. Unfortunately for Pete, I'm out on vacation September 2-5 so he's going to take the bulk of the briefings before September 8 and the first wave of IP communications announcements. 

If that wasn't exciting enough, Streaming Media West and AstriCon take place the week of September 22. I'll be flying out to San Francisco and, from there, to Phoenix.  So, while we get a raft of releases on September 15 from IT Expo and InterOp, we'll also have briefing requests for Streaming Media West and AstriCon and press releases to beat the rush at AstriCon. 

I'd be really surprised if there weren't at least two or three significant announcements around AstriCon.

In addition to forthcoming news flood, our Contact Center contributor Joe Outlaw has been invited to join Frost & Sullivan as their principal Contact Center guy; good for him and Frost, not so good for us, as Frost doesn't want him doing any extraneous blogging or columns.  Joe's been a class act in stepping up to the plate for us, and I wish him well over at Frost.

On the other side of the contributor ledger, we're talking to Marc Robins, President of SIP Forum, about the potential of his community to share its knowledge and opinions in a relevant fashion. We would potentially have Carl Ford, Thomas Howe and the SIP Forum as ongoing contributors to FierceVoIP.

Last, but not least, we've started interviewing C-level people in our "FierceVoIP Leaders" series. We hope to feature a different IP communications executive every Monday.  So far, we've talked to Peter Vicars of NewStep and Andy Ory of Acme Packet and have a couple more in the works.

- Doug