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Can Microsoft really win the market for "everything"? - April Dunford

Marketing observations around the Starbucks Via launch - April Dunford

I finally got a chance to try it and I think there are some interesting things that marketers can learn from foursquare. - April Dunford

A pretty strange list but interesting that Little Owl and Yasuda both made the list - April Dunford

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#'s look high but like the discussion on hiring plan - April Dunford

Ian making a great point that women are overlooked on these lists (not sure how I made the list but I'll take it) - April Dunford

Second key point, the market size is $2 billion USD and growing. This trend may in fact be recessionary proof as it is a means of drastically lowering costs to do the same business operations normally accomplished via travel and face-to-face meetings. - April Dunford

Unified communications, which was near the top of Gartner's list for 2008 strategic IT technologies, remains a priority; but next year, the focus will be on projects with short returns on investment and which fit lifecycle plans, according to Gartner vice president Bern Elliot. - April Dunford

Total non-consumer IT spending this year is expected to increase by 5.24 per cent from $840 billion to $884 billion. 2007 - April Dunford

We know word-of-mouth matters. We suspect "advocacy" might be the metric that truly moves the needle. Even separate from the Amazon deal, Zappos probably did more to shape our collective mind-set around the importance of "paid" vs. "earned" media, and it titled us much toward the later. - April Dunford

spending for hardware, software, services, telecom 2008 - 2010 - April Dunford

Tune-Up Run #5: Sunday Sep. 13th, Commerce Court Running Room (30 Wellington St. W., Toronto) 20K - April Dunford

sean - April Dunford

From Andy Lippman - Finally, large organizations have deviated from their original social mission. Too many organizations are no longer performing the societal function that allowed them to be created in the first place. - April Dunford

seriously, dwarves over robots? - April Dunford

Elie Tahari warehouse sale. Through 7/19. 75 Ninth Ave., nr. 15th St.; W–Su (10–7). - April Dunford

4 @ 8PM Thursday 16th - April Dunford

4 @ 8:45 16th - April Dunford

This renaissance is driven by the simple fact that prizes work—almost by definition, since they pay only for desired results, not noble failures. The power of prizes to stimulate innovation comes from their ability to mobilize resources, intellectual as well as financial, and to draw attention, which can influence the perceptions and actions of potential solvers or society at large. These attributes are often very attractive to companies and philanthropists looking for unconventional ways to solve tough problems that have resisted traditional approaches - April Dunford

“The worldwide market size for UC in FY 2008 is expected to be $25 billion, and $34 billion including collaboration. The UC market is expected to grow by 19-20% CAGR through 2014-2015,” stated Parminder Saini, Industry Analyst, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia & Middle East. - April Dunford

COMMFusion analyst Blair Pleasant delivers an annual “State of the UC Market” session at VoiceCon every year. Last year she said that the total value of the UC market (hosted and otherwise) would grow from $200.8 million to $2.4 billion in 2012, growing by 65 percent a year. That’s the total market; Wainhouse sees the hosted UC market alone as $13.4 billion a year later. F&S sees it as much, much smaller. What gives? - April Dunford

estimated using a formula to identify the revenues and seat shipment that are attributed to a UC solution, rather than being used as a standalone or non-integrated product. The Net or “True” UC market is forecast to grow from $200.8 million in 2007 to $2.433 billion by 2012. Professional services will increase the product revenues by 18% in 2007, and will add on 40% of product revenues in 2012. - April Dunford

According to IDC, the current market size for worldwide unified communications is approximately US$4.8 billion (oct 2007), and by 2011, this number is expected to increase to US$14.5 billion. - April Dunford

The entire unified communications products and services market will be $22.6 billion in 2007, growing to $48.7 billion by 2012. Compound annual growth rate over the forecast period will be 13.7%. - April Dunford

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2129896410 290 Hudson at Spring - April Dunford

IBM CEBP reference architecture - insurance claims adjustment, bank customer service use cases - April Dunford

examples of push vs. pull scenarios - April Dunford

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