IP Communications and Beyond

For those of you who have been following the genesis and ongoing development of IP Communications Insights, you know that this new portal has been a relatively long time coming -- one year to be exact. Not that Jon Arnold, my partner in this venture, and I were twiddling our thumbs during this time. Both of us were busy with our thriving consultancies and serving a variety of interests, and to be honest, we didn't want to rush something to the Web just to be able to point to it and say, "Gee, look what we did!"

Rather, we wanted to make sure we got things right in terms of the vision we had for this entity -- and I say "entity" on purpose, since projects like this tend to take on a life of their own. And although IP Communications Insights is still in sort of a launch mode and as such is a work in progress, I think we've got the basic foundation down just the way we envisioned it. I look forward to working with Jon and building it up, adding features and functionality and content, and fully realizing our vision of a truly independent portal for thought leadership in the IP communications space.

I'm also thrilled to be blogging again. For those of you who followed my previous blog, Beyond VoIP, on TMCnet.com, and are now finding me here, thank you for reading me in the past and welcome to my new blog home! A big thank you is due to Rich Tehrani of TMC for not only giving me the opportunity to reach a large audience with my musings (and occasional rants), but also for continuing to host Beyond VoIP although the last post I made to it was last October. For those of you who are unfamiliar with my blogging style, the archive of posts on Beyond VoIP will give you a good idea of what you can expect to find here.

I will continue to write about the wide range of IP communications technologies, products, services, applications and industry professionals that intrigue me, offer up nuggets on green tech and consumer tech bang-for-the-buck bargains, as well as dish out healthy opinion about various high technology issues and rant occasionally about things that tend to seriously frustrate me and that I just HAVE to share with someone (my wife certainly doesn't want to be my sounding board...)

I look forward to hearing from you -- my future loyal readers! Let me know what you think about IP Communications Insights, what topics or content you'd like to see -- or see more of -- and how Jon and I can make this portal more valuable to your informational needs.