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Discussion forums anyone?

11
June 20, 2009
by Michael McNamara in

There are obviously a lot of very knowledgeable people posting to this blog. While I think the material I’ve already posted is helpful I think there are a lot of other folks out there that could help. I’m currently contemplating starting a discussion forum (probably using phpBB) to help get these folks connected. While I recognize that there are quite a few existing discussion forums (Tek-Tips is one such forum) that provide a great environment I think a better job could be done to help nurture the participants and help keep the discussions on topic. I know that Nortel has some discussion forums of their own which are relatively new.

I get a LOT of personal email messages asking for help on various topics. While I try to respond to the vast majority of them I don’t always have the time (or energy). I’m thinking about the following forums;

  • Nortel BayRS Routing
  • Nortel Ethernet Switching
  • Nortel Ethernet Routing Switching
  • Nortel VPN Routing
  • Nortel Succession 1000 Call Server
  • Motorola Wireless LAN Switches
  • Network Management

While it will probably mean some additional workload to get it up and running it could really help connect a lot of folks and could. I could also solicit a few experts to help moderate the different discussion forums and provide some high quality content.

Let me take a poll and see what you folks think. Please feel free to be brutally honest!

[poll id="6"]

Cheers!

Where’s the content?

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May 7, 2009
by Michael McNamara in

Yes I’m admitting that I need to post some new content here…

I’ve literally been wrapped up in a large (400+ handset) Nortel IP Telephony deployment not to mention dozens of other projects including such topics as virtualization and managed data center design. In the coming months I’ll also be participating in designing and setting up a 25 user pilot of Microsoft Office Communication Server and integrating it with the Nortel Succession 1000 platform.

I know a lot of us are also sitting on the edge of our seats waiting to see what will happen with Nortel. I heard a few rumors that something should be announced with the next week or two but only time will tell.

Thanks for reading!

RSS Feeds

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September 21, 2008
by Michael McNamara in

I thought I would take a quick second to let everyone know that there are two RRS feeds for this blog. The first feed is for the articles that get posted while the second is for the comments made by readers like yourself and me. There are a lot of really helpful tips and information that can be found in the comments from some very insightful readers.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/michaelfmcnamara

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForMichaelFMcnamara

While there are approximately 50 readers subscribed to the main article RSS feed there is no one subscribed to the comments RSS feed.

Please feel free to comment on any article, especially if you think the article is incorrect and/or misleading. I’m also interested in soliciting information for future articles. What would you be interested in hear more about?

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

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