| Business phone systems in the cloud for remote offices and workers:
How to use unified communications to hire the best, not the closest
Wednesday July 22, 2015
TIME: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT | | | | Now that business phone systems have moved from the telephone closet to the cloud, businesses have a new tool to help them grow. In this webinar, you'll hear from a company like yours, an industry analyst, and a provider of hosted business phone systems and learn about how this new technology is helping modern companies grow without borders.
In this webinar, you will learn: - Connecting and managing remote offices to extend existing teams
- Recruiting, hiring, and retaining remote employees
- Using mobility technologies for work/life balance and productivity
- How unified communications in the cloud works
Presenters: Jeff Valentine, CMO, Fonality, Inc. / Blair Pleasant, President & Principal Analyst, COMMfusion LLC & UCStrategies.com Fonality is a business phone system provider that delivers on-premise and hosted services to more than 30,000 business owners and IT professionals. Fonality’s CMO, Jeff Valentine, has more than a 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and will provide insights into how businesses are embracing to a "remote culture."
Don’t miss this great opportunity to gain insight into the evolution of the modern workplace and how to prepare your business for what’s to come. Who should attend: - Business owners and IT managers who make telephony decisions for their company
- Contact center managers/decision makers
- Those looking for a better understanding of unified communications and/or the cloud
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| | | | | Presenters:  Jeff Valentine
CMO
Fonality Jeff Valentine has more than a decade of experience running, growing, and selling telecommunications and telecommunications software companies. Prior to Fonality, Valentine was VP of Product for the cloud division at ShoreTel and SVP of Product Marketing at M5 Networks, where he was a member of the executive team that helped sell M5 to ShoreTel in 2011. Before joining M5, he was President and CEO of Callfinity, a telecommunications software provider that grew by more than 500% before being acquired by M5. As an investor, he founded Valentinium, a private equity firm with interests in upstate New York. Valentine is a board member at several private businesses and non-profit organizations including The Strong, Geva Theatre Center, the Venture Jobs Foundation, and Pariemus, an organization he co-founded for entrepreneurs and CEOs. He is a cum laude graduate of Cornell University in Materials Science and Engineering with a concentration in Polymer Chemistry.  Blair Pleasant
President & Principal Analyst
COMMfusion & UCStrategies.com
Blair Pleasant is President & Principal Analyst of COMMfusion LLC and a co-founder of UCStrategies. As a communications industry analyst, she provides strategic consulting services and market analysis on business communication applications, technologies, and markets, aimed at helping end-user and vendor clients both strategically and tactically. Her primary areas of focus are Unified Communications and Collaboration, Contact Center, social media, and unified messaging. Blair provides clients with a variety of custom consulting services, including market analysis, surveys and research, white papers, product assessment, competitive analysis, strategic development, vendor analysis, marketing and product positioning, partner development, and more.
She is a frequent speaker and participant in industry conferences, webinars, podcasts, and other events to help educate customers, solution providers, channel partners, investors, and others about the evolving Unified Communications and Collaboration and Contact Center markets.
Blair's blogs and articles can be found on www.ucstrategies.com and www.commfusion.com. She also tweets on Twitter as blairplez, and you can find her on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Ms. Pleasant received a BA degree in Communications from Albany State University, and an MBA in marketing and an MS in Broadcast Administration from Boston University.
Moderator:  Erik Linask
Group Editorial Director, TMCnet Erik oversees the daily operation of TMCnet, which delivers news, information, videos, white papers, podcasts, and more to three million visitors each month. He is also a contributor to TMCnet as well as TMC's IP Communications publications. Prior to joining the TMC team, several years ago, he was Managing Editor at Global Custodian, a global securities services publication, where he also managed the magazine's survey research. Erik began his professional career at management consulting firm Leadership Research Institute. | |
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