Social media is one of the best ways to make sure your up on the latest trends in your industry, get time-saving tips, make a name for yourself, and connect with thought leaders. It may seem like a pain, but a well-curated Twitter feed can help cut through the noise so you can tune into key learnings from conferences like Infocomm, Enterprise Connect, and ATA without having to leave your chair. Also, finding out about new product updates and industry changes will start coming to you, rather than needing to do a ton of research.
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To get you jump-started (or fine-tune who you’re following), we’ve curated a list of key Twitter influencers of video conferencing technology companies, collaboration industry analysts, and unified communications architects. In fact, this post serves as a kuddos from Vyopta. We feel that each of them share thoughtful analysis and solutions to issues within unified communication.
So again, no more noise. Feel free to follow them all!
DAVID DANTO | @NJDAVIDD ![]()
AV, Collaboration, IoT, Multimedia, Video and UC Technology Leader at Dimension Data
Tweets about: UC industry trends, the internet of things, great content pieces on video conferencing & AV
Twitter bio: Sharing important & interesting media, UC & technology updates w/ the perspective of someone who’s been doing it for a while. Full bio at Danto.info
How Secure Is Your #VideoConference Room? Read my article and come visit @DimensionData @InfoCommShow to resolve. https://t.co/BsxW1cmqFE
— David Danto (@NJDavidD) May 22, 2016
IRA WEINSTEIN | @IWEINSTEIN![]()
Sr. Analyst, Consultant, and Partner at Wainhouse Research
Tweets about: Industry trends, studies on unified communications, great use cases for video conferencing
Twitter bio: Industry analyst & thought leader on conferencing, collaboration, AV, UC, etc. Husband. Dad. Techie. Diver. Boater. Scout. Gun enthusiast. Fireman (retired).
Service for deaf, hard of hearing helps with #conferencing https://t.co/I9HiQEdhjs See our #Accessibility paper:
— Ira Weinstein (@iweinstein) April 25, 2016
MATT STEVENSON | @MATTYSTEVENSON![]()
Collaboration, Communication, & Strategy Expert, Mindfulness & Meditation Coach
Tweets about: unified communications, the internet of things, connectedness, collaboration
Twitter bio: Collaboration & Strategy Expert | L&D/Training Architect | Mindfulness, Yoga, & Meditation Guide
I’m getting back to work! Pumped to chat collaboration tech in this webinar hosted by the great folks @vyopta tmrw https://t.co/OAroFylDj4
— Matty Stevenson (@mattystevenson) December 14, 2016
DAVID MALDOW | @LETSDOVIDEO![]()
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Founder and CEO at Let’s Do Video
Tweets about: Video Conferencing tips and industry events
Twitter bio: Founder and CEO: Let’s Do Video
#Video users need to understand how to frame their space properly. @JScottMO tells you how pic.twitter.com/805g3VznNv
— David Maldow (@LetsDoVideo) May 11, 2016
ALFREDO RAMIREZ | @AR_DOGOOD![]()
CEO at Vyopta Inc.
Tweets about: Austin tech events, unified communications trends, common problems and solutions for video conferencing
Twitter bio: Entrepreneur, Executive, Commentator
#SXSWbarcrawl @vyopta hanging out @Atlassian pic.twitter.com/dxZh1Fyhb4
— alfredo ramirez (@ar_dogood) March 11, 2016
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stefan ried | @stefanried![]()
CTO at Unify, Circuit.com
Tweets about: The future of work, UC industry events, WebRTC
Twitter bio: CTO at Unify – Collaboration & Communication Software – WebRTC http://www.Circuit.com – Former Forrester VP
Communication in the health care sector.#CeBIT#unifyco hall 13 d40 pic.twitter.com/p6cIu31izX
— Stefan Ried (@StefanRied) March 14, 2016
blair pleasant | @blairplez![]()
President & Principal Analyst, COMMfusion
Tweets about: Big UC industry changes, industry mergers, acquisitions, and business moves
Twitter bio: Unified communications & collaboration and contact center industry analyst & consultant, fan of social software. Beatles freak, mom, wine lover.
.@UCStrategies podcast: The New Role of APIs, Integrations, and CPaaS For Business Communications
— Blair Pleasant (@blairplez) May 13, 2016
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DAVe michels | @davemichels![]()
Enterprise Communications Analyst
Tweets about: Enterprise IT, business changes in the UC&C space
Twitter bio: Enterprise Communications pundit and analyst covering UC, Cloud, collaboration, CCTR, messaging, IoT. Follow for newz and viewz. Also @TalkingPointz
Cisco Meraki Jumps into Telphony with MC74: It looks like Cisco is going to take another crack at SMB… https://t.co/BflYNR5yc1 <Viewz
— Dave Michels (@DaveMichels) May 26, 2016
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Simon Dudley | @simondudley![]()
CEO at Excession Events
Tweets about: Cool tech like AI, robots, and NASA missions, UC industry events
Twitter bio: Contrarian Excession Events. International Speaker. Man of Science and random acts of kindness. Hater of Dogma. 2 patents. Plan for 10x NOT 10% growth.
#Infocomm16. Remember the shiniest item may not be the best https://t.co/IC2zyWJKmY
— Simon Dudley (@simondudley) May 25, 2016
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jeff shiffman | @JeffShiffman![]()
Regional Sales Manager at Vyopta Incorporated
Tweets about: Unified Communications conferences and events, Vyopta product updates, video conferencing solutions and industry trends with a sense of humor.
new actionable insight playing nicely in the sandbox @vidyo hanging with @Cisco @Polycom @AcanoCo @PexipInc @Skype https://t.co/s7R4SGx6NF
— Jeff Shiffman (@JeffShiffman) April 20, 2016
melissa fremeijer | @mfremeijer![]()
Senior Research analyst at IDC
Tweets about: IT Security, unified communications trends, european UC news
Twitter bio: Senior Research Analyst at IDC EMEA Telecomms & Networking, covering (Video) Conferencing Solutions & Services and Unified Communications for the EMEA region.
#BT #artofconnecting European Showcases Launch just kicked off via telepresence connecting Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Madrid and Milan
— Melissa Fremeijer (@MFremeijer) December 4, 2014
Aasmund Fodstad | @AasmundFodstad![]()
CEO at Pexip
Tweets about: Pexip technology, UC interoperability
Twitter bio: A Pexip’er
Got to love a call with Skype for Business and a standards based video endpoint, powered by Pexip https://t.co/XJpIK2QG0A
— Åsmund Olav Fodstad (@AasmundFodstad) May 17, 2016
Chris Knuckles | @chrisknuckles![]()
AV/IT Specialist
Tweets about: Enterprise IT, business changes in the UC&C space
Twitter bio: MBA/AV/IT guy. 16 years IT, 5 AV. Anitque dealer – scotch drinker – US veteran – MBA – CTS – EAVA
“Successful Conference Room Deployment Criteria” https://t.co/pLdT2zDpi9 by @chrisknuckles on @LinkedIn
— Chris Knuckles, CTS (@chrisknuckles) May 26, 2016
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Irwin Lazar | @imlazar![]()
Vice President & Service Director at Nemertes Research
Tweets about: UC business news
Twitter bio: VP, Analyst, @nemertes Collaboration, VOIP, UC, Social, Video, Contact Center, WebRTC, Nats fan, Scouting and cooking on the side
Why DevOps, UC&C Need Each Other: UC&C can both benefit from, and support, DevOps initiatives, improvi… https://t.co/QForUbHndi #ucoms
— Irwin Lazar (@imlazar) June 2, 2016
Julie Hall-Barrow | @JulieHallBarrow![]()
Vice President, Virtual Health and Innovation
Tweets about: telemedicine, telehealth, patient care
Twitter bio: #virtualhealth #VPinnovation#telemedicine-evangelist #caringforkidsmom to 2
Great case study about #RPM! @AmericanTelemed #pediatrics #lovemyjob https://t.co/yp07NshYHP
— Julie Hall-Barrow (@JulieHallBarrow) June 2, 2016
Roque Espinal-Valdez | @AGDGRoque![]()
Founder & CEO Adaptive Global Digital Group
Tweets about: Telemedicine, general technology innovations
Twitter bio: #Entrepreneur, #Startup #Founder and CEO of @dntelehealth I follow#Millennials #mhealth #telemedicine #CX#Wearables #medicine#remotemonitoring #pinksocks
Changing the world! @AmericanTelemed @CCHPCA @HIMSS @ExponentialMed @ourfuturehealth #pinksocks #C3MED & my friends pic.twitter.com/WnOtgL9Psi
— Roque Espinal-Valdez (@AGDGRoque) June 4, 2016
Joseph Williams | @rhudaur![]()
ICT Industry Sector Lead & Economic Development Director
Tweets about: Enterprise IT, Telemedicine, UC architecture
Twitter bio: Unified Communications industry analyst, former tech exec, former business school dean, now working on IoT, cloud, telemedicine, and UCaaS projects
Hardest part of running a UC infrastructure? Root cause analysis. So many variables, so hard to get actionable data, so easy to blame others
— Joseph Williams (@rhudaur) June 4, 2016
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Jeff Machtig | @DVEguru![]()
Co-Founder at Digital Video Enterprises, Inc.
Tweets about: Telepresence, business changes in the UC&C space
Twitter bio: Jeff Machtig is a prolific inventor in 3D holographic appearing visual effects and video conferencing / Telepresence
Jeff Rodman and his team helped bring people closer:
Story and images by Mark Scott / Smart Bu… https://t.co/OrL0j4NJNK #telepresence— DVE Telepresence (@DVEguru) June 6, 2016
Marty Parker | @MartyParkerUC![]()
Messaging and Unified Communications Consulting
Tweets about: Enterprise Unified Communications
Twitter bio: Unified Communications (including Collaboration) consultant to enterprises. Vendor independent; UC leader since 1999.
#MSIgnite Demonstrating some breakthrough ideas in collaborative work based in Outlook, Office, O365, supporting productivity. #UComs
— Marty Parker (@MartyParkerUC) May 4, 2015
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Elka Popova | @epopova![]()
Global Program Director and Senior Fellow, Unified Communications at Frost & Sullivan
Tweets about: Enterprise IT, collaboration trends
Twitter bio: Industry analyst focusing on Unified Communications. My passion is hosted/cloud communications.
Receiving the scoop on #BroadSoft‘s acquisition of #Intellinote. Collab app looks cool. I like the task management capability
— Elka Popova (@epopova) June 3, 2016
Andrew Richards | @andrewintech![]()
CTIO at WSU Medicine
Tweets about: Enterprise IT, business changes in the UC&C space
Twitter bio: CTIO at @WSUMedicine Technologist, Brewer, Runner, Coder. Healthcare, Security, Spaaaaace! Tweets my own
Another huge win for #telehealth imagine the applications for rural / underserved care @WSUMedicine #eHealth2016 https://t.co/VrH2zgpIsh
— Andrew Richards (@andrewintech) June 6, 2016
If you have someone else you recommend, go ahead and comment below. We’ll be sure to add them to this list as we continue to find new influencers and thought leaders within the unified communications space.
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