By John
26 January 2007
5:48 pm
Location: Flying from SFO to LAS en route to Ottawa
I wanted to post a quick note today not about technology or some interesting product but rather about the great response to the launch of my blog this week. I posted my first entry a few days ago while I was in Las Vegas at Nortel’s first-ever global sales conference (they’ve historically been regional) and, I must say, I’m truly amazed (and delighted) at the number of comments and the passion behind them. I wanted to take a few minutes to share my reaction to that.
First, thanks for the comments and response. External blogs are a new thing at Nortel and the fact that we had comments and observations from employees, ...
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By John
23 January 2007
3:30 pm
Welcome.
It is with great pleasure that I begin my official weblog at Nortel. Because it is my first, I thought I’d take a bit of space to introduce myself and my philosophy and perspective in general as a way to kick off what I hope will be an on-going dialog related to technology, the telecom industry, Nortel and other assorted items of interest that I hope to share with you through this medium.
First off, my name is John Roese, and I am the Chief Technology Officer of Nortel, one of the foundational companies of the telecommunications industry and a company that has existed for more than one hundred years (111 to be exact). I joined Nortel in the middle of ...
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