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July Monthly Meeting Wrap Up
July's NYSIA meeting was a great combination of business and technical information, as we explored the world of Mobile and the Opportunities for Developers and Business people.
Panel host and Board Member Ed Martino, Director, Managed Mobility Services, Vodafone Global Enterprise, led our panelists in several discussions on the challenges of developing for multiple platforms, the advantages of bringing enterprise tools to the pockets and belts of employees, and more.
Panelists Eric John, Director of Forum Nokia Marketing, Dean Collins, Director, Business Development, Amethon Mobile Analytics, Vishy Gopalakrishnan, Founder & CTO, Mobility Partners, and Tyler Lessard, Director, BlackBerry Alliances and Developer Relations, Research in Motion all provided deep and serious insights into their respective areas of expertise.
EWeek covered the panel and Darryl Taft reported "A wealth of different platforms, from Nokia to Windows Mobile to Android to the iPhone, place the mobile space among the rapidly growing greenfields for developers. New platforms, such as Android from Google, will challenge Nokia and its SymbianOS in the smart phone space." The article goes on to discuss developer platforms in terms of the business opportunities.
On ZD's Enterprise Developing Stories Blog, the story discussed Mobile Browser Fragmentation. It notes that developers should continue to avoid heavy DHTML and Scripting such as JavaScript to reach the largest audiences.
Both articles are worth reading for a good summary of the panel. |
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Monthly meeting hosts author and columnist Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years and has been keeping a close eye on Microsoft strategy, products, and technologies for most of that time. Foley's "All About Microsoft" blog is among the top business blogs and her perspective is valued throughout the tech community. On Monday she came to discuss her new book Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era which has just been published. Mary Jo answered many questions, including what she'd do if she were running Microsoft -- rationalize some of the naming and branding so people would understand what products are available. She also speculated on the MSFT/YHOO combination, and Microsoft as "an ad company." Thanks to Mary Jo for giving away 2 copies of her book to audience members. |
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You Need a Computer Science Intern NYSIA's internship program connects your company with well qualified computer science students from the metropolitan area. Undergrad and grad computer science students are eager and prepared to lighten the load interning at your company. Interns can work as programmers, analysts, support, developers, designers etc.. Sign up for an intern(s) here. Learn more about it here. |
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NYSIA's April Meeting Reviewed Center Networks' Allen Stern summarized the April Meeting on Startup Life and Challenges in NYC. Panelists Hank Williams, Founder and CEO, Kloudshare, Jeffrey Stewart, Founder, Mimeo.com, Jason Olim, founder CDNow, and Roger Krakoff, Sigma Partners shared stories, concerns and their combined experience with the audience of entrepreneurs and tech industry veterans. Allen brought up challenges in communication (such as finding talent) as one of his chief concerns. We hope to help on that topic and more from here at NYSIA. |
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NYSIA's March Monthly Meeting NYSIA hosted a panel on Social Networking: The New Communications Paradigm. IBM's
Heidi Votaw lead off the event with a keynote explaining how IBM is using social networks internally to connect employees around projects and areas of interest. Then Heidi and panelists Eric Alterman of KickApps and Andrew Weinreich of MeetMoi discussed social networks in the context of companies, the enterprise and even mobile social apps. Many of the over 175 attendees stayed after the panel to ask questions of the three, and it is a topic that will bear watching in the future. |
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NYSIA's Feburary Meeting well received NYSIA's February Meeting hosted Henry Blodget of the Silicon Alley Insider. Over 200 attendees learned about his opinions regarding Microsoft/Yahoo, Google, and the New York tech scene. Allen Stern's Center Networks captured the action with a blog post and video. |
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| Monday, January 12, 6:00 PM - NYSIA Monthly Meeting: "Government By the People, 2.0" - How technology is changing democracy, and how it affects our industry. |
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Wednesday, January 7, 8:00 AM -
NYSIA Sales and Marketing SIG
: "Marketing with a capital 'M:' How to achieve sustainable competitive advantage." - Marketing is everyone's job - how can your organization shift to capitalize on this? With B2B strategy expert Beth Zimmerman, Principal, Cerebellas LLC. |
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Tuesday, January 27, 6:00 PM -
SAAS, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
: "Where does my data go? Data persistence in the cloud." - Geir Magnusson Jr. -VP of Engineering at 10gen Inc, will discuss Data Persistence in Cloud Computing. |
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Wednesday, January 28, 6:00 PM -
NYSIA Legal Forum
: "TBD" - TBD |
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Have an idea? Please share. We want our members to take part in our meetings any way they can, so we are asking you what would you like to learn more about. Share your ideas with us by emailing our SIG and Events Coordinator.
Want to get more involved? We are looking for a new Java Special Interest Group leader. We are also looking for people to create and lead new Special Interest Groups. Are you creative and an expert in your field? Please contact our SIG & Event Coordinator. We look forward to fresh and exciting leadership.
MISSED A SIG? - Many of our past SIG presentations can be found online! If there is a PowerPoint presentation or handout that you missed, or you want to refer back to something that you forgot months ago, we have it! Check out the past events page for your favorite presentations.
Visit the NYSIA SIG Village! Take a look at detailed information of your favorite SIGs, bios of the SIG Leaders, contact information, past PowerPoint presentation slides, past speakers and topics, and pictures of the SIG events.
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