2025
- August – Guest on the Film Talk with Jordan Ramirez podcast for a review of Clue (1985)
- June – Quoted in Daniel O'Dowd’s article “Overcoming Objections in Sales Deals” of The Alliance - Sales Enablement Collective website
- May – Quoted in the Incentivize Creatives article "Pricing Strategies Every Creative Freelancer Should Know"
- May – Presented a session “Saving Your Domino Infrastructure from Myths With Legends” at the Engage conference in The Hague. These slides are purposely not public, please ask me about them
- April – Delivered a Strategic Consortium of Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Webinar: Competitive Intelligence and Conferences for People with a Low Interaction Threshold
- February - Quoted in the Coldiq Funmito Obafemi article "How to use Intent Signals to Boost B2B Sales"
- January - Quoted in CEO Official Magazine article Advice to My Younger Self: Finding Balance as a CEO
- January – Recognized as an HCL Ambassador for 2025
2024 - 2020
- December – Quoted in CEO Official Magazine: Building a Leadership Team.
- December - Presented at the Strategic Consortium of Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Intellicon Barcelona 2024 event. "The Greatest Competitive Intelligence Effort of Modern Times",slides
- July - Delivered an OpenNTF Webinar - Advanced Monitoring and Administration Tips and Features for HCL Domino, video, slides
- February - Podcast guest on Hot Topics Live, discussed "How to use Competitive Intelligence to make $$$",Watch it
- January – Recognized as an HCL Ambassador for 2024.
2024
- October – Times of Israel Guest Blogger: The Waiting is the Hardest Part, We Aren’t Turning the Other Cheek, What Do You Say? What Do You Do?
- Presented at the GLOW (Global Learning For An open World) 2023 Conference on "War Zone Virtual Education - Learning amid Chaos"
- October - Quoted on the Pursue the Passion blog, Topic: Why Are You Passionate about Diversity and Inclusion? under the subheading, Making a Critique of Exclusive Diversity Approaches
- June, October, November - English Speaking Network Presentations at multiple events in person and online "How to Build a Presentation in under 24 Hours"
- April - Podcast guest on Episode 16 "Are You Happy Business Podcast"
- April - The CIO Circle interviewed me
- April - Podcast about Ai and B2B Marketing with a view to the future within the industry with DebateSensei here
- March – Delivered an OpenNTF Webinar: "TOTP – This Is the Way" slides, video
- February - Presented a session at the annual ITA - Israel Translation Association conference about Ai and job futures: "To Grow or NOT To Grow, That is not the Question, But the Imperative" slides, video
- February - Guest on the Sales Enablement Collective podcast discussing Worldwide clients vs US clients
- February - Quoted in Collabria's blog post How to Inherit a Portfolio of Upset Clients
- January - Quoted in Smartling's blog post"App Localization 101: What It Is, Why It's Important & Best Practices"
- January – Recognized as an HCL Ambassador for 2023.
2023
- Quoted in a RedFox Visual blog post about Branding Confusion
- Quoted in a Collabria blog post about Inbox Zero
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Quoted in a Competitive Intelligence Alliance blog post
- Featured in a Linkedin Article "Your CI Starting Block"
- Times of Israel Guest Blogger Post Halloween in Israel Explains the Election
- Featured twice in the Competitive Intelligence Alliance 2022 Playbook on pages 14 and 41
2022
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Quoted in the Convin ebook "How to Sell Faster in 2022" available here, also available here
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Presented two sessions at the Collabsphere 2021conference
"Yes, It's #1 it's TOTP!" the video from the session is here, the video can also be downloaded from here and
"Directory, AD Synchronization and Passwords"
- Host of a panel for the PMA Developer Marketing Summit on "Marketing Invisible Products (like APIs) to a Technical Audience" this link will take you to the replay
- Presentations given at the AdminCamp 2021 conference on "Modernizing Rooms and Resources Functionality" and "Hacking Administrators"
- Quoted in a Product Marketing Alliance blog post discussing "Sales Enablement"
- Quoted in a Dashly blog post discussing "Sales Enablement" and a blog post about "Customer Support"
- Prominic's review of my session on O365 from the Collabpshere event in October 2020
- Recognized as an HCL Ambassador for 2021
2021
- Presented a session at the Engage Conference in Arnhemon "Domino Administration - Dark Arts Wizardry"
- Podcast guest on The Bagel Podcast discussing "Zoom meetings, Jewish Halachic Laws and Passover during the Corona Virus", find me at 32:08
- Presented a session to the MassChallenge Israel startup group for 2020 on "Decks Matter, And Other Startup Font Tales"/li>
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Panelist for the Highspot event "The Sales Enablement Soiree",
download the video here or watch it here - Quoted in a blog post from the Sales Enablment Collective about "How to handle the 4 most common sales objections"
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Presented two sessions at the Collabsphere Event:
"To Home, To Work, To Home, To Collabsphere", the video is here and
"Shoot Me Now! The Life and Death of an O365 Admin and User", the video is here - Recognized as an HCL Ambassador for 2020
2020
2019 - 2015
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Two presentations given at the IBM Think conference in San Francisco:
"Why I, and you, (should) Love Domino"
"Why This Global Law Firm Does Not Miss Deadlines" -
Two presentations given at the Engage Conference in Brussels
"Shout IT Out Loud"
"Users Complaints and How to Deal With Them" -
Two presentations given at the NCUG (Nordic Collaboration User Group)
"Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me Notes Could Do That"
"Admin Hacks for Users and Admins Sanity" - Recognized as an HCL Ambassador for 2019
2019
- Presented a session at the ITA - Israel Translators Association 2018 Conference on "Faster Translations Start With A Faster Computer"
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Two presentations given at the IBM Think conference in Las Vegas:
"Soft Skills, Hard Skills, Body Language and More" and
"I'm a LEGO Man Living in a Duplo World" - Presented a session at the Social Connections Conference in Philadelphia on "Breaking the Unwritten Rules to Help Your Users"
- Presented a session at the Engage Conference in Rotterdam on "Pointing Fingers? DDM to the Rescue"
- Recognized as an IBM Champion for 2018
2018
- Presented at the IBM Connect conference on "One Firm's Wild Ride to the Cloud"
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3 presentations given at the Israel Translators Association 2017 Conference:
"18+ Ways to Help Clients Love You"
"Advanced Backups"
"Fixing Your Own Computer" - Guest Speaker, IBM Business Partner New Way to Learn about"IBM Sametime 9 Installation Woes and Proactive Repairs" along with SpeedGeeking sessions.
- Medium Blog Post "IBM Domino Will Outlast Pokemon Go!"
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The Times of Israel Guest Blogger
February 1 - "Stop Raising Haters"
January 1 - "Seeing Snow for the First Time, in Israel, on Hanukkah" - Recognized as an IBM Champion for 2017
2017
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Presented a session at the Israel Translators Association 2016 Conference on
"What Were You Thinking? Worst Translation Practices" and
"My Dog Ate My translation Assignment - And Other Stories of Lost Documents" - Blog post published in Targima Magazine "Getting From No, to Know"
- MC for AdTech 2016 Conference
- Guest Speaker for the IBM Business Partner New Way to Learn session on "Email Migrations"
- Guest Blogger for The RockTeam titled "You have been in IT for years"
- Presentation given at ICON UK on "Migration: Impossible Not So"
- Guest Blogger on BINFIRE and their "Dear Collaboration Corner"
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Guest Blogger for the IBM Middleware User Community
September - "Noah, The Watson Robot" (IBM has changed links, looking for it)
August - "Upgrading to the Latest Code Might Not Be a Good Idea"(IBM has changed links, looking for it) -
The Times of Israel Guest Blogger
October 27 - "Better Read Those Corporate Annual Meeting Amendments">
August 12 - "The 2 year Aliyahversary"
August 9 - "4 Down, 3.5 to Go"
June 9 - "I Want to Tell You"
March 14 - This is NOT My Torah" - Recognized as an IBM Champion for 2016
2016
- Presented a session at the Social Connections (Let's Connect) Conference in Boston on "Email vs. Status Updates"
- Quoted and particpated in a panel discussion for the "Accelerating Business Transformations" Report from BPI Network Transforms to a Better Performing Community
- Quoted in The Data Center Journal "Business Leaders Want a New Scorecard for the IT Group"
- Presented a session at the SUTOL - Czech Lotus User Group Conference of 2015 on "Domino Domain Monitoring, Letting Admins Sleep Later and Stay at Pubs Longer Since 2005"
- Presented a session at the Social Connections (Let's Connect) Conference in Stuttgart"Technology and Religion", an explanation can be found on my blog here
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The Times of Israel Guest Blogger
November 22 - "Israeli Research Team Has Cured Cancer"
August 12 - "1st Year Done, Lifetime Left for the Journey"
August 11 - "Aliyah, The Greatest Cult"
July 13 - "OMG! You Made Aliyah and Brought Tuna?!"
June 15 - "Practical Pettiness"
May 22 - "A Rabbi Walks into a Social Media Stream"
February 27 - "Hey BDS People, Divest Yourselves"
February 12 - "Making Aliyah? Think About These Excuses" - Recognized as an IBM Champion for 2015
2015
2014 – 2010
- Mentioned in a DIGIDAY article on "Publicis Group moving off Lotus Notes"
- Presented a session at the Social Connections (Let's Connect) Conference in Stockholm, "Didn't You See My Status Update!? Accountability and the Modern Employee"
- Presented a session at the IBM Connect 2014 conference "Calling Home: Enabling the IBM Sametime Softphone in ST9"
- Co-author of an IBM Redbook "Making the move to IBM Connections 4.5 and IBM Connections Content Manager"
- Video Interview from IBM Impact for - TheCUBE with John Furrier of Silicon Angle
- Recognized as an IBM Champion for 2014 for both Lotus and Websphere
2014
2013
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"How To Become A Dual IBM Champion" from IBM Impact 2013 - Video Interview - "What is an IBM Champion" from IBM Impact 2013
- Presented a session at the IBM Impact 2013 conference "The Art of Troubleshooting"
- Presented a session at the SugarCRM SugarCon 2013 Conference "Business Anti-Social: the Boss needs SugarCRM, Give it to them!"
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IBM Social Business Insights Blog(Not all Links are working , these will be fixed as they resurface)
October 15 - Who saw your slides? Six more tips on getting more shares (Part 2) Internet ate this one, so far
October 7 - Who saw your slides? Four tips on getting more shares (Part 1) Internet ate this one, so far
August 16 - What scares Dracula about being social? Still looking for it
June 10 - Curbing your social media habits once a week
May 8 - IBM Champions make an Impact: Video Blog Looking for it still
May 4 - What if the Death Star Got Social and Darth Vader Ruled?
April 25 - Making Time for Social
January 30 - Social Lessons from the 3 L's - Recognized as an IBM Champion for 2013 for both Lotus and Websphere
2012
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IBM Interviews:
Video Interview - "Realizing the Value of Social Business" No longer on YouTube
Video Interview - "How Social Business Improves Productivity" No longer on YouTube - Guest on the Lotusphere 2012 Podcast
- Presented at the SugarCRM Sugarcon 2012 conference on "The Full Power of Collaboration with IBM Smart Cloud Engage and SugarCRM"
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IBM Social Business Insights Blog Contributed
December 27 - "New Year's Resolution: Turning that No into a Yes!"
October 23 - "The Power of 30: It Takes 30 Days and 30 People"
2011
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Presented two sessions at The View Admin conference
"Breaking and Entering: If You Can Hack It, So Can They" and
"DDM - Domino Domain Monitoring, If You Only Knew What Your server Was Saying" - Presentation given at the IT Women event of South Florida for high school students career day "You and Your Interview"
- Presentation given to a Florida business networking group on "Ethical Hacking"
- Presented at the SugarCRM Sugarcon 2011 conference on "CRM 101: Session 1: Business Anti-Social- Why the Boss Doesn't Use SugarCRM"
- Contributor to the The Daily Blogma Site
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Mentioned in a post by Carol Roth, "60+ Ways to Leverage & Use Twitter to Grow Your Business"
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Co-author of
"IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration"
2010
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Guest on the "This Week in Lotus" Podcast on September 16
- Presented a session at LTAP 2010 - Virtual Conference, ""If You Only Knew, What your Server Was Saying", Audio download here
- Presented a session at The View Admin Conference, "Under the Hood of Mail Redirection and Its Effects on iNotes and iPhone Users"
2009 and Earlier
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2009
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Articles written for The View magazine and website:
"Which Quickr Services Are Right for You?", Link is broken
"Choose the IBM Lotus Sametime Client That's Right for You", Link is broken -
Mentioned as a Case Study in
"The Social Factor" by Maria Azua, Page 112
2008
- Quoted in Heartland News about "Pleasant Hill, California Tries Risky Muni Wi-Fi"
- Quoted in CIO Magazine article that appeared in Macworld, "iPhone 2.0: What CIOs Want to See in Apple's Next-Gen Smartphone" 2007
- Quoted in CIO Magazine, "Getting Clueful: Five Things You Should Know About Fighting Spam" 1998
- Still with me? Great, this is in Russian, from my time with Lotus EMEA, it is a review of the Lotus Tech Forum November 12, 1998 in Moscow, Russia
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