This week, a demo of the long-awaited Digium Phones. A preview was give earlier this year by Kevin Fleming.

Digium’s family of IP Phones are the first on the market built specifically for use with Asterisk and Asterisk-based systems. All models include HD audio and plug-and-play deployment at a price that fits any budget. With multiple line appearances, context-aware soft keys, and advanced applications that integrate directly with Asterisk features, the Digium phones offer a better user experience than any other phone on the market.

More about the phones from Dave Michels on No Jitter

✓Are Facebook ads worth doing?
✓What are the best use cases for FB ads?
✓How are they targeted?
✓What return can be expected?
✓Skill set needed to create and disseminate FB advertising?
✓In-house or outsource?
✓FB advertising vs. FB community management? What can you expect from each?
✓Best practices, DOs and DON’Ts
✓How much of your total advertising budget should go to FB?
✓Why did Procter & Gamble fire 1 600 “traditional” marketers?

1. What is a reasonable expectation of privacy without encryption?
2. Who can read your email, your social networks and listen to your calls
3. What is PGP and GnuPG?
4. How do public and private keys work?
5. What situations really require encryption and how secure is it?
6. Installing applications to use GnuPG

Time permitting…

Encrypted VoIP

We’ve used ZipDX for over three years now, and I don’t know how we could manage to produce a busy, high audio quality  weekly conference with anything less. ZipDX conferencing is very well-thought out. It is obvious that the people behind it, like David Frankel, have extensive experience in this area. The platform is constantly improving, too, adding new useful features more often than most similar business offerrings.

Programming conference times and configuring options couldn’t be easier. There are several ways to do this. Below is the web site interface.

During the conference, the ZipDX console allows the moderators to not only control mutes,both hard and soft, but also adjust volume, turn recording and transcription on and off, see who is speaking and see who is called in. There is a voting feature, and multiple rooms.

Read the full ZipDX Users Guide online.

Friday April 27th at 12 Noon EDT, 9AM PDT, 6PM Western Europe is the time to meet the FreeSWITCH community and the co-authors of the new FreeSWITCH Cookbook. Quoting one Amazon review,

“There are many solid reasons why FreeSWITCH is the best telephony platform but being the best comes at the cost of complexity. This book makes working with FreeSWITCH so easy. Clearly displayed in a format capable for any beginner to quickly grasp and comprehend this piece of art platform. This book is essential reference material.”

During the discussion we covered:

• Hangout promotion
• Public v private hangouts
• The best time and day for your target market
• Youtube adwords
• Google+ books, and why they are a moveable feast
• Hangout extensions/apps

The home of The Business Hangout is www.TheBusinessHangout.com. Colman Carpenter put together a shared Google Doc for the links mentioned.

Start time: April 16, 09:00 GMT
End time: April 16, 10:00 GMT

WebRTC, a standard for streaming media inside web-pages