David J.
Danto
Collaboration Industry Consultant, Analyst and
Thought Leader
Covering AV / IoT /
Mobility / Multimedia / Video / Unified Communications
Director of UC Strategy and Research
Poly, an HP Company (formerly Plantronics / Polycom)
eMail: David@Danto.com 
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Featured
Blogs:
Inevitable
Change – And The Fights Against It
The
Future Of Work – Toto, We’re Not In Kansas Any More
Are
Remote And Hybrid Workers Causing A Crisis?
Virtual
Event Attendance Should Never Stop
The
Evolving Nature Of Work And Collaboration: Why Work
From Home is Here to Stay
When
Culture Changes Faster Than Companies
The
Value Of Hated Social Media Platforms
Giving
Thanks In This Oddest Of Years
Almost
A Year Into The COVID19 Pandemic, The Truth About
Hybrid Working Reveals Itself
Videoconferencing
And Remote Working – We Were Right!
The
Definitive Working From Home Guide
The
IMCCA’s Collaboration Week New York 2020 – My Thank You
The
Return Of This Blog – The Rise Of The Remote Worker
My
Thoughts On Vulnerabilities In General Compute Devices
For Collaboration
Spam, Spam,
Spam, Baked Beans and Spam
Universal
Video Interoperability Achieved (an industry blog for April 1st
)
Social
Media And The Dead Past
Join
Me At InfoComm 18 In Las Vegas
The
Cost Of Cheap Collaboration
Why
Are You Ignoring Your Collaboration Strategy
Huddle
Rooms – A Definitive Guide To Outfitting Your Smaller Collaboration Spaces
“Not To Be
Missed” at InfoComm 17
Don’t
Learn The Wrong Lesson – Part 2
A
New Day In Collaboration – Letting End-Users Take The
Lead (for Vyopta)
Oh
Gosh, Not Another Video Service…
Touch
and Collaborate! The Interactive Display Comes Of Age
We’ve
All Become Unpaid Beta Testers
Soda-Cracker
Videoconferencing
Are You Winning The Wacky Race?
Danto’s InfoComm 2016 Hidden Gems
Trump
Tells Bill O'Reilly How To Look 20 Years Younger Without
Surgery
Where
Am I? - The past and future of the videoconference room – Part 2: The Room
Time
For Enterprises To Re-Think AV
CES
– What To Expect In Technology In 2016
The
Digital Disruption And Our Brave New World
Say
Cheese: The Past And Future Of The Videoconferencing
Camera
Tomorrow
Is Today Revisited (With Apologies To Star Trek)
What
Not To Include In Your Collaboration Ecosystem
Retiring
The Out Of Office Message
Five
More Bits Of Career Wisdom I Learned From Unlikely
Sources
Five
Bits Of Career Wisdom I Learned From Unlikely Sources
InfoComm
15 Session Report – Workspaces For Tomorrow
The
Electronic Water Cooler – Or why Google and Yahoo are Wrong
The
Interview and other Black Swans
Collaboration
and Video – Now Easier Than Ever
Expert
Opinions For Sale – CHEAP!
Top
10 Reasons To Get Your Remote Collaboration Technology In Order TODAY!
Which
Breach, Virus or Pandemic Will Put You Out Of Business
Warp
Around The Sun: Today’s Time Machines
The
LinkedIn Endorsement Popularity Contest
Driving
Adoption of Visual Collaboration Technology
Paris
is in London, New York is in Amsterdam, and Everyone
is Confused
PowerPoint
in Pajamas - The Unified Communications Transformation of Business and Culture
We
Are James Bond…and Captain Kirk
Tomorrow
is Today…With Apologies To Star Trek
Who
is Served by the RFP Process for Technology?
Video for Video’s Sake – How some new UC products
entirely miss the point.
InfoComm 2014 –
I Think We’ve Got It!
In
Defense of Industry Conferences
HP and Poly – A
Moonstruck Relationship
Five Workplace
Trends For 2022
Chapman
University Partners with Poly to Support Distance Learning
Poly
Innovations Support A More Inclusive Workforce
Taming
Cable Clutter with the Poly Studio X
The
Truth About Hybrid Working Reveals Itself
Revisiting
Enterprise Managers During The New Normal
Helping
New Jersey’s Developmentally Delayed Toddlers With The
Poly Studio
The
Phenomenon of Video Fatigue and How to Avoid It
COVID19
– How Enterprises Have Managed the Transition to Remote Working
Six
Predictions For Collaboration In The Next Decade
The
Evolving Nature Of Work And Collaboration: Why Work
From Home is Here to Stay
Accepting
the Reality: Top 10 Hybrid Work Predictions for 2022
The
Covid 19 Pandemic and Distance Learning Today
Bimodal
IT: Changing Your IT Department From Rule Police To
Business Partner
In
The World Of Enterprise Technology, The Future Is Now
Which
Breach, Virus or Pandemic Will Put You Out Of Business
Smart Working: Am I Working Right
Now?
Will
Real Videoconferencing Etiquette Please Stand-Up
Where
Am I: The past and future of the videoconference room
part 2: The Room
Say
Cheese: The past and future of the videoconference room part 1: The Camera
What
Not to Include in Your Collaboration Ecosystem
More
of Less and Less of More: The needs of today's
enterprise collaboration rooms
Retiring
The Out-Of-Office Message
“Lather,
Rinse, Repeat” – or How Poor Planning Makes Great Technology Useless
Leftover
Enterprise Thoughts from CES 2015
How
Vulnerable Are Your Enterprise Conference Rooms
Touch
And Collaborate – Part 1
Touch
And Collaborate - Part 2
Touch
And Collaborate - Part 3
Everything
InfoComm, IMCCA and UCC
The
Changing World Of Unified Communications
How
Vulnerable Are Your Enterprise Conference Rooms
Urgent
AV and Collaboration Advice Almost Everyone Ignores, Part 1
Urgent
AV and Collaboration Advice Almost Everyone Ignores, Part 2
The
State of Enterprise Collaboration – The Joke’s On Us
Podcast
and Discussion / Transcript – Bimodal IT & Collaboration: The Perfect Storm
for the CIO
Why
Can’t We All Just Get Along – Unifying Unified
Communications
Podcast
and Discussion / Transcript – Unifying Communications
Presenting
views and anecdotes for the frequent traveler
Barcelona On Business – The 2nd
Time’s The Charm
The Sacrificial
Lamb of Southwest
I Am Who I Am (the saga of Real-ID)
Business Conferences In 2023 – Where’s
The Beef
Summer To
Fall Random Thoughts
Inevitable
Change – And The Fights Against It
Where Have All The Frequent Flyers Gone
Will The
Next Flyer Come On Down!
Sandals Royal Bahamian - A
Post-COVID Lockdown Summer Trip Report
Good And
Bad And Circular Logic
Things Only Frequent
Travelers Know
Notes From A Road-Trip 2 – A Week In Barcelona Part 2
Notes From A Road-Trip 2 – A Week In Barcelona Part 1
Today’s Airline Loyalty – Crying
Wolf And Paying Thieves
Proper Planning
Prevents…Nothing
Click Here For Archived
JoeSentMe Blogs From 2021 And Prior
Nobody
Asked Me, But…Special InfoComm Edition
Nobody Asked Me,
But…February 9, 2015
Nobody Asked Me,
But…December 26, 2014
Nobody Asked
Me, But... November 17, 2014
Nobody Asked
Me, But… October 2, 2014
Nobody
Asked Me, But… September 10, 2014
IMCCA’s
David Danto Makes Annual Predictions
Accepting
The Reality: My Top 10 Predictions For 2022
An
IT Guy’s Guide to ‘Talking Legacy AV’ (the blog that launched a thousand
tweets)
The
Video Enterprise was a website run by UBM Techweb to discuss videoconferencing
and collaboration in corporate and educational enterprises and other
organizations. The site was closed by
UBM on November 1, 2012. These are
copies of the blogs I wrote that appeared on that site (with embedded links to
Google cached versions for as long as they remain.)
Airline Hype vs.
Collaboration Reality
Big Trends Reshaping Video Communications
Why Videoconferencing is
Getting Easier to Implement
Video Conferencing Returns
Hours To Your Day
Will Real Video Meeting
Etiquette Advice Please Stand Up
Videoconferencing and The Era of Access
The Best Way To Drive Video Usage & Adoption pt. 1
The Best Way To Drive Video Usage & Adoption pt. 2
Smart Buildings Pt. 1 – How This Will Change The Face Of Video & AV
Smart Buildings Pt. 2 –
2012 InfoComm 100 Report – AV Firms Must “Evolve or Die”
Videoconferencing – Not
Just Travel Avoidance, Panic Avoidance
Remote
Collaboration Tools and Kleenex – Doctor’s Orders for Productive Sick Days
Video Everywhere, But Not a Drop of Interoperability to Drink
A
View NOT From The Road – AV / COVID19 Edition
Huddle Rooms –
A Definitive Guide To Outfitting Your Smaller Collaboration Spaces
Touch and
Collaborate! The Interactive Display Comes Of Age
What
Is Unified Communications Today
The
State of Enterprise Collaboration – The Joke’s On Us
When is a Smarter Working
Policy Not A Smarter Working Policy?
Real Travel vs. Virtual
Travel – Videoconferencing, Telepresence and the Airline Industry
Real Travel vs. Virtual Travel Pt. 2
– Where Am I? Anywhere…
Fear and Paranoia! - Your House
Is Unsecure (if you leave the door open!)
Are
Technology Conferences In Jeopardy?
The “Good Enough” Mentality in
Visual Communications – Think Fred!
A View From The Road: Observations
on technology trends from I wrote from 2013 through 2022
Recent reviews: CES 2022 Enterprise Connect 2022 NAB 2022 InfoComm 2022 was a COVID Superspreader
Recent reviews: CES 2020 A View NOT From The Road – AV / COVID19 Edition Sadly, it seems the road is closed for the rest of 2020 & early 2021 due to COVID-19.
Recent reviews: CES 2019 Enterprise Connect 2019 NAB 2019 InfoComm 2019
Recent reviews: CES 2018 Enterprise Connect 2018 NAB 2018 InfoComm 2018 LDI and Year End Wrap
Recent reviews: CES 2017 Enterprise Connect 2017 NAB 2017 InfoComm 2017 LDI 2017 and Year End Wrap
Recent reviews: CES 2016 InfoComm Connections SJ & Enterprise Connect 2016 InfoComm 2016 LDI 2016 & Year End Wrap
Recent reviews: CES 2015 InfoComm Connections SJ & Enterprise Connect 2015 NAB &
Interop 2015 InfoComm 2015 LDI
2015 & Year End Wrap
Recent reviews: CES 2014 Enterprise Connect
2014 Interop & NAB 2014
InfoComm 2014 LDI
2014 & Year End Wrap
Recent reviews: CES 2013 Enterprise
Connect 2013 NAB 2013 InfoComm 2013 LDI
2013 & Collaborate: New York
Grab
Bag – Things that don’t fit anywhere else…
There
Was Never A “Water Cooler” – A brief video clip from the UCX USA team on the Return
To Office revisionist history
Peeling
The Onion On The Next Normal – A look at the
post-pandemic conferencing world for BT
Videoconferencing
Platforms And Pitfalls – David is quoted
throughout the article
How
To Future Proof Your Hybrid Work Model – David is quoted throughout the article
Video
Collaboration Has Finally Arrived – a rAVe article with predictions for 2021
Webcast – How to Ensure Your
Collaboration Is Secure
Collaboration
in 2020 and Beyond: Predictions for Next Year
Top
Ten Unified Communications Experts (2018 by EM360)
UC
Today “Out Loud” CES 2018 Review Podcast
UC
Today “Out Loud” Huddle Room 101 Podcast
Technology Grab Bag
– Product Reviews July 2015
Let’sDoVideo.com’s
coverage of InfoComm 2015 UC Solution Summit
The 2015 Prediction
Match Game
Custom
vs. Off-The-Shelf (article about the keynote at InfoComm Connections 2015 San
Jose)
Featured
Articles:
·
CXOTech
- The
Future Of Work – How Collaboration Technology Is Changing Our Culture There’s
No Turning Back Now – December 2022
·
Enterprise
Viewpoint - Making
Remote Working Work And Blending It In To An Effective Hybrid Working
Environment – October 2022
·
Collaboration
Today And Tomorrow – Editor of September issue – Collaboration
T&T September 2022
·
Collaboration
Today And Tomorrow – Editor of entire June 2022 issue – Collaboration
T&T June 2022
·
Sound
& Communications Fall 2021 ITAV Report – On The Road Again (editor, author
of multiple segments) Entire
Issue
·
CE
Pro September 2021 guest article - The
Evolving Nature Of Work And Collaboration: Why Work From Home is Here to Stay
·
Sound
& Communications Spring 2021 ITAV Report - Education (editor, author of multiple
segments) Entire
Issue
·
Sound
& Communications IoT column March 2021 -
Remote Work: A Whole New World
· Sound & Communications IoT column December 2020 - The Dominoes Will Fall: Predictions For The New Year
·
Sound
& Communications Fall 2020 ITAV Report (editor, author of multiple
segments) Entire
Issue
·
Sound
& Communications IoT column August 2020 – Business
As Unusual
·
Sound
& Communications Spring 2020 ITAV Report (editor, author of multiple
segments) Entire
Issue
·
Sound
& Communications Blog - Unified
Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) And Virtualization Are Today’s
Reality – Have you been paying attention?
·
Sound
& Communications January 2020 IoT Article: Turning
The Paige On The Naive Decade
·
Sound
& Communications Fall 2019 ITAV Report (editor, author of multiple
segments) Entire
Issue
·
Sound
& Communications August 2019 IoT Article: The
Beginning Of The End For Purpose-Built Collaboration
Devices?
·
Sound
& Communications Spring 2019 ITAV Report (editor, author of multiple
segments) Entire
Issue
·
Sound
& Communications Fall 2018 ITAV Report (author) Come Together,
Right Now, Over UC
·
Sound
& Communications Spring 2018 ITAV Report (author)
Voice
Control and AI Assistants in Conference Rooms
·
Sound
& Communications Winter 2018 ITAV Report
(contributor) The Upside Of
Uptime
·
Sound
& Communications Fall 2017 ITAV Report (author) Emerging
Trends in Collaboration
·
Integrate
Expo 2017 Preview – Emerging
Trends in UC and Collaboration
·
Sound
& Communications Spring 2017 ITAV Report (author)
Touch
and Collaborate - Will the latest IWB craze finally result in widespread
enterprise adoption?
·
Systems
Contractor News February 2017 article on Huddle Rooms (contributor) You Can Bundle ‘Em – Huddle Rooms are worth your time
·
Sound
& Communications Fall 2016 ITAV Report
(contributor) – Security and
Privacy Concerns in AV
·
Sound
& Communications Spring 2016 ITAV Report – The
Nature of Huddle Rooms
·
Sound
& Communications Fall 2015 ITAV Report – How Secure Are Your
Videoconference Rooms?
·
Sound
and Video Contractor May 2015 Special Supplement – Huddle Rooms – Collaboration
and Convergence – The changing nature of the AV/IT user and professional
(two pages in)
·
Sound
& Communications, Spring 2014 ITAV Report.
AV/IT:
The Ultimate Shotgun Wedding
·
World
Commerce Review, March 2014. The
Continuing Evolution of Collaborative Technologies
·
Sound
& Communications, Spring 2013 ITAV Report.
Videoconferencing
Hardware vs. Software
·
World
Commerce Review, March 2013. Recent
Changes in Unified Communications, Consumerization and Related Technologies
·
International
Society for Presence Research Executive Insights, October 2012. Thoughts
on Telepresence, Presence and Collaboration
·
Sound
& Communications, Fall 2012 ITAV Report.
How Will
Mobility Change The Face Of Videoconferencing
·
World
Commerce Review, March 2012. Recent Developments in
Collaborative Communications, Mobility and the Cloud
· Channel Partners, January 2012. Overcoming Hurdles to UC Adoption
·
Sound
& Communications, Spring 2011 ITAV Report.
New
Directions For Collaborative Conferencing
·
AT&T
and the Economist Intelligence Unit, Spring 2009. Today’s
Virtual Power Tools
·
Sound
& Communications, Fall 2008 ITAV Report. UC
– Stepping into the Future Without Abandoning The Past
·
Sound
& Communications, Spring 2008 ITAV Report. The
Top Ten Things an AV Technician / an IT Helpdesk Operator Should Learn (2
articles)
·
Sound
& Communications, May 2008. Worlds
Apart but Across the Table
·
World
Commerce Review, December 2007. Telepresence:
A background and analysis that goes beyond the hype
Video
Presentations:
·
2021:
A New Hope - turning the page on the awful 2020 and taking a quick look ahead
in #UComs and Collab 2021. – Click here
to view
·
The
internet’s mightiest UC and AV influencers get together for the crossover event
of the year – Pandemic Endgame – Click
here to view
·
David
presents the realities of collaboration in the COVID19 pandemic to the USDLA – Click
here to view
·
David
moderates a series of informational webcasts for the IMCCA during the pandemic
– Click here to view
·
David
discusses video endpoint security for Poly’s 2020 EC Virtual Showcase Click here to view
·
The
Poly Secret Coffee Crystals Project (Mocumentary on the launch of new Studio X
series for industry analysts.) Click
here to view
·
David
moderates the ZiipRoom / Sound & Communications webinar on Huddle Rooms – Click Here For Free Registration
·
David
presents Emerging Trends in Videoconferencing, Unified Communications and
Huddle Rooms at InfoComm 2017 – Click
Here To View
·
David
hosts an IMCCA webcast about Plantronics Habitat Soundscaping November 2017 – Click Here To
View
·
David
moderates the InfoComm 2017 discussion on The Explosion Of Huddle Rooms – Click Here To View
·
David
presents on the future of collaboration in the workspace at the Missouri School
of Journalism – RJI - Click
Here To View
·
David
again joins Jules Trono, David Maldow and Simon Dudley to discuss and wrap-up
InfoComm 2015 – Click Here To View
·
David
joins industry colleagues to lead a discussion previewing trends expected at
InfoComm 2015 Click Here To View
·
David
answers a complex question at the 2014 NSCA Business & Leadership
conference Click
here to view (article and embedded video)
Podcasts,
Webcasts, Webinars:
·
The IMCCA 2022 Video Holiday Greetings
·
An
IMCCA Thanksgiving Webinar: The Future Of Work – Collaboration’s New Best
Practices – Click
here to register and watch on demand
·
The
IMCCA Pandemic Coda – One year into the horrific pandemic, industry people talk
about what we experienced, learned and mourned – Click here to watch
·
IMCCA
2020 Wrap Up and 2021 Predictions – Click
here to watch
·
David
moderates webcasts providing support during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
·
The
UC&C Industry Responds to the Pandemic – Click here to watch
·
Collaboration
Technology News & Updates We Missed At Cancelled/Postponed Conferences – Click here to watch
·
Expert
Advice For The New Remote Worker – Click
here to watch
·
Home
Videoconferencing Tips – Click here to
watch
·
David
hosts many webinars for IMCCA-TV – Click
here to see them all
·
David
discusses Poly’s collaboration presence at ISE 2020 – Click here to
watch
·
David
discusses the decade to come and Poly’s role in it with Telecom Reseller’s Doug
Green – Click
here to listen
·
David
discusses InfoComm 19, the UC industry and all things Poly with Lets Do Video’s
David Maldow – Click here to watch
·
David
hosts “Connected!” a monthly webcast for AVNation-TV – Click Here to view
·
David
is interviewed by Clark Buckner of Technology Advice on the topics of Smarter
Working, Workplaces For Tomorrow and presenting at the Interop 2015
Conference. Click
Here to read the Information Week excerpts and hear the podcast.
·
David
is a panelist on How
to handle the Huddle Room for SCN
magazine
·
David’s
Keynote Presentation at InfoComm Connections San Jose on March 4th
2015 – Click
Here to see the slides that were presented.
Future
Engagements / Presentations: (click the logo to
go to the event page)
·
David
will attend Enterprise Connect in Orlando in March 2023
·
David will work with the IMCCA to
author and present the UC educational track for the new CI Expo in September
2023
·
David
is on the Advisory Board of the new UCX USA and will help author and present
educational sessions in September 2023