Every so often we come across an article that is particularly interesting or provocative.  Such is the case with the following piece about future trends and predictions.  It was written by Robert M. Goldman MD, PhD, DO, FAASP in May of this year.  Dr. Goldman is World Chairman of the International Medical Commission, Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board-A4M, Founder & Chairman-International of the Sports Hall of Fame, and Co-Founder & Chairman-World Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.  And this is what he has to say about the future...

We have been looking for a quality video editing software for years. And while some have come close, they end up failing due to their lack of features, high cost, or complicated interface. But this is not the case with our latest find—Renderforest. If you are looking for an affordable high-quality online video editing platform, then this is probably going to fit the bill. 

It is a small victory for businesses, homes, telecoms service providers like VTSL and just about everyone in the UK. BT is being forced to invest in their infrastructure (which it has under-invested in despite £3.03 billion in profits last year alone) or else Ofcom will force it to separate from Openreach.

Business communications technology has evolved drastically over the past decade. When we started VTSL nearly 10 years ago, there were only a handful of business VoIP providers in the UK, and VoIP was still considered a ‘new’ technology. Nowadays IP business phone systems are seen as standard. The same is true of several other communications innovations, all which have the power to improve efficiency and collaboration at your organisation—some of which you may not be using.

The term unified communications may sound rather mysterious, like some all-powerful method of magically unifying all your emails, phone calls and instant messaging into one effortlessly accessible place. 

We hear the word disruptive a lot with regard to successful and aspiring technologies: game-changing tech; tech that shifts the status quo and displaces previous tech. But what is really disruptive tech these days? Most of us probably feel like we haven’t seen any earth-shattering innovations for a while, but rather incremental progressions that were no surprise at all.

Like you, we have been frustrated with telecoms providers before. Whether it is a mobile phone provider that bounces you from one call centre rep to another, a business phone company that sends a proposal with 20+ spelling mistakes, or a high speed broadband supplier who is anything but high-speed, chances are you have had an appalling experience somewhere down the line. BT and Vodafone, despite their claims and excellent advertising, would appear to be two of the worst. In fact, a Vodafone customer recently had such a horrific experience that she wrote a play about it! Read the play here. The irony is, they are two go-to brands for most people looking for a mobile or business phone system.

It is every company’s worst nightmare: unhappy customers who tell everyone how poor their experience with you was. Not only do you lose their business, but you lose the potential business of the people they have spoken to. It is the butterfly effect in the worst possible way.

It is a controversial topic, and one that has for all intents and purposes, been swept under the carpet:

There is something about early January that calls for doing—getting organised and setting yourself up for success in the year to come. It isn’t a resolution, or a vision-board or anything like that, it is just the tidying up and actioning of things that you have been meaning to do, that you know will help you in the months that follow.