Nortel: Community - Blogs - Nortel Buzzboard: Our new community -- and what's up with my blog

You've likely noticed that Buzzboard has a bit of a new look. After an initial aborted attempt at moving over from WordPress to a new Jive Clearspace platform a few weeks ago, last night we made the move.

The goal isn't so much improving Buzzboard or our other Nortel blogs as much as it is integrating them with a broader "Community" area that has now been created on nortel.com. You can see the new community home page here, which now includes a whole host of new discussion forum pages.

I'll post more details about the broader community and forums in the new year. For now though, I need some honest feedback on this blog. I am under no illusions that this new platform is complete. It is in many ways a work in progress as we improve navigation, add functionality, etc. We also have some issues with our re-directs from old blog pages.

So take a minute and let me know what your feedback is. What do you think of the new profile capabilities, the new look, the navigation? Did anything disappear in the transition?

Only with direct feedback from you can we make this blog, and the broader Nortel Communities section, better for you.

By the way, if you have an RSS feed for my blog - or any Nortel blog for that matter -the odds are pretty good that they aren't working anymore. So please take a few minutes to re-subscribe to any RSS feeds you had for Buzzboard or other Nortel blogs.

Seekingalpha.com is predicting your departure from Nortel in 2009-

What to Expect from Nortel in '09

by: Mark Evans

December 31, 2008 | about stocks: NT

Everyoneâ€™s into end-of-year lists so hereâ€™s what I see after looking into my crystal ball.

1. The metro Ethernet network business will be sold - probably to Huawei - for between $500-million to $750-million.

Nortel (NT) will proclaim itâ€™s a great deal that will help with its new focus on software, service and VoIP. Analysts and

investors will not be as enthused.

2. Mike Zafirovski remains CEO even though thereâ€™s speculation heâ€™ll be fired in 2009. The companyâ€™s in too much flux

and uncertainty for the board to turf Mike Z. Meanwhile, few high-quality people would be willing to take the job.

3. More cost-cutting and employee reductions. When Nortel announced 1,300 job cuts in November, it was seen as a

minor move as opposed to what was really required. Expect Nortel to do another round or two of cuts to reduce

operating costs.

4. After disappointing fourth-quarter results, the stock drops to below 15 cents. Nortel shares are delisted from the

NYSE for not trading above $1.

5. As social media becomes more of a corporate communications, marketing and sales tool, Bo Gowan, who runs

Nortelâ€™s social media operations, is poached by a company looking to boost its social media activities.

Dec 31, 2008 1:50 PM by Larry

Hey Larry, yes I saw that I was on Mark's 09 prediction list. It may sound hard to believe, but I really do enjoy working for Nortel...and the home office set-up is a great employee retention tool.

Jan 2, 2009 1:52 PM by Bo Gowan

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