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Here is a recap of the “Open Mic” meeting we had outside in beautiful Miami!  Great discussion!

• Look into providing to the FCC a “letter of clarification” on Erate to drive priority 1 funding only from truly hosted providers – Owner – Armen
• Identify and hire a dedicated Marketing superstar to help drive the following initiatives: – Owner – Dave and Josh and Jim

o   Direct industry pubs to CCA members for comments and stories on all possible related articles that we individually or collectively may have expertise
o   Create White Papers to help position CCA as the thought leader and voice of the industry
o   Coordinate with marketing team members from individual companies for synergies at trade shows and possible joint marketing at booths
o   “CCA inside” type potential branding with members
o   Hold our own workshops at Channel Partners and other shows
o   Look at consolidated view and numbers of CCA members seats and revenue to drive respect as a cumulative alliance

• Look at how we can drive apps through the power of Broadsoft API’s – Crisantos
• Look into developing a WebRTC CCA App that could give us a key differentiator – Jonathan
• Next meeting lets address Patent Trolls and Sales Strategies we see working and not working  – All

Thanks everyone for the great participation and great membership networking!  It was impressive to see how many relationships have been forged and business facilitated through the Alliance.  See you at the next meeting in ClevelandJ  Actually Joe will follow up with an email to poll everyone on preferences for the next meeting location.