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The Journey Continues
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The Journey Continues

This past year has been rather remarkable. First, I survived ten days on a ventilator and three weeks in total in a hospital with Covid. Then while DialogTech, a company

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 5 Jan 2021 • 2 min read
COVID 19, Ventilator, I Survived

COVID 19, Ventilator, I Survived

The past six weeks have been a blur. On March 7st, I came down with a slight fever and thought nothing of it. By Thursday, March 12th, after a temperature

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 20 Apr 2020 • 2 min read
My YouTube Creator Story
youtube

My YouTube Creator Story

Millions of dollars all for shooting and posting videos created with your phone. Seems easy to make a fortune on YouTube if you don't mind letting people watch you play

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 27 Nov 2019 • 8 min read
Google is More Than Search
makers

Google is More Than Search

Over the past six months, I have discovered more about the Google iceberg that is beneath the surface. This discovery occurred while I was becoming a YouTuber.

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 3 Jun 2019 • 2 min read
DrVax is Growing

DrVax is Growing

In just a 5 months, since the launch of the first DrVax focused video, we have advanced from an idea to a rapidly growing skills and how to YouTube channel.

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 3 May 2019 • 1 min read
Learn about DrVax
3d printing

Learn about DrVax

DrVAX is my new media play consisting of the drvax.com web site, drvax YouTube channel and a DrVax Facebook page. The DrVAX mission is to empower retiring baby boomers to take control of their lives by learning how to be makers.

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 10 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Don't retire. Retool and Reboot as a Maker..
Technology

Don't retire. Retool and Reboot as a Maker..

The reasons boomers should become makers as they retire.

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 15 Nov 2018 • 3 min read
3d Printing will Change the World
3d printing

3d Printing will Change the World

I received my first 3d printer last Thursday and after spending about 8 hours on Friday and Sunday assembling it I have used it to produce my first prints.  As

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 9 Oct 2018 • 2 min read
Is Delegation a Continous or Analog Function
management

Is Delegation a Continous or Analog Function

SIn electronics, signals may be either analog or digital.  Analog signals are smooth and continuous while digital signals are composed of small discrete steps. In binary systems, a digital signal

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 4 Sep 2018 • 1 min read
Empowerment Failures
management

Empowerment Failures

As a technology executive and company founder for over 35 years, I have drunk the empowerment Kool-Aid and found it wanting. Wikipedia defines Empowerment as: "The term empowerment refers

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 22 Aug 2018 • 5 min read
USHMM Event at DialogTech

USHMM Event at DialogTech

Join DialogTech for a special program on Thursday, August 23 with Michael Hayley Goldman, Director of Future Projects Division at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Michael will discuss the

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 15 Aug 2018 • 1 min read
DrVax: coming to YouTube and the Web

DrVax: coming to YouTube and the Web

I have begun to work on my next business while continuing to contribute to DialogTech as the Chairman of the Board. I recently celebrated my 63rd birthday, and in conversations

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 14 Aug 2018 • 1 min read
DialogTech named Best Overall Marketing Analytics Platform

DialogTech named Best Overall Marketing Analytics Platform

During a year of industry excitement, high growth for our company and multitudes of client successes, DialogTech has been named Best Overall Marketing Analytics Platform by MarTech Breakthrough. MarTech Breakthrough,

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 12 Aug 2018 • 1 min read
Why It’s Critical for Marketers to Embrace Voice in 2017

Why It’s Critical for Marketers to Embrace Voice in 2017

2017 is poised to be a turning point for voice. The use of virtual assistants is on the rise, and there’s an explosion in the ways users interact with

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 27 Mar 2018 • 1 min read

The Evolution of a Founders Role

In my basement, in 2006 I started on a journey that continues today. This journey evolved from a crazy idea to become DialogTech, a company approaching 200 employees and thousands of customers, analyzing over 50 million minutes of voice conversations a month with the

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 1 Feb 2018 • 2 min read
Spam Calls are Impacting all Marketers

Spam Calls are Impacting all Marketers

Tired of spammed phone calls.  Calls you don't want and cannot stop. Learn more about telephone spammers at this DialopTech blog post. https://www.dialogtech.com/blog/news/industry-problem-putting-a-stop-to-traffic-pumping-spam-calls

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 1 Sep 2017 • 1 min read
The Cherry Press
Food

The Cherry Press

I am pleased to announce that my wife, Lynn Kirsche Shapiro, has recently published her first book, Food Family and Tradition from The Cherry Press.  You can learn more about

  • cogitations
cogitations 1 Dec 2016 • 1 min read
Voice & Marketing Technology

Voice & Marketing Technology

This video describes how phone calls are becoming a critical component of marketing technology stacks.

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 1 Jul 2016 • 1 min read
Purple Cow Focus: The Microsoft Lesson for Startups

Purple Cow Focus: The Microsoft Lesson for Startups

Microsoft recently announced plans to write off $7B and lay off up to 7,800 employees. Wondering how this happened? Lack of focus. Unlike Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Steve

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 31 Jul 2015 • 2 min read
Google Voice - Not Ready for Business
Telephony Industry

Google Voice - Not Ready for Business

As I have shared in previous blog posts, I believe Google Voice is a fantastic addition to the Telephony 2.0 ecosystem and will help to establish the concept of

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 1 Oct 2014 • 2 min read

Best in Biz Award 2011

Ifbyphone CEO wins top prize in 2011 Best in Biz awards Ifbyphone founder, CTO and CEO Irv Shapiro is having a well-deserved Sally Field moment: Irv has been named the Gold winner of the 2011 Best in Biz awards in the category of Executive

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 22 Dec 2011 • 1 min read
Technology

When More is Less

I’ve been using OS X Lion, the new Apple Mac operating system for a couple of days and I have relearned an important lesson about application design: when designing applications, more is often less. Overall I have found the refinements in the OS

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 22 Jul 2011 • 3 min read

Your Opportunity to Join an Exciting Tech Start-Up In Chicago

Talented Chicagoans have few opportunities to join high tech start-ups with explosive growth. This is your opportunity, so keep reading. Ifbyphone is proud to have been chosen two years in a row by the Association of Business Resources (NABR) as one of “Chicago’s

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 28 Jun 2011 • 1 min read

Google and Groupon

In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met. Google launched its search engine as BackRub in 1996, changed its name to Google in 1997, and sold out an initial public offering at $85 a share in 2004. Today, Google is valued at over $150B.

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 27 Jun 2011 • 4 min read
Cloud Telephony

The Three Hats of VoIP

Over the past few years new VoIP products and services seem like they are announced daily. While this rate of innovation is exciting, it is also very confusing. How are these companies the same or different? What service should I use for my business?

  • Irv Shapiro
Irv Shapiro 28 Oct 2010 • 3 min read
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