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Meet Brook West, our Director of Partner Development at Fuze Meeting

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We will be introducing our team members here at Fuze Meeting over the course of the next few weeks.  We’ll do it in interview form, and try to keep it short and light.  Let’s meet Brook:

Who are you?
Brook West.  Director, Partner Development for Fuze Meeting.  Yes, it’s a totally generic title  that doesn’t tell you that I am the Toyota Prius of Fuze Meeting.  I’m a hybrid that drives for marketing, biz dev, and sales.  I grew up in sales, but always had a propensity towards the creative company-changing biz dev deals.  I’m one of those classic college graduates that did nothing with her double major in Russian and Linguistics and should have listened to her mother’s advice more, but isn’t hurting because of it.  I also manage the fast and furious career of a precocious seven year old.   Somebody’s gotta give me a run for my money…

What do you do for Fuze Meeting?
Drive revenue opportunities.  This comes in the form of managing very cool strategic partners, driving the fundamentals of online marketing, and gettin’ creative on how to get people to know us.

Why will Fuze Meeting win?
Products and services don’t build themselves.  People do.  And it’s attitude that makes or breaks you on the street.  I came to Fuze Meeting because of the board, management, and the dev team.   These people are the visionaries, luminaries, and master minds behind Fuze Meeting.  We don’t think client-server architecture.  We think user experience.  The Fuze Meeting team are leap-froggers and will change how people communicate.

What’s your favorite place on the web?
I have to choose one? If it’s early AM, give me cnn.com and Mashable.  If it’s Friday night, give me Perez Hilton and some Sau Blanc.  Facebook and Twitter 24×7, although I have been cheating on Facebook with Twitter recently.   The cool part is the exploration….we are all at Plymouth Rock on the internet right now and there’s so much to explore.

Who do you follow on Twitter?
@fuzemeeting, who else? @garyvee, @earlylearning, @jillianmichaels….

What is wrong with the web today?
Nothing.  Just like there is nothing wrong with a new born baby.  Which is EXACTLY what the web is, an infant.  The opportunity for growth is enormous and we really can’t guess what it will become, but we can get pretty psyched about the semantic web, search, social, etc., and what it will all become.  All the stuff that is annoying today will go away.  And the pace is so fast, we don’t really need to be that patient.  Pretty cool.

How can you be reached?
Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/sweetumi
email: brook.west@fuzemeeting.com

An Interview with myself: Patrick Moran, VP Marketing at Fuze Meeting

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Okay, this might be extremely lame, but I am going to try to conduct an interview with myself.  I am the new VP of Marketing here at Fuze Meeting, and as I look at this blank blog this evening my ego jumped in and said “hey, why not interview yourself!”.  Here it goes.

Who are you?

Patrick Moran.  I’ve been blessed with a fun, exciting career in marketing.  I’ve been VP and Founder of an online marketplace for consumer local and long distance phone service in the 90′s, I’ve run marketing for a couple of collaboration companies (Intranets.com, WebEx, Cisco), and CMO for a social software company called Mzinga in Boston.  I’m also known as “Dad” for two 5 year old twins, a boy and a girl.  They rock, and are sitting next to me while I conduct my interview.

What do you do for Fuze Meeting?
I run marketing, which is basically the commercial “front end” for the business.  I am charged with communicating our story and vision, acquiring customers, and generating revenue.  I plan to use a mix of traditional, online and social tactics to both LISTEN to the market as well as communicate WITH the market and our customers.  I think I have one of the best gigs in silicon valley.  Don’t get me wrong – it is not easy, but it is fun working with smart people, and these people are SMART.

Why will Fuze Meeting win?
Best Technology. Best Team. Best Approach.  This blog will share more and more about all three.   Stay tuned!

What’s your favorite place on the web?
Besides Fuze Meeting, I would say I am still a bit of a Facebook and Twitter junkie.  I know I am not alone with my obsessions, but I am so fascinated with the pace of information exchange that happens on the social web.  And it is just the beginning.

Who do you follow on Twitter?
I follow @aaronstrout, @marketingprofs (Ann Handley), @fuzemeeting, @jowyang, @mashable, @zappos, and 2,000 other people I find interesting.

What is wrong with the web today?
Friction.  We have too much friction in between us.  Logins, asynchronous stuff, keyboards, bit rates… The walls are coming down thanks to companies like Fuze Meeting, so I am delighted to bring our real-time web meeting tools to market.  Meeting online shouldn’t be a chore.  It should be as easy as… say… typing 140 characters on twitter.

How can you be reached?
Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/patrickmoran
Mobile Phone:  408-838-3951
email: pmoran@fuzemeeting.com