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		<title>Governments Need an SMS Strategy</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/governments-need-an-sms-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple months back, I posted about the importance of the telephone in citizen-to-government communications. Despite the explosive growth in new ways of communicating, telephones remain enormously important in how people contact government for assistance. This is due in part to the increasing sophistication of cell phones and the continued penetration of cell phones into our daily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=243&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ground Zero for Gov 2.0 Innovation: Texas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mheadd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the eyes of the Gov 2.0 world tend to focus on big cities on both coasts (San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC), the &#8220;Lone Star&#8221; State has been doing some mighty cool things in the areas of open government data and tech innovation. State Gov 2.0 Goodness A recent overhaul of the Texas.gov web portal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=251&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Converting Headerless (VOX) audio files to WAV format</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mheadd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tele-Tech Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open souirce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vox]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some IVR systems (usually older ones) require audio files in VOX format. VOX audio files, unlike their WAV counterparts, are somewhat unique in that they are headerless. WAV files have a well defined structure which includes information stored in headers that describe the makeup of the file. A common challenge faced when upgrading to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=50&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governments Need an IVR Strategy</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/governments-need-an-ivr-strategy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mheadd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the growth of social networks and advanced mobile devices, you might expect to see changes in the way that people communicate with their governments.  Consider for a moment the staggering growth of social networking sites like Twitter. Twitter has over 100 million current users and gets an average of 300,000 new users every day! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=231&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How SIP Won the VoIP Protocol Wars</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/how-sip-won-the-voip-protocol-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mheadd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tele-works.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ars Technia has started a very interesting series on the SIP VoIP Protocol that provides a nice follow up to our last protocol post on the Tele-Works blog. Now that you understand the wild and wonderful world of VoIP protocols, head on over to Ars Technia and find out how SIP became king of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=158&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summary and Recap of eComm 2010</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/summary-and-recap-of-ecomm-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 18:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mheadd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tele-works.com/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, myself and John Schott, Tele-Works President &#38; CEO, went out to San Francisco for the Emerging Communications Conference &#38; Awards (eComm). It was there that I had the opportunity to present to a very engaged crowd.  What a great event! Photo by James Duncan Davidson. It was unfortunate that the recent travel issues in Europe, due to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=187&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tele-Works Presenting at eComm in San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/emerging-communications-conference-ecomm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teleworks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tele-Works Senior Application Developer Mark Headd will be presenting at next week’s Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) in San Francisco. Each year eComm brings together top communication executives, innovators, professors, and developers to discuss “what’s next” in telecom, mobile, and Internet communications. Mark’s presentation entitled, How Open Data and the Gov 2.0 Movement are Changing Communications [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=182&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: In the cloud or on-premise…how hybrid IVR helps Harris Computer Systems serve utilities large and small</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/case-study-in-the-cloud-or-on-premise%e2%80%a6how-hybrid-ivr-helps-harris-computer-systems-serve-utilities-large-and-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teleworks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tele-works.com/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared on the Voxeo Talks blog. (03/08/10) March 8th, 2010 by Kim Martin A hybrid IVR platform is one that is available as a hosted/cloud-based solution and as an on-premise deployment. Just to be clear, we are not simply talking about two distinct offerings delivered by a single vendor. We mean one platform – offered two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=168&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Become a Protocol Pro</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/become-a-protocol-pro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mheadd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asterisk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jingle]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tele-works.com/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When most people think about VoIP protocols, they typically only think of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). SIP is one of the preeminent standards in the world of VoIP, but it is by no means the whole story. This post will cover the wide (and interesting) world of VoIP protocols. By the end, you&#8217;ll be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worksblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10437987&amp;post=90&amp;subd=worksblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding VoIP Codecs</title>
		<link>http://worksblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/decoding-voip-codecs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mheadd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone new to VoIP has probably heard the term "codecs" bandied about and wondered what all the fuss was over.

Codecs (so named because of their coding/decoding function) are used to convert an analog telephony signal into an encoded digital version that can be compressed into packets and sent over an IP network (like the Internet).  Codecs lie at the very heart of how VoIP works, so having a general understanding of what they are and which ones to use is important when deploying a VoIP system.
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