Category: Important Site Policies and a Note to Skeptics!

A statement on advertising, topic suggestions, conflicts of interest, and objectivity.

Important Notice for RSS or E-Mail Subscribers!

In July, Google is eliminating Feedburner support for email subscriptions, so to continue to support subscriptions to my blog, we will be transitioning to another subscription model. We will be migrating the current subscriber data to the new service, but any who subscribe during the period of transition may find their subscription doesn’t transfer. Please just re-subscribe when you see the new subscription icon on the blog page if you suddenly don’t see your emails of blog posts.

I have captured the Feedburner subscriber list as of June 3rd for conversion. If you have subscribed after that, I’m sorry but you’ll have to subscribe again with the new setup! The process of shifting to follow.it is now underway, and I’ll update this message when it’s been completed. For now, this will be pinned to the top of the blog page.

The subscriber list has been added to follow.it and I’ve set up the preliminary feed redirection and I’m running tests starting June 5th 2021 to ensure that things work.

The follow.it icon has now been added to the page, and it accepts email subscriptions to the blog.

I have run a posting test and the post appears to syndicate via email, so this new framework should be considered live on Monday, June 7th, 2021, and any who want to subscribe can then do so.

Please note that there may be differences in the timing of your receiving posts you’ve signed up for, and you have more options for what and when you receive things. You can change your preferences as needed!

Commenting on Our Blog

I’m Tom Nolle, the author of CIMI Corporation’s blog and the president of CIMI Corp.  I’ve been asked from time to time how someone can register to comment on the blog posts, and I want to answer that here.

You cannot reply on the blog; comments are disabled and will remain so.  All the blog posts are posted to LinkedIn, and you can follow me to see them all.  The posts are also reposted to relevant LinkedIn groups.  In either case, comments and questions can be added to the LinkedIn posts.

A word of caution.  My blog is to present my views, not your promotions or commercials.  Do not add comments to my LinkedIn posts that are simply commercials for your company.  If you do, I’ll provide you with a warning not to post that kind of comment.  If you ignore it, I’ll never respond to anything you comment on, and I’ll contact LinkedIn to see if I can report the post.

Policy on Advertising, Submissions, etc.

There’s a lot of complicated wording in these areas on many sites, all sorts of talk about click-throughs and what constitutes an actual serving of an ad, and how someone might suggest a topic.  Well, we have good news for you.  Our own situation is a lot simpler.

We absolutely do not accept ads, and we’re never going to.  Don’t ask about it.

We absolutely don’t accept suggestions for topics or contributed material.  I’m Tom Nolle, this is my blog, and every word is written by me and represents what I believe.  So don’t send suggestions.

We will never, never accept any form of payment or favor in return for saying something here.  What I say is what I believe, period.  Don’t offer anything.

If you’re a reader, a fan of this blog, then I thank you for your interest and loyalty, and I offer a promise in return.  This is uncontaminated information.  Nobody influences me in what I say; it’s my very best effort to tell anyone interested what’s going on in our very complicated industry.  There aren’t many things you can believe, or believe in, in the telecom, media, and technology markets today.  It’s my goal to make this blog one of those things, and that’s my promise to those who read it.

Please see the note on quoting this blog if you plan to share the information in any way!

Policy for Quoting and Citing

First, you may forward a link to this blog or an RSS or email subscription of a blog entry, to anyone in or out of your company, but you may not change the blog text, nor may you imply an endorsement of your company or product.

This blog material may be quoted online or in print up to two paragraphs, in other blogs or news stories, as long as the quote is attributed to Tom Nolle, president of CIMI Corporation.  Those who quote with attribution may link to the post as well.  This blog may NOT be copied in full on another website, whether as a single entry or multiple entries, without our express written consent.  Contact services@cimicorp.com for details.