This book will: ♦ Provide the information people need to select phone equipment and services for professional offices, small businesses and homes. ♦ Help people use the equipment properly, to get the most out of it, and to keep it working. ♦ Help phone people understand computer people. ♦ Help the people who sell phone equipment. The author is founder and president of AbleComm, Inc. ("the telecom department store"), and has personally installed hundreds of phone systems, and designed and developed several popular and innovative telecommunications products. He's also a journalist who has written for many magazines and newspapers. This is his third book about communications equipment.
Personal website:
www.MichaelMarc.us
Publishing website:
www.SilverSandsBooks.com
Blog about books and other things:
www.BookMakingBlog.blogspot.com
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Michael N. Marcus either is now or has been a journalist, author, publisher, advertising copywriter, public relations practitioner, photographer, band manager, amateur attorney, golf ball SCUBA diver, recording engineer and founder and president of AbleComm, Inc. ("the telecom department store").
He provided the words for over 100 websites and blogs, has been an editor at Rolling Stone, and has written for many other magazines and newspapers. Michael specializes in making technology understandable, and often humorous. He has written over 20 books, and more are planned.
Born in 1946, Michael's a proud member of the first cohort of the Baby Boom, along with Dolly Parton, Candy Bergen, Donny Trump, Billy Clinton and Georgie Bush.
At the urging of a misguided guidance counselor, he went to Lehigh University to become an electrical engineer, and was quickly disappointed to learn that engineering was mostly math -- and slide rules were not as much fun as soldering irons.
Michael was one of the few literate people in his engineer-filled freshman dormitory and made money editing term papers. He got in big trouble when he got caught running intercom wire from his dorm room to a friend's room two floors below, and when an inspector found a payphone in his suitcase.
Later, his college apartment had an elaborate and illegal multi-line phone system, a phone booth with a toilet in it, and an invisible phone activated by two hand claps.
Michael lives in Connecticut with his wife Marilyn, Hunter the Golden Retriever, and a lot of stuff -- including both indoor and outdoor telephone booths, a "Lily Tomlin" switchboard, lots of books, CDs and DVDs, and many black boxes with flashing lights. Marilyn is very tolerant.
