…r discussion first. By listening to customers and those in your field first, then engaging directly based on what you hear, you develop a conversation, trust, and respect. (For your start in listening, social media expert and author Chris Brogan has some useful tips in his piece Grow Bigger Ears in 10 Minutes. In the same vein, don’t start blasting out one-way marketing messages, which is usually treated as spam. Social media is a dialog, a…

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Tags: blogging, facebook, partners, social media, social media listening, twitter

Today, Cisco released the latest results from its Connected World Report, an international study on the expectations of workers in accessing social media and corporate information, and on the views of IT professionals about these trends.  Focused on data center, cloud computing, and virtualization trends, the latest results from the study will be presented today during a live TV broadcast from 8:00-9:00 a.m. PDT. To view the broadcast, click her…

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Tags: Cloud Computing, data center, virtualization

The Winchester House A few months ago, after a my previous blogs discussing cloud computing adoption, I changed subject and authored a short series of articles around the challenges of adopting an architectural-led approach to your IT strategy in general, and data center design in particular.  (If you missed them, you can read them here: part 1,  part 2, and part 3).  The theme of these articles centered on the Winchester House in San Jose, Cali…

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Tags: architectural-led, architectures, cisco_services, cloud_computing, data center, data_center, facebook poll, IT strategy, market research

Doug Eadline wrote a cluster rant recently entitled “A Cluster in your Pocket“, talking about the possibility of “What if your cell phone could bring you real time results from a supercomputer?” We’ve actually idly chatted about such things in the Open MPI community for a while.  It would be tremendously fun to write an iPhone/Android app that could talk to an MPI implementation and/or application.  Perhap…

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You may have noticed we did some updates to Cisco.com search in the last week.  Here are some highlights: Custom # of results. Here’s an important feature for Cisco.com power users: We’ve added the option to change the number of search results displayed from the standard 10 to your choice of 10, 20, 30 or 50 results per page: Status on support community items. Cisco Support Community forums content now show question status, rating, and numbe…

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Tags: cisco.com, search

Cisco EVP and Chief Financial Officer Frank Calderoni discusses our Q3 FY2010 financial results. In our earnings release, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers states: “Our financial results were outstanding, achieving record level revenue and earnings per share results. We witnessed a return to strong balanced growth across geographies, products and customer segments that we haven’t seen since before the global economic challenges …

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CRN recently published an article profiling 802.11n performance testing of the Aironet 1250 Series access point. The article titled”Where’s Cisco with Wireless N?” (http://www.crn.com/networking/206905063#community) profiles the results of their testing of Cisco’s 802.11n solution. The article was part of a larger story testing 802.11n products including Meru and Ruckus. Cisco declined to participate in the CRN product re…

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If you were not able to attend the July 29 Mobility TV live webcast on 802.11n performance testing results, the video-on-demand is now available for playback at http://tools.cisco.com/cmn/jsp/index.jsp?id=78662. Think TiVo meets Cisco Mobility TV. For your convenience, you can jump to defined segments of the broadcast rather than watch the entire video. Below is a list the topics you can segment-surf to.*Introduction -a welcome from Cisco’…

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Research shows that when managers get involved the process of bringing a new employee up-to-speed, the new hire learns what they need to know much faster.  That means you get a team member who can deliver results that much sooner. But how is it done? Find out in this terrific webinar from the Ken Blanchard team. Register now. In many organizations, on-boarding is little more than making sure new people feel comfortable in the department. That o…

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Tags: Cisco, leadership, Results, training, WebEX

…f books shipped are returned unsold. The publishers on the panel who ranged from a giant, Harper Collins, to Vook.com, an online video and book seller, had some ideas about how to drive more sales and distribution success for authors. All of the publishers were in agreement — they want to sign authors who have a multi platform brand already in place before a book goes to print ; e.g. an author with Facebook fans, Twitter followers and a YouTube…

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