Going to Orlando and win a car! Sounds  like going to Las Vegas!
IPad , Flip Videos and other little gadgets are cute, but this year Cisco, EMC and VCE  are creating a buzz at SAPPHIRE 2012, with the opportunity to win a Mini Cooper (grand prize)  or the value of a 1 day free rental  of a Mini Cooper (twitter contests )

Twitter contests

-Bridge contest :
Ok !Time to show your writing skills ! In fact no need to be physically at SAPPHIRE 2012 ! This contest is open to the virtual audience as well! This contest starts  on Monday 14^th 2012 at 8:00 am EST  and ends up on Wednesday 16^th at noon EST
All you need is to create  a “bridge” between two amazing products: Cisco Unified Computing System and Mini Cooper – In other terms , identify a common positive attribute between the Mini Cooper and the Cisco Unified Computing System and send a tweet based on this example
 “Cisco UCS is like a Mini Cooper ……   #sapphirenow #Ciscobooth1185

Follow #ciscobooth1185 and Retweet to vote for the best attribute of Cisco UCS and Mini Cooper
Based on the votes, we will select the best tweet and announce on Wednesday afternoon  the winner of a 1 day rental of a Mini Cooper (value $250)

-Picture contest
As Tweeps   we are  very creative and most of us like pictures (no kidding!) – For this contest you just have to stop on Cisco booth 1185 and borrow one of the  Mini Mini Cooper (Mini Cooper toy)  with a Cisco Logo for one hour , and take a picture on the show floor and tweet .  We hope to see a lot of fun, artistic, if not crazy  images. Don’t wait the last minute . There are only 25 toys on the booth !
This contest starts  on Monday 14^th 2012 at 10:30 am EST  and ends up on Wednesday 16^th at noon EST

The pictures will be posted on www.Facebook.com/ciscodc

Vote on Facebook or follow #ciscobooth11185 and retweet to vote for the best shot of the Mini Mini Cooper.

Based on the votes (crowd source) we will select the most popular picture  and announce on Wednesday afternoon  the winner of a 1 day rental of a Mini Cooper (value $250 )

Grand Prize

The raffle for the grand prize is basically open to everybody attending the conference  [except Cisco, EMC and VCE employees ]provided you show up on the Cisco booths (#1185) ready to participate to an easy game, which includes attending Cisco  theater presentations (see list here)  and visiting Cisco and partners booth for demos. Details of the rules are provided on the booth. The game starts on Monday 14^th at 10:00 am EST on the exhibit floor .

So if you are these days at Sapphire, don’t miss this opportunity to learn and play at the same time, with the thrill to drive one of these easy going German cars…and if you still don’t know what is a mini Cooper, guess what ..there is one on the booth ! (but you will not be allowed to drive it on the show floor ..)

Or just check this funny video created by EMC- Who said that aMini Cooper is not roomy!

See you these days on Twitter or in Orlando !

Tags: Cisco, contest, EMC, Mini Cooper, Raffle, Sapphire, twitter, UCS, VCE

You Cisco partners are a creative lot—when we asked you to send us your thoughts on how Cisco products improve the network, we discovered that so many of you are true writers at heart.

We also found that Cisco products have impacted your customers’ bottom line and improved productivity. Whether you deployed Cisco Nexus switches, a collaboration portfolio, Catalyst switches, or WAN optimizations solutions, your customers are getting the high-quality products and fantastic total cost of ownership that they deserve.

We think all of our partners are winners, but there can only be two contest winners. This contest was about success stories and how Cisco products have improved the network. We reviewed all the entries, discussed the merits and two entries rose above the rest to be crowned: Our Winners!

Without further ado, here they are:

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Tags: Cisco, Cisco Partners, contest, network

It’s been a little over three months since we first introduced the “Cisco@25, Cisco In 25” video contest asking participants to submit a video answering the question, “where do you see technology going in 25 years?”  All of our participants did a fantastic job producing their videos and then promoting them across the social web! Thank you to all who participated in the contest!

Now the wait is over! I am pleased to announce the five winners of the “Cisco@25, Cisco In 25” video contest! The winners all received brand new Flip Slide HD camcorders! Check out their video submissions below. Which one is your favorite?

Tyler Thompson’s Prediction: Integrated grid safety systems for the highways and tablet based learning stations

Corbin JT’s Prediction: Voice-activated ordering and then having it delivered to the front door

Cisco 2035’s Prediction: Cisco will develop Forward Inverse Backcasting (The FIB Protocol)

TS Film’s Prediction: Wireless electricity, interactive living and cybernetic implants

Dimitar Krstevski’s Prediction: Electrical cars in massive use, mobile phones displaying holographic images and advances in medicine such as cures for cancer and AIDS

Congratulations to all of our winners! Think you have a better answer? Well, now I pose the question to the rest of you… “Where do you see technology going in 25 years?” I would love to hear from you! Comment below and let us know your answer!

Tags: Cisco, Cisco@25, contest, innovation, social media, technology, video