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Mini Cooper and Twitter games at SAPPHIRE 2102

May 14, 2012 at 3:31 am PST

 

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 14th 2012 at 8:00 am EST  and ends up on Wednesday 16th 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 14th 2012 at 10:30 am EST  and ends up on Wednesday 16th 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 14th 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 !

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Social Media Nerve Center

February 3, 2012 at 9:54 am PST

This is Cisco Live UK: Day 4, Part 1

Now this is really cool. Have you been wondering why the social media activity for Cisco Live UK has been so quick, responsive, and high-quality?  Well, today we’re going to show you why. Peter was invited to step inside the Cisco Social Media Studio at Cisco Live UK, which is the social media nerve center for the event. It is here where they are creating “one of the most customer-aware events in the world.”

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Live from New York – It is Cisco Retail at NRF January 15-17, 2012

January 9, 2012 at 10:38 am PST

January 16-17, 2012 marks the 101st National Retail Federation Annual Conference and Expo in New York and Cisco Retail team and myself will be there.  You can find out what Cisco will be showing at the event and get sneak peeks of the preparations for the show throughout the week through our coverage on Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, LinkedIn Group, YouTube and Cisco Retail blog.

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New Social Media Ebook Offers Free Guidance to Cisco Partners

November 10, 2011 at 10:15 am PST

Many Cisco partners have indicated they want to learn more about how to leverage social media to generate leads, to listen to customers, interact, and network. But you’ve also told us you aren’t sure where to start. We’re here to help!

We’ve marshaled our resources and developed an ebook, “The Cisco Channels Guide to Social Media” to help Cisco partners develop a strategy, set goals, and launch a social media presence.

Take a look at our ebook, download a copy, and share the link via your social networks. Be sure to let us know in the comments if this book was helpful, if you have your own social media successes and insights to share, and which tools you’d like us to cover next time.

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The Next-Gen Collaborator: Ready for a Mobile Workplace

Today, we’re featuring a guest post from Eric Schoch, senior director for hosted collaboration  in Cisco’s Collaboration organization. Eric is responsible for hosted and “as a service” solutions, strategic pricing and licensing, and business development.

There is simply no denying the increasing importance of being connected. Generation Y in particular, who grew up with mobile devices affixed almost permanently to their hands, views connectivity as one of life’s fundamental resources.

The newest addition to the workforce considers their mobile devices as an essential workplace tool to managing their workload and connecting with their colleagues on the go. While sitting in a meeting or having lunch in the break room, you can almost visualize the text bubbles hovering over crowds of this generation of workers as fingers hammer away at phones and tablets, eyes glued to the shiny screens in their hands. BYOD

But this trend goes far beyond lunch hours and happy hours. As proven by Chapter Two of the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report, the next-generation workforce is demanding flexibility in their choice of devices in both the workplace and remote-work options, illustrating the importance of the Internet in workforce culture. Social media freedom, device flexibility, and work mobility, in the case of 30% of the study’s respondents, are more important when accepting a job than a higher salary.

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