Social Media Rules of Engagement

Just as there are some unwritten rules of social engagement—like not getting drunk and standing on the table or yelling at strangers on the street—social media engagement via Twitter, You Tube, Facebook, and LinkedIn has a few unstated rules, too. …Read more.

Posted by Alexandra Krasne on July 20, 2009 at 04:05PM

Collaboration Success Stories…Sharing Conference Tables from Miles Away

We love to hear collaboration success stories. It’s collaboration that allows us to share a conference table and our ideas—when in reality, we’re a continent away. These tools are breaking down barriers, making us more productive and bringing technology to …Read more.

Posted by Alexandra Krasne on June 26, 2009 at 08:12AM

Spime Design Workshops in Second Life at Cisco Works

“We have friends of friends networks and reputation scores when we trade online. We share our preferences and our tag clouds as well we make sure that we are recognized in our professional lives in a given social network or …Read more.

Posted by Dennis Mancini on May 19, 2009 at 10:28AM

Community Advice: How to Attract and Retain New Users

Community was a hot topic at the Web 2.0 Expo in SF last week and I wanted to share some advice I learned from a presentation called Sparking a Crush, focusing on how to attract and retain new users to …Read more.

Posted by Johanna Fry on April 08, 2009 at 04:00PM

Visual Networking Still Hot Despite Economy

Consumer spending is down and many of us are opting for frugal alternatives where we can find them, like taking our lunch to work or hosting a dinner party rather than a night on the town. Interestingly enough, the economy …Read more.

Posted by Johanna Fry on April 06, 2009 at 11:12AM

Content Freshness - Part 1

Last week I blogged about recent site design changes and a service outage at Facebook. The experiences I wrote about were reminders there are pitfalls when you put a fan page up for your content or brand on a large …Read more.

Posted by Chuck Fishman on March 17, 2009 at 08:33PM

Large Social Sites = Frequent Design Changes and Occasional Outages

I have told you in previous posts that I maintain a band in my off work time, and that our band uses a myriad of different digital music sites as platforms to reach audiences, again just a few we use …Read more.

Posted by Chuck Fishman on March 10, 2009 at 05:30PM

Share your listening habits with the community

One of my first posts for the DigMediaRev blog was about Twitter and how I find it to be an interesting media and entertainment experience. I promised in the post to explain how I connect, discover, and share content on …Read more.

Posted by Chuck Fishman on February 11, 2009 at 05:59PM

Would you pay for community?

Would you pay for access to your favorite online communities? If so, which communities would you pay to access and what would you expect for your money? Facebook is one of the most important communities I access on a regular …Read more.

Posted by Chuck Fishman on January 26, 2009 at 02:00PM

Human Network Getting Bigger and….Grayer?

Today, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project report that “the share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years—from 8% in 2005 …Read more.

Posted by John Earnhardt on January 14, 2009 at 02:50PM

Gen Y and the Collaboration Age

By Carlos Dominguez, Senior Vice President, Cisco’s Office of the Chairman of the Board and CEO “May we live in interesting times.” – Old Chinese Proverb It’s amazing to see how quickly everything around us is changing, especially when it …Read more.

Posted by Carlos Dominguez on December 01, 2008 at 04:33PM

Animoto takes video and slideshows to the next level

Animoto is a really cool website that allows you to create engaging and professional-quality videos from your photos and music you have online or on your computer. I immediately see the value in Animoto for advertising professionals, artists, teachers, photographers …Read more.

Posted by Johanna Fry on October 22, 2008 at 10:27AM

Picture Window

We tend to think of video phones as a modern-day thing, but can you believe they were first demonstrated about 50 years ago? Sure, there were technical barriers that prevented them from being adopted; but there was another factor, too: …Read more.

Posted by Marie Hattar on October 01, 2008 at 04:56PM

Two Must Do’s In Second Life Now

1. Get your Second Life Facebook account activated. Second Life on Facebook There are two applications that are relatively easy to communicate with your friends on Facebook either in RL or SL. Second Friends is tailored to work on your …Read more.

Posted by Dennis Mancini on September 02, 2008 at 03:07PM

The Future of Online Dating w/Mashable’s Pete Cashmore

We continue to tackle the meaty issues of the day here at the Cisco consumer blog.  Today’s topic:  How would online dating change with video integrated into popular dating sites like match.com, eharmony.com or social networks like Facebook to create …Read more.

Posted by Mike Kisch on August 05, 2008 at 11:24AM

U.S. Track and Field Trials and Mobility

Tomorrow, I head north from San Francisco to Lake County to get away for the July 4th weekend, but I’d rather head to the Pacific Northwest… to Eugene, Oregon to see some of the fast foot action at the University …Read more.

Posted by Ed Tan on July 03, 2008 at 07:24PM

Top 20 Reasons…You know you’re an Internet Addict

In advance of our recent Cisco ASR launch in which we embraced a whole range of Web 2.0 vehicles, we thought that creating a Facebook group to bring about a community of like-minded folks around technology was only appropriate.  Our …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on May 02, 2008 at 09:28AM