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Co-Hosting a WebEx Meeting from Different Locations: Tips for Success

You and your partner are planning a big WebEx presentation and you plan to co-host -- but you are in different locations. No problem, that’s easy to do. There are a few tips you’ll want to use to make sure co-hosting goes off without a hitch.

1. Make sure you include your partner as an alternate host for the meeting.
When you schedule the event, you can add your partner’s name and email (details here). This allows your partner to start and continue the meeting if you, the primary host, are late or if you accidentally disconnect from the meeting.

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5 Quick Video Interview Tips: Beginners Start Here

April 14, 2011 at 6:32 pm PST


Need to conduct a quick interview for a blog post or press release. Use these tips to capture the sights and sounds needed to take your written content over the edge.

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Things to Know Before You Go: Cisco Partner Summit 2011

I’ve attended 12 Partner Summits, if you can believe it, so I wanted to take a moment to share with you some of the things you need to know before you attend this year’s event. The event starts on Monday, February 28 in New Orleans, Louisiana and Virtual Partner Summit begins on Tuesday March 1.

As a Partner Summit veteran, I’ve got some tried-and-true tips for enjoying the event. (Watch the cartoon version of me in this video, walking you through the things you should do to prepare.)

Keep reading to find out about some of the big topics we’ll be covering next week at Partner Summit 2011 and how you can get involved.
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3 Do’s and Don’ts of Mobile Marketing to Customers

January 12, 2011 at 5:38 pm PST

Mobile is the most overhyped thing of all time.


So says Alex Dunsdson who leads M&C Saatchi Strategy Group on development of portable content initiatives for business.

The self-professed “mobile realist” led a session for partners at Partner Velocity last December called Mobile is the “Next Frontier of Marketing — How Can You Get Started without Falling Off the Edge?” (Full session replay available on the Partner Velocity site.)

There are more smart phones sold now than PCs, he says. What’s more, a staggering 90% of people have their mobile phones within one meter of themselves at all times.

So how do you leverage that opportunity to use mobile to market to your customers? We chatted with Alex to find out his thoughts and learn some mobile do’s and don’ts.

What else did he say? Here are 3 mobile marketing tips he shared.
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