Cisco has been espousing the true business benefits of Web 2.0 for awhile and a recent survey by McKinsey & Company confirms that, indeed, these tools have a place in business. For three years the management consulting firm has tracked …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on September 21, 2009 at 05:00AM
You may have seen a recent Wall Street Journal article on Cisco’s new management structure. In the article, I was quoted as saying the transition to this new structure has been a challenge for me. That is correct, it has …Read more.
Posted by Keith Goodwin on August 14, 2009 at 09:46AM
Video is changing the way many of us communicate and digest content. As fans of Michael Jackson rushed online, to reminisce or pay homage to the King of Pop’s famous tracks, his music videos held nine out of the ten …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on July 10, 2009 at 07:09AM
So Twitter is everywhere! Obama @barackobama, Guy Kawasaki @guykawasaki, Darth Vader @darthvader and John Cleese @johncleese use it. I know any time I watch any news station a plug to get the latest breaking news via following @blank on Twitter …Read more.
Posted by Dannette Veale on June 09, 2009 at 03:00PM
I read Martin Olausson’s from Strategy Analytics interesting report this morning titled “The People’s Revolution: Implications of the Web 2.0 and Social Media Applications.” Martin’s concise and well-thought out piece identifies the challenges and opportunities social technologies pose for media …Read more.
Posted by Scott Brown on June 09, 2009 at 01:11PM
On day two of Partner Summit 2009 in Boston, I sat down for a chat with Cisco’s CTO Padmasree Warrior. During our discussion, she revealed her insights on the future of IT and collaboration. And, she makes one thing clear: …Read more.
Posted by Alexandra Krasne on June 04, 2009 at 04:21AM
Cisco and Cisco.com feature prominently in a new FastCompany article about how companies are preparing for the economic upturn. The article talks about the "Virtual Account Manager" model for Cisco.com, which is our way of describing a mix of smart …Read more.
Posted by Martin Hardee on May 18, 2009 at 06:40AM
A new case study from Cisco-on-Cisco describes how WebEx interactive features engaged the company’s global salesforce during training for an important corporate initiative and formed the core of Cisco’s largest virtual training deployment: Late in 2008, Cisco’s entire global sales …Read more.
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on May 08, 2009 at 09:36AM
The Cisco on Cisco team recently published its first case study created entirely by leveraging the three pillars of a Web 2.0 environment: people, communities, and information (P-C-I). We met with the Worldwide Sales Process and Systems team (the people) …Read more.
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on May 06, 2009 at 03:39PM
For digital media nerds like myself, San Francisco is paradise. San Francisco has more conferences about the intersection of media and technology than I can keep up with. I’m lucky that the Cisco office here in the city is close …Read more.
Posted by Chuck Fishman on April 24, 2009 at 01:59PM
How many of you use Facebook? LinkedIn? Twitter? Do you believe that your ideas get stronger when you share them with others? Collaboration enables us to connect with experts and people with like-minded interests. The tools we use to link …Read more.
Posted by Padmasree Warrior on April 20, 2009 at 05:36PM
Those Web analysts at SiteIQ, who do an extensive 2,400 point evaluation of IT Web sites, just rated Cisco.com #1 among 23 IT sites: Congrats to everyone who works so diligently on our online presence! Of course, we continue to …Read more.
Posted by Martin Hardee on April 19, 2009 at 04:45AM
Did you know? On March 13, 2009, the World Wide Web celebrated 20 years and to quote, “...something happened at CERN that would change the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled “Information Management …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on March 23, 2009 at 11:40AM
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
Cisco Services SVP, Nick Earle, recently co-wrote a book with Cap Gemini’s Andy Mulholland on the subject of Mesh Collaboration. Its premise: “Enterprises as we know them will see organisational structures and IT strategies turned on their heads if their …Read more.
Posted by David McCulloch on March 02, 2009 at 09:51AM
Ok here’s a quick post, something I just thought of. What two types of digital media tools do I find to be the most useful right now? Tools that aggregate and syndicate my user generated content. Regarding aggregation - well …Read more.
Posted by Chuck Fishman on February 18, 2009 at 10:13AM
I have something to confess: I am not much of a Twitterer @ascohen. Although I like to blog, and I have become relentless on Facebook, powered by the sagging belt syndrome of carrying an iPhone and a Blackberry that have …Read more.
Posted by Alan Cohen on February 09, 2009 at 09:21AM
Wanted to pass along some resources for finding and evaluating conference in the media / tech / Web 2.0 space. 1) Martine Paris over at Content NOW has an exhaustive list of events by month (click on the “2009 Events” …Read more.
Posted by Scott Brown on January 22, 2009 at 03:48PM
OK, so, lets be clear: I started in this industry when the DEC MicroVAX was considered controversial and the vampire tap was the pinnacle of networking technology. So, needless to say, “Web 2.0” and “Social Media” left me a bit …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on December 17, 2008 at 09:56PM
If you've ever managed a web project, you know how vexing it can be to get started with a clear scope and direction, especially if a redesign is part of the agenda. Maybe you've worked on a web project in …Read more.
Posted by Martin Hardee on December 10, 2008 at 05:30AM
Today, we are hosting industry analysts at our annual C-Scape conference. If you didn’t tune into the webcast events today, you can do so tomorrow starting at 8:45AM PT.. Some coverage: NeworkWorld files this: “Cisco to Shift Resources to Consumer …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on December 09, 2008 at 01:49PM
Today, Ed Sperling of Forbes has an interesting Q&A with our CIO, Rebecca Jacoby. The Q&A covers such topics as Web 2.0, collaboration, employee behavior change, the role of the CIO, and IT budgets. My favorite pearl of wisdom from …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on December 08, 2008 at 02:16PM
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
A few days ago, I was having lunch with Navid Rastegar - one of Cisco’s bright young hires. I was supposed to be his mentor. Ironically, he was the one educating me on why I should have a presence on …Read more.
Posted by Shashi Kiran on November 13, 2008 at 09:58PM
Post by Alan S. Cohen, Vice President, Enterprise & Mid-Market Solutions “Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, In yours and my discharge.” - Shakespeare, The Tempest In preparing for our …Read more.
Posted by Alan Cohen on September 24, 2008 at 12:05AM
Yesterday Cisco announced the next phase of the popular Human Network campaign called The Human Network Effect. Cisco is transforming the way people work, live, play and learn by embracing new media and the web 2.0 tools that we all …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on September 23, 2008 at 10:15AM
Don Proctor, Senior Vice President, Software Group, gives a sneak peek of his FAC presentation, and also speaks about the future of collaboration.
Posted by Ken Lotich on September 16, 2008 at 03:43PM
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
When I speak with customers or at conferences, I often speak about data trends and applications as input to dimensioning a service and network. These data are being transmitted over a network; and, this fact highlights Cisco’s “Network as the …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on July 14, 2008 at 10:07AM
Eagle-eyed visitors to Cisco.com this weekend noticed a subtle but handy new enhancement: A new "My Cisco" button up at the top of almost every page. Click on this button, and it'll unfurl into a useful toolkit that travels with …Read more.
Posted by Martin Hardee on June 17, 2008 at 09:42AM
In a previous post, I wrote about our Cisco IP Traffic Study, entitled “The Exabyte Era.” It’s getting a lot of attention now as its topic is being featured as one of the drivers of the need for new platforms …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on April 28, 2008 at 02:51PM
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