Martin Hardee

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Cisco.com circa 1996. (I will brace myself for the “bring it back!” comments. 🙂 )

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Did you notice the recent change to the menus on Cisco.com?  We call them “megamenus” — those convenient lists that fly down when you mouse over the masthead bar on any page on Cisco.com. We recently updated the “Products & Services” megamenu on the site to make it more readable and simplify navigation. Here’s the […]

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There’s an adage that “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,” and all of us that are in the business of managing or running things pretty much live by that. But, how to do you measure something as squishy and ephemeral as an “experience”? And, what experiences are worth managing? At Cisco, we’ve […]

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Later this year, many URLs on Cisco.com are going to change. But don’t worry: We’re putting a mechanism in place that will take you to the right location even if you have bookmarks or are coming from external references. These redirects will be automatic, but if you’re curious, here’s how the URLs will change: Before: […]

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We’ve made some important updates to the search experience on Cisco.com: For some top product searches, we delivering a “product information box” of the most important information in one place. We’ve done some significant redesign of the user front-end to improve the user experience Searches using Product IDs Significant work to greatly reduce the number […]

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Cisco.com has been featured by industry research firm ByteLevel Research as “Best Global Enterprise Technology Website” in their latest ‘Global By Design” installment focusing on globalization web practices in tech B2B. ByteLevel Research is the author of the annual Globalization Digital Scorecard, where Cisco.com was ranked #4 worldwide in 2013 among such peers as Adobe, GE, […]

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The 2013 Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide is now shipping, and you can order it right now on Cisco.com. The 2013 guide provides an overview of the many Cisco products, services, and solutions for every part of your business. It’s all you need in one portable guide:  An easy-to-use reference that includes chapters on routing, […]

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I always enjoy Fast Company and Wired. But this month there’s something extra in both: You can make the Internet of Everything come alive using your smartphone or tablet, via a Cisco ad in the magazine, just like my colleague Jeanette is doing here with her phone: You can do it, too: 1. First, get […]

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Here is something fun you can do today with your smart phone or tablet. It’s an app that brings the Internet of Things alive from a newspaper or screen. How to get it: 1. First, go grab a copy of today’s global Wall Street Journal and find the Cisco TOMORROW Starts Here ad, which is […]

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Over the last few months we’ve made some nice additions and improvements to Cisco.com. We’ll be writing in more detail about these individually, but I’d thought I’d give a short recap. 1. Faster Downloads! We’ve had some big performance improvements in the download experience, both in terms of reducing the number of steps to get […]