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Carmen Shirkey Collins

Social Media Manager

Talent Brand and Enablement Team, HR

Carmen is the senior social media manager for Cisco’s Talent Brand team and the WeAreCisco social channels. Her job at Cisco is to create personal connections to the great employees we have and the cool projects they work on, so that prospective talent will choose Cisco as the place to bring their top-notch skills.

As a professional social media enthusiast, she thinks she "has one of the greatest jobs on the planet" – and has been doing this since before “social media” was even a term in the lexicon. Over her social media career, she has helped several Fortune 500 companies engage with their audience through great content and building relationships.

Outside of her work at Cisco, she’s a world traveler and a published author (find her on Amazon) with another book underway, and finds that kittens and bacon rule the Internet. :)

Articles

February 1, 2016

WE ARE CISCO

Love Where You Work!

1 min read

Read just a few stories on this blog, and you’ll notice that people love to work here. Whether it’s the people, the innovation, the giving back, or a combination of all of those and more, love is in the air. Since February is a month of recognizing love – and this year, there’s a whole […]

November 23, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Employees Give Cisco Cats a “Paw Up” In Life

3 min read

Everyone knows that cats rule the Internet. Since Cisco’s focus is the Internet of Everything, it would make sense that when they are abandoned or lose their homes, cats...

November 5, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Cisco Employees Blab About the Cisco Life

1 min read

Cisco employees know all about working at Cisco, the fun we have while we work and the cool things we do. But sometimes they just want to tell other people about it. So the team that brings you @WeAreCisco on Twitter and Instagram and @CiscoUniversity on Twitter (among other social media channels) just had our #FirstBlab […]

November 16, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Delivering Awesome, Inspired by Graffiti Art

1 min read

  “Delivering Awesome” might mean different things to different people. For the team delivering a workspace reboot, it...

November 2, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

13 Tips to Inspire Your Inner Leader

5 min read

Lots of people think of the number 13 as unlucky, but sometimes, it can be a LUCKY number....

October 13, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Why is Cisco One of the Most inDEMAND Employers?

1 min read

You like us! You really, really like us! Cisco has been named one of LinkedIn's Most inDEMAND Employers in...

October 5, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Play. Blow Your Mind. Repeat. #ThisIsSTEAM

2 min read

High-tech games. Creation zones – where you can create to your heart’s content – aerialists, food (of course) and . . . a dunk booth with fire?! These are all things you’ll find at STEAM Carnival, November 6-8 in San Francisco at AT&T Park. You’ll also find Cisco there, as a key sponsor (along with Cartoon Network!) […]

October 26, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Employees Bring Cisco Tech to Late Night on Jimmy Kimmel Live

2 min read

It’s Oscar’s night. Your technology is getting ready to debut in less than three minutes on Jimmy Kimmel Live (emphasis on the “live” part). You’re not sure if the...

October 8, 2015

WE ARE CISCO

Cisco Mom and Son Bring IoE and Entrepreneurship to Kids Everywhere

3 min read

Sometimes, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. That’s the case with 8-year-old Omkar Govil-Nair, whose mom, Shubha Govil, is a senior manager of products for the Cisco...