Silvia Karina Spiva

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Applications have met a variety of challenges and ideas. Join our #CiscoChat to discuss our favorites at 10am PT on May 10.

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Our Customers and Partners who visit the Cisco Customer Experience Center are most valued members of this family. When you visit us, we invite you to take the time to enjoy this tribute to our shared success. Share your memories on social media, and include the hashtags #CiscoHeritage #CiscoCXC

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Have you claimed your #DEVNET account, yet? Register at developer.cisco.com and stay tuned for more great #CiscoChats with our #CiscoSE friends!

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Join our #CiscoChat at 8am PT on March 22. Is the CLI really at risk of going away, or can new network APIs and the CLI happily co-exist? Join Cisco Developers and Systems Engineers on developer.cisco.com to lead this discussion.

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In February 2016, we gathered in Berlin and asked you if you were ready to...

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For any sales engineer who’s ever known the late nights, long hours, and frustrating hiccups of attempting to demo products for customers using PowerPoint or other slide deck platforms,

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On August 22, 2016 Chris Dedicoat, Cisco’s Executive Vice-President of Worldwide Sales, took to the main stage at #CiscoGSX in Las Vegas and told the entire Cisco Sales force to “demo with dCloud!”. What happened next? I can tell you exactly what happened next, because I had duty at the dCloud booth. A lot of […]

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  Let me start by clarifying that this has nothing to do with buying or selling on social media. I am not a fan of the phrase “social selling”. This is a summary of what I have learned in my decade as a Marketer within Sales Enablement.

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The Cisco dCloud team recently got our entire management team on video, and apparently it was one of the scariest things they ever did. Or was it?

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The Women of Impact Conference is designed for women in IT, to give us a place to network and motivate one another. We unite women from all over the world...

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“In our collective eagerness to talk about our growing list of cloud offerings, emerging cloud strategies, and contributions to the cloud community, we all started blogging from different places. The data center folks were talking about Cisco’s cloud-optimized hardware on one blog, the open source enthusiasts were talking about OpenStack and the Metacloud acquisition on […]

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The expectations on the modern marketer are ever-increasing.  The list of skills required includes the classics: market research creative writing attractive branding engaging event management seamless customer support Add these relatively newer skills: crisp digital photography smooth video webpage coding real-time social media listening business analytics The community managers behind the brands you continue to […]

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A Twitter success story Theresa Russell teaches Computing to teenagers in Lancashire, England.  We found each other on Twitter.  I was looking to better understand the newest trends in #EdTech.  She needed a female mentor for an international competition she had talked five students into joining.  We soon formed a team of teachers, mentors, and […]

Most of us did not grow up sharing our private feelings with the world.  Today we are faced with the challenge of needing to build our brand.  This test can help you understand how socially connected you already are. Be as web savvy as a librarian When was the last time you visited a library? […]

Have you been doing your Twitter homework? Educators are using social media to share their lesson plans and get new ideas.  If your favorite teacher is not already doing this, help them set up their Twitter account: description, photos; first tweet.

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The friend who inspired me to embrace social media does not follow me on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.  She follows me around the house.