collaboration

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In case you missed it, here’s an overview of “all the stuff about Cisco Spark” released on January 24th – from blog posts to videos and product information.

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Today in San Francisco, Rowan Trollope, SVP IoT and Applications, announced two ground-breaking Cisco Spark innovations that will leave their mark on the collaboration industry forever: Cisco Spark Board and new Cisco Spark software capabilities that, together, will revolutionize the meeting experience. Everyone here is thrilled about the unprecedented levels of productivity we’ll enable for […]

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When we started working on the Cisco Spark Board over a year ago, we looked at what makes a regular analog whiteboard so effective. One thing we identified is that anyone can use it. You can walk into any conference room, walk up to a whiteboard, and use it. The whiteboard is there, it’s easy to use, and easy to make your own. But recent digital whiteboard attempts by others have failed to meet the same standard for ease of use. We knew we had to do better.

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Continuous collaboration means enabling teams to innovate before, during, and after meetings. Collaboration isn’t a series of discrete, unconnected events (like meetings), or one-off conversations (like phone calls), or even string of discussions in email. You have to have one continuous, robust workstream. We designed Cisco Spark for continuous collaboration.

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The upcoming launch at Cisco is a little more personal for me than most launches. Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart and Steve Jobs have inspired me since I started designing collaboration products 12 years ago. This launch continues the journey they began.

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Learning is no longer confined to the classroom, the campus or the home. For students in rural southeast Oklahoma, the commute to school on the bus is an active learning space. Howe Public School students who were once limited by their physical rural location can now access advanced courses and college curriculum. Cisco collaboration tools, […]

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“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” That was the quote I used by W. Edwards Deming, a 20th century engineer and physicist, to open up my collaboration breakout session at Partner Summit back in March. Obviously, it’s tongue-in-cheek, but the point is clear. We’ve spent the last year together at partner […]

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For great products to take off, it takes the right timing of two forces coming together: psychology and technology. That same combination has not been available for teams in the workplace. The collaboration industry has been taking small steps toward this intersection of technology and psychology for a long time. Register to watch live on January 24 as we make the leap.

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You walk into a conference room, and you have a simple task – project your laptop screen onto the screen at the end of the conference room. Yet, until now, this simple task has been really hard. It’s time for this cable to meet its end. Today, we’ve shipped an update to Cisco Spark that will once and for all end the evil tyranny of the conference-room projection cable.