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Happy Anniversary, #CiscoChat!
This month marks the one-year anniversary of our social chat program, #CiscoChat. To date, we’ve had over 2,500 participants to our 35 chats. With a viewership of potentially 144 million impressions, and our hashtag trending nationally several times, we are excited about the level of engagement and…
New #SocialRoundup: How New Live-Streaming Video Applications are Changing Views on Content
It’s estimated that nearly three-fourths of the world’s mobile data traffic will be in the form of video content by 2019, with an expected 13-fold increase between 2014 and 2019. And more than half of the mobile devices connected to the network will be “smart” ones. As mobility continues to expand,…
New #SocialRoundup: #CiscoChat Heats Up
Welcome to our latest #SocialRoundup blog series about new social media efforts and best practices. Today, we want to highlight #CiscoChat, our new social media chat program that has been picking up steam recently. The concept was simple: create a standard method for our customers, partners, influen…
Bridging the Gap Between Social Media and Hashtags With a New Social Chat Program #CiscoChat
Social chats are not new. What we’re doing differently is creating a regularly scheduled program that is platform-agnostic, and leverages a single hashtag to enable discussions over Twitter, Google+ Hangouts on Air, podcasts and more. Our new #CiscoChat program not only unites c…
New #SocialRoundup: Why Brands Are the Real Winners At The Super Bowl and GRAMMYS
Welcome to our latest #SocialRoundup blog series about new social media efforts and best practices. Today, we visit the stadium turf and the concert stage to see how brands leveraged the Super Bowl and the GRAMMYS to drive awareness and engagement with their audiences. Brands Make Winning Plays Duri…
New Year = New #SocialRoundup Series
Happy New Year and welcome to our first #SocialRoundup. In this new blog series, we will be bringing you more highlights on our social media efforts and best practices. Here’s a recap on what you might have missed since the start of the New Year. Feel free to give us feedback on whether the informat…
Bridging the Gap Between Social and Digital Media
I’ve come across many articles touting the differences between digital and social media. Here’s one, for example, that suggests the words have lost their meaning entirely. It raises some good questions. What does digital even mean, anyway? And isn’t all media basically social in nature? A great take…
#CMAD: How Cisco is Defining the Role of a Community Manager
Thanks to Altimeter Group analyst Jeremiah Owyang, today marks the third anniversary of Community Manager Appreciation Day. While there is not a lot of available data on the job outlook for a community manager, you only need to look at the job growth for a social media manager to know the trend is…
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