Collaboration

What better place to spend the first week in June than sunny Las Vegas? InfoComm 2018 is headed to Vegas and so are we. We’re packing up our demo equipment and heading to the Las Vegas Convention Center to share more intuitive ways to work from June 6 to 8. When you’re working on something with othe…

Many lead singers of classic rock bands can no longer hit the notes of their youth. Enter the cottage industry of sound-alikes. Lou Gramm of Foreigner has given way to Kelly Hanson. Jason Scheff replaced Peter Certera of Chicago. Perhaps the best example is Arnel Pineda, who replaced Steve Perry in…

It always fascinates me to watch a film set in the past – maybe 30 to 50 years ago – when that film includes depictions of people at work, to see how different things were back then. Writing inter-office memos! Cold-calling someone to ask a question and getting routed to voicemail where you can leav…

Team collaboration. Sounds redundant. Isn’t collaboration inherently about teams working together? Isn’t every team interaction about getting things done? Collaboration has always connected us. At Cisco, we’ve been building apps to help people collaborate for quite a while. Cisco Jabber and Webex Me…

We know that the canvas you work in includes many different collaboration tools, productivity tools, and devices. When all those elements work together, you can work more efficiently. That’s why our approach is an open collaboration canvas: We are making sure the Webex portfolio works with the third…

BroadSoft is delighted to be participating in this year’s Cisco Collaboration Summit as a new member of the Cisco family. I’m personally thrilled to be joining along with other BroadSoft colleagues, including our co-founders Mike Tessler and Scott Hoffpauir. We’re looking forward to meeting with Cis…

This week at Cisco’s Collaboration Summit in Phoenix, we made a series of significant announcements regarding the convergence of the Cisco Webex and Spark platforms. This included a new Webex Meetings application, a new Webex Teams application (formerly known as Cisco Spark), the new Webex Assistant…

Think of all the places in your offices where handfuls of people naturally gather to brainstorm ideas or to focus on a deadline. There’s usually a TV or monitor nearby. How can you make those hot-topic discussions far more engaging and effective? Today we announced Cisco Webex Share, a palm-sized af…

This post comes from Anthony Stephens, director of Advocacy & Governmental Affairs, American Council of the Blind. There’s something about the telephone that I’ve always found magical. It may be partially genetic: I’m more of an audible person, having been born blind. But I’d equally credit my…