As a new member of the Cisco family, I find it refreshing to see an active and engaged social community. Grassroots social movements speak volumes about a companies brand in the eyes of it's employees and customers.
Although I do like the new layout, has Cisco reviewed social media platform interfaces from companies like Influitive (http://influitive.com/). This interface is simple, consistent and fast. I am stumping for any one company, but interfaces like this will bring more social engagement users.

A few questions for the Cisco social team:
-Have you considered allowing users of this to follow/message each other? I like to follow people in communities to see what they post, like and share
-Gamification: Although I agree Cisco is using a part of the Gamification offering, it is not 100% gamification. Will rewards be offered in gift cards? Are rewards available in any form other than badges, points?
-We have a system at Cisco called Amplify. Will Amplify ever be integrated into this forum so we know what to tweet, post on LinkedIn, etc? A great tool is offering canned tweets and posts for user to share.

More ideas to come. Great job on the new look!