collaboration

As my colleague Damien McCoy wrote recently, Webex Teams is much more than just a rebranded Cisco Spark app. If you used the product for a while, you’ll be the first to agree. We’re revamping the user experience. Colors are changing. Layouts are different. Tools streamlined. And more features are co…

I had the pleasure of attending my first Cisco Live event in Orlando last month. There, my Cisco colleague Andy Johnston and I shared an overview of the cloud unified communications market to a standing-room‑only audience. We described how the combined strength of the Cisco and BroadSoft calling por…

If you’ve been working long enough to remember upgrading from a desktop computer to a laptop, or even from a wired connection to Wi-Fi, then you won’t need me to point out that the way we work is changing. The office workplace has transformed from rows of cubicles that we occupied for set hours each…

We enjoy a wonderful array of freedoms in our nation. But with the ever-shrinking news cycle and flurry of daily life, that fact is often ignored. It’s easy to forget that our freedoms started with thousands of farmers, small business owners, laborers, and other colonists seeking self-governance. To…

It’s amazing how much of an extravaganza the NBA Draft Presented by State Farm has become. I’m a fan. There’s a sort of the adrenaline rush that comes on NBA Draft night. What was once a relatively low-key event has exploded into a marquee night on the NBA calendar – complete with round-the-clock an…

Located in suburban Johnson County, Kansas (and just ten miles from Kansas City, Missouri), Shawnee Mission School District is the third largest school district in the state, with 33 elementary schools, five middle schools, five high schools, and one alternative high school, which combine to serve n…

Amid population growth, aging baby boomers, and millions more Americans with health insurance, the time to schedule a doctor’s appointment has jumped 30% in over the last five years. The average wait time to see a specialist in 2017 was 29 days, an increase from 12 days since 2012. Outside of the Un…

Yes, the wrap-up of Wednesday’s Cisco Live happenings is a little behind schedule. With most of my scheduled sessions complete, I spent more of Wednesday in the World of Solutions to check out the Cisco demonstrations and see what other exhibitors brought to share. It’s a busy environment. In the ne…

Soccer or Football? It’s confusing, I know! And sometimes, you just don’t know which one to use! When I’m talking about my favorite sport in English, however, most of the time I end up calling it “soccer” because there is only one soccer and you can’t confuse it with something else. So, that’s what…