collaboration

June 13, 2017

EDUCATION

Discover the Power of the Liberated Learner

Close your eyes. Take a moment and think about the ways in which you learned when you were in primary school. Did you collaborate with peers both in the classroom and outside of the school walls? Did you have unlimited access to resources, tools and knowledge sharing through your device? Chances are…

June 12, 2017

COLLABORATION

Join Cisco Collaboration at InfoComm 2017

Are you headed to Orlando for InfoComm 2017? We’re packing up our favorite collaboration demos and heading to the Orange County Convention Center to share how you can use our tech to simplify the way your teams work. Working together should be simple. The technology you use to collaborate should be…

June 7, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Parents in Prison: How Cisco is Helping Families Stay Connected

“When I was growing up in Indianapolis, we didn’t have a lot of money. We weren’t exactly poor, but then again, we never vacationed at Disneyland. Maybe Rock City . . . the Smoky Mountains – or Kings Island if we were lucky. But even then it was just for a weekend. So when our family needed an…

June 7, 2017

HEALTHCARE

The prescription for better patient outcomes? Better collaboration.

It’s Tuesday, and an orthopedic surgeon in Vail, Colorado and a research scientist in Oslo, Norway are discussing results of the latest study on reconstructive knee surgery. Together, they look at data, review x-rays, and sketch ideas on a whiteboard. By the time they’re done, the surgeon has a new…

June 2, 2017

COLLABORATION

Cisco Spark Board on Demand

I pay for Netflix every month, along with almost 100 million other binge-watchers. I also pay monthly for Spotify, Amazon Prime, Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive. My life-as-a-service is incredibly convenient, and that’s just for cloud-based services. I have friends that pay monthly for their iPhon…

May 25, 2017

EDUCATION

Making Education the Foundation for our Innovation Economy

Over the past few weeks I have had the good fortune to spend a lot of time with teachers and administrators of schools and school boards around the province (including my recent keynote to OPSOA). I’ve been passionate about the critical role educators play in helping us shape our innovation ec…

May 23, 2017

EDUCATION

How Our Students Will Overcome the Machines

Any university will tell you that its primary mission is to create opportunities for its students to achieve success. But student success looks quite different today than it has in the past – even as recently as a few years ago. For starters, artificial intelligence and automation are already beginn…

May 23, 2017

COLLABORATION

Working Smarter with Cisco Spark Widgets and SDKs

Working smarter while we work together. That’s what we’re all about. In fact, it’s this exact idea that forms the foundation of the Cisco Spark Depot, the hub for all Cisco Spark integrations and bots. (See my previous post.) If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Cisco Spark Depot in the past…

May 18, 2017

PARTNER

Checking in. Kicking Habits.

The statistics are staggering. Last year in America, opioid overdoses killed more people than car accidents. And more people died using heroin than in gun violence. It’s a tough habit to kick. Meet our partner Netera. Their customer, Behavioral Health Group, is helping people get into recovery. With…