music

When you hold a summer music festival less than 100 miles outside of Silicon Valley, expectations are high for a technologically-rich experience. And at a festival like BottleRock Napa Valley, which prides itself on providing an intimate, refined setting for music fans to enjoy performances and awar…

Read a few posts on this blog and you’ll see that there are a lot of #LoveWhereYouWork examples. From sharing stories of giving back with friends after work to shouting it from the mountaintops because you can’t contain yourself. My Cisco Advanced Services team is no different. I’m a Project Specia…

One minute and fifteen seconds and it’ll all be over. Two counts to breathe. Thousands of people watching. No second chances. The Cisco Singers then take the field to sing the U.S. National Anthem at a Major League Baseball game. It’s a thrill, and it’s a moment I never thought I’d experience at, of…

Have you ever had to work with others to plan an event or manage a project? From the expert project manager to the soccer mom trying to coordinate carpool, we’ve all done it in some form or another. But has it always been as easy as you’d like? Have you had the right technology at the right time to…

How many of us know someone in the armed forces? Probably a few, but not many (I know I hadn’t before meeting my husband back in 2000). How many know someone musical, perhaps in a band? I expect this may get a few more head nods than my first question, but still not many. My first post introduced yo…

Rick Rubin is one of the most prolific producers in the history of music. If you haven’t heard of Rubin, he has worked with some of the best known artists in the world such as Johnny Cash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, the Dixie Chicks, the Beastie Boys, and Jay Z to name a few. As a produce…