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Techno-Conservation: Converging on a Modular Reference Architecture
This blog was co-written by Dave Ward, SVP, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect, Carlos Pignataro, Cisco Distinguished Engineer, and Carole Gridley, Sr. Director, Cisco Sustainable Impact. “If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together.” Proverb, believed to be of Afri…
How AI is Changing the Game For Knowledge Workers
Have you ever wanted to ditch your mobile device, step back into the pre-internet everywhere era and pop on a Depeche Mode cassette? Yeah, me either. But for knowledge workers dealing with a constant stream of notifications and requests, stepping back a few decades might seem like a welcome reprieve…
Why Huddle Spaces Are Gaining Ground in the Workplace
Nobody wants to walk into the office on their first day to find a sea of cubicles under fluorescent lights. Thankfully, in recent years, many businesses have taken a hard look at how they can optimize the office space to improve collaboration, increase productivity and attract top talent. And for go…
Webex Finds Homemade Waffles Improve Team Collaboration
We’ve all been there. It’s midnight, you’re reading through the action items from the day’s meetings and suddenly you crave waffles. Not just any waffle, the homemade kind that’s still steaming and fresh off the waffle iron. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an on-de…
Cisco Webex Video Conferencing – Room Kit Mini delights users.
What, Whoa, Really, No Way! Those are the utterings of delight that marketers love to hear about a product or service. I’m almost gleeful when I discover a new feature that makes my life better in ways I didn’t know it was lacking. It’s that “how did I ever live without this” moment. As a consumer,…
Five Steps for Successfully Bringing Videoconferencing to the Huddle Space
This blog post is written by our guest, Irwin Lazar. Irwin develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients for Nemertes Research. Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies…
Video is a game changer, now for huddle spaces
This blog post is written by our guest, Aaron McArdle. Aaron is a mid-western entrepreneur and innovator based in Normal, Illinois. His common-sense approach to solving complex problems allows him to succeed where others fail. His passion for solving these problems from the human perspective of feel…
In Search of a Good Popsicle Story
My grandmother, now eight years passed, used to tell the best stories about Vietnam. I remember one about my grandfather who wooed her with a popsicle on one of his early visits. In the incessant heat of a mid-1940s Hanoi summer, this was a feat of magnificent proportions. But it would be rude to ea…
Video Collaboration and the Present Mom
“Mom, is there anything you don’t do well?” That came from Jaden, my twelve-year-old daughter, after a particularly arduous week tackling algebra and a To Kill a Mockingbird essay with a little help from me. Clearly, I don’t do everything well, but the validation felt really good coming from a kid w…