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November 13, 2013

INSIDE CISCO IT

How a Cisco IT Team Uses the CITEIS Private Cloud

My team maintains and supports Cisco IT’s internal implementation of the Cisco WebEx Social collaboration platform. Cisco employees use WebEx Social for internal collaboration and knowledge sharing in online communities, and as a central repository for documents, videos, and other information resour…

May 15, 2013

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IT Mobility Social Support Leads to Reduced Costs

Cisco IT’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program allows employees to be most productive on whatever device they choose.  Whether it’s an iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac or PC they can connect to the Cisco internal network easily, but that’s not what this blog is about, if you’re interested in that initiat…

March 13, 2013

INSIDE CISCO IT

Collaboration is Good Dog Food – Crowdsourcing

In my last blog I talked about the importance of building your personal brand using your WebEx Social Profile and Expertise Tags.  Today I’m going to explain how your Profile and Expertise Tags can play a greater role in crowd sourcing.…

January 16, 2013

INSIDE CISCO IT

New Cisco IT Blog Series: Collaboration is Good Dog Food

Have you ever wondered where the saying “Eating your own dog food” came from? According to Wikipedia it originated from an Alpo Dog Food television ad (circa 1970’s) where Lorne Green professed to feed his own dogs Alpo. Even better, in 1988 the president of Kal Kan Pet Food was kn…