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Isn’t it great to be back at work after Thanksgiving break?!!  That’s what I thought.  I had a true “John Chambers is right!!” moment over Thanksgiving that I feel compelled to share. 

About 10 minutes prior to Thanksgiving dinner I was informed that I was to do the honors of carving the turkey.  That’s all well and good except that I’ve never carved a turkey and was quite sure that it wasn’t like cutting a sandwich in half, which was basically the sum total of my experience with carving heretofore. 

“What to do?”  I thought.  Search for “how to carve a turkey” on my phone, of course.  Carving a turkey is quite complicated (if done right) it turns out and the text and small pictures didn’t really get me to the level of confidence I needed.  I then borrowed my wife’s iPhone and searched videos on “how to carve a turkey” and voila:

November 30, 2009 By Charles Waltner Every company and every organization within a company will go through each evolutionary phase of collaboration: investigative, performance and transformational. The pace at which an organization moves through these phases will depend on business priorities and collaboration readiness. The key is to develop the right components (people, processes, …

Please see the previous installments in this series Part One: The Case for Collaboration, and Part Two: Cultivating Organizational Collaboration. Part Four will post Dec. 7. Nov. 30, 2009 by Charles Waltner Successful collaboration requires radically different thinking and behavior from an organization’s strategic leadership, business managers, and rank-and-file employees. New habits …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – November 26, 2009 A team of three students from the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, in Malaysia, beat 15 other teams from around the Asia Pacific region to top Cisco® Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009, an annual skills competition organized by the Cisco Networking Academy®, a comprehensive e-learning program that enables students to develop …

Have mates living in Australia or New Zealand that you’d like to sit across the table and catch up with face-to-face? 

Then encourage them to enter the Cisco Australia/New Zealand “Christmas Connections” Contest by Dec. 6 for a chance to win the first-place prize of Christmas dinner over Cisco TelePresence.  Check out this video to see what this “Christmas in high-definition” experience would be like.

To enter visit www.cisco.com/connect.

Linda Horiuchi, Sr. PR manager, Cisco ANZ

Have mates living in Australia or New Zealand that you’d like to sit across the table and catch up with face-to-face?  

Then encourage them to enter the Cisco Australia/New Zealand "Christmas Connections" Contest by Dec. 6 for a chance to win the first-place prize of Christmas dinner over Cisco TelePresence.  

Check out this video to see what this “Christmas in high-definition” experience would be like.

To enter visit www.cisco.com/connect.

Linda Horiuchi, Cisco ANZ PR Manager

Cisco invites people residing in Australia and New Zealand to submit entries to the Cisco “Christmas Connections” Contest for a chance to connect with family and friends from around the world this Christmas via Cisco TelePresenceTM.   Cisco will award two first-place prizes of Christmas dinners over TelePresence, 10 second-place prizes of a TelePresence meeting and 20 …

 With several hundred Cisco TelePresence suites installed at Cisco sites around the world, we employees sometimes get a little blasé about how easy it has become (for example) to have a face-to-face meeting with a colleague in Budapest, Hungary one day (this morning), and then another face-to-face group meeting between London, Moscow, San Jose, Seattle and Washington DC a few days later (next Monday actually).

However, once in a while Cisco TelePresence still makes us old pros say “wow!”.

How about this: Two young musicians in Sydney, Australia (a cellist and violinist) dream of playing with the Southbank Sinfonia, Britain’s best-known orchestra of young professional musicians. However, simply auditioning for the Sinfonia would require a 17,000 km trip to London, not to mention a flight that could easily cost a few thousand dollars. What a dilemma. Do the musicians travel all that way and spend all that money with the risk that they might not pass the audition?

Wait! Why not audition from Sydney? Simply wheel a piano and a music stand into a local Cisco TelePresence suite; arrange the judging panel in another suite in London, and away you go!  Crystal clear sound. Perfect picture. Take a look at this video to see the audition in action:

 ….oh, and if you have time on this last day before the Thanksgiving holiday, check out this even more amazing musical TelePresence experience from the Cisco Expo in Hannover, Germany earlier this year, where three opera singers join the Berlin Symphony Orchestra for a live performance via TelePresence. 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – November 24, 2009 – Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur, will provide highly secure high-speed wireless Internet access throughout its premises through an upgrade of its network infrastructure. Pioneering the adoption of Cisco’s next-generation 802.11n, or Wireless-N, technology in the local hospitality industry, the high-speed wireless connectivity provides guests with …

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 24, 2009 – Cisco (NASDAQ:  CSCO) announced today that it has withdrawn its notification and report forms filed with the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act) in connection with Cisco’s proposed acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Starent Networks and has refiled to provide the DOJ with more …