WebEx: Ideas in Motion

Use WebEx Basic Free to Work Remotely This Summer

In a recent study conducted by Cisco WebEx by Wakefield Research, small business owners will spend up to four weeks working remotely.

They will do by using online tools and web collaboration to stay in touch and get the job done. The survey was conducted between June 6 and June 14, involving the owners of businesses with 100 or fewer employees.

Summer may be the time for vacations, but small business owners can’t afford to be away from the office for long. To make the most of work and personal time, many plan to work remotely, on average, 18 days this summer, according to the survey of 500 U.S. small business owners.

One way to get it done is with a free basic account from WebEx.

15% say they intend to work remotely 36 days or more. Read More »

 

 

How-To Host Your First Free WebEx Meeting

The new WebEx Meetings is focused on making online meetings easy.

The user interface makes starting an online meeting as simple as one click! The price of a meeting is very affordable - you can get a free Basic account - and you can host a meeting with two other people using your computer for audio by starting an instant meeting!

Get your free Basic WebEx Meetings account here. Here's how to get started with your first meeting. 

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You are Helping Us Shake Things Up at Enterprise 2.0 and Beyond!

You may not have thought about it, but when something big is going on at Cisco, we pay a lot of attention to what you - yes you - are saying about it. With our announcements this week at Enterprise 2.0, you have been generous with your attention and interest. Thank you!

We get daily reports that summarize the conversation and we thought you might see a little glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes when we start talking about things like Cisco WebEx Social.

It's great to have Nike tell the story.

Of course we love great press coverage and it's great to have someone amazing like Richard Foo from Nike telling his story (from InformationWeek).

Nike's Foo took the stage in a track suit and made a Nike slogan--"it's not about being fast, it's about being faster"--part of his pitch. "Some of the traditional collaboration tools, like file shares and email, are not fast enough for us to be competitive," he said. ... Nike has since selected as its collaboration software Cisco Quad, which Cisco announced Tuesday was being rebranded WebEx Social. This enterprise social environment grew from 1,000 to 5,000 users in the first 60 days after it was launched, solely through viral adoption, and Foo is now preparing for a more formal launch to win participation from 30,000 employees. read more

Like, follow, post, tweet; it's all good.

Then we monitor social media to check out the conversation on Twitter and Facebook (and more) and look for trends that help us understand a few things: how well are folks understanding our message, is the sentiment positive and is there interest in what's happening. We also pull out great tweets and share those with the folks presenting so they know how things are going. Here's a sampling:

• CMSWire.com ‏@cmswire: Great keynote session on how Nike is performing advanced enterprise social collaboration with Cisco WebEx Social ‪#e2conf
• David Hobbie ‏@KMHobbie: Impressed by Cisco Collaboration platform--seems to smoothly integrate many aspects of collaboration ‪#e2conf ‪#demofun
• Dion Hinchcliffe ‏@dhinchcliffe: So, Cisco Quad has been renamed @WebEx Social. Probably a good move. ‪#e2conf #socbiz
• Computerworld's @sgaudin Nike's Richard Foo: It’s not about connecting with people we already know. It’s about finding new people to work with. #e2conf

A social media cloud that's just words.

And then we also look at the conversation cloud to check on keywords. Here's what we see trending this week. Of course we love seeing WebEx popping near the middle! Are you following the news at Enterprise 2.0? What has grabbed your interest? We'd love to hear from you directly. You can comment here on our blog, on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter! Be part of our conversation cloud!

 

 

Cisco WebEx Social - Making Collaboration Easier at Work

Cisco announced a variety of innovations at Enterprise 2.0 that will make collaboration easier at work. Cisco WebEx® Social (formerly known as Cisco Quad™) builds on existing offerings that help employees share information and work together regardless of where they are located.

Murali Sitaram, Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Cloud Collaboration tells explains the changes [watch video].

Here's what's new:

WebEx Social Post on iPhone

Microsoft Office Integration: WebEx Social works with Microsoft Office so teams can jointly edit and post updated documents, presentations and spreadsheets back to WebEx Social.

 

Email: enhanced e-mail integration means workers can stay in e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook while also creating and posting updates to WebEx Social.

Mobility: WebEx Social iPhone and iPad client gives workers the ability to transition from social networking to real-time IM, Web conferencing and voice calls directly from the mobile application.

Video: With new browser-based video calling, people can seamlessly switch to a high-definition video conference without going to a separate application.

With today's news, Cisco is extending WebEx cloud services to not only encompass what was formerly known as Quad, but also Cisco Callway, Cisco's hosted TelePresence solutions. Cisco is aligning its Quad and Callway brands with WebEx where they join a market leading portfolio of web conferencing and instant messaging solutions. The WebEx cloud is the world's second-largest public cloud for business collaboration applications.

 

WebEx Social Email Integration

 

 

WebEx Social Office Integration

 

 

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