Cisco Live Day 2 & Social Media
I’ve been really impressed with Cisco Live - most of the people attending are very focused on training and certifications; most will take the free T-shirts, but that’s secondary to the knowledge. Here is the second Techminute with the bloggers:
As you might be able to see in the video - all of the bloggers are pretty passionate about some of the technologies being discussed. Another item from the keynote that we didn’t even get to cover was John Chambers’ vision of the future of videoconferencing [imagine real-time language translation and search of content]; Bell Labs (AT&T/Lucent) had a similar vision back in the 90s when I worked for them, but the better/faster/cheaper networks today give us an advantage.
The Twitter volume at the conference has been lower than I expected w/ 10k attendees, but I would guess that there isn’t a lot of overlap between the guy who wants to attend a 2 hours IP SLA class and has interest in being active on Twitter.
To round out my day, I had dinner with bloggers Len Devanna, Louis Gray and Hutch Carpenter. We spent a few minutes discussing storage (poor Hutch got to hear the vision of virtualization in the datacenter), but mostly discussed the developing social media/Enterprise 2.0 industry. As I’ve mentioned before, there are great voices online, but it’s the connection with the real people that is really priceless.
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Cheers,
Stuart Miniman
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