Have your company’s travel restrictions got you down? Do you miss talking to real people and sitting down for a real lunch? Remote interaction can be effective with the right tools, but can it replace in-person meetings? On this week’s Buzzword Bingo we discuss the positives and negatives of remote communication. To help us, we’ve invited Erwin Emge to the show. Erwin is a Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco. He’s been with Cisco 10 years and has experience in sales and on the corporate side of the company. Along with Jason and Mike, Erwin works remotely. Tune in this week to see how they do it and what techniques and technologies work best. Plus, as always, we cover recent Net-Net News, Rants and as a change of pace, a relaxing Call-To-Action.

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Show #7 Agenda

• Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic: Face-to-Face vs. Remote Interaction
  • How do we remotely collaborate with our teams?
  • Phone
  • Web Conferencing
  • Video
  • Instant Messaging
  • What issues are there?
• Net-Net News:
  • Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone
  • AT&T responds to FCC questioning, throws Apple under the bus
  • BBspot – Google Pulls Apple from Search Results
  • Facebook Shuts Down RSS Feed App
  • Coding Horror: Windows 7: The Best Vista Service Pack Ever
  • Google promises the end of viruses
  • Major League Baseball Edits Obama’s All-Star Game Pitch on
  • Google Apps Security Questioned After Twitter Leak
  • Finally, Barnes & Noble returns to e-books
• Erwin’s Rant:
  • Texting while driving
  • Study: Texting Raises Crash Risk 23-Fold – CBS News
• Mike’s Rant:
  • PSA: Don’t present to customers on that crappy-sounding speakerphone!
• Jason’s Rant:
  • Long Email threads with no summary
• Call-to-Action:
  • Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please Don’t Go by Barcelona)

Running time: 01:09:08
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There are plenty of enterprise collaboration applications to choose from. Wikis, blogs and forums are all the rage, but are they really better than email? This week on Buzzword Bingo, Jason and Mike talk enterprise collaboration tools with Michael Popovich and Jeremy Laurenson. Michael is a Consulting Systems Engineer with Cisco. Jeremy is a Technology Solutions Architect with Cisco. Together they provide some great insight on the usefulness of enterprise collaboration tools and their impact on end-user productivity.

(Sorry, but I messed up the chapters in this episode. They’ll be back next time. But now, if you subscribe to the video podcast in iTunes, there are chapters in that version.)

Show #5 Agenda

• Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic:
• Enterprise Collaboration Tools
• Net-Net News:
• Outlook is Broken
• Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models
• Our favorite iPhone applications
• Skype video calls from 30,000+ feet on Southwest Air WiFi!
• Hands-on experience with the Verizon MiFi
• Best Ad from Microsoft EVER! (Bing)
• Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon
• Mike’s Rant:
• URL Pronunciation
• Jason’s Rant:
• FAA: Update your In-Flight Rules
• Michael’s Rant:
• AT&T FAIL
• Call-to-Action:
• “Weird Al” Yankovic – Craigslist

Running time: 01:13:50
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