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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