This is a blog about...

...technology, presentation and communication techniques, and ways to make peoples work life more fun. At least that's my best guess at the time of this "Hello World" post.

Obligatory legal stuff:

I work for Cisco Systems, Inc. Opinions expressed on this blog and in any corresponding comments are my personal opinions and not those of Cisco.

For the past 11 years I've worked for Cisco Systems in some really interesting roles.  At present I spend most of my day product managing the development of  Enterprise Social Software from a desk 3000 miles away from my team. When your entire team is in one place, and you are separated from them by a 3 hour time zone difference, you are, to put it mildly at a disadvantage. Just try driving consensus with 20 people in a room together when you're sitting in another state talking through a phone and you'll see what I mean.
 
The upshot of this rather strange working setup is it's made me a student again. In order to get over my 3000 mile, 3 hour deficit I've become keenly interested in the most effective ways to communicate, influence and collaborate with people. So I've studied presentation techniques, learned how to create short videos that capture an audience and get a point across in very little time, and used (and helped build) some great tools for distance collaboration.

So this blog will be about those work related topics that are of interest to me and hopefully of use to you.

You'll also find me on Twitter, Linkedin, and Cisco Community Central.

And now on with the blog...