Cisco held a big Collaboration event in November 2009 and announced a slew of collaboration products. One of those was a hosted email service, but barely 15 months later, the product has taken a bullet to the head: " Cisco Systems is dropping its hosted e-mail product. Mmm, "interesting" times ahead for Cisco. MORE >>

Virgin Media in the UK is deploying a suite of tools from Cisco to support company-wide collaboration : " Virgin Media, one of the UK’s entertainment and digital communications companies has taken a step to becoming a more social business. It is deploying Cisco collaboration tools to its 15,000 workers. MORE >>

Links for this week (weekly) → Some collaboration lessons by John Chambers (Cisco) April 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices , Organization & Management , social computing I already mentioned CISCO’s collaborative experience a long time ago. Antoine Riboud. MORE >>

To collaborate, the “right tools&# have been workspaces, discussion forums, shared document libraries, wikis, and even web conferencing. The common thread across these tools is their ability to create a “sense of place&#. Web conferencing enabled remote teams to collaborate while reducing travel costs. MORE >>

Online Meetings Made Easier The Impact of Virtualization on Wide Area Networks—Part 1 “Bring Back the Housecall…Virtually&# Most Commented 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration - #2 EnergyWise Development and Data Centers 20th Anniversary of the Web: Congratulations! MORE >>