Seems to be inspired by the success of social networking, Cisco Systems is coming out with a new social collaboration platform aimed at Enterprises called Cisco Quad. Cisco Systems designed the Cisco Quad to take popular social networking tools and trick and blend them into a single platform purely for business use which is due to be released for limited uses in the first quarter of Cisco’s financial year 2011. Cisco Quad initially will be available in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

It’s a social way of dealing with everyday business, according to Murali Sitaram, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform.

“We’ve borrowed from the Web 2.0 world,” Sitaram said, noting that Cisco has been working on Quad for about three years. “It’s a manifestation of social capabilities.”

I am looking forward to test Cisco Quad, which looks to be a useful platform.

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These days huge corporations are banking on Social Networking sites, infact major vendors are developing their communication products keeping in mind of Social Networking sites. One among those is Avaya communications. There Call Center solution does address these issues. Dell generated more than $3 million in sales using a Twitter account @DellOutlet.

Now Cisco Systems is conducting their first ever live chat on Twitter about the growing impact of social software and collaboration tools within the enterprise on Wednesday, June 9^th from 11:00am – 12:00pm PT using the #CollabChat hashtag.

The Cisco enterprise collaboration experts Panel participants include:

• Phil Heyneker, Manager, Collaboration Solutions Marketing
• Lawrence Liu, Product Manager, Enterprise Collaboration (@LLiu)
• Lynn Lucas, Senior Director, Collaboration Solutions Marketing (@Lylucas)
• Paul Russell, Business Development Manager, Enterprise Collaboration (@parussel)
• Joe Schueller, Sales Business Development Manager, Collaboration Business Transformation (@JoeSchueller)
• Vishnukant Varma, Software Engineer, Enterprise Collaboration (@vishnukvarma)

Discussion will include:

• The role of enterprise policy in Enterprise 2.0
• The importance of interoperability and open integration
• How the unified content model enables collaboration

Submit questions in advance to @CiscoCollab or submit by posting a comment below (log in with cisco.com userid to post a comment).

What is a TweetChat?

Tweet chats are online conversations, held at a pre-arranged time, between a group of Twitter users, and using a specific Twitter hashtag to identify the discussion.

How Do I Participate?

On the day of the event, login to www.tweetchat.com and follow the #CollabChat hashtag.  Alternatively, you can use your favorite Twitter client (i.e. Tweet Grid, TweetDeck) or TwitterSearch to follow the chat hashtag.  During the event, you can follow the discussion, contribute questions, and submit your own comments by using the same hashtag

Starting 3^rd of August, 2009, Cisco Systems is giving away 15 Flip Video Camcorders on twitter. The Flip Video Camcorders could be yours by following the three simple steps.

Watch!
Every business day for 3 weeks, Cisco will ask a different question from http://www.twitter.com/DigitalCribs  about the new Digital Cribs webisodes featuring Paul Van Dyk, Graham Hill, and Martha Lane Fox. Watch the videos, tweet the answer to the daily question, and follow @DigitalCribs to find out if The Flip is yours!

Tweet!
To enter the contest, tweet the correct answer via @reply and include the hashtag #DigitalCribs.

Win!
Cisco will randomly choose one winner per day to win a new Flip VideoTM camcorder. Winners will be listed there and announced via our Twitter account, @DigitalCribs, every day before they post the next question.