It wasn't a surprise to see networking expansionist Cisco buying Flip, the popular video camcorder (though the price tag was steep especially given Cisco's recent stock decline). The logic is simple:
What's more important for Information & Knowledge Management professionals, the folks responsible for managing content and provisioning the workforce with collaboration and authoring tools, is that Cisco has given them another tool to add video to the wealth of information that employees can capture and share.
Coupled with an internal, secure "YouTube for the enterprise," video is a powerful tool for:
Cisco can harness the Flip channel, add more authoring tools that help make Flip video business-ready, link video into its WebEx Connect platform, and probably tap into personal video conferencing.
Have other scenarios that Cisco is now able to help support with Flip? Please let us know.