UPDATE: As of April 30th 9:59 AM PDT, this contest has ended. Stay tuned for the announcement of all 80+ winners!   Today marks the beginning of our biggest swag contest ever! We’re running a MONTH long challenge with over 80 chances to win some fresh Cisco Meraki swag.   How it works As of today, certain actions you take in the community will earn you points. Those points will enter you to win a smattering of rad prizes. You needn’t opt in — simply taking one of these point-earning actions will do:   Reply to any topic or blog post — 5 points Start a topic (e.g. ask a question, pose a discussion point) — 5 points   To optimize the bang for your buck, writing high-quality posts can earn you even more points:   Receive a kudo — 7 points Write an answer that gets marked as a solution — 10 points   As you can see, the more helpful your action to the community, the more points you receive!   There are 3 tiers that you can reach based on the number of points you amass. Within each tier, at the end of the month, we’ll use a complex algorithm for selecting winners (a hat) to receive swag as outlined below:   Tier 1 requires 30 points and will have 50 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a custom, limited-edition “I Speak Meraki” Pin "I Speak Meraki" pin Tier 2 requires 100 points and will have 25 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a pin and a Meraki thermal bottle "I Speak Meraki" pin Meraki thermal bottle   Tier 3 requires 200 points and will have 10 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a pin, bottle, and a Meraki drawstring backpack Meraki drawstring backpack        "I Speak Meraki" pin        Meraki thermal water bottle   If free swag wasn’t enough, everyone who earns enough points to achieve any tier will be entered to win the GRAND PRIZE of a brand new MV12 WE (with 5-year license)! Reaching Tier 1 gets you 1 entry, Tier 2 doubles your entries and… (guess what!?) Tier 3 triples your entries to win! That means that, over the course of this month, you could write just 6 replies or author just 3 solutions anywhere in the community and be entered to win one of these:   How will I know how I’m doing? To keep you all up to date on your progress, every Friday I’ll post a list of everyone who has reached Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3.   When are the winners chosen? On April 30th at 10 am PDT, the contest will end. We’ll then randomly select winners for each tier (50 for Tier 1, 25 for Tier 2, and 10 for Tier 3) and we’ll also draw the lucky winner of the GRAND PRIZE.   We’ll announce each of the winners here, so be sure to stay tuned!   More details: Promotion period: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 at 10am PDT through Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 at 9:59am PDT Up to three possible entries per community member: Each time you progress a tier, your entry remains in the tier below as well (meaning more chances to win stuff!). If you are randomly selected to win in two or three separate tiers, you’ll receive only the prize from the highest level tier. If you are selected to receive the Grand Prize, this will be in addition to any tier-level prizes Shipping limitations: We can only ship prizes to residents of these Eligible Countries Complete rules and eligibility can be found here ... View more

Congratulations to @BrechtSchamp (MOTM appearance number 3), @PhilipDAth (for his 19th straight MOTM appearance), @jdsilva (10th MOTM in a row!), and @NolanHerring (5th in a row!).   March 2019 Meraki Community Members of the Month @BrechtSchamp 156 kudos 21 solutions MOTM score: 198  (New Record!)🏆  @PhilipDAth 160 kudos 12 solutions MOTM score: 184 (New Record!)🏆   @jdsilva 115 kudos 11 solutions MOTM score: 137   @NolanHerring 110 kudos 13 solutions MOTM score: 136 (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)   🎉  Congratulations! 🎉      As always, thank you to everyone who participated in March!   ... View more

Thank you to everyone who entered the Spring Cleaning contest!   The winners, courtesy of Google's random number generator,  are: PaulK cweakley Woody1 Congratulations!! 🎉 🎊 😀   I'll follow up with each of you via email to confirm your mailing address. ... View more

Don’t forget — there are only a few days left to submit your entry for the Spring Cleaning Contest! We'll be closing submissions this Monday (10am Pacific March 25th, 2019). ... View more

As we’ve been doing our own spring cleaning here at HQ, we’ve happened upon a collection of Cisco Meraki shirts in need of a loving home. We have a select number of sizes in the following styles that we are giving away to the earliest bidders!   Black Polo:   Black T-Shirt:     Blue T-Shirt:   The first members to comment on this blog post with their shirt size and which style they’d like (or PM me if you're shy) will get a shirt!   Current inventory — what is listed below is all we’ve got (I'll try to keep this up to date): Black Polo: 0 Small Black T-Shirt: 0 left! Blue T-Shirt: 1 XXXL   Please note we can only ship to Eligible Countries. ... View more

Congratulations to @PhilipDAth (for his 18th straight MOTM appearance and landing back on top), @BrechtSchamp (MOTM appearance number 2 and landing in a close 2nd place), @NolanHerring (4th MOTM in a row!), and @jdsilva (9th in a row!).    February 2019 Meraki Community Members of the Month @PhilipDAth 152 kudos 15 solutions MOTM score: 182 (New Record!)🏆  @BrechtSchamp 129 kudos 21 solutions MOTM score: 171  (New Record!)🏆  @NolanHerring 63 kudos 6 solutions MOTM score: 75 @jdsilva 28 kudos 2 solutions MOTM score: 32   (MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)   🎉  🎉  🎉 Congratulations! 🎉  🎉  🎉       As always, thank you to everyone who participated in February!   ... View more

A huge thanks to everyone who entered our hybrid networks community challenge. We really enjoyed learning about your integrations!   The community and our colleagues here at Meraki have spoken, and I’m pleased to announce both of our winners:   The Community Favorite     Meraki + ISE The Meraki Team Favorite   Meraki + Nexus + ISE   If you were intrigued by this contest and you’d like to learn more about the ways in which you can use Cisco Meraki solutions with other Cisco technologies, I’ve included some resources below.   Meraki MR + Umbrella Network Alerting in Webex Teams with Webhooks CMX Engage Threat Grid   🎉Congratulations, BrechtSchamp and David!!🎉 ... View more

Don’t forget — there are only a few days left to submit your entry for the Hybrid Networks Community Challenge! We'll be closing submissions this Friday (11am Pacific February 22, 2019).   Tell us about your hybrid stack today for a chance to stay dry sporting one of these bad boys:   Short on ideas? Consider these technologies that Meraki might pair well with: Threat Grid, Umbrella, OpenDNS, Webex/Webex Teams, DNA Center, ISE... ... View more