E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Like I have just mentioned in a previous blog post, in a few hours from now I will be heading down to Orlando, FL, from Raleigh, NC (Where I have spent the last few days meeting up with my entire team), to attend and participate at the always exciting and exhilarating IBM event of events: … Continue reading IBM Lotusphere 2009 – Social Software Programs and Enablement Activities
Tags: Tags: IBM, Steve Mills, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2.0, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Corporate 2.0, Corporation 2.0, Consumer Market, Innovation, WorkPlace, Workfoce, Knowledge Workers, Play, Games, Mobile, Mobile 2.0, Social Capital, Mike Gotta, James Governor, Dion Hinchcliffe If you would remember, a couple of days ago, I created a weblog article … Continue reading Mills Spikes Consumer Social Software for IBM – Can Enterprises Afford Ignoring the Consumer Market? – Part Deux
(Previously, on elsua – The Knowledge Management Blog at ITtoolbox) Tags: IBM, Steve Mills, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Frank Gen, Clint Boulton, Corporate 2.0, Corporation 2.0, Consumer Market, Innovation, Critical Mass Last week there was quite an interesting news article shared over at Internetnews.com that I thought quite a … Continue reading Mills Spikes Consumer Social Software for IBM – Can Enterprises Afford Ignoring the Consumer Market?
Tags: IBM, SWG, IBM Software, Lotus Ventura, Ventura, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, IBM 2.0, Knowledge Management, KM, Collaboration, Lotusphere2007, Lotusphere, Lotus Sametime 7.5, Sametime 7.5, James Snell, Elias Torres, Andy Piper, Cote, BluePages, Expertise Location, Dogear, Social Bookmarking, Activities, Communities, Roller Weblogger, Roller, Metablogging, Blog Central, Weblogs If yesterday … Continue reading IBM Lotus Ventura – IBM’s Take of Social Software within the Enterprise
Apparently, our productivity as employees has been plummeting since the mid 70s. Yes, indeed, you are reading it right, since the mid 70s! And yet we seem to be working more hours nowadays than ever before with a rather horrifying effect on us all for that matter. Yet, productivity still is very weak and we don’t seem to succeed … Continue reading Can IBM Watson Workspace Save Our Productivity?
Imagine one day you read this quote: ‘The way we teach in our schools isn’t the way I think you create successful (and happy) adults, it’s the way you create the society we’ve had until now.’ Now imagine you swap the wordings ’teaching’ for ‘learning’ and ‘our schools’ for ‘our workplaces’. Read it out loud … Continue reading How Social Networking Tools Enable Heutagogy in Learning Organisations
After I quit IBM nearly three years ago, one of the first things I really wanted to do, before anything else, was to spend an entire month doing lots of thinking trying to figure out what I wanted to do next, as I was embarking on my next adventure as an independent adviser on Social … Continue reading Work Stream #2 – Remote Working in Social Business Is Dead!
In one of my earlier blog posts from last week, I got asked the following question: “So, what we all want to know is what have you been doing and what/where can we find you in the future?” and while I will be answering the first part over the course of time with the various blog … Continue reading How Do I Make Sense of Social Networking Tools
My goodness! Can you believe it’s now a bit over 5 months since I left IBM and moved on to my next adventure as a trusted advisor around Social Business and Digital Transformation? Yes, I know, me neither! It’s just gone so fast it’s been a bit of a challenge keeping up with the pace … Continue reading Social Connections VI – From Adoption to Adaptation, from Enablement into Engagement, while #WOLWeek Kicks Off
I am not too sure whether meetings lower our IQ or whether they make us all more stupid, as my good friend Stowe Boyd reflected on a recent blog post, but I can certainly confirm they do take a toll on your own productivity. Specially, when those meetings are not set up by you, but … Continue reading How Social Networking Can Improve Work Meetings
