E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
IBM – Everything that would relate to IBM happenings around the subject of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Communities and Social Computing
“Don’t start with the tools. A fool with a tool is still a fool” is the last sentence, and powerful conclusion, from a recent short, but rather thought-provoking, blog post that my good friend, Oscar Berg, shared, not long ago, under the heading “Don’t start with the tools“. In case you haven’t read it just yet, I … Continue reading Don’t Start with the Tools: They Are Not Your Final Destination
As things are starting to settle back in, after a couple of hiccups with WordPress plugins here and there, following the hardware upgrade debacle of my hosting provider over the course of the weekend (Thank goodness everything turned out all right eventually!), here we go, once again, getting immersed on that regular blogging schedule. And … Continue reading [Podcast] This Week in Lotus 018: A World Without Email? Or Blackberries?
Today has been one of those days where I had hoped I would have had plenty more time to tune in and participate in one of those live events that you know will surely be worth while engaging in, because it comes up right along the alley of interesting subjects you would want to know … Continue reading IBM Aims at Reinventing Relationships with Northstar: We Better Watch…
Last week was one of those weeks that would surely mark a before and an after on my mission of living “A World Without Email“. Two years back, in June 2008, to be more precise, I published an article on this very same subject in The New York Times. For a good few hours it … Continue reading A World Without E-mail: The Mashable Effect!
Earlier on today I bumped into an article that made me wonder, once again, about when are we going to stop talking around the topic of multiple generations at work and the generational divide itself, as one of the arguments that’s going to change the workplace for good in the next coming years, if not … Continue reading Dear Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Gen Yers … Can We Please Move On?
Usually, weekends, as most of you already know, are rather quiet over here in this blog and in most of my virtual social networking hang-out places. More than anything else, because I use that time to unwind properly; to chill out, relax, charge some batteries from that week at work and, eventually, connect with my … Continue reading A World Without E-mail: One Man’s Vision of a Social Workplace – Wear Sunscreen
I love it when it happens! You know, that “Serendipity Doing Its Magic” thing. It just happened once again! Earlier on today, as I was recovering from the @RWW effect, I was catching up through my Twitter timeline stream and I bumped into two wonderful YouTube video clips that come from two completely different worlds, … Continue reading Knowledge Is … All About Working Smarter, Not Necessarily Harder!
A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in … Continue reading The Business Case for Enterprise Social Bookmarking: $4.6 Million a Year in Cost Savings!
Where is my chocolate cake? Do you have all the nice and fresh ingredients that would be needed to make a delicious one? You do? Now, do you also have the talent to make a mouthwatering one? You do? Excellent! Then you are ready to build and sustain an online community, because that’s what it … Continue reading CommunityBuilders – Building and Sustaining On-Line Communities by Steve Dale
Yesterday I put together a blog post where I tried to share some further insights on how if today’s current corporate world would want to survive in the 21st century, it would probably need to start thinking about how to bring back again into the workplace the fun factor. Today’s knowledge workers surely are becoming … Continue reading How Playing Games at Work Will Help You Build Trust for Your Business
