Open Business – Page 110 – E L S U A ~ A blog by Luis Suarez

January 19, 2006

How and When to Respond to Conversations – Managing Your Own Virtual Water Cooler

Over at Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel has been sharing today an interesting weblog post that I thought would be worth while commenting on as well. In How and When to Respond to Conversations he is actually wondering “whether companies needed to address every single comment/question that comes in on their blogs” or not. I generally … Continue reading How and When to Respond to Conversations – Managing Your Own Virtual Water Cooler

January 4, 2006April 9, 2008

Making Sense of Social Bookmarking Offerings – del.icio.us vs. BlinkList

Yesterday evening Mike (Thanks, Mike, and welcome to elsua!), one of the folks behind BlinkList, shared over at Web Links and Thoughts To Revisit the following comment that I thought was worth while a reply to on a separate weblog post to provide some further insights: “Why use so many social bookmarking services and what … Continue reading Making Sense of Social Bookmarking Offerings – del.icio.us vs. BlinkList

December 29, 2005April 9, 2008

What Wikipedia Lost: Credibility

As you may have been able to read all over the place in different weblogs and mainstream news web sites like The Register, there has been lots of controversy on the accuracy of Wikipedia overall, specially since the recent issues raised by the different media. To quote them all would be far too long and … Continue reading What Wikipedia Lost: Credibility

December 27, 2005April 9, 2008

WordPress 2.0 Now Available for Download

While continuing with the metablogging topics I have been discussing over the last few days I thought it would be worth while mentioning as well something that a lot of people have been talking about already and many of us have been waiting for: the new release from WordPress to version 2.0. Indeed, WordPress v. … Continue reading WordPress 2.0 Now Available for Download

December 21, 2005April 9, 2008

How Trust Builds Social Capital – Social Capital and Trust

Over the last couple of weeks you have seen how in a couple of times I have been talking about the importance of social capital and trust in order to help organisations succeed in providing the value add not only to their customers but also to their own employees. Both social capital and trust are … Continue reading How Trust Builds Social Capital – Social Capital and Trust

December 14, 2005December 15, 2005

Identity 2.0 – Identity Is Really Reputation

Continuing further with the topic of Team-Building Key for the Virtual WorkPlace and touching specifically on the topic of trust I thought I would share with you, folks, one of those presentations that after you watch it it makes you think about the subject presented in a new and refreshing way and certainly will not … Continue reading Identity 2.0 – Identity Is Really Reputation

December 9, 2005December 15, 2005

Virtual Teams – Establishing Trust Is Key to Successful Teamwork

Yesterday I created a weblog entry where I mentioned how crucial it is for teams and communities to realise the true power of both humour (having fun at work) and trust, specially, next to social capital, in order to create and sustain a healthy working environment for everyone to collaborate successfully with one another. So … Continue reading Virtual Teams – Establishing Trust Is Key to Successful Teamwork

November 24, 2005November 29, 2005

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) – An Update

After the weblog post I shared a couple of days ago on Social Networks – Knowledge Management Done Right I thought you might be interested in another post around the same subject (Personal Knowledge Management) that Dave Pollard (Author as well of Why Knowledge Management Is So Important) shared yesterday: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) – An … Continue reading Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) – An Update

November 23, 2005November 23, 2005

Frappr – Mapping Your Web Community Space

Ok, folks, here we go with another social networking application that may become very helpful for communities, specially for those who are disperse throughout different time zones, countries, regions, etc. A number of different webloggers have already commented about it (Downloadsquad, Lifehacker, Full Circle Online Interaction Blog, Micro Persuasion, even my colleague Ed Brill on … Continue reading Frappr – Mapping Your Web Community Space

November 22, 2005November 22, 2005

Social Networks – Knowledge Management Done Right

A few days back you would remember how I was providing in a few lines some more information about what IBM is doing in the areas of Knowledge Management, Collaboration and Communities. And while that particular weblog post would provide you with some good details, I thought I would also point out to you a number … Continue reading Social Networks – Knowledge Management Done Right