E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Open Business – Everything that is very much related to the world of Social Business, Enterprise 2.0, Social Enterprise, going from processes to tools to anything related to the topic of social networking, social software, social computing, social business, Web 2.0, etc. etc.
Last week there was an article published over at Harvard Business Review‘s The Conversation blog that surely attracted plenty of attention all over the place, not only because it certainly is a very good read, but also because it touches base on a key point for a successful adoption of social software within the corporate … Continue reading Social Computing Training Is All About Changing People’s Behaviours
There is no doubt that one of the big challenges in the corporate world that every single business faces more often than not is the ability to find experts successfully in a timely manner. It’s probably, next to finding information, the number one challenge that every single knowledge worker faces on their day to day … Continue reading Finding Experts in Your Company … Through Micro-Sharing
One of the topics that I set myself to blog about way back when I first got things started over here a few years ago was surprisingly enough about Work Life Balance (Yes, I know, it doesn’t have much to do with KM, Collaboration, Communities, Learning or Social Computing for that matter… but not to … Continue reading It’s All About Work Life Integration; It’s All About You!
After two years, I think that’s probably the first, and last time!, you will see me writing that particular sentence as part of the title of a blog post: "Email Is Dead […]" or its overall content, for that matter. I know there are some people out there who have been following for a while … Continue reading A World Without Email — Year 2, Week 52 (Email Is Dead… Long Live Email!)
WebWorkerDaily has got a very interesting and thought-provoking blog post where they are actually questioning the worthiness of having comments turned on in a blog, whether for personal or business use, given the recent happenings of very popular blogs finally deciding to turn comments off for now. That WebWorkerDaily article surely is a good read … Continue reading Are Blog Comments Worth It? Treasure the Conversations
I have mentioned already a couple of times how my first contact with social software tools inside IBM, my current employer, was around the year 2000, when one of the communities I still belong to (And still one of my favourite ones, too!) decided to put together a wiki where we could all contribute and … Continue reading How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation
It has been nearly a month since the last time I put together a blog post over here on how I’m doing living "A World Without Email" and, while looking into the last few weeks, I have just realised that I’m almost on the closure of the second year experiment of giving up on corporate … Continue reading A World Without Email – Year 2, Weeks 49 to 51 (EMail Is Where Knowledge Goes to Die)
A few days back my good friend, and fellow IBM colleague, Aneel Lakhani, tagged me on an on-going meme that’s been going around for a little while now called "The Web in Twenty" where participants have to eventually provide answers to three different questions: How has the Web changed your life? How has the Web … Continue reading The Web in Twenty
I know that plenty of folks out there do not buy into the argument of the generational divide; most people think it’s just something that has been designed and developed to sell the concept of Enterprise 2.0 to businesses (Specially, if you think about the good old KM meme of "Knowledge Transfer" of senior employees … Continue reading How Will You Manage?
Or welcome to the new Luis, for that matter! I guess there is nothing better than honest, constructive, candid, helpful feedback about your blog and blogging style, specially when it comes from people you respect and treasure for what they have taught you over the years in one of the areas you feel very passionate … Continue reading Welcome to the new @elsua!
