E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Personal KM – Everything that has got to do with Personal Knowledge Management as opposed to the traditional Knowledge Management
Every so often there are those times when you bump into a couple of articles published by people, who you know and respect dearly for the tremendous amount of great work they have done in the space of Social Computing, that give you such an adrenaline rush, while reading through them, that you just can’t … Continue reading When Command and Control Needs to Become Engage and Support
After a couple of rather hectic days at work, I guess it’s time again to update my blog over here sharing with you folks a couple of thoughts that have been lingering around in my mind lately and which, more and more by the day, have continued to demonstrate what, to me, is the whole … Continue reading When This All Gets Cool, It’s All about The People and Your Passion
I can’t remember the exact date when I first took part in a backchannel chat while participating in a virtual event; I guess it must have been a few years back when I first started making use of Lotus Sametime for group chats while at work, back in the early 2000s. The thing is that … Continue reading 7 Things You Should Know About Backchannel Communication
If you would remember, last week I posted a blog entry around the topic of "Finding Experts in Your Company … Through Micro-Sharing" where I mentioned how perhaps one of the most powerful expertise location tools available out there within the corporate world would probably be Enterprise Micro-sharing/-blogging. But what happens when you are on … Continue reading Finding Experts in Your Company … While You Are on the Road!
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
