E L S U A ~ A blog by Luis Suarez

June 13, 2010June 13, 2010

A World Without Email – Year 3, Weeks 11 to 18 (Social Networks Spur the Demise of Email in the Workplace)

Like I have just mentioned in another blog post, I am making my way already to Boston to attend, and present, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference event that will start taking place next week Monday. And the excitement is building up more and more by the day. I am currently drafting this blog post on … Continue reading A World Without Email – Year 3, Weeks 11 to 18 (Social Networks Spur the Demise of Email in the Workplace)

June 13, 2010June 13, 2010

Trip to Boston to Attend and Present at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference

It looks like, in this blog, I am going through one of those phases that pretty much resembles the Guadiana river. I show up. I don’t. I show up. I don’t. Goodness! I need to stop that before I go insane myself! I am now, finally, back again into my regular blogging activities! I guess … Continue reading Trip to Boston to Attend and Present at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference

May 28, 2010May 28, 2010

Is Multitasking Bad for the Brain?

What do you reckon? Do you think that, as the title of this blog post suggests, all of us, knowledge Web workers, are damaging our brains when we multitask? I never thought about it myself and I do a fair bit of multitasking during the course of the day, but, apparently, yes!, that seems to … Continue reading Is Multitasking Bad for the Brain?

May 25, 2010May 26, 2010

Gamers – A New Breed of Knowledge Workers in the Making?

I love TED Talks. Really. I *do* love them. And not just because of some of the most impressive and stunning visualisations that some folks have been putting together about them, like this one, but mainly due to the fact that a good number of them are amazingly inspiring and a rather clear call to … Continue reading Gamers – A New Breed of Knowledge Workers in the Making?

May 25, 2010

Reflections on Blogging and Real Life Distractions

A good number of people have been asking me offline over the last 3 and a half weeks whether I have finally abandoned this blog for good and moved into something else, since I have gone rather quiet as of late and no new blog posts have been making it thus far for a little … Continue reading Reflections on Blogging and Real Life Distractions

May 6, 2010May 7, 2010

Welcome to the World of Socialnomics – Part Deux!

Back in August last year, if you have been reading this blog for that long, you would remember how, once again, I couldn’t resist the temptation to put together a short blog post on another one of those video clips around the Did You Know? theme that keep coming back time and time again. I … Continue reading Welcome to the World of Socialnomics – Part Deux!

May 4, 2010

Calling Up for a Reboot of the Education System – Today!

Sometimes there are days in the week where you feel you need to sit back, relax, breathe while you are counting to ten, acknowledge how you have been truly wowed by just bumping into one of those video clips that can surely leave a mark on you and not leave you indifferent from there onwards. … Continue reading Calling Up for a Reboot of the Education System – Today!

May 3, 2010

Why Lessons Learned Will Be Critical for Enterprise 2.0 to Succeed

A few days back, my good friend, KM extraordinnaire and always insightful, Bill Ives, put together a couple of blog posts under the titles of "Are There Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption?" and "Are Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Best Practices Useful?" (The latter one over at The FASTFoward Blog) where he was reflecting on a … Continue reading Why Lessons Learned Will Be Critical for Enterprise 2.0 to Succeed

April 30, 2010

Enterprise 2.0 – Towards Embracing a New Emerging Kind of Leadership

One of the toughest challenges that any business faces when embracing Social Computing within the enterprise is how, time and time again, social software tools keep challenging themselves the already existing status quo of the corporate world. Specially, within the traditional, hierarchical and structured leadership teams going all the way to the top! But is … Continue reading Enterprise 2.0 – Towards Embracing a New Emerging Kind of Leadership

April 29, 2010

Did You Know? Social Networks in Spain

Who hasn’t heard about the now incredibly popular series of video clips shared in YouTube, amongst several other places, under the heading "Did You Know?" to share some further insights on the kind of significant impact that social computing and social networks are having not only within the business world, but in our society as … Continue reading Did You Know? Social Networks in Spain