E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez

The Unofficial List of IBM Bloggers

(Migrated weblog post from LSR)

Elias, one of my IBM colleagues, has been busy the last couple of days building up an index of other IBMers who are maintaining an external weblog. The Unofficial List of IBM Bloggers is available over here, so if you are looking for information on what IBMers are doing out there in the Blogosphere, or if you are looking for a number of weblogs to subscribe yourself to from people talking about IBM related topics, amongst other things, then this Unofficial List of IBM Bloggers would probably be the best option out there.

You will also notice from that weblog post that another colleague of mine, Jean-Francois, has actually also collected a list of IBM webloggers that he is following. You can find that list over here and also you can download both lists as an OPML file that you can include in your favourite RSS Newsfeed reader. I am sure that as time goes by both lists would continue to grow up further so you may as well stay tuned to further updates and see how they continue to grow over time.

So, as you can see, a good bunch of lists on IBM Bloggers are getting together in the Blogosphere and, hopefully, they will grow further to try to bring us all together and have a much more active presence than what may have been happening so far. Thus stay tuned for further updates on each of these lists as they are bound to continue growing over the next couple of months. Way to go, folks ! Nice work !

SURPRISE!!! Free Registration Codes

(Migrated weblog post from LSR)

Long time readers from elsua would probably know by now how fond I am of being an Opera lover for a number of years now. As far as I can see this web browser is one of the best web browsers available out there and by the looks of it we now have a unique opportunity to enjoy the full potential that this browser offers. Why ? Because it is Opera’s Birthday !!! And there is a huge party going on to celebrate it !

If you want to join the party and have your own free registration code for Opera so that you can get rid of those distracting ads just head over to the 10-year online anniversary party and enter your e-mail address and click on Submit. Right afterwards you will be able to get your Opera free ad code and continue enjoying one of the most unique web surfing experiences.

Oh, and if you do not want to do that just head over to this web site download Opera from there and follow the instructions on how you can send an e-mail to get your own Opera free ad code which you can then use once Opera is installed in your machine.

Happy Birthday, Opera !!! Wish you all the best and many more years to come ! And thanks !, as well, for allowing us to make out web surfing experiences unique!

Why Knowledge Management Is So Important

(Migrated weblog post from LSR)

Last week Thursday I shared over at my Intranet weblog a post about what I think is one of the best articles regarding what Knowledge Management is all about in the recent years. A constant reminder of what we, Knowledge Workers, should be striving for when being faced with business leaders who want to try to implement successfully a so-called Knowledge Management strategy.

The article itself, of course, comes from Dave Pollard’s weblog and it is titled Why Knowledge Management is So Important. And as I said before there is no other article so clear and so strong in providing the right messages about what Knowledge Management is all about. Throughout the article you will get a chance to see an interesting comparison between what business leaders do and what KM leaders dealing with KM do. Interesting comparison, indeed, more than anything else because it places people, business and KM leaders alike, in their right spot to try to get the most out of KM: business leaders should dedicate their time to lead the business whereas KM leaders should be left alone to adopt and implement a successful KM strategy.

At the same time, and throughout the article, you will also get to read some really good hard facts about what would happen if KM continues to lose its focus in the current business environment and how refocusing in most of those items back again will bring back KM into playing a crucial role for the course of this century: the business transformation from a labour based model to an asset based model.

Thus if you ever want to know what Knowledge Management is all about and, specially what KM is not, then I would highly recommend you have a look into Why Knowledge Management is So Important. A must-read for sure.