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

Weblog Content Migration Is Now Finished

Ok, folks, that was it ! As you may have been able to see over the last four days I have been rather busy moving all the content from my older weblog into the new one and I am now happy to announce that migration has been completed ! So you will no longer get in your feeds over 30 weblog posts a day, or something like that, from elsua.

What you will be able to notice as well is that I have not moved all of the different weblog posts but those which I thought would still be relevant to the purpose of this particular weblog. At the same time you will also be able to see that I have updated all the different URL links to make sure they would all be working and I have also added for each of those migrated weblog entries the following sentence:  (Migrated weblog post from LSR). That way you can see that the content was already available at my former weblog. I still need to decide what I will be doing about the different comments posted in my former weblog but for the time being I will leave them where they are and see what I would want to do with them.

With all that said and now that the migration is complete I will continue with my weblog in the same way as before I got started with the migration, sharing, at least, one or two weblog posts a day so that you would have something to read on a daily basis.

Once again, and from here, I want to thank the folks where I am hosting my weblog and also the Admins from Blogsome for making this migration so much easier than whatever else I had anticipated from the very first beginning. Thanks a lot, folks ! Much appreciated all your help and committed support.

Let’s now move on !

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Next Generation Blogging Platform Previews

(Migrated weblog post from LSR)

If earlier on today I was talking about Blogging Means Business I would think you would also be interested in the following article by eWeek: Next-Generation Blogging Platform Previews. According to the article, it looks like SixApart has been very busy on a new, and very innovative, weblogging platform (Named Project Comet) that will become available in early 2006.

I am not sure why but I have never been a big fan of everything behind SixApart regarding weblogging; call it TypePad, MovableType or LiveJournal, whatever. I have never found them appealing enough to give them a try out. However, after I have read the eWeek news article, I may change that opinion very soon. You may be wondering why, right ? Well, mainly because of a couple of comments mentioned throughout the news article:

“Six Apart executives envision the blog evolving into a personal communication tool rather than an exclusively public medium”

and

“Interactivity and community building features will be emphasized in the company’s new service, with special focus on the ability to aggregate several separate blogs into a single screen, either in whole or just in sections”

I really think that those two comments regarding some of the different new features would probably be the ones that would make SixApart’s next release a very interesting phenomenon to watch on how it is going to paint itself in the Blogosphere. I wouldn’t necessarily think that it would be of a primary interest to family members and friends alone to have a weblog under this new weblogging platform. All the other way around. I think that businesses would also be having an additional interest in it. More than anything else from the perspective where we would be able to see how SixApart is trying to fill in a gap in the Knowledge Management, Communities and Collaboration areas by providing a platform where people would be executing more on that new trend called Personal Knowledge Management. But at the same time that would not become an individual effort on its own, since it would also allow webloggers to tap into other people’s weblogs and create a connection, that is, the purest form of a community.

And that, to me, is what will make Project Comet a very interesting initiative to follow up on as it will be creating a cross link between how webloggers work with their own weblogs and their audiences and other webloggers through the creation of informal communities of weblogs. WOW! Exciting, eh? Well, we will just have to wait and see how it goes further, but one thing for sure is that this is not going to be the last time I will be weblogging about this particular topic since I know we will have great things awaiting for us with the new upgrade. We will just have to wait and see how that will shape up. Thus stay tuned !

… And then I will find out myself if I am ready to dive into SixApart or stay with WordPress, so far my favourite weblogging platform.

Blogging Means Business

(Migrated weblog post from LSR)

You have probably seen this already, as it was published during the course of yesterday, but, just in case, you may not have seen it yet, over at IBM – On Demand Business there is a very interesting article about an interview with both IBM executives Harriet Pearson and Willy Chiu around the topic of weblogs: Blogging Means Business.

There have been a couple of people already weblogging on the topic, including BL Ochman and Neville Hobson, and I have just watched and listened to the interview and I can seriously recommend it to anybody who feels that corporate weblogging is not as important and key as they may have expected. Certainly, after you have watched and listened to the interview your opinion about weblogs will be different. I am sure. Both Harriet and Willy have always been inspiring enough to deliver very powerful messages and this time around they have done it again. Just to give you a quick excerpt of what they both talked about in Blogging Means Business here you have got a couple of random thoughts taken out of the interview about what weblogging means for IBM:

Weblogs is all about sharing expertise, building (And maintaining) a connection between different people with similar interests. A key element though is to keep on listening ! Listening to people who have got something to say about you, your product, your company, you name it. You cannot longer ignore the weblogging phenomenon. Yes, indeed, this is something that I have been mentioning myself for quite some time now.

Weblogs is all about how open do you want your company to be as you will be communicating with the whole world, whether you have an Intranet or an Internet weblog. Having weblogs will create customer loyalty, they will speed up innovation, team and different collaborative services. In short, “Weblogging is the glue that brings all the experts together within the company”, and beyond.

Lots of good information out there, indeed, folks, including as well some statistics on the number of IBM internal weblogs. A must watch if you are planning to get into weblogs, but do not know enough on how to get things going, as another powerful enabler to encourage people to collaborate and share knowledge with one another in a much more intuitive and direct way.

Thus with all that said I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank both Willy and Harriet for taking the initiative to show how committed IBM is to weblogging. And as far as the credibility from both Harriet and Willy is concerned, since they do not have an external weblog (Yet), I can only say that having one of the first Intranet weblogs myself I have always found their own internal weblogs very inspiring about what the whole phenomenon of weblogging is all about. I am sure that sooner or later, at one point or another, they will dive into creating their own external weblogs and continue delivering those key messages on how beneficial weblogging can be for any company who wants to be open. So stay tuned !

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