A Weekly Glimpse of elsua – The Knowledge Management Blog – Week 46
Posted on Nov 26, 2006 | Categories: Collaboration, Communities, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Tools, Links and Thoughts, Personal KM, Productivity Tools, Social Enterprise | 1 Comment
Here we go, once again, with some of the highlights from the most popular weblog posts of the week from my other Internet weblog, elsua – The Knowledge Management Blog, but this time around for week 46. As I have been doing thus far, I am actually going to share the top most read weblog posts of the week along with the RSS feed text I shared for each of the weblog posts for those ones which I haven’t talked about in the past so that you can get a glimpse of that particular weblog post and a hint as to why it may have been a popular one. Then if it is a repeat popular entry I would add some further insights on the weblog post itself.
Thus with all that said, here is the top 5 most popular weblog posts from week 46 from my other Internet weblog: elsua – The Knowledge Management Blog. Feel free to chime in the conversations rather over there or over here by appending a comment or offline, too.
1. Skype 3.0 – Entering the Realm of Online Collaboration with a Splash!: It looks like Skype has just released a new beta, Skype 3.0, which brings forward a whole bunch of new features. So here is a quick overview of how thanks to those same new features Skype is just about to finally distance itself from other IM and VoIP by putting together an impressive list of real-time online collaborative features set that everyone would be able to use. Prepare for businesses to start paying more and more attention to Skype. The fun has just got started !
2. Vyew 2.0 – Free Web Collaboration: For the second week running this particular weblog post seems to have become rather popular still. And somehow I must confess that I am not really surprised about it, because having used this e-meeting tool a few times already I can only say that it is a really worth while choice if you would want to have a new and refreshing experience about meeting online with your colleagues or friends to share stuff. It just makes the experience a delight. Highly recommended!
3. Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense – Is That Really So?!?: As if we didn’t have enough with Web 2.0 and all the hype going on around the subject of social software, here is an article from the NYT introducing the concept of Web 3.0. This is a weblog post in which I share why I am not really looking forward to such Web 3.
4. IBM’s Knowledge Management Strategy: This is actually one weblog post I created a few months back and which details IBM‘s strategy with regards to Knowledge Management and where I touched base on four of the different key components that are part of that particular strategy: Asset Management, Expertise Location, Collaboration and On-demand Learning. Worth while a read for all those who would want to have a look into how IBM is trying to put together both the traditional KM and the next wave of KM pumped up with all this social computing movement going on at the moment.
5. How Is Your Email Etiquette?: For the fourth week running (I am not sure if I would be able to keep up with it, if it continues like this), this particular weblog post makes it into the Top 5 most popular weblog posts from elsua – The Knowledge Management Blog. Quite intriguing to still see how it keeps coming up over and over again as a topic very much related to collaboration. I guess things haven’t changed that much after all and we are still prone to collaborate through e-mail. Sigh.
And that was it, folks. Next week I shall be back with some more, for sure, including something else that I have been able to get just recently from the ITtoolbox folks, and that is the fact that not long ago I have started receiving statistics on the top 10 most popular weblog posts per months from elsua – The Knowledge Management Blog, so during the course of next week I shall be providing you, once a month, some of that data as well so that you can check for some interesting readings and their commentary and starting this time around with October. Thus stay tuned !
Tags: Metablogging, elsua, ITtoolbox, Skype, Vyew, Web 3.0, IBM, Knowledge Management, KM, E-Mail, Social Networking, Social Computing, Web 2.0, E-meetings, Expertise Location, Asset Management, Collaboration, Learning
Off on to the Next Challenge – La Blogosfera!
Posted on Nov 24, 2006 | Categories: Knowledge Management, Knowledge Tools, Metablogging, Personal KM | 5 Comments
Some time ago, you would remember how I mentioned that I was actually planning some more changes here in elsua.net and that over time those changes would eventually become a reality. Well, here we go with the next change I am about to implement, then, from now onwards. This time around it actually doesn’t have anything to do with the weblog template as such, but more with its content. No, not to worry, I am not going to stop weblogging about topics related to Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Communities, Social Computing, Work / Life Balance, and whatever else. On the contrary, I will be continuing to weblog on those topics but this time around elsua.net is actually going bilingual!
Yes, that is right ! As most of you already know, I am actually a native Spaniard, so my mother tongue is, of course, Spanish. And for some time now I have been thinking about trying out something over here, which was basically posting some posts not only in English, but also in Spanish, perhaps as my initial steps to enter the Spanish blogosphere (La Blogosfera!) and be able to conduct a number of different conversations related to KM but in my mother tongue.
It is actually going to be an interesting challenge because, believe it or not, most of my nearly 10 years of knowledge in the field of KM comes actually from the English speaking world, so it would be quite intriguing to find out how I am going to try to manage putting some of those thoughts in Spanish and still be able to make some sense out of it. Yes, I know, it is going to be a nice challenge though. It will help me polish those skills and expertise and adapt them to other languages other than English.
So from now on every other weblog post, still haven’t decided on the frequency just yet, I will be weblogging about KM stuff in Spanish, so if you are subscribed to my RSS feed, or if you check my weblog homepage, don’t think that someone may have taken over my weblog and made some havoc. It is probably just me making that havoc and checking out how that experience is going to work out. We shall see.
One thing though that I have noticed, while getting things ready, is that there are not many weblogs out there in the Spanish blogosphere around the subject of KM (Gestión de Conocimientos or Administración de Conocimientos). At least, I haven’t found any substantially interesting, and updated regularly, that I could add to my blogroll and share with you over here. I guess I would have to start small then. Thus if you are reading this and you know of a weblog written in Spanish dealing with topics related to KM, by all means please do let me know because there is a great chance that I would be subscribing (and linking) to it.
Right, that was it. I said it. It was about time! elsua.net is going bilingual from now onwards and I hope it proves to be an interesting and enriching experience. Oh, by the way, just in case your Spanish skills may be a bit rough or rather you may not be able to speak Spanish, not to worry, because you would be able to translate those weblog posts with one of the widgets I have been having on the weblog template for a while now. Just head down to on the right column and locate the section Translate This Page, select the corresponding language and translate away. Hopefully, the translation would be good enough to give you an idea and, if not, feel free to ask.
Finally, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank three of my IBM fellow colleagues who have managed to continue further with that inspiration of jumping into the Spanish blogosphere: Fabián, César and Xavier. Thanks, guys !
Tags: Metablogging, elsua, Spanish blogs, Blogosphere, Blogosfera, Gestión de Conocimientos, Administración de Conocimientos, Fabián Gradolph, César Viteri, Xavier Verges
