Tags: Twitter, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Networks, Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, Remote Collaboration, Communities, SMS, Google Talk, Twitteroo, Twitterific, RSS, Syndication, Micro-blogging, Metablogging, Q&A, Web Presence, Serendipity, Knowledge Discovery, Informal Learning, Social Capital, Anecdotes, Clippings, Sticky Notes, Quick Links, Twittering

Incredibly massive the impact that just one single social computing offering can have out there on the Internet. I am sure that by now you rather hate it or love it. Either one of those. No doubt. That is exactly what is happening out there in the Blogosphere, too! You rather hate Twitter or you love it. Hundreds and hundreds of different weblog posts have been put together thus far in the last couple of weeks, covering the potential value add from Twitter in the business world, or its lack of. And I must say that after I have been playing around with it for the last couple of days I am actually one of the folks who loves the experience. Yes, I am going to admit that for a number of months I was not really convinced about it, I thought it was just a total waste of time, specially for those knowledge workers already busy doing all sorts of things. And on top of that get going with some twittering? I didn’t think so.

However, thanks to some peer pressure from some of the folks who I already know from their weblogs or whatever other different conversations, and a few other weblog entries here and there talking about it, I, finally, decided to give it a try and my initial opinion has now changed completely. So, like I mentioned previously, here is a weblog entry that I have put together where I have listed 10 reasons why I strongly believe that Twitter is actually a very empowering social software tool that would help knowledge workers improve their already existing social networks. Yes, that is right, 10 good reasons why you would want to continue make use of Twitter or why if you haven’t gotten started with it yet, it may be a good opportunity to do so now. Thus here we go with those reasons:

1. Strong sense of community: That is right. This is perhaps one of the main reasons why Twitter on its own is really worth while exploring and playing around further with it. Being able to see the pictures, and the profiles, of the people you are connected to and get a real sense of what they are doing, and saying, at that very moment is a very refreshing way of knowing what is going on within your social network(s). In a virtual environment this is probably the closest that you would get to the same sensations as when being on a face to face environment.

2. Staying connected: Here is another good reason to make use of Twitter. And specially for the mobile workforce, because with this particular offering you would be able to stay connected at all times with those folks you care about. Being able to share short messages when you are about to leave home to go to the office, or when you are about to take the car, or the plane, or just before you go and visit an important customer, or when you are going to be gone for an extended amount of time and everything else is off is just incredibly handy. It would save you plenty of e-mails or IMs to check if people are there or not.

Here is an example. Say that, for instance, you have got to travel to another city to visit a customer and you mention briefly in Twitter you are heading there. Perhaps one of your colleagues from one of your social networks may be in that same city and have share a similar message. Well, within minutes you are both going to realise that you could actually meet up for lunch or a drink or two and connect face to face. How useful can that be?

3. Pervasiveness: This is a reason that I wanted to mention over here as well as an answer to quite a few folks who have been saying that it is rather difficult to actually work with Twitter and share those messages. Well, to start with, if you are familiar with SMS, or text messaging, and I bet you all are (If you have got a mobile phone with you) you already have got the gift of writing into Twitter because you can use SMS to post messages to it.

On top of that you also have got the Web or the Instant Messaging interfaces. So if you are in an always connected mode you can rather go through the Web or IM interfaces (I am currently making use of Google Talk for that) and send your messages.

And, finally, if you are one of those folks who like to have the control with an offline application, not to worry, there are a couple of options there, like Twiteroo (Windows) or Twitterific (Mac). So, as you can see, I doubt there are many other social software tools out there that would allow for such flexibility and pervasiveness when sharing messages across while still keeping that ease of use, regardless what you may be using.

Oh, and before I forget, what about the RSS newsfeed? Is there a much better way of keeping up to date with everything than just a single line in your RSS feed client per item to go through? How easy and how fast can you scan through those different messages without the RSS feed? I doubt it would get any easier than that, so having one is going to help you digest all of them in a matter of seconds (Or minutes, if you have got plenty of people you would want to follow).

4. Enhancing your weblogging experience with a micro-blog: This is actually one of my favourite reasons on why I am enjoying Twitter quite a bit and that is the fact that through it you can post quick messages about things that may be of interest to you and which you may want to revisit at a later time to expand further in your own weblog. So in a way it becomes a micro-blog, but the interesting thing is that is going to happen not only for yourself, but also for your social networks because you are feeding them with interesting links to cover and you are helping them come up with topics for their own weblogging and vice versa. So there you go, you will now be able to have an incredibly good amount of topics to research or weblog about and share your experiences with others.

That is actually one of the things that I am starting to make use of myself by actually selecting those entries as favourites and then just filtering them from everything else. If you haven’t tried it out just yet, go ahead and do it. You would be amazed of how much you twitterings are actually going to help your already existing weblogging efforts.

5. Reaching out for quick Q&As: This is, perhaps, certainly one reason that may be a bit tricky to use, at least, at the very beginning, because you do not want to sound too tiring constantly asking questions, but what a better way of sending quick questions / queries to your social network(s) and get answers back, just as quick and short as the questions you have initially sent out? You are more likely to have a good and quick answer you could work with from Twitter than from e-mail or from a standard IM conversation.

I have tried it out already a couple of times and I must say that without even knowing if I would be getting an answer or not, people actually got back to me with just what I was looking for. Including folks who are not using Twitter themselves, but do listen to others… Take it for a test yourself and see how far you can go. As I said though, be careful not to overload your friends and followers with queries. Give them a break

6. Presence indicators: Again, this is another good reason, specially for the mobile workforce, to make use of Twitter. With it you would have an opportunity to check out if your colleagues are there or not, if they are able to help out, if you would need them, or if they would just be able to hang out with you while you may be waiting for something to happen (A meeting, a conference call, a plane to catch, lunch / dinner, you name it).

It may be relatively a simple thing, but you would be amazed to find out how that informal exchange of messages gives you a strong sense of connecting with folks about something else than just exchanging knowledge or information on particular business related topics.

7. Speeding networking at conference events: And if you are not sure about this one already, check out the impact it has been having at different conference events, like SXSW. The larger the event, the better. Is there a better way to find out what is going on at the particular conference event you are attending than with a gigantic whiteboard where everyone is sharing messages of where they are, what they are doing, what they are attending and the different conversations they are having? It actually feels like having a thousand ears (And eyes) watching out for you what is happening out there and then letting you know about it.

It just feels like you are there! This is actually one of the main reasons why I got started with Twitter in the first place. And I am hoping to be able to test that out over the next few months as I am getting to do quite a bit of travelling, but more on that at a later time.

8. Serendipitous knowledge / information discoveries: Yes, I know that this reason may well be common sense to most of us, but I just had to say it as well. Why not? Yes, indeed, I can imagine that lots of people would think that some of the different messages may be trivial and everything, but that is not always the case. In quite a few of the short messages shared you would actually be able to find out how people are sharing different knowledge snippets and links to different resources that would provide some further interesting readings and, why not? get a discussion going on that could be going through Twitter or through whatever other tool. But the conversation got started through that short message.

Yes, I can imagine that this is going to be a very difficult-to-prove reason on how it would improve your social network(s), but the thing is that even if out of 20 messages exchanged you actually get to discover something new that you could re-use as well in one of those 20 messages it would still be worth while. All the way. Think about how much stuff you get to read during the course of the day that you discard as you go along…

9. Informal learning: If Informal Learning was ever meant to be something that would bring learning into the next level of interactions within the Enterprise and beyond, then Twitter is certainly going to help Learning reach that Learning 2.0 status. Why? Well, simply because by having people sharing messages on what they have learnt during the course of the day while at work, making use of the different tools they get exposed to, is not only going to help them remember what they have learnt, but also share with others what they have found most interesting from all what they have been exposed to and, if needed, create an additional interest in others who would start asking questions about those learning activities, or potential courses they may have attended.

I think that this particular reason has not been explored very much, just yet, but I bet it will be over the next few months, specially when more and more knowledge workers start taking these type of interactions into a learning environment, even while at the office desk. So stay tuned for some more in this space.

10. Boosting your social capital skills: and, finally, the one reason that I feel rules them all and which, in itself, explains quite clearly the incredible business value that Twitter has been providing thus far. I bet you have been reading quite often how this particular application being used by different folks is not providing useful or relevant content since lots of trivia data get shared all over the place. I bet you have read all over the place things like who would be interested in finding out what people are having for dinner, or which film they have seen recently, or when they may be visiting their parents or celebrate their birthday party, and the list goes on and on and on.

To be honest with you, the person who would be interested in all that, and so much more, is you. Yes, you yourself! And you may be wondering why, I am sure. Well, Twitter is actually covering one area where most online tools available out there in the social computing space have failed to deliver. An area that, whether we like it or not, is essential to any successful Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Community and Social Computing strategy. And that is the fact that Twitter helps you improve, and tremendously, your social capital skills.

Yes, that is right! Those different skills that you would be making use of in order to help nurture and consolidate the different relationships that you have been building over time with your colleagues, friends, etc. etc. Those essential and intangible social capital skills that would help you keep those social networks very healthy and moving further into the next level.

And that would be it, folks. Yes, I know a rather long weblog entry, but, at least, there you have got some more food for thought, hopefully, about the potential business value of Twitter with some good reasons that I have been experiencing myself thus far in the last couple of days that I have been using the application myself. How about you? Is there any other reason why you feel that this application can help you improve your already existing social networks? What do you think?.

Tags: Twitter, Twittering, James Governor, Maggie Fox, Social Media Group, Social Media Collective, SMC, Podcasting, Podcasts, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Media, Social Software, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 , Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Management 2.0, KM 2.0, elsua, Second Life, ITtoolbox, IBM, Jams, Innovation Jam

Oh My … I am still enjoying my Twitter addiction, got started with it yesterday and just cannot get enough of it! I never thought I would be having so much fun in such a short time! And I certainly agree with James Governor when he said earlier on how addictive it can get, because it actually is and pretty much so! However, this is not a weblog entry about my twitterings. I am actually working on an upcoming post where I am going to share an interesting review of why I feel that people should give it a try in order to help improve the quality of their existing social networks by combining their regular weblogging with some more micro-blogging. So stay tuned for some more…

The main reason why I am sharing this particular weblog entry with you folks is to actually point you to a recent podcast I have been doing with the ever so insightful Maggie Fox, over at Social Media Group, as part of the Social Media Collective podcasting series.

If you would remember, not long ago I created a weblog entry over here mentioning how just recently I joined the Social Media Collective. In that post I mentioned how one of the different initiatives that is going on within the group is a podcasting series conducted by Maggie and just a few minutes ago she has just published episode #5 where I am the guest speaker.

Over the course of nearly 29 minutes, you would be able to listen to some of the stuff that both Maggie and myself talked about around the subject of social computing, or social media, as she prefers to call it, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And just to give you a quick preview of that podcast episode here you have got the Show Notes:

"Luis is incredibly enthusiastic about social media (or “social computing” as the Europeans seem to like to call it). We talk about his three blogs (Elsua.net, The Knowledge Management Blog and his internal one at IBM), how he loves the fact that the Collective feed allows him to keep up with all his favourite bloggers in one place, how blogging helped him break his email addiction, his work at IBM helping companies build collaborative communities, how Knowledge Management has changed, the notion of the enterprise-wide “Knowledge Jam”, IBM’s perspective on and history in Second Life, social media vs. social computing, and empirical proof that all Spaniards hate celery."

Thus without any much further ado, go and have a listen. Hope you enjoyed it! And feel free to append any comment over here, over at the Social Media Today with Maggie Fox Web site or at Maggie’s weblog.

Thanks ever so much, Maggie, for giving me this opportunity to participate from the Social Media Collective podcast series! Way too much fun!

Tags: Twitter, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2.0, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Management, KM, Collaboration, Online Collaboration, Euan Semple, David Gurteen, Anecdotes, Clippings, Sticky Notes, Quick Links, Micro-Blogging, Metablogging, Twittering

Yes, that is right, folks! I am finally giving in to it! And it is not because of the huge buzz going on at the moment around the subject of Twitter. I am sure that by now most of you out there would have heard, or read, something about the latest social computing offering hitting the masses big time! I must confess that I have been following quite a few of the different conversations taking place and from the very beginning I was not really sure that it would be one other social networking tool that I would be giving it a try. However, and over time, there have been a couple of folks who have been demonstrating the incredible value of using something so relatively simple as sharing quick messages with folks telling you what they are actually doing. Because that is what Twitter is all about.

So that is why thanks to folks like Euan Semple or David Gurteen, amongst others, I think I am finally ready to take Twitter for a spin and actually be able to use it quite extensively while I am getting ready for my upcoming trip to Budapest. At the beginning, I doubted it would be of any use for someone like me who rather spends his time in front of the computer or doing something totally unrelated and away from it. However, while I have been observing how it has evolved, I am actually finding out how a good amount of the folks that I normally follow through their own weblogs have also started twittering or are on the verge of trying it out sharing their thoughts about their experiences thus far.

And here I am. Here is my Twitter profile. Yes, I know, rather empty at the moment, but not to worry, because that is going to change over the next few hours, and couple of days. Yes, that is right, from now on, and with the excuse of the trip to Budapest I am actually going to try it out and see how useful I may find it all along. I am not sure just yet how much detail I will be providing to the overall experience, since I have always felt that there are things that I would want to share with you folks, and others that would rather remain with me, so while I am still finding that balance between one aspect and the other you may want to bear with me for a little while I get the hang of it.

I bet that in the first few items there wouldn’t probably much useful stuff, since I would be testing it out, specially trying to find the best flow that would match my needs, and, hopefully, yours, too. However, one of the things that I am surely going to be doing is actually using Twitter not only to show you what I am doing, but also sharing with you some of the stuff I am reading from my RSS feeds, news items and whatever other articles I may be bumping into. Yes, that is right, sometimes I feel that I get to read a whole bunch of different interesting weblog articles, but since you can only weblog up to so much I am just going to try and share those links as well with you, so that we may be able to revisit them at some point and share some additional commentary about them.

Yes, I guess you could call that my own personal online notepad, but with a twist, because I am going to be sharing it with all those folks out there interested in the subject. And from here I guess that I just need to mention that I am going to be starting slow as well adding those of you who are twittering already, so if I haven’t added you just yet, don’t worry, it is coming along. It may take a bit longer, but it will eventually get there. However, if you would want to be a bit more pro-active and reach out to me, here is my profile, once again, so that you can also get things going from your end. Let’s get going with some more twittering!

(Later on, and as things get going, I will probably be sharing a few other thoughts in upcoming weblog entries about the overall experience, so that you may be able to get an idea of how I feel about it. Oh, and in case you are reading this through the RSS feed, check out the weblog template because I have also added the Twitter badge so that you get a chance to read some more of my twitterings directly from elsua.net)

Tags: IBM, Global Business Services, GBS, Learning and Knowledge, Knowledge Sharing, L&K University, Community Building, Communities, Collaboration, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Budapest, Hungary

Well, no, not yet. I am not gone just yet. But I will be. Pretty much like I mentioned last week Friday, over the next few weeks, there are a number of different places that I will be visiting both attending conference events or presenting myself at some of them. And that world tour is actually going to get going next week Monday, where I will be travelling to Budapest, Hungary. The purpose of the trip is to actually attend an IBM Global Business Services Learning and Knowledge University event where I will be presenting and sharing with everyone attending the conference what my worldwide team is actually doing around the subject of Community Building, Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration and Social Computing in order to help spread the message about what we do with an audience coming from all over Europe.

Yes, that is right, the conference is meant to be just for IBM Global Business Services (GBS) employees and will get started on Tuesday afternoon till Thursday afternoon. I guess that I will probably not have much free time since I am scheduled to present every single day during the event. Four times in total. But we shall see.

What is clear though thus far is the fact that I will be spending Monday doing most of the travelling. Tuesday, Wednesday and till Thursday afternoon I will be at the conference and the rest of the time till Monday morning, when I get back home, I will be doing some more sightseeing. That is right, Thursday afternoon, Friday, Saturday and Sunday I will be enjoying Budapest, a beautiful city (I have been told) that I have never been to and which I am really looking forward to, actually.

I know there are lots and lots of things to check out and places to visit. So I guess that is going to keep me busy for a while, however, if any of you have been there already and want to recommend places that I should check out before leaving the city, feel free to append a comment over here or contact me offline. Or, even better, if you are going to be there around that time from the 19th till the 26th and would want to get together for a drink or two do let me know as well.

I am not sure what the Internet connection(s) may be like over there, so I am not sure if I would be able to create different weblog entries along the way, but if I get a connection I am sure I would be able to find a few minutes to share what my experiences have been over there thus far. We shall see how things go. Oh, and tomorrow I will be weblogging about one particular social computing offering that I have finally given in to, due to some peer pressure (Yes, you know who you are!), and which I am hoping to take it for a spin while I am there in Budapest. Guess which one is going to be ? … More later …

(Warning: Yesterday I didn’t get a chance to finish off this particular weblog entry in time to be published, so I decided to extended it a little more today to give you a bit more of information based on my own experience and I guess that I got carried away. A bit So go and grab a cup of coffee and read on further!)

Tags: Damaka, Skype, IBM Lotus Sametime, Lotus Sametime, Sametime, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Google Talk, Trillian, Real-Time Collaboration, Online Collaboration, Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, Instant Messaging, IM, VoIP, Knowledge Management, KM, Video, Video Conferencing, VideoMail, Screen Sharing, Whiteboard, RSS, Feeds, Newsfeed Readers, T.V., TV, IPTV, Radio

Those folks who have been following this weblog for some time now would probably know by now how there have been a number of different IM and VoIP clients that I have been trying out all along in order to help improve my real-time interactions with other co-workers, friends, family, etc. and you probably know as well by now how lately I have settled myself down to two main different IM and VoIP clients. Well, actually three of them. The first one, the one I mainly use behind the firewall, is IBM’s Lotus Sametime. Perhaps at a later time I will share a couple of weblog entries on what that experience is like, specially with the latest client available and which brings the client a bit closer to the social computing realm.

The second tool that I use, mainly for IM, VoIP and file transfers, would be Skype, which I am sure that by now you are rather familiar with it, since I have weblogged about it a couple of times already. But I am not going to talk about it today either, even though there have been some interesting discussions on the subject. Perhaps at another time as well.

What I do want to do today though is to share with you some further thoughts about the third IM and VoIP client that I am currently making use of and which, over time, I have grown to become rather fond of. Specially with the latest releases that have been put together. Yes, indeed, I am talking about Damaka. I have actually talked about it a few months ago, but I thought it was a good time to touch base with it again since the latest additions that have been put together are actually trying to bring forward this particular tool into the realm of instant knowledge sharing and, most importantly, real-time collaboration.

If you check out their Web site the set of features put together is actually quite impressive. You would probably be able to agree with me that Damaka is actually trying, and, in my opinion, succeeding, to move beyond the initial intention of just being another IM and VoIP client. And if not, check out some of the features they have put together all along, including the new ones, and which they have become some of my favourites lately as well. No, don’t worry, I am not going to describe each and everyone of them. I am actually going to leave that to you to explore them further. I am just going to mention the ones that I feel would make a difference in that realm of online real-time collaboration and knowledge sharing. So here it goes:

VoIP: Just as good, if not better, quality than what Skype is currently providing. So even if you are a big fan of Skype it is always a good thing to have a backup client. I use both of them quite often and I must say that the difference in the voice quality is rather minimal. So if you are looking for other options to play around with in the VoIP space, Damaka is a very good option.

Peer-to-Peer Video: One of the features that I have talked about in the past and which has become one of my favourite ones. The quality of the image is just as good as with Skype, once again, and quite easy to configure, actually. Certainly, videoconferencing is becoming more and more prominent with the leveraging of broadband and it is perhaps one of the first steps into helping improve quite nicely online real-time interactions. Oh, and how about VideoMail? With which you can send video messages via an e-mail interface? How cool is that? I like it!

Conference Calling: Here is another step towards opening up online collaboration with others. Perhaps having 4 concurrent people talking away may not be much, but it is actually a good start. I am not sure if they would be increasing that participation, but if they ever do Damaka will become quite an interesting real-time collaboration tool for small teams.

Record Calls: Here is another one of my favourite features and I am sure it would become one for you as well if you are into the world of podcasting or if you get to participate in different calls and want to record them all. And free of charge. Nice one!

IMConnectivity: Yes, indeed, no need to make use of Trillian Pro any longer, or use its vanilla version, in order to be able to connect with different IM networks. Damaka has been one of the main tools that has allowed me to consolidate all of the different IM networks, for which I still have got userids, and which I am still using every now and then, into a single focal point of entry. Through Damaka you would now be able to connect to MSN, Yahoo!, AOL and Google Talk. So there is no longer a need for us all to have all those clients installed. Damaka will make the connection for us and display all of the different contacts separately so that you do not get confused about which one is which.

Desktop Sharing: No need to have additional plugins installed. With this particular IM and VoIP, and with just a single click, you would be able to enable desktop sharing and get your chat / talk partners to interact with you while you are viewing what is going on directly in your screen. You would agree with me that this particular feature is perhaps one of the most attractive.

Voice Commands: Goodness! How cool is that? This particular feature reminds me so much of Opera!! If only Opera would be more Web 2.0 savvy… Sigh

File Transfer: I am going to keep this one brief… Just as good as what you can do with Skype. Did you know that you could send really large files in a matter of minutes through each of them ? Yes, you will have to try it out. Too good to miss out on it!

Multi-Party IM: This is another one of my other favourite features. Yes, I know that it sounds like just another chatroom, but the fact that you can pull it off directly from the IM client itself is quite handy if you need to bring other people into the conversation. Ideal for brainstorming, as a backchannel for a conference call, to reach consensus on a particular topic within the group and so forth.

Speak-Out-Loud: And how about this one? Those people who may not be constantly in front of their machines and who are waiting for an important message to come through, there is no need to be alert all of the time. Just pump up the volume and off you go. Also, if you are busy doing something else just that very moment you can still have those messages read out to you and carry on with whatever else you were busy with. Neat!

Send Offline Messages: Pretty much like with quite a few other IM clients, here we have got the opportunity as well to send offline messages to other folks. Quite handy, if you need to send something along and your chat partner is not online just yet.

Whiteboard: Here is another neat feature and another one that certainly helps separate Damaka from other IM and VoIP clients. Yes, with this feature you would be able to collaborate and share information / knowledge in real-time with other folks using a whiteboard type of interface. Impressive for an IM / VoIP client, don’t you think? And without having to have any other plugin component installed in your machine.

Oh, fancy a little bit of a break? How about if you watch some Internet Television (IPTV)? Yes, and without having to leave Damaka. Yes, there is already a good selection of channels that would keep you entertained for a while, just while you are waiting for those endless minutes before entering your next conference call, right? Just perfect! Oh, and if you are not into TV you can also listen to some Internet Radio!

RSS News Reader: This is also one of my favourite features from Damaka. It actually took me a while to get it sorted out and work with it successfully, but in the end I managed to get it working and I am currently using this particular feature for RSS feeds with a number of news sites that get updated quite frequently. Very handy to have that information available while you are chatting or talking away.

And, finally, something that I have been asked about in the past and which I know is rather important for folks out there. Security: "All audio/video calls and text messages are encrypted end-to-end. Encryption is required as all calls and text chats are sent over the public Internet." Enough said!

And, that would be it, folks! There are still plenty more features available that you could try out, but those would be the ones that I feel are significant and important enough to share with everyone out there to just show you all how Damaka is just so much more than an IM and VoIP client. Yes, I know that this is a rather lengthy weblog entry and perhaps you have long disconnected, but if you are just reading this last paragraph, I can only highly recommend that if you are looking for alternatives in the realm of real-time / online collaboration Damaka is probably one of the best options available out there! So get out there, download it and play around with it for a week and I bet it will stay in your machine after that time. I am sure.

(Update:) Whooops! I guess I got too carried away because I didn’t include in the original weblog entry my actual Damaka ID, so that if you would want to test out some of those features with me we could have a look into it together. Therefore this particular update. If you are using Damaka and want to get together, just add me as elesar and we will put it to the test together and see how it would go from there. See if it would stick around with you or not. With me it already has

Tags: The Normals, YouTube, Video, James Dellow, Kellypuffs, Travelling, Travel, Kids

Well, after having created, earlier on, a rather lengthy weblog entry on one particularly interesting application in the realm of online real-time collaboration, Damaka, I thought I would make the next post a lot shorter than that one and, even better, with something to get you off to a great start of the weekend, which is just around the corner. I am actually going to continue being your personal YouTube pimp, like James Dellow would say, and link to a recent weblog post that one of my IBM colleagues, Kelly, shared a couple of days ago.

Just pump up the volume and listen carefully. I bet you will enjoy it just as much as I did and will get you ready for the weekend ! Oh, and before I forget, the theme of the video clip has got a lot to do with some of the stuff that is going to be happening to me very shortly when I start detailing some of the upcoming trips I got planned already… Thus stay tuned, because we may be able to meet up somewhere ! We shall see. (Yes, in case you are wondering, my passport is all right!)

Without much further ado, here is the embedded video clip:

Have a good one, folks !

(Thanks, Kelly!)