http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/ A blog about Knowledge Management, Communities, Collaboration, Learning, Social Computing and Work/Life Balance Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/comment-page-1/#comment-217924 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Gran Canaria Is Burning! … Again! Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:45:49 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/#comment-217924 [...] And while we are still recovering from some of the fatal consequences from the recent fires developed in Gran Canaria, that wiped out in a matter of days thousands and thousands of years of nature doing what she knows best, here we go again. Canarias7, as usual, is doing a superb job in keeping us updated by reporting some news from earlier on this evening on a new fire that got started around 8.30pm local time in Ingenio, Gran Canaria, around the area of Pasadilla, close to Guayadeque (Guayadeque being one of the most emblematic and charismatic spaces from the entire island!) and which by the time I am writing this down it looks like the fire is under control and has not been progressing for several hours already. [...] [...] And while we are still recovering from some of the fatal consequences from the recent fires developed in Gran Canaria, that wiped out in a matter of days thousands and thousands of years of nature doing what she knows best, here we go again. Canarias7, as usual, is doing a superb job in keeping us updated by reporting some news from earlier on this evening on a new fire that got started around 8.30pm local time in Ingenio, Gran Canaria, around the area of Pasadilla, close to Guayadeque (Guayadeque being one of the most emblematic and charismatic spaces from the entire island!) and which by the time I am writing this down it looks like the fire is under control and has not been progressing for several hours already. [...]

]]> http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/comment-page-1/#comment-217751 GridLock » Blog Review - elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:04:02 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/#comment-217751 [...] This particular topic is something that I have been thinking about myself quite a bit lately, specially after the recent fires in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, amongst other Canary Islands, and which I feel that Rob Paterson has put together quite nicely over at the FASTForward Blog in Social Media Adoption - Maybe a Crisis Will Help? Mike Gotta has made also an excellent point about how much we may be underestimating social software tools when handling crises of whatever the magnitude, just because most people may be using some of those tools for fun.” [...] [...] This particular topic is something that I have been thinking about myself quite a bit lately, specially after the recent fires in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, amongst other Canary Islands, and which I feel that Rob Paterson has put together quite nicely over at the FASTForward Blog in Social Media Adoption – Maybe a Crisis Will Help? Mike Gotta has made also an excellent point about how much we may be underestimating social software tools when handling crises of whatever the magnitude, just because most people may be using some of those tools for fun.” [...]

]]> http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/comment-page-1/#comment-217145 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Emergency 2.0 and Social Software - Making Enterprise 2.0 Really Matter Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:11:28 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/#comment-217145 [...] This particular topic is something that I have been thinking about myself quite a bit lately, specially after the recent fires in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, amongst other Canary Islands, and which I feel that Rob Paterson has put together quite nicely over at the FASTForward Blog in Social Media Adoption - Maybe a Crisis Will Help? Mike Gotta has made also an excellent point about how much we may be underestimating social software tools when handling crises of whatever the magnitude, just because most people may be using some of those tools for fun. [...] [...] This particular topic is something that I have been thinking about myself quite a bit lately, specially after the recent fires in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, amongst other Canary Islands, and which I feel that Rob Paterson has put together quite nicely over at the FASTForward Blog in Social Media Adoption – Maybe a Crisis Will Help? Mike Gotta has made also an excellent point about how much we may be underestimating social software tools when handling crises of whatever the magnitude, just because most people may be using some of those tools for fun. [...]

]]> http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/comment-page-1/#comment-215050 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Finally Joining the Mac Side! Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:04:43 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/#comment-215050 [...] Last week was one of those weeks that I could have certainly done without, and for several various reasons. From the disastrous fires that created a massive havoc in both Gran Canaria to Tenerife (And a bit in La Gomera) to the fact that my shiny Lenovo 3000 N100 notebook decided to die on me after just one year and three weeks of usage. Well, the LCD display, that is. [...] [...] Last week was one of those weeks that I could have certainly done without, and for several various reasons. From the disastrous fires that created a massive havoc in both Gran Canaria to Tenerife (And a bit in La Gomera) to the fact that my shiny Lenovo 3000 N100 notebook decided to die on me after just one year and three weeks of usage. Well, the LCD display, that is. [...]

]]> http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/comment-page-1/#comment-214711 Plaxo Pulse and Dandelife: two more social networks (groan) « AccMan Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:57:55 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/08/03/blogging-and-crisis-the-fire-in-the-canary-islands-and-the-role-of-knowledge-management/#comment-214711 [...] I like this idea, in part because I can keep as much or as little data private and only make it available to people I wish to include in my network. I could for example use it to share experiences around the current foot and mouth crisis among farmers in my network. Or, as an addition to the things Luis Suarez recently said about the impact of the extensive fires in Gran Canaria and Tenerfie last week. (Didn’t know about those? Courtesy of Luis, you can get the full rundown.) What I can’t do right now is create groups which would be very useful. this is something I can do in Plaxo. [...] [...] I like this idea, in part because I can keep as much or as little data private and only make it available to people I wish to include in my network. I could for example use it to share experiences around the current foot and mouth crisis among farmers in my network. Or, as an addition to the things Luis Suarez recently said about the impact of the extensive fires in Gran Canaria and Tenerfie last week. (Didn’t know about those? Courtesy of Luis, you can get the full rundown.) What I can’t do right now is create groups which would be very useful. this is something I can do in Plaxo. [...]

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