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

Is KM Dead? Larry Prusak, Dave Snowden, Patrick Lambe

Continuing further with that growing trend of writing shorter blog posts than usual (Latest instance the article I wrote yesterday announcing my dive into the podcasting world, co-hosting, with Matt Simpson, The Sweettt Show, as we just launched our first episode), I thought I would venture into putting together another one, which I am sure you are all going to enjoy, specially if you have been doing Knowledge Management for a while. The reason why this blog post is going to be shorter than usual is no other than the meetings galore I have been going through for most of the day today, pretty intensive overall and therefore limiting my brain power to provide whatever other insights for a lengthy article.

Thus here I am, going into recovery mode for what’s left of the evening and sharing with you all something that has been flowing around in the Knowledge Management, a.k.a. KM, blogosphere for a little while now and which I am sure a good bunch of you may have been exposed to already, but, just in case you haven’t, here it goes. It is actually a video interview that Patrick Lambe, author of the super fine Green Chameleon, did with Larry Prusak & Dave Snowden, two of the most impressive, thought-provoking, enlightening and worth while following thought leaders in this space, on the topic of whether Knowledge Management is dead or not.

I have gone through the interview already a couple of days ago and, as you may be able to find out for yourselves, it is one of those interviews that will make you think for a while on the role of traditional Knowledge Management and what’s actually happening right now in that space as we speak. It will surely help you question what happened in the past, where we went wrong, what’s happening at this present moment in time and how we may have finally learned a bit from past mistakes. Yes, that thought-provoking, to say the least, I tell you.

So much so that, like I said earlier on, a whole bunch of the different KM bloggers I have been following for a while now have been sharing their views on the topic and adding further up into the conversation. Today I am only going to link to their various different blog posts, so that you have got an opportunity to weigh in a bit in what they are saying about the interview itself. In my own case, I will be chiming in accordingly sharing some further thoughts on the topics discussed a little bit later on as we move forward. Brain cells are eventually asking for an extended break at the moment, and there are tons of really good stuff I would want to touch base on, some of which I have already mentioned over here in the recent past.

Here is one initial thought though that has been in my mind ever since I watched the interview: it looks like my official job title of Knowledge Manager, Community Builder and Social Computing Evangelist has just been challenged and torn to pieces big time on that first bit. Has the role of the knowledge manager evaporated into thin air with the emergence of social computing?  Is there still a chance for those of us who have been doing that for a while to still claim we are knowledge managers in this 2.0 world? Are we a species at the border of extinction, if not extinct already altogether? That is right now what’s in my mind, after listening to one of the most wonderful interviews you could ever watch around the topic of Knowledge Management. Courtesy of Patrick Lambe, Larry Prusak & Dave Snowden.

We are in good hands! Enjoy it! (I surely did!)

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Sweettt – We’re Going Enterprise 2.0

If yesterday I referenced a podcasting episode I participated in with the Dogear-Nation folks, Michael Rowe & Michael Martine, you would remember how I mentioned as well I had another little surprise for you folks that I would be talking about today. And here I am, with that same spirit of keeping this blog post short, I am very very happy to announce that from now onwards I will be one of the co-hosts from the Sweettt weekly podcasting series with one fellow IBM colleagues and very good friend, Matt Simpson.

Yes, that’s right, from now onwards and, on a weekly basis, I will be the co-host, along with Matt, of The Sweettt Show and over the course of about 30 minutes we will talk about various different subjects, in most cases having to do with Enterprise 2.0, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Social Software, Knowledge Sharing, Personal Knowledge Sharing, Communities, Collaboration. Indeed, the usual stuff both Matt & myself have been blogging about all along…

To get things going, and without much further ado, last Friday we sat down and got busy recording the first episode of the podcasting series, which, as you will notice, is a rather long one, a bit over 86 minutes!, but it gave us the perfect opportunity to detail what would be some of the main topics we will be discussing and touching base on in in much shorter future episodes as we move along.

However, to give you a sense of what you will be able to find on this first episode I have put together the following TOC with some additional commentary that I am hoping will certainly spark your interest to listen to it and, why not?, perhaps come back or subscribe to the entire podcasting series. You are more than welcome to leave your comments over here or in at The Sweettt Show and rest assured that we will be covering them in future episodes, so if you have got any questions or items you would want to bring up to our attention, go ahead and share it with us! Oh, and before you ask, we are both in Twitter as well, in case you may want to leave a comment or question that way as well. Here are our IDs: elsua (Yours truly) and Matt Simpson.

Thus, here is the TOC you will find on our first episode of The Sweettt Show:

- Introduction of the podcast, Matt & yours truly as co-host of the weekly show and how we got to know each other back in 2001!
- Communities & history of IBM Communities with CommunityBuilders & Babble.
- Openness in communities to let them flow freely wherever they may want to go…
- CommunityMap – Index of IBM Communities behind the firewall.
- Communities and the role of collaboration, knowledge sharing and social software tools as enablers.
- Of course, giving up on e-mail & what’s meant for me over the course of the last six months!
- Attending conference events and how face to face interactions are the purest form of social networking at its best.
- Glimpse of the networking activities while attending Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. Both Matt and myself were there (Yes, I know, my highlights are still coming up! Not to worry. I haven’t forgotten! heh)
- Mark Masterson, Rosario Sica, Emanuele Quintarelli all get a mention
- Origins of Knowledge Management, back in the days of the (in)famous pyramid of tools, processes & people, as well as the umbrella concept of something called KM.
- Knowledge Management vs. Enterprise 2.0: Are they one and/or the same?
– Personal Knowledge Sharing vs. Knowledge Management.
- On the ease of use of knowledge sharing as the way it should be. Natural. Flowing.
– Simplicity rules when collaborating and sharing your knowledge with others. On lowering the barriers of entry & engagement.
- Of course, once again, giving up on e-mail in favour of other 2.0 interactions in an open, public and transparent Enterprise 2.0 world.
- On Social Software Evangelism at a large corporation like IBM and describing what it is like (i.e. I am co-leading a community of over 400 evangelists inside IBM helping accelerate IBM’s adoption of social software – BlueIQ Ambassadors, as part of BlueIQ).
– On passion & finding the dream job …
- Communities as major catalysts of social software adoption within the corporate world.
- Still think that social networking is all about goofing around? You may need to think again!
- Having fun at work? … What’s that?
- What kind of role should trust have in the corporate world with the emergence of Enterprise 2.0?
- Accelerating the adoption of Social Software inside IBM through a community effort. Getting things started with recommendations on SmallBlue, a.k.a. Atlas (Who would have thought about that, right?)

Phew! I know! Pretty intensive 86 minutes! But we surely had fun and we hope that you would, too, at least, just as much as we did recording our first episode together! You would be able to listen to the podcast live over at New Cohost . We’re Going Enterprise 2.0 or, if you would prefer, you could download the podcast right away from this direct link.

Hope you enjoy it & till next time!

(Oh oh, and not to worry, there is still one other surprise I have got reserved for you folks, actually two of them, but those may still take a few days before I can talk about them over here as I am still finalising them Stay tuned though for more info details coming up!)

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Dogear-Nation – Episode 61 – Adding e-mail to Luis’ Inbox

Today’s blog post is actually going to be a short one. Finally! I do realise that over the last couple of weeks most of the blogging I have been able to do has been rather extensive and turning on to the long side of things. I guess that’s what happens when you keep writing and you get more and more excited as you move from paragraph to paragraph talking about the subject that has been keeping you busy for a little while, in this case, to me, my giving up on e-mail quest, amongst several other things…

Well, today I am going to make an extra effort and, although I am still incredibly excited, I am going to try to keep things on the short side. More than anything else because of the subject I would want to touch base on. You will see exactly what I mean in a matter of seconds. So let’s get things started!

If I would have to define with a single word the last couple of days from last week, I guess I could summarise it all with this one: podcasting! Yes, that is right! Over the last few months and, ever since I got things started with this new reality of mine of having given up on e-mail, corporate e-mail, that is, I have been getting plenty of comments from different folks in various multiple online spaces (As well as in real life!) wondering whether I would be chiming in to the world of podcasting / vodcasting to continue sharing some further insights on the subject by sharing some more from the various experiences I have been going through all along.

And time and time again, I knew I always wanted to do something else extra, but felt as well I just needed to wait for the right time. Well, that right time was last week Friday, when I got invited as a special guest by the two Michaels behind the super fine, enjoyable & enlightening, some times thought-provoking, some times educational, Dogear-Nation podcast (Michael Rowe and Michael Martine, respectively) to participate on the recording of episode #61 of their weekly show. And, boy, I just couldn’t turn down such a kind offer. So over the course of a bit over an hour, and in between of some initial audio problems, we went ahead and had a superb time recording one of those podcasting episodes that would be difficult to forget for a while!

Check out "Dogear-Nation – Episode 61 – Adding e-mail to Luis’ Inbox", where over the course of roughly a bit over 30 minutes we got to talk about a whole bunch of different subjects that people had tagged for the day in del.icio.us. Here is a quick synopsis of some of the links of what we talked about so that you get some further insights of what to expect, if you go ahead and decide to have a listen:

"Social Computing
I freed myself from e-Mail’s grip – Luis Suarez  (Yes, of course, I got to talk a little bit about my experiment & what it has been like over the last few months… Six months in concrete!)
Ma.gnolia.com – Social Tagging
Thomas Vanderwal — Why Ma.gnolia is One of My Favorite Social Bookmarking Tools
University of Michigan Social Computing Degree
A New Approach to Exec Recruiting

Tablet Computing
We Want a Dead Simple Web Tablet
CherryPal PC Cherry Pal PC has Juice

Science!
Nova Science Now
She blinded me with Science and Live
IBM Slides from 1975 presentation – Powerpoint Old school

Final Thoughts
Michael R — Automagically updating Apps on iPhone
“Michael” S. — Bolder and Keep it Simple
Michael M. — Dogear-Live on Kyte.tv"

You may want to listen to the episode online over at the Dogear-Nation blog, or, alternatively, you can also download the .mp3 directly from this link. Hope you will enjoy it, just as much as we did recording the podcast. It surely was plenty of good fun & something tells me it may not be the last time that I will be participating as a guest. They have been wonderful hosts all along! heh

Oh, oh, and not to worry, that’s not the only surprise I have got ready for you folks around the area of podcasting… Stay tuned for some more to come shortly!

(A big and special Many many thanks!  to both Michaels for having me on the show! It was a fantastic experience! Thanks, guys! Till next time!)

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