And here we go on the road again! After a superb IBM Symposium 2008 event in Lucerne, Switzerland, from where, very shortly, I hope to be able to share with you folks, both the slide deck I used as well as a recording of both video and audio (Thus stay tuned for more details to become available whenever I get my hands on a copy of it!), I am now back in Spain, in Madrid, to be more precise, where tomorrow I will be spending the whole day long participating at the Lotus General Business Sales Academy for Business Partners.

This is an special event that till take place during the course of the entire day and where a bunch of IBM fellow colleagues will spend a fully packed agenda talking about everything IBM Lotus related world with Business Partners, going from what the market is like here in Spain for IBM Lotus, to good and thorough overviews of Lotus offerings like Lotus Foundations, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, Unified Communications & Collaboration, Portals, Social Computing in general and a whole lot more with roundtable discussions and next steps!

Yes, indeed, like I said, a fully packed day starting at 9.30am till 6.00pm CET, non stop, except for a couple of breaks, along with lunch! Just brilliant! And you may be wondering whether I will be speaking at the event or not and would have to say the answer is "Yes!"

Continuing further with my travelling spree helping spread the message out about giving up on e-mail, i.e. corporate e-mail, I will be giving another presentation from the "See the Light - Thinking out of the Inbox" theme. Just before lunch and for about 30 minutes. I must say that I keep getting asked whether my original slide deck has changed, as I keep going from one event to the other one and I must say that it hasn’t. It is still the same one I talked about over here and which I shared over at Slideshare: Thinking out of the Inbox - More Collaboration through less e-Mail. Only thing that has changed is the size of it. I have reduced the number of slides to around 10 of them and during the course of this week I will be able to re-share the final deck I keep using for sessions under 30 minutes.

What keeps coming up as very different from each of the various sessions is my own pitch. I have been able to listen to a couple of the recordings done so far (Which I will be sharing over here as well shortly, too!) and time and time again the entire speech comes out different, very different in most cases, according to the target audience and the overall theme of each event, which keeps bringing in very interesting aspects of what I have been trying to do over the last few months already!

So much so that since I won’t be travelling much during the course of summer time, I have decided to get started putting together the next generation of the main presentation where I will be providing some more background of where I am coming from, how I got started with it, why I am doing it, and, perhaps the most important part so far, putting together a whole bunch of different tips that I have been using myself and which I would want to share with you folks so that you, too, can join me in this new reality of giving up corporate e-mail. Why? Well, more than anything else, because everyone out there that I keep bumping into seems to think that I got started with this because of e-mail overload or not doing very good myself with time management while handling e-mail.

Funny, eh? How can you have e-mail overload when you get 30 to 40 e-mails a day (Which is what I used to get before getting started with this new reality)? That’s not what I would call e-mail overload or time management issues, don’t you think so? To me, it is all about re-purposing e-mail and make use of it for what it was intended in the first place: a one-on-one private conversation discussing a sensitive matter. The rest should go out there in the open, public and ready for everyone to contribute into the overall effort of knowledge sharing and collaboration with other knowledge workers. Yes, I know, still plenty of work ahead of us, but we are getting there, slowly, but steadily!

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As I am starting to put together a number of different blog posts sharing some of the highlights from the wonderful Enterprise 2.0 conference event that took place last week in Boston, MA, here I am, once again, on the road, and without hardly any time to breathe in between. Yes, that’s right! I am travelling again! Not even a full day back at home and today I am in Lucerne, Switzerland, for a day or so. Thus, as you can imagine, those highlights entries from the Enterprise 2.0 event will have to wait for a little while longer. But they will be coming around eventually. Not to worry. Along with a bunch of other draft blog posts that I will starting sharing once my travelling spree comes to an end, within the next few days…

So you may be wondering what I am up to in Lucerne, right? Well, a couple of months back, one of my fellow IBM colleagues, Nicole Gross, invited me to participate at the IBM Symposium 2008 event, which will take place during the course of tomorrow. As you would be able to check from the actual Web site, it surely is going to be a packed event and at around 11.10 am CET I will be speaking around the subject that has been keeping me occupied quite a bit during the last few months… Yes, indeed, I will be sharing my story on how I have now given up on e-mail, i.e. corporate e-mail, and use much more heavily social software tools in order to stay equally productive, if not more.

And just like I mentioned in a previous blog post, I have adapted that presentation theme and finalised it with the following title: See the Light - Thinking out of the Inbox.

Over the last four and a half months I have been working my way through escaping corporate e-mail and use social computing tools instead and so far it is looking very promising. I know I have got to blog the last couple of weeks with some of the latest reports and a few other links I have bumped into here and there, but if you have been checking out my Flickr account, you probably have seen already how things are going. But, not to worry, expect those blog posts coming up shortly, too, with some interesting links on the subject that I have bumped into while I have been on the road all this time!

Thus there you go. Tomorrow morning I will be at the IBM Symposium 2008 talking, once more, on the topic of "See the Light - Thinking out of the Inbox" and surprise, surprise, it will not be the last time this week that I will be talking on that very same topic, but in a different city, in a different country. But that would be the story for another blog post! For now, just a quick update on where I am going to spend the first part of this week and why you may need to wait for a little while longer before my regular blogging will resume again… Hang in there!

PS. Oh, and if you would want to meet up for a coffee or a drink, while I am in Lucerne to catch up with each other, get in touch!

Tags: IBM, IBM Symposium, Symposium, Lucerne, Switzerland, Events, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise2conf, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, KM, Knowledge Management, e-mail, No-email, Innovation, Communities, Learning, Social Networks, See the Light

You may have noticed how things have been rather quieter over here in the last few weeks. From that regular blogging space I have now turned around into some irregular blogging one. And that’s fine. As most of you have noticed already, I have been travelling all over the place quite a bit lately, having returned from Germany a couple of days ago, after I was done with the superb "See the Light 2.0" roadshow and once again I am on the road again! One day of hardly any rest and we are off!

There are LOTS and LOTS of stuff I got piled up in my draft posts that I would want to touch base on and, believe me, they will eventually get there in its due time, but for now allow me to share with you a few details as where I will be this week. Then, as time goes by, I will be coming around those different drafts and share them with you, so that you can get a good overview of what I have been up to in the last few weeks.

But for now, I shall just mentioned how I stayed home last Friday, getting ready to go to one of those events that I always wanted to go to, for the last couple of years, and which this year I have finally been able to make it. I am in Boston, MA (Arrived last night already), and will, at long last, be attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference event! Wooohooo! Yeah, that is exactly how I felt when I got the confirmation details I would be here!

Over the last few hours, I have already been tasting some of what is waiting for me with a whole bunch of folks talking about it and what they are expecting to see. For me, you can imagine how I have plenty of really high expectations and right away I know that they will be met and ever so much more!

As usual, the biggest takeaway for me is going to be the massive networking I will be getting exposed to coming from all over the place! Most of the folks I have been following in the Enterprise 2.0 space are going to be here and I just can’t wait to put a face behind all of our different interactions! About time, too! Indeed! The programme itself is amazingly impressive and to indicate now what sessions I will actually be going for is a bit too soon! This time around I am going to take a different approach. I am going forward with a dynamic agenda. Nothing settled down just yet. Too much I would want to see, and check out, too little time, so I am going to go with the flow and see what catches my attention at that very minute. I already have got some pretty good ideas, but like I said, this time around it is going to be a dynamic one. For sure!

Of course, I will be blogging about it all! In fact, you can expect to have some massively intense period of time where that would be the only thing I will talk about over here. And hope you folks out there would be ok with it. To me, this particular event is one of the most prominent in the Enterprise 2.0 & Social Computing spaces and as such it is going to have a special place in this blog. And that’s why I am shooting for some pretty intense blogging overall coming up in the next couple of weeks, if not longer!

Yes, that is right. I will be blogging about the whole thing pretty intensely, but you would have to allow me to perhaps even go through the event itself. With the massively packed agenda, with some much stuff going on in the Demo Pavilion, along with the various networking activities, as well as various customer meetings from folks over here throughout the week, I doubt I would have some time to capture in blog posts what I will be getting exposed to. And on top of that, the very little time that I had already is way way gone with the massive physical social networking I am planning to do in real life while at the event, which means that I would have to decide whether I would be getting any sleep or blogging. And, of course, sleep will win (Otherwise there is no way I will be up and running properly the next day!!! heh).

So you may be wondering how can you catch up with me during the course of this week, right?, if those blog posts will not be coming up as often as you would expect? Well, I am going to give Twitter another chance. Yes, that is right! You are reading it correctly! Those folks who have been following me in Twitter know how I have been on the brink of giving up on it for good after the massive issues they have been having with its performance. This week though I am giving them just one more chance: The Enterprise 2.0 event. Plenty of folks have been wondering whether Twitter would be one of those tools that could make it to the Enterprise 2.0 space, right? Well, I think this is THE chance for Twitter to prove that! At least, for me.

My good friend Dennis Howlett is actually going to moderate a really good panel on this very same subject, so it would be interesting to see how it would come out in the end. We shall see. You would agree with me how this is going to be one pretty impressive event overall, even if you are not into Drag Queens (;-P), so here is where you would be able to find me during the course of the conference for the entire week: Twitter elsua & Twitter elsuacon.

The first of my two Twitter ids is the one I will be using to carry on with conversations I will be having with folks throughout the event. The one that would be gathering all of my thoughts as I engage into what’s going on. The second one, the elsuacon one, is the one where my Twitterrhea about the various sessions I will be attending is going to go. It is surely going to be pretty intense in there, since I will be capturing thoughts, reactions, feedback, experiences, etc. etc. that I will be using at a later time for my highlights blog posts from the overall event. Main reason why I am going to use that second Twitter id is to basically not to scare off people with far too many tweets! And also because it would allow me to capture quick thoughts without having to elaborate far too much and therefore not miss much in between. Then I will be able to elaborate some more further. So if you think you are brave enough to follow that one, here is the feed you can subscribed to. But, like I said, nothing to worry about. Over the next few weeks I am planning on covering extensively in this blog what I have been experiencing. Somehow I sense it will be a life changing experience. One of those events that will leave a mark (For bad or for good!) and plenty of food for thought on where we are and where we are heading and I am just one of those privileged folks who will be sharing his two cents about such event!

I am ready for the show to get started! Are you?

Let’s get busy then!

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise2.0, E2.0, E20, Social Computing, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Communities, Learning, Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Sharing, Conference Events, Events, Twitter, Dennis Howlett, Drag Queens, Boston, MA, Enterprise2conf

Half way through the "See the Light 2.0" road show here in Germany, that I have been doing over the last couple of days, and which is going to be very difficult to forget for many many moons to come!, it is only now that I am starting to have some more free time to share with you folks some further thoughts on what has been happening over the last couple of weeks. I think it is kind of pointless to actually continue working on my draft blog posts while you are driving through the Autobahn, if you know what I mean

So while I am still here in Köln (Beautiful city, by the way!), I thought I would go ahead and share some more of the highlights from the Next08 event (Probably the last blog post of the series, for the time being) I attended a couple of weeks back in Hamburg (And of which I have talked about already over here a couple of times); at the same time that I share with you all the weekly progress report from my giving up on e-mail new reality, moving on from where I left it before going on the road again: week 14.

Main reason why I wanted to continue talking about Next08 is because of the good amount of comments and offline interactions I have been getting from people to share a specific blog post where I would just point out to the presentation I did, which you already have, but more interestingly to the video recording that a few days back has already been made available on their site. Yes, that is right, something that I mentioned already elsewhere over here, but since it was a bit hidden with some further commentary, I think it would make sense to mention it briefly, once more.

Just recently we all got a notification where it was mentioned how all of the videos from Next08 were already up and running; ready to be watched! Including mine. Unfortunately, I will not be able to embed it over here, so you will have to head over to the main programme site and scroll down till you bump into it. But it is there. In it you will be able find out how over the course of a bit over 30 minutes I cover some of the background of where I am coming from with this new reality of giving up on work related e-mail, where I am heading and trying to achieve, as well as for what purpose(s), and in the end I get to talk about a little bit more hinting the various social software tools I use the most on a regular basis.

So far the feedback I have been receiving has been very positive, but I would certainly like to continue encouraging you all to watch it and provide some further feedback or comments you may have overall on it. Time continues to move forward and as such so has my presentation on "Thinking out of the Inbox", specially after these last few days on this Enterprise 2.0 / Social Computing road show. Quite an eye opener that I would be able to share with you whenever I am done with the overall event in the next couple of days… Thus stay tuned for more to come!

And now that I got that done with, I thought I would share with you the weekly progress report from that week, which would be the 14th consecutive week that I have given up on e-mail at work. Coming closer to the four months already at the time and now that I am just about to hit on the fifth month I can tell you that the results are even better! So here it is:

As you would be able to see I had a peak of 40 e-mails for that week, which although not too bad, it surely was an indication that I couldn’t move away some of those conversations about (conference) events, like I mentioned I would try to do. They were still coming up my way through my Inbox. I am not going to share with you just yet what happened in the following couple of weeks, since in each of them something really remarkable has taken place, so one step at a time, but as you can see, it is still looking good. Very doable and tripling the kind of online social software interactions I have been having thus far, which is helping me stay connected with people and feel that even though I am on the road travelling on a regular basis I can still contribute towards helping others. And not using e-mail!

And, finally, talking about people, if there would be a single key element that I could talk about from the Next08 event in Hamburg, it would be the fact that it is one of those special events where lots and lots of emphasis is placed on the social networking activities. It surely was an amazing experience, both from an organisational perspective as well as from a participant / presenter one. There were two things that immediately caught my attention throughout. One how everyone got a chance to come over and share their thoughts with their favourite speakers. That is how I got to know plenty more Stowe Boyd, Steve Rubel, Markus Angermeier, Tina Pickhardt, Sarik Weber,  Matthias Schrader, of course! (And his entire team! Well done, guys!!!) and many many more, including a whole bunch of IBMers (Yes, yes, you know who you are! heh). I know I will be keeping up with them in various social computing tools, like Twitter, whenever it would be working properly again. But one thing, for the sure, the first face to face contact has been made successfully. The rest will be coming along through nicely as time goes by and till the next event!

The second thing is to re-discover how healthy Web 2.0, along with Enterprise 2.0, is becoming in Germany. I already knew from my various interactions that Germany was on the right track, and to be honest, during that particular event I had the certainty of diving into conversations with an incredibly smart talent who are not only exploring the limits of Web 2.0, but they are taking them to the extreme to see where they can push them within the corporate world! And, not sure what you think, folks, but I am incredibly excited about it, because it comes to prove that it is not just America and Asia doing some really good things in this space, but also Germany, along with the UK and a couple of other countries, like Italy, where things are starting to turn around in the right direction: our direction!

Thus I am not sure about you, but I am surely looking forward to Next09. Will you be there? I hope I will. For sure!

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Continuing further with some more highlights from the superb event I attended a couple of weeks back in Hamburg, Next08, I thought I would go ahead and share another blog post where I will not be mentioning much more about the Keynote speakers, since I did that last time, but more with the rest of the breakout sessions that I got to attend for the remaining of the day. One thing that you may have noticed already is how the great folks from Next08 have already provided some preview of what other people attending the event have been blogging and twittering about all along, including plenty of pictures shared all along by a whole bunch of folks. Thus you may want to have a look into that as well.

At the same time you may have noticed how a good number of the recorded videos are starting to become available for everyone to enjoy and in multiple spaces. So what I will do from here is just share a line or two from the breakout sessions I attended and a quick thought on whether it would be worth while for you folks to watch the video replay or not. That way you would be able to keep up accordingly, and at your own pace, with what has been happening. So let’s get the ball rolling…

Being Real-time: Google’s Mobile Strategy by Robert Hamilton (Google Mobile Management)

The video replay is already available on the Next08 and this would be one of those breakout sessions that I attended that would be worth while watching again. More than anything else to watch where Google is going with its Search engine, amongst many other items, within the Mobile 2.0 world. One keyword coming to mind, even after two weeks that the event is now finished: FAST!! Or, even, FASTER!!!

Decaffeinating Tea - Why Enterprise 2.0 isn’t - what it needs to make it happen by Jeremy Ruston (British Telecom)

Although Jeremy’s video replay is not yet readily available for watching, I can certainly recommend that you take a look into it, whenever it makes it. More than anything else because Jeremy engages in a very interesting and thought-provoking presentation (Using TiddlyWiki, by the way. No PPT slides at all! - Loved it!) where he touches on a good number of elements to take into account with regards to the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 that converge in most cases into cultural aspects, and not just technology. Very inspiring session that settles the ground on where the next generation of the workforce is already and how they themselves will be shaping up the future workplace! Truly engaging and remarkable, to say the least. Like I said, it would be interesting for you to watch this one, whenever it would become available.

And perhaps, for now, and to give you a glimpse of what you will find out, check out Fischmarkt’s summary of Jeremy’s session where you can read some more as to what Jeremy is up to in helping shape the workplace of the future, one where the knowledge workers themselves would be the ones in power! Very good, indeed!

Thinking out of the Inbox - More Collaboration through less e-mail by Luis Suarez (Social Computing Evangelist at IBM)

Going to keep things short on this one, since I already blogged about this particular session where yours truly gave a speech on where we are with Enterprise 2.0 from a corporate perspective as well as sharing my own experiences on my new reality of having given up on work related e-mail. The video replay has now been made available, but I will be creating a new blog post on it specifically, as I would want to share with you folks a thing or two I got from listening to the replay once again. Too funny to watch yourself on a computer screen doing such stuff, I tell you. Thus stay tuned for that one to be posted and feel free to leave a comment if it sparks a question or two while going through it.

Things we care about by Ryan Singer (37signals)

This is one other session that I surely enjoyed quite a bit! And even though I am not a designer, nor a developer, I still found it incredibly inspiring and mind-blowing! Why? Well, because Ryan spent a few minutes explaining, through demos, how certain design elements would work out with different Web sites to help enrich the user experience tremendously and although I know that for most of you folks out there this would not be any news to you, I can honestly say that I wish most of the Web 2.0 tools that I use out there would implement a few of these designer enhancements that Ryan explained and covered very nicely, because it is caring about the smaller details when putting those interfaces together that surely have the highest impact. And Ryan was able to transmit that throughout the whole time! Just brilliant and highly recommended!

Oh, and his session is available through the video replay already! Go ahead, watch & educate yourself on what Web design should always be about!

From there onwards there were a couple of other breakout sessions that I didn’t get to attend, since they were in German, and my German skills are a bit rusty at the moment, so I decided, instead, to do some serious social networking face to face and have a few conversations with various folks coming from different areas of expertise, but all of them with a commitment to make Enterprise 2.0 a success within their own companies. Quite re-energising to see all of that talent coming together into changing the way the corporate world has operated for the last few years. Very refreshing stuff, if you would ask me, because whether we like it or not, this is going to be the generation of folks who will be ruling the corporate world in the next couple of years, if not already! … I can imagine how some of the pictures taken were able to capture those precious moments of an engaging dialogue with someone you share a common passion. Priceless!

And, finally, the last session was the wrap-up session from Gunter Dueck, which I have talked about previously, and one of those sessions that although I didn’t make it, as I was busy with meetings, & Gunter was giving his speech in German, it surely was worth while the time! Kept bumping into people that afternoon saying that his session was one of the very best from the entire the event! And with that introduction, I am certainly looking forward for someone to be able to translate the main thoughts into a blog post in English that we could all digest. Another one in German may also help out quite a bit!

That was it, folks! That’s it for me for today on the highlights from the breakout sessions I was able to attend during Next08. There are plenty more, of course, since there were four concurrent tracks taking place, so you may want to head over to the Agenda and check out some of the remaining sessions, which are already having the replays of them available on the main site for the event, so you can watch them at your own pace…

In an upcoming blog post, the last one from the series, I will be sharing some of the different highlights from a personal perspective from the people I met there, as well as the organisation of the overall event, which I think did a GREAT job! Thus stay tuned, because there is more to come!

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Phew! I really needed to have those couple of extra days off over the weekend to unwind from a massively busy schedule with plenty of travelling all along in the last couple of weeks, having just returned from Barcelona on Friday, then on the road again over the next couple of days. Too hectic, huh? Yes, probably, but loving it! Every minute of it! Yes, that is right! Things seemed to have been rather feverish lately and must say that there is no sign it is going to stop any time soon! That’s why you have seen very little activity from my usual regular blogging, but fear not, because now that I am done with the weekend I have got a bunch of posts to share with you folks over the next few hours!

Starting with some more reviews from the Next08 event in Hamburg from a couple of weeks back, where I am hoping that the video recording of my session will become available shortly as well, so that I can share the link with all of you, as most of the different replays are up and running already and in various different places. Then from there onwards continuing further with the weekly reports on my progress giving up on e-mail, where the good news keep piling up, thus stay tuned for those, too!

One of the other things that I would want to touch base with as well is with regards to one of my customer visits from last week to Barcelona, where the session I provided on Social Computing in the Enterprise sparked some really good, and thought-provoking, discussions I am hoping to touch base on as well (Link here, in Catalan). Not going to mention too much just yet in order not to spoil it, but I can certainly guarantee you that it would be quite an interesting read.

At the same time I am planning to create another blog post on the Startup 2.0 event that I was kindly invited by Jose Antonio del Moral and where I met a good bunch of folks involved with Start ups and the Web 2.0 world with a special mention to some fascinating discussions with one of the folks I have been following up for a little while now and whom I know our relationship is going to get more active than ever: Tom Raftery (By the way, Tom, congratulations on the massive gig! Great news for sure!! ). Thus something else to talk about over the next couple of days as well.

Finally, and as I am entering the 16th week in a row of my new reality on giving up on e-mail, I am now ready to start sharing with you folks different blog posts where I can talk about my social software tools suite that I have been using all along and with which I am sticking around for the next few months, in order to help me successfully move away from e-mail. Thus stay tuned for those entries as well if you would want to find out some more how you can get started yourself. Oh, and a lovely surprise I am hoping to be able to share as well very very soon, too!

And now, to wrap up this half-way-through-catchup status blog post from the last few days, I will detail where I am going to be this week and the next (My Dopplr account has been updated already, by the way, in case you are wondering). But before I do that watch out as well because I will be creating a number of other different blog posts where I am going to be sharing some further details as to where I will be over the next few weeks ending up, so far, to the end of June! Non-stop travelling till then! But let’s get started with one step at a time…

Starting this coming Wednesday I am actually flying out to Germany to participate in an event that the IBM Software (Tech) Sales folks have been setting up and which I am surely going to enjoy quite a bit! It is called "See the Light (2.0)" and its main purpose is to help spread the message around with regards to Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Computing in general. Yes, I know, my kind of thing! Indeed!

Initially it is going to be for an IBM internal audience, thus a bit more restricted than the events I have been participating thus far in the last few days, but still equally exciting. So much so, that I will be one of the speakers talking about the presentation I have been doing already a couple of times and which I am thinking about changing its title a little bit, thanks to the inspiration from this particular event itself. Thus I will be presenting on "Thinking out of the Inbox - More Collaboration through less e-mail", but I am thinking that I may be changing the title to something more like "See the Light - Thinking out of the Inbox". Much shorter, straighter to the point on what I am doing lately, as well as keeping that evangelism flavour that part of my job role entails. We shall see how that goes…

So, where am I going to go? Well, it certainly is going to be quite interesting and totally new to me. I will actually be in six different cities in Germany over the course of eight days! Yes, you are reading it right. I will be in six different cities over the course of eight days enjoying the unique experience of the Autobahn. Thus I will be flying out this coming Wednesday to Munich where my Tour of Germany will start the next day; then from there onwards off to Stuttgart the day after to continue further with the roadshow. Then I will be spending the entire weekend in Cologne (Probably where I would be getting the highest chances to meet up with folks as I unwind a bit from everything while in there) and will continue with Monday to Frankfurt, Tuesday to Düsseldorf and, finally, Wednesday to Hamburg. And Thursday on my way back home! Have a one day rest at home, and off we go again with the next trip on Friday (But that would be another entry on this blog, not to worry!).

Goodness, eh? Yes, that’s right! That’s the kind of massively hectic week that is awaiting me, talking to a whole bunch of people on Social Computing in IBM and the kind of impact it is having within the corporate world and then finishing up sharing my experiences on how I have been using successfully social software tools to walk away from work related e-mail for the last four months. Sounds like some good fun ahead of me! And I can’t wait!

I am sure that during the course of these few days where I will be travelling I will have some time to keep posting those posts I mentioned above I would want to touch base on, but I am thinking as well that if you fancy getting together for a drink or two, or a dinner, you may want to keep in touch, leaving a comment over here, or contacting me through the various social software tools we interact with each other already. No guarantees I would be able to make it, like I said, Cologne is probably the best option over the weekend, but you never know. I may be able to generate more free time than I expect at that point in time. Either way, here you are, resuming my blogging activities after a wonderful and relaxing weekend and ready for another two weeks of feverish activities in the 2.0 space!

Come on! Let’s do it! Let’s get the fun started!!!

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