As I have been hinting in a couple of previous blog posts, I am on the road again (Goodness! That’s probably the phrase I have used the most this year! heh), although this time around a lot closer than in most business trips I have done lately. Yes, that is right. I am in Madrid again. And I will be here for the next couple of days (Till Friday morning). Main reason why? Well, a couple of months back I was offered to be part of a panel of a very special, inspirational and thought-provoking event and, of course, with such introduction I just couldn’t say "No".

Thus here I am, back in Madrid going to take part on a very special event organised by IBM, called PRO-VOKE - El Valor de la Tecnología en la Empresa del Futuro (Inspirar, Liderad, Innovar). Something along the lines of "The Value of Technology in the Enterprise of the Future - Inspire, Lead, Innovate". In short, IBM Spain’s Innovation Summit. This event is a one day show, in fact, a one morning show, but let me tell you what makes it special for me and why I just couldn’t turn it down.

To start with it is that kind of events that, although it is not open to everyone, it’s going to have an impact, a very massive impact, at least, with plenty of folks, including myself, and I will explain why. Secondly, the agenda of the event looks very interesting and engaging as it will be a mixture of keynote speaker sessions, interviews, and a panel for the very end, which is the one where I will be participating.

You will probably need to head over to the main site to check out further details on the event itself, but let me throw over here a few names of the folks who are going to be there, so that you will see why I am really excited about being here:

Amparo Moraleda (IBM President for Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel and Turkey); Michael Wesch (Yes, the same Michael Wesch who has been educating us on the impact of Web 2.0 in our society going way beyond just the Internet itself!); Lou Gerstner (Former Chairman of the Board and CEO of IBM from 1993 until 2002 & currently Chairman of the Carlyle Group); Jaime Arrazola (VP of IBM GTS Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel & Turkey); and, finally, the list of panelists: Pol Mac Aonghusa (CTO Emerging Technology Incubation Center), Florence D. Hudson (IBM Energy & Environment Strategy & Execution Global Executive), Fernando Becker (Corporate Resources Director, Iberdrola), Felipe Bernabé García (Secretario General y Consejero de FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas)) and José María Fuster (Chief Information Officer of Grupo Santander). And, at the very end, to close off the event, Christina Garmendia, Minister of Science & Innovation.

Well, to that, more than impressive, line-up of superb speakers & panelists you will need to add yours truly, as well, as I will be participating myself in the main panel and I can tell you that there is nothing so humbling as being part of such event, just by looking into the agenda! I feel just like going there and do nothing else than sit quiet, listen & learn!

And that’s what I am planning to do, too! However, I was eventually invited into the panel session, later on in the morning, this coming Thursday, to talk a bit about the impact that social computing is having in the corporate world driving innovation into new levels of engagement, more specifically in the area of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Thus I will try to share some of my experiences and what I have been learning over the last five and a half years of Social Networking evangelism in the enterprise and how disruptive social innovation has been all along and where it may take forward the Enterprise of the Future.

The event itself will take place at the IBM Forum in Madrid and although I know there is Wi-Fi available, I am not really sure whether I would be able to live blog / tweet it. One thing for sure is that there will be an upcoming blog post with the highlights of the event and key learnings I got from interacting with most of those folks.

Like I said, right now I can only think it is going to be an incredibly educational, enlightening and humbling event. One that will surely leave a mark after it’s over. One of those for which I just can’t wait to write down those highlights and share them with the rest of you folks! Social Innovation is here. Thus I shall just keep it short for now:

STOP talking innovation; START experiencing it!

(Needless to say that if you are around, and if you would want to get together for a drink or two, or food, just give me a shout and we shall meet up! Leaving Madrid on Friday morning!)

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A few minutes after I created the blog post where I was sharing with the readership of this blog the opportunity to win a complementary pass code for the event, I had a couple of folks interacting with me through e-mail and Instant Messaging asking me what would be the best way for them to reach out to me, if not using e-mail (You see? I am slowly, but steadily, winning the battle! heh), since they all knew I am about to go into another business trip I will detail some more shortly and that would end just before I head to Berlin next Sunday!

I mentioned it to them, through those interactions, what would be the best way of getting in touch and I thought I would spend a couple of minutes over here as well. I suppose it would become rather handy, specially, since I am sensing it is going to be a pretty hectic week, once again, and may not have enough time to get in touch with folks before I am in Berlin.

So, back to those e-mails and IMs conversations, I mentioned to them that the main tool I am planning to make use of would be one that the Web 2.0 Expo folks have put together as well, which is The Web 2.0 Expo CrowdVine space, and which is starting to look really really nice! This particular group space is where most of us, attendees, will be hanging out to connect with other folks, to reach out to all those who we would like to meet up and to indicate those folks who we are a big fan of! Pretty neat!

Of course, there will be still plenty of other interactions in that particular group space, but mainly I think it would be rather interesting to see how we would be able to connect through it. I have already got a profile (Yes, yet again, another one!) in there, where you would be able to find out what I will be up to and who I am planning to meet up and hang out with. At the same time there are a number of conversations which are flourishing already and which would be worth while contributing to as well. We shall see how time allows for me to chime in as well!

At the same time, of course, there is a blog for the conference, a Facebook Fan page, a FriendFeed room, a Twitter handle to follow up for updates and, like usual, the blogosphere in its full force with plenty of insights going around all over the place already! You can start subscribing to the different channels! Plenty of choice this time around!

I, too, would be blogging about the event, but most probably after the event itself, as highlights posts, from the sessions I will be attending and will be sharing some additional thoughts on folks I will be meeting up with, and for the most part, of course, I will be on Twitter, doing my usual live tweeting, over @elsuacon.

As you would be able to see, plenty of choices and opportunities to get a flavour of what the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin would be like, but I can certainly tell you one thing, not matter how much great content gets shared across the board, what would be the killer event or happening for me would eventually be the usual suspect, the networking with fellow colleagues (Did you know that almost my entire team is going to be there! As well as some of the most well known IBM Social Software evangelists who I have the great pleasure of hanging out with for the last few years?), as well as social media consultants, some of the other players in the field, amongst many other thought leaders in the space of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0.

I am sensing that networking while at the event is probably going to prevent me from being online as much as I would have probably liked and that can only mean one thing: the most powerful form of social networking (i.e. the face to face contact!) will have won the battle once again! And I just can’t wait for that to happen, because I am sure it would get us all exposed to plenty of excitement: new (But also already known) connections, new conversations, perhaps even new personal business relationships, you name it! I guess it would be up to each and everyone of us to put the limits! heh

Are you ready?

I surely am! And you know where you can find me! Mixing and mingling with the crowd!

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For a good number of weeks, you would remember how I have been mentioning how, with all of this travelling going around all over the place, I am starting to find less and less time to comment back further on the lovely input that regular readers of this blog have been leaving behind as comments. I still read them all, each and everyone of them!, but over time I am finding it increasingly more difficult to capture additional thoughts, do some more research, come up with some worth while commentary and share it with you folks. And it is starting to hit me. Don’t despair, though, I am working on it, and for sure, I know that I would eventually get there. Back in full force commenting on some of the brilliant stuff you have been sharing all along!

In fact, believe it or not, I am already using some of your input as part of conversations I have been having live, i.e. face to face, with folks I have met at the various events I have been going to all along. Yet, still can’t find a way to feed that input as follow up comments into the original conversations. But not to worry, we will eventually get there. I am certain of that.

However, for now, I just thought I would share with you folks my two cents worth of this blog post, as a token of eternal gratitude for hanging out there, still reading some of these entries and adding your thoughts that in most cases have increased the quality of the original post(s). You all know how I feel about the readership of this blog. Without it, I am sure things would have been completely different, if non-existent. So the fact that I now have got a chance to say "Thanks!" is an opportunity I am not going to let it go, just like that!

Thus, just to reward all of those folks who have stuck around through thick and thin, here is my chance to share that token of gratitude. I have just been provided with a complimentary pass code for the Web 2.0 Expo (Where you know I will be attending & speaking at the event) and that basically means that one of you could be making it to the event for free! Yes, indeed, for FREE!

That’s right, I have got a complimentary pass code for one of you to make it to Berlin and enjoy what promises one of those Web 2.0 events difficult to forget during 2008! And, like I couldn’t have done it any other way, I will be more than happy to hand over that  code to the first person who leaves a comment on this blog post, claiming it! Thus if you wanted to go to the event, but didn’t know how you were going to be able to make it, this may be your chance.

Just leave a comment on this post, indicating your interest to attend and the pass is yours! And since it is just a single pass, the only rule applied over here for this would be first come, first served! So, hurry up, get in touch, grab the code and I will be seeing you in Berlin! And who knows, we may be able to share a drink or two, or food, if you would want to get together! Give me a shout along the way, if you would want to do that!

For now, time to wrap up this blog post, get the pass code ready, and anxiously awaiting for the first commenter to come through to hand over that code! Like I said, it is the least I could do for the readers of this blog. I just wish I could hand more than code, because all of you deserve that and so much more for still dropping by day in day out and commenting on the blog and making it a better place than whatever it was intended to be in the first place!

Thanks ever so much for that! And let’s get the show started! Who is going to Berlin with me?!?

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After a superb business trip to Mechelen, Belgium, last week where not only did I have a great time, but also learned quite a bit!, it is now time to get back into the swing of things at work. Well, not really! Friday was the day of a massive catchup with everything and, like I was mentioning in Twitter, it was the first time in over five years that I spent it talking more on the phone than through online interactions! Goodness! I almost forgot how fast & easy it is to catch up while you talk, as opposed to when you write! I should be doing that much more often, for sure!

Anyway, you would expect I would be having time to get things back in order with my regular blogging and other work related activities, right? Humm, not likely! I am already preparing, during the course of today, for another business trip I will be doing this week, once again. Leaving tomorrow and going to Madrid to participate in a very special event which I will be blogging about shortly. Stay tuned, because it is going to be quite an interesting one!

For now, though, I think I will go with this blog post where I will try to catch up with those weekly progress reports I have been sharing all along since I started giving up on e-mail at work and which I have been neglecting for a little bit due to the holidays to both Barcelona and London, then the business trip to Mechelen and a week here and there. So I thought I share with you folks what has happened during those weeks.

To start with, I will not be commenting on other interesting links I have bumped into or the conference events I have been to during all of this time, since I will be blogging about them separately and I would also want to keep this blog post on the short side. So, what I will do, without much further ado is to share with you folks the actual progress reports and I will comment, right afterwards, with a couple of thoughts for each of them, so you can get a glimpse of what’s been happening all around. Thus, let’s get started!

As you would be able to see, lots of things have happened during the last few weeks, while I have been preparing for my vacation, during my vacation, on the first business trip after the vacation and so forth! To get things going, it looks like I hit my new challenge twice in that period of time! Yes, that is right! On my new challenge, I proposed to keep that incoming number of e-mails even lower, 20 or less! And to my amazement, since I didn’t expect it to happen so soon, there have been two times that I have done it, as you can see on those weekly reports. One with a hit of 20 and another one, the one I am incredibly excited about, which is 13 e-mails! Yes, that’s right! 13 e-mails in a single week!!! That’s exactly what I am looking forward to with this second part of the challenge of giving up on e-mail at work!

Too bad that after I came back, and while I was in Mechelen, Belgium, that count went sky high, with one of the highest from the entire nine months I have been doing this! But not to worry, it is all an exception, from what I can see. That really high count of e-mails was eventually due to three different factors:

- InnovationJam 2008: I managed to put together and share a number of different ideas, despite the poor conditions regarding my connectivity during that time, and a couple of them picked up a nice momentum, which developed in several private 1:1 conversations, too! I am trying to put together some of the thoughts exchanged throughout the Jam conversations so that you folks can have a look at some of the amazing stuff that happened throughout!

- Calendaring & Scheduling: This is something I have blogged about already in the past, and it is probably the number #1 issue that still keeps me making use of e-mail at odd weeks, like week 35, for instance. Two days in that week registered really high peaks of incoming e-mails, because I was discussing with a few folks the final logistics for a couple of events I will be attending from here till end of the year! If calendaring and scheduling is an issue, imagine it even worse when people send you e-mail after e-mail to finalise details that could have been done in a very simple, yet very effective manner: a phone call! (Or through Activities!). I need to work more on this one, before it kills me. Or, worse, something else that is starting to take some shape and which would need some further thinking before I share it across. We shall see.

- 1:1 conversations: As more and more folks realise how I still use e-mail for 1:1 conversations of a confidential / sensitive nature, sometimes I do get a few of these, yes!, they come in batches!, of folks wanting to detail stuff in a personal private conversation. And like I have been saying all along, more than happy to accommodate those coming through e-mail. The rest will be going OUTSIDE the Inbox!

Thus there you go. In a single blog post the weekly progress reports from the five weeks I haven’t been able to detail before, due to vacation preparations, the time away on holidays, and the business trip to Mechelen. Oh, and there was something else that sparked two very nasty blog posts while I was on the road, but, not to worry, I will not be sharing them over here. Far too negative! I will be putting together a rather softer one on the topic, which has surely influenced as well some of the high numbers on concrete days. Here is a hint on what it will be about: connectivity or, better said, the lack of!

But that will be the subject for another blog post. For now, time to leave things here. Hope you enjoy the massive catch up on all of those progress reports from the last few weeks and off to the next blog post that will contain a lovely surprise for those faithful readers that despite my somewhat irregular blogging activities, they still keep up with this blog eventually. Hang in there, lovely surprise coming up for you shortly!

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After a wonderful holiday, away for a few days, first in Barcelona and then in London, I am back to work! First day back and already on the road, too! Yes, indeed, over the next couple of days I will be in Belgium, in Mechelen, to be more exact, where tomorrow afternoon I will be presenting at IBM’s Innovation event "Shape Your Future". And all of this while the engaging and mind-blowing InnovationJam 2008 is taking place over the next few hours!! Goodness! So much to talk about and share, yet so little time! Hang in there, folks, while I am trying to get back into my regular blogging activities as well, but I guess we will have to go one step at a time, right?

So, let’s get things going with IBM’s Innovation event "Shape Your Future", where you would be able to see how tomorrow afternoon I will be speaking, once more, on the topic of "Thinking Outside the Inbox" where I am hoping to bring together as well some of the various conversations I have been having in the recent past from a couple of other events I have been engaging with.

The slide deck continues to be the same, i.e. giving up e-mail at work, but pretty much the speech has evolved tremendously over the last few weeks, since I will be incorporating some of the most relevant and interesting conversations I have been having all along in the last couple of months. Hope this session will be recorded somehow, so I would have an opportunity to perhaps share such recording with everyone. At the same time, stay tuned for some really good news on the progress reports, because I have got something for you I am sure you are going to enjoy quite a bit! You will see…

If you would notice, this is the sister event I presented at, not long ago, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and which I blogged about not long ago as well. Thus it follows a similar structure. You would be able to find information about the event over here, from where you can also find out some more about each of the speakers who will be there (I seemed to be missing from the list, but not to worry, I know I will be there, too!), as well as the location in Mechelen.

But perhaps the most interesting part of the two day event would be, of course, the programme itself, apart from the (Social) Networking, for sure! In it, you would be able to see what the keynote speaker sessions would be about, as well as the various breakout sessions, including the one I will be doing, and from peeking through it I am certain you would be able to see the quality of the materials presented around the topic of shaping your future and how each of the speakers will bring together a new, fresh air into the next level for Innovation!

And, like I said, all of that happening at the same time that the InnovationJam 2008 is taking place over the course of the next couple of days! I haven’t blogged, nor mentioned much about it, because at the beginning I was not really sure whether I would be able to participate in it, or not, since it got started yesterday while I was still on holidays and will continue over the next couple of days while I am on this business trip, where I am just finding out, the hard way, as usual, how unreliable a good Internet connection has become nowadays. As soon as I have got a few applications running it runs into a hard stop and I cannot longer move on further with engaging in such event or catch up after the holidays. Ahhh, well… So much with regards to pervasiveness and broadband penetration, right? Not likely!

I just hope it will improve while I am here, because otherwise it would be too bad to miss the whole thing out! I hope not! One thing for sure that I am certain is going to win is the networking side of things, so if you are around in Mechelen, over the next couple of days, and if you would want to get together for a drink or two, give me a shout and we will find some time, I am sure!

For now, time for me to prepare the event(s) of tomorrow hoping the broadband connection will be restored to what’s supposed to be and see if I can finally catch up with InnovationJam 2008 and starting jamming a bit! How about you? Are you jamming yet?

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If last week, during my vacation in Barcelona, I was twittering quite a bit about the various issues I experienced throughout the whole week with some very poor performance on wireless connectivity throughout the couple of hotels I stayed in, as well as my mobile SIM card with Yoigo (Not to worry, I have got a couple of blog posts I need pruning first a bit more before I let them go out into my blogs, but I can surely guarantee you they will be fun! NOT!!!), this week things have changed completely. And for the better! I am enjoying a lovely, and pervasive, standard ADSL connection at the super fine Hyde Park Executive Apartments in London, where I am going to stay for about a week.

Yes, indeed, I am on the road again! What a year, eh? Incredibly hectic and exciting to say the least! I am just going to do a little bit of fast forwarding and ask you folks to hang in there for the various blog posts I will be sharing over the course of the next couple of weeks with some of the highlights from the amazing time I had while in Barcelona; like I said, one of my all time favourite cities in the world! And, specially detail some more about the wonderful people, and conversations we had!, I have met over the last few days.

But that will need to take a little break, because, like I have mentioned above, I am on the road again, this time to London, to get busy with a few things I wish I had the time to detail earlier on, if it weren’t for the appalling lack of connectivity over the last 10 days! Alas, it didn’t happen. (Sigh) Anyway, moving forward (For now…)

Yes, I am in London. Yes, I am still on holidays! , enjoying a few days catching up with one of my favourite, and most cosmopolitan, cities I have been to in my short life. Even though I have seen most of the city throughout the course of the years, it still amazes me how much it continues to change & thrive and give you that impression that you need to explore it again just to catch up since last time! In my case that would be 2005!

But that’s not the only reason why I am here. I am also here in London, because for the first time in a couple of years I have now finally managed to be able to make it to one of those Web 2.0 related events I always wanted to attend, but never quite managed to make it. Till this year…

I am talking about Unicom’s Web 2.0: Practical Applications for Business Benefit that will kick off on October 1st, and for a couple of days, at MWB Victoria and where I will not only be attending as a regular attendee throughout the entire event, but also I will be speaking at one of the sessions on the first day.

You will be able to check out all of the details of this very interesting and engaging event, I am sure, if you get your hands on the event’s brochure or if you check out the Programme / Schedule. In there you would be able to read how folks I have been following for a while now, and whom I have got plenty of admiration and respect for, would be participating as well at the event. People like Euan Semple, Penny Edwards, Leisa Reichelt, Suw Charman-Anderson, Dominic Campbell and, of course, David Gurteen, who I have known, and have followed!, for many years now and with whom I am finally going to have a chance to meet up face to face! Oh, and the same would be happening with Euan!

Can you see where my excitement comes from? heh Well, it gets better!

As I have mentioned above already, I will be sharing the agenda / programme with such an amazing bunch of folks talking about, yes, you know it already, my favourite topic this year: Thinking Outside the Inbox! Although this time around with a slight tweak here and there of the speech itself. Here is an excerpt of what I will be covering during my session:

- "The changing nature of collaboration
- The role of communities in helping accelerate the adoption of social computing
- Enterprise social software what it is and why you should care about it.
- Practical examples of social software in the enterprise, its Web 2.0 characteristics and benefits vs. traditional collaboration tools"

I am not sure whether the sessions will be recorded or not, but it is my understanding the slide decks will be shared, although, they are almost identical to the ones I have been using all along. The pitch, though, will be different.

I am not sure whether I would be live con-blogging or tweeting (@elsuacon) the rest of the event, since it would pretty much depend on the connectivity we would have throughout, and so far my experiences haven’t been that good for multiple other conferences. We shall see how that goes! But needless to say that even if I cannot report about the conference live I will still be putting together some highlights after the event is done and I am capable of finding some free time!

Free time? Yes, not much this time around either! Because there is another good reason why I am here in London during the next few days and that is to participate on my first London Knowledge Cafe where both Unicom and David Gurteen have offered me the unique opportunity to expand further on why, how, since when I have been giving up on e-mail at work and also explain further how other folks can start doing the same thing I have been doing now for over 8 months! (No, I haven’t forgotten either the blog posts on the weekly progress reports about how things are going. Those are coming up, too! And stay tuned, because they are looking good!).

You would be able to read plenty more about it over at "Could you stop using e-mail?" and, as you can see, it is an open to everyone event, where I will try to be as provocative, enlightening and entertaining as I possibly could be, so that you can learn a few tricks on how you can free yourself up from e-mail at work. For good! Just like I have done!

Phew! And that would be it! That’s some of the stuff that’s happening this week, while I am in London, about to enjoy, I am sure, a brilliant time! Oh, oh, did I mention I am still on holidays till next week Monday, October 6th? Well, I may not be working, indeed, but you all know there is no way that social networking will stop and, specially, my favourite one, pure face to face social networking!

Thus, if you are around, or in town during those days, and would want to meet up for a drink or two, or food, get in touch! And we will surely meet up! It may be coming through as a packed up social agenda, so if you see I am not very active over here in the next few days it may well be that, once again, life has won that everlasting battle with work in striking a balance. And I will probably be spending the time doing something else than sitting in front of the computer …

And, of course, I will probably be using my Twitter ID to share some highlights along the way, as well as one other way to get in touch with folks, whenever I managed to be online, promising to be a good week for that this time around! About time, too!

See you around!

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