E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Those folks who have been following this blog for a long while now would probably realise how, for quite some time, I have firmly believed that the main challenge with regards to the successful adoption of social computing within the enterprise is no other than a cultural one. Nothing to do with technology, or the … Continue reading Collaborative Culture: On Reinventing the Social Enterprise
Yesterday, if you would remember, I put together a short blog post where I was mentioning how apart from having one of those days of meetings galore jumping from one to the next, I was also looking forward to the great opportunity of participating live on the Blog Talk Radio podcasting show, hosted by John … Continue reading Blog Talk Radio – Business Value of Social Networking: Become a Hippie 2.0!
So, what happens when two of my favourite people, the always fun, insightful and thought-provoking Ulrike Reinhard and the wicked-smart Lee Bryant (Along with both Dominik and Simon Wind), get together in front of a camera in a lovely place and start talking for a bit over 30 minutes around the topic of Enterprise 2.0 … Continue reading The Social Enterprise – Nothing New Invented Here!
"Really? Are you serious? I mean, are you sure you know what you are saying?" "Yes, sir! I know what I am saying… Exactly that! For Social Computing to sink in and be that critical and crucial part of the ins and outs within the corporate world we would ALL need to make that blunt … Continue reading Forget Social Strategy, Think Social Philosophy: Hippie 2.0
A few days back, my good friend, KM extraordinnaire and always insightful, Bill Ives, put together a couple of blog posts under the titles of "Are There Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption?" and "Are Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Best Practices Useful?" (The latter one over at The FASTFoward Blog) where he was reflecting on a … Continue reading Why Lessons Learned Will Be Critical for Enterprise 2.0 to Succeed
One of the toughest challenges that any business faces when embracing Social Computing within the enterprise is how, time and time again, social software tools keep challenging themselves the already existing status quo of the corporate world. Specially, within the traditional, hierarchical and structured leadership teams going all the way to the top! But is … Continue reading Enterprise 2.0 – Towards Embracing a New Emerging Kind of Leadership
How about if we finish off another wonderfully busy and inspiring week in the Social Computing space with another thought provoking blog post on the topic of Privacy and Security, perhaps two of the main key themes that keep popping up as potential showstoppers for social software adoption efforts within the corporate world? Not bad, … Continue reading How Long Before We Start Taking More Seriously Both Privacy and Security in Enterprise 2.0?
I have always wondered when would articles like eMarketer‘s "Social Not a Threat to E-Mail" grab that opportunity of providing a bit more of extensive details on the transition that email is currently going through at the moment moving away from being, consistently, that content repository that fits, and suits all sorts of interactions, to … Continue reading Top 10 Use Cases Enterprise Microsharing Will Help You Get Less Email
Now that I have gotten off my chest that reflection on something I have been meaning to write about for a while now, I think it is time to move into the next one. Perhaps, in a follow-up blog post I will talk a little bit about which social networking sites have now been become … Continue reading Will Social Software Replace Email in an Enterprise 2.0 World?
I am sure you would agree with me that Social Computing, and, in particular, social software tools, still have got plenty of different challenges within the enterprise in order to provoke that massive cultural shift most of us have been looking forward to for a long while. One of those challenges has always been trying … Continue reading OpenNTF – Bookmark Viewer for IBM Lotus Connections Dogear
