E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Last week Friday, my good friend, the always enlightening Euan Semple, posted one of those very thought provoking blog posts that one cannot ignore, just like that. Under the title Being Human he shared a few insights around the abstract that he submitted for the wonderful Social Business Edge conference event that will be taking … Continue reading Being Human – What Are You Afraid Of?
If yesterday’s blog post was probably one of *the* most important articles I have written in my 12th year old Internet life anywhere (Although the initial outcome doesn’t seem to be that positive, at least, initially), here I am today again putting together another entry where I will share another piece of news about one … Continue reading Validating Social Computing by Living an Historic Moment at IBM
If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know how I have been blogging for a good number of times about one of those topics that people keep asking me about to share my two cents of the conversation: Social Software Governance and what IBM is doing about it. My short … Continue reading On Governance and Compliance – IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines Webcast
After last week’s blog post on "The Man Who Should Have Used Lotus Connections — Collaborating Effectively through Wikis" in which I tried to cover in a few words a quick response to that really insightful article put together by Andy McAfee under the title "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Email" (as … Continue reading McAfee’s Hypothesis and The Adventures of Molly Discovering Social Software
Earlier on today I bumped into quite an interesting, and very thought-provoking, article put together by Bill Cohen around the subject of "The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership". It’s one of those articles that picks up from the wise teachings of Peter Drucker and it surely is an essential reading put together by Bill that … Continue reading Imagine Leadership
As you may well remember, on the on-going series of blog posts dealing with the weekly progress reports of living "A World Without Email" I usually get to share a link or two of some interesting related articles I happen to bump into rather often and which I think would help complement nicely each of … Continue reading Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox by Zen Habits
A couple of months back I put together a short blog post (The Company as Wiki by Best Buy) on how Best Buy was eventually embracing social software and how they were telling their story in an amazing YouTube video in a little bit less than five minutes. Well, earlier on this week, and thanks … Continue reading The Company as Wiki by Best Buy’s Brad Anderson
Earlier on today, a fellow IBM colleague, and good friend, John Rooney, shared in various microsharing Web sites (Both internal and external) a link to a recent interview I thought would be rather interesting for folks out there who would be keen on reading further on IBM’s efforts exploring the world of social software and … Continue reading Big Blue’s Collaboration Challenges with Mark Hennessy
During the course of yesterday a couple of tweets (Thanks, Sandy & Stewart!) over at Twitter (Where I nowadays get most of my dynamic feeds, I must admit) I got a couple of strong reminders to eventually share with folks a quick update on how I have been doing over the last few days, in … Continue reading A World Without Email – Year 2, Weeks 11 to 14 (Email as a Collaboration Tool? No, Thanks!)
Continuing further with interesting video links that describe how large businesses are making use of social software, both inside and outside of the firewall, to help improve the way knowledge workers collaborate and share their knowledge (And how they can enhance their own interactions with their customers), here is another one I bumped into a … Continue reading The Company as Wiki by Best Buy
