E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Collaboration – Everything that has got to do with collaboration whether it is real-time vs. offline, face to face vs. remote collaboration, etc.
As you may have been able to read all over the place in different weblogs and mainstream news web sites like The Register, there has been lots of controversy on the accuracy of Wikipedia overall, specially since the recent issues raised by the different media. To quote them all would be far too long and … Continue reading What Wikipedia Lost: Credibility
Although some time ago I mentioned how I was finding out how more and more I was starting to give up on Instant Messaging and begun to move towards other more powerful real-time collaboration tools that would include both Instant Messaging and VoIP capabilities, amongst other features, there are times where I would still need … Continue reading Meebo – Taking Instant Messaging with You wherever You May Go
Over the last couple of weeks you have seen how in a couple of times I have been talking about the importance of social capital and trust in order to help organisations succeed in providing the value add not only to their customers but also to their own employees. Both social capital and trust are … Continue reading How Trust Builds Social Capital – Social Capital and Trust
Over at Darren‘s weblog, ProBlogger, he has just shared a very interesting and thought-provoking post that would be worth while reading: 18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging. Indeed, in that particular weblog post he details what his experience as a pro-blogger has been all along and for the last three years and more importantly what … Continue reading 18 Lessons I Have Learnt about Blogging
During the course of this week one of the readers from elsua sent me an e-mail regarding the following weblog post: Blog Software Smackdown : The Big 3 Reviewed I shared not long ago, asking me if I knew of other weblogging tools reference web sites that I could share in order for folks to … Continue reading Weblogs Compendium – Blog Tools
Continuing further with the topic of Team-Building Key for the Virtual WorkPlace and touching specifically on the topic of trust I thought I would share with you, folks, one of those presentations that after you watch it it makes you think about the subject presented in a new and refreshing way and certainly will not … Continue reading Identity 2.0 – Identity Is Really Reputation
Not long ago I created a couple of weblog posts around the topic of virtual teams and how to make them much more productive while sharing knowledge and collaborating with one another without having a significant impact in their performance. Back then, I mentioned how trust and fun can certainly improve things to help those … Continue reading Team-building Key for Virtual Workplace
Some time ago you would remember how I created a weblog post that mentioned how Google was finally entering the weblogging search world with Google Blog Search and how it apparently seemed to be just another search engine for weblogs, like many others. Well, here we go with something completely new and refreshing. Given the … Continue reading Opinmind – Discovering Bloggers
Yesterday I created a weblog entry where I mentioned how crucial it is for teams and communities to realise the true power of both humour (having fun at work) and trust, specially, next to social capital, in order to create and sustain a healthy working environment for everyone to collaborate successfully with one another. So … Continue reading Virtual Teams – Establishing Trust Is Key to Successful Teamwork
One of the things that the web has got to offer is the possibility of bumping into different interesting articles that certainly provide some thought-provoking insights about team work and collaboration worth while going through several times to digest them. That is what happens with articles such as this one: Team Building Humor Strengthens a … Continue reading Team Building Humor Strengthens a Team Identity or Spirit
