E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Communities – Everything that has got to do with communities whether they are face to face communities or virtual / online / remote communities
Just today, as I was surfing away on the Internet looking for some information related to communities and their complex interactions I bumped, quite by chance, like it usually happens, with a very interesting article that even though it is several months old it is still very relevant today and it makes for a good … Continue reading The High Cost of Interruptions
Over at Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel has been sharing today an interesting weblog post that I thought would be worth while commenting on as well. In How and When to Respond to Conversations he is actually wondering “whether companies needed to address every single comment/question that comes in on their blogs” or not. I generally … Continue reading How and When to Respond to Conversations – Managing Your Own Virtual Water Cooler
Very few times have I bumped into a presentation material around the world of Learning and Knowledge that I may have enjoyed just as much as the one I have just been through from Jay Cross, over at Informal Learning. It is titled Informal Learning Research Findings and you can watch it over on Informal … Continue reading Informal Learning Findings – Additional Notes
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
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
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
