Luis Suarez

MAY 12, 2013

Or, to put it in other words, automation of your social networking presence. Have we forgotten that with social networking for business we are all in it for the long run? Where did we leave behind the social business transformation? And just like we commoditised email back in the day, it’s starting to look like we are commoditising social networking for business along the very same lines. . practitioner, specially, in the Social Web.

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Luis Suarez

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Of particular and relevant interest to this article I am putting together over here in this blog would be item #1 on “ The Social Buzz Wears Off ” where Alan comes to share this rather shocking , perhaps, too harsh statement: “ 2012 will be the year employees start hating social software “ Goodness! I mean, we have only been having social software tools for merely 15 years and we are already starting to hate them, as end-users?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

How about asking select new hires to keep an inside the firewall blog as they begin their jobs at your company? or If they come into the company in waves, how about providing them a discussion group or better yet a social network tool that has good discussions as a means of communicating with each other and with coaches? Just wanted to through an idea at everyone that came up during several discussions today at DevLearn.

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Doc Searls

JANUARY 8, 2008

› The only real social networks are personal ones December 18, 2007 in Blogging , Future , Ideas , Past , VRM , problems | 65 comments Should Brands Join or Build Their Own Social Network? Forgive me for being an old fart, but today’s “social networks&# look to me like yesterday’s online services. First, I’m not sure a “brand&# can get social at all. Your socializing may vary.

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Jay Cross

JULY 1, 2012

The Internet Time Alliance has been brainstorming models of learning networks. People cooperate in External Networks to meet a shared goal. I rejiggered Harold’s model to suit my own purposes: Conversations are the stem cells of learning, and social networks are the carriers of conversation. These networks operate behind the firewall (e.g., Some teams are self-organizing networks; others are the tail end of command-and-control.

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Dan Pontefract

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I personally don’t care what tool, application or technology is being used to drive enterprise-wide micro-blogging, but it must be secure and ideally it’s behind the firewall. Providing information that is timely, be it formal, informal or in fact social / community driven. To me, it’s a natural example of both informal and social learning. Tags: Culture social networking formal informal micro-blogging social social learning twitter yammer

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David Weinberger

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are giving a Berkman lunchtime talk on their book The Networked Nonprofit. But the complexity of social problems is outpacing the capacity of any single organization to solve them. How could non-profits working through networks solve these problems? Non-networked non-profits work in silos, behind non-porous firewalls. Networked non-profits work up their professional networks within the organization.

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Harold Jarche

APRIL 29, 2015

Oscar’s original work on this subject was part of my inspiration while working on a way to describe the required facets on an enterprise social network (ESN). In looking at Oscar’s expanded canvas I see that digital transformation – the ability to work in a networked ecosystem – requires three interdependent skill-sets. The foundation for these skills is a democratic organization based on loose hierarchies and strong networks.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2012

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary. Note that the firewall tends to cross the middle of the diagram, and by blocking access you’re effectively cutting off a portion of the corporate brain! social strategy

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Harold Jarche

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Tweet I’ve been looking at ways to explain why social learning is so important for business today. Accommodating growing individualization, requiring more social workplaces. Connecting the diversity of markets and society to the organization, instead of creating firewalls, is a major challenge for leadership today. Part of the answer is in supporting communities of practice as a bridge between external networks and those doing the work.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 11, 2011

For the latter, I was asked to address the question: “what businesses can learn from allowing employees to access social networking sites, and how allowing social networking can benefit businesses?&# It’s the network. First, there are corporate equivalents: for every Facebook and Twitter there’s a behind-the-firewall and/or industrial strength and secure solution.

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Luis Suarez

JANUARY 5, 2013

While I was pondering further along preparing my coming back to blogging I just couldn’t help reflecting on a good number of the various different articles that I have posted over here in the last few months, some of them exposing, quite frankly, perhaps too bluntly, at times, some of the various different challenges that Social Business, still today in 2013, keeps facing in order to provoke that massive business transformation we have all been anticipating for quite a bit.

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Mark Oehlert

AUGUST 15, 2014

Do you have any idea at all what kind of network that person will be bringing into your organization? When discussions about blocking networks like Twitter and Facebook at the corporate firewall seemed more common (they seem to have settled down but I could be just not hearing the stories), one example I always used was about ROI. Now if you hire me and block my networks, you get the ROI of Me - depending on who you ask, that''s worth either a lot or a little.

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Nancy White

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Lilia has written about it to help me, but now I need my network to help me sharpen my thinking. Triangulating for Success: a practitioner’s experience using external networks to leverage learning and outcomes within organizations and institutions. This pattern has three phases: support and personal validation, connection to a community and/or network for practice and learning and finally, external validation. Phase 2: A community of practice, a network of learning.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the Coherent Organization model that we (the ITA ) came up with, it talks about how work teams are fed by and feed up to communities as they too feed up to and are fed from social networks. Those communities span both internal to the organization (if it is big enough), but also across the firewall out to other practitioners that are in other organizations. social strategy

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Luis Suarez

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Public vs. private vs. dedicated interactions – through circles -, offline social networking through text, real-time with IM, videoconferencing with Plus Hangouts , one of my favourite features, without a doubt!, are just a few of the capabilities that have made Google Plus escalate to number #2 position for yours truly of social technologies to enjoy nowadays. Main reason being that it’s much easier to keep up with than with other social networking sites.

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Luis Suarez

JUNE 27, 2013

I still feel it is one of the very few pleasures out there on the Social Web, and still rather relevant , apparently. Lately, as you may well have duly noticed, work itself hasn’t given me much of a choice though in terms of my external social networking activities. The challenge though is that after rather long, exhausting, but exciting work days, the last thing my brain wants to do is to spend time participating on more social networks.

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Luis Suarez

OCTOBER 12, 2016

. The illusion of control is coming back, and it’s coming back with a vengeance , apparently, according to this article from Henry Mintzberg , who has been noticing, how, lately, most organisations seem to have put more tight-in controls within, and outside, the firewall in order to control what seems to be uncontrollable anymore (if it ever was!), workers, may have to blame ourselves for that to happen in this Social, Digital Age. We don’t need control in this Social Era , do we

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Luis Suarez

JULY 22, 2013

To me, my CV though is nowadays pretty much my own online presence out there on the Social Web, where you constantly need to prove your skills, talent and expertise, so that eventually people can find you and corroborate whether you are fake or not, and whether your merit and online reputation clearly represent not only who you are, but also what you do: essentially, your own digital footprint, or, … personal brand. Networks need to get ready.

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Luis Suarez

JANUARY 15, 2013

Over the course of the last few years, there have been a good number of occasions where, when working with fellow colleagues, customers or business partners, plenty of knowledge workers kept asking me what would be the best way for them to get started with their own adoption efforts of social software, both inside and outside of the firewall, so that it wouldn’t be too painful, but at the same time they wouldn’t lag behind too much in the attempt.

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Luis Suarez

APRIL 22, 2013

Now that the word is out there, and since I have been in the new job for a couple of weeks already, I guess it’s a good time to reflect on what does the Lead Social Business Enabler for IBM’s w3 and www Connections do on a daily basis in terms of my job role and responsibilities. To name: – Create and consolidate a Social Board of Advisors to help improve the feedback mechanism for our very own Enterprise Social Software Solutions.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MAY 22, 2017

Data is now being generated by just about everything and everybody around us, including the growing volume of online and offline transactions, web searches, social media interactions, billions of smart mobile devices and 10s of billions of smart IoT sensors. All these data is enabling us to better understand the world’s physical, economic and social infrastructures, as well as to infuse information-based intelligence into every aspect of their operations.

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Luis Suarez

JANUARY 9, 2013

Haven’t we learned anything in the last 18 years since we had the first instances of social software tools with blogs and wikis? At least, judging from that article Jeanne Meister published earlier on under the heading “ 2013 – The Year of Social HR ” and where she gets to develop further on a good number of different social media trends that will be affecting HR over the course of the next year.

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Luis Suarez

JANUARY 8, 2013

And, finally, after “ Social Business in 2013 – A Challenge ” and “ […] – A Commitment “, here’s the last article of the series, where I will be focusing on “ An Opportunity ” for Social Business in 2013 (and beyond), more than anything else by touching base on a deeper level on what I covered at both of those blog entries and what I have been experiencing and reflecting upon myself over the course of the last year or two.

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Luis Suarez

AUGUST 5, 2013

It has been nearly two weeks since the last post that I put over here in this blog, so I am sure that plenty of you folks out there may have been thinking I have been on holidays, or taking the typical summer break , and that at some point in time I may well be coming back to blogging on a regular basis, along with picking up my external social networking activities. The reason why all of these social networking tools are so popular with 2.0

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Social Network Firewall Guidelines LinkedIn 168

Nancy White

JANUARY 13, 2010

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 29 2009 Need Your Feedback on my Triangulating Thinking Published by Nancy White at 2:21 pm under collaboration , communities of practice , community , knowledge sharing , networks , non profits/ngos , reflection , social media , triangulation OK, I need your help. Only with our networks can we filter that flood.

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Luis Suarez

MARCH 1, 2011

Well, here is one potential answer to them all: Social Business – Rethinking Innovation, Organization and Leadership. I *love* it when some of my favourite people bump into those little golden nuggets and precious gems on some really thought-provoking subject(s), specially, related to Social Computing, and they share them across openly to inspire others to get involved in the conversations. Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Life Social Computing

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Luis Suarez

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Cooperation for the network era ’ is a highly recommended read, for certain, as it will make you think twice about the kinds of business relationships, contacts and networks each and everyone of us has been nurturing over time. ‘ Cooperation is a foundational behaviour for effectively working in networks, and it’s in networks where most of us, and our children, will be working. Online social networks and communities of practice cooperate.

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Collaboration Knowledge Management List Firewall 185

Mark Oehlert

AUGUST 15, 2014

Do you have any idea at all what kind of network that person will be bringing into your organization? When discussions about blocking networks like Twitter and Facebook at the corporate firewall seemed more common (they seem to have settled down but I could be just not hearing the stories), one example I always used was about ROI. Now if you hire me and block my networks, you get the ROI of Me - depending on who you ask, that's worth either a lot or a little.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Show me what others are interested in, as with social bookmarks like Diigo and Delicious. You can’t afford to replicate Facebook or Google behind your firewall. link to your blog and bookmarks, people in your network, links to documents you frequently share, members of your network. Smart phones are surpassing PCs for connecting to networks for access and participation.

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Luis Suarez

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I guess there is another kind of unexpected thrill around freelancing that I didn’t think would be possible before, and yet it’s been one of the most rewarding I can relate to from my nearly three years long journey as an independent adviser on Social Business and Digital Transformation: speaking at clients’ events. After having written about what are some of my current work streams as a freelancer in the realm of Social Business and Digital Transformation (i.e.

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Luis Suarez

APRIL 20, 2013

I know that some of you folks may be wondering about what happened back in January about who moved my cheese and why was I so relatively quiet on social networks for a good few weeks, right? In short, it’s the one that provoked the extended period of silence on the Social Web and which concluded with me deciding to *not* stand till, do nothing and wait for the pay-check at the end of the month and succumb to everything that I have never believed in, in the first place.

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Firewall Microblogging Adoption Social Software 201

Luis Suarez

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

But what I find really fascinating from her speech is the fact of how such a traditional knowledge organisation as the CIA has always seen, and embraced, the key paramount role of knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, and collaborating through the use of social networking tools!, Thus, if the CIA has been capable of proving how critical the role of social networking is, both internally and externally, for those knowledge sharing activities, what’s our excuse?

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Firewall Knowledge Management Social Network Social Software 149

Luis Suarez

AUGUST 25, 2014

A couple of months back you would remember how I put together a blog post over here on an upcoming business trip I was about to embark on heading to Prague, by mid-June, to speak a couple of times at the Social Connections VI event ( #soccnx ). And lo and behold, here we have got them, finally, available at the Social Connections Vimeo site and they are looking very good, indeed! From Adaptation to Engagement, Luis Suarez from Social Connections on Vimeo. .

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Firewall Knowledge Management Course Social Network 149

Luis Suarez

AUGUST 1, 2011

This time around Social Media @ Work. Indeed, this is a rather short video clip that lasts for a little bit over 13 minutes where you will see a whole bunch of thought leaders sharing their insights, experiences and know-how around the impact of social networking, not only behind the firewall, but also outside. And if you already have, show / share it with them anyway, as a good refresher of why living social matters.

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Luis Suarez

JANUARY 9, 2013

Haven’t we learned anything in the last 18 years since we had the first instances of social software tools with blogs and wikis? At least, judging from that article Jeanne Meister published earlier on under the heading “ 2013 – The Year of Social HR ” and where she gets to develop further on a good number of different social media trends that will be affecting HR over the course of the next year.

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Firewall Trends Enterprise 2.0 Social Network 155

Luis Suarez

JULY 13, 2011

The truth is that I am ready to make plenty of blunt moves on redefining my social networking presence out there on the Social Web, and I will be sharing some further insights on that regard very soon, but one thing for sure is that at this point in time my blog will remain where it is. I would probably even venture to state that perhaps it will be one of the most critical key capabilities that this new social networking site would have to offer to the whole Social Web.

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Luis Suarez

AUGUST 29, 2012

One of my favourite topics du jour is that one of the Future of Work and, more specifically, how the world of Social Networking is helping redefine it by provoking one of the most profound business transformations we have lived through in our entire history. Let’s ensure we get it right this time around with the little help and good effort from social software. If we have been looking for a purpose for Living Social, I think this is our chance.

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Luis Suarez

MAY 2, 2013

I cannot believe that, in just a few minutes from now, I will be celebrating the first month anniversary in my new job as the Lead Social Business Enabler at IBM and I hardly did notice how fast and furious it’s gone by. Back in the Software Group the main hat I was holding was always along the lines of that one from a Social Business Evangelist. That’s what both Social / Open Business seem to be all about, apparently.

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Firewall Knowledge Management Meeting Social Network 182

Luis Suarez

MARCH 10, 2014

Interestingly enough, and over the course of that quiet period from the Social Web, I eventually spent plenty of time talking to people in my close networks about the massive change and what it could well mean for yours truly as I move forward into an uncertain, yet, exciting brave new world. And right after that realisation I had that strong, big ah-ha moment, while talking to plenty of folks in my network (And many more to come, I am sure!,

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Luis Suarez

OCTOBER 10, 2012

So much so that this time around I decided to keep quiet on the blogging front on purpose and, instead, enjoy and get the most out of the face to face conversations I have been participating in with a wide range of Social Business evangelists and Social Collaboration enthusiasts, amongst several other people. What’s the state of Social Business today? “, or, my favourite one: “ What’s the ROI of Social Media?

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Luis Suarez

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Specially, those folks who have made the Social Web their new home. Douglas keeps questioning whether technology (And the (Social) Web) are part of the main problem we have been having over the last few years in the jobs market with having less and less of them. Or the Social Enterprise. After all, they already have their jobs , their work hours , their passion and motivation to do the work and their extended networks.

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Knowledge Management Firewall Enterprise 2.0 Social Software 188

Luis Suarez

JANUARY 13, 2012

So, as I am ramping up the last few hours of my holidays, yesterday afternoon I found out, through my colleagues, that, after a long while, our IBM Social Software Internal Adoption Program is now ready to transcend the firewall and go external. Benefits & Metrics (With plenty of anecdotal evidence, and success stories from fellow IBMers who were facing real problems and found real solutions with social technologies). ( Note: You see?

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