Luis Suarez is a Knowledge Manager, Community Builder & Social Computing Evangelist in the IBM Software Group division. During my recent trip to Canary Islands I had a great meeting with Luis in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He lives in the south of the island so with couple of tweets we managed to sit at the same table in Plaza de España, less than 100 meters from were I was living (yep I lived there in 2003-2004).
A great chat (in Spanish…love it) about recent news, ideas and updates about innovation in communications. The time literally flew!
Before leaving we thought to extend our conversation to you by recording a video (this time in English). Check the track below (27 min.)
Enjoy it!
Questions & Discussion Topics:
What do you do at IBM?
How does it feel to work remotely for IBM from from Gran Canaria?
Some examples of social software implementation at IBM
Which is the response from the client’s side on the use of social software?
Did the need of adopting social software come from the clients of from IBM?
Do you think that social software could/can speed up communication processes within certain groups?
Which are the problems you are facing at IBM when trying to implement new tools/solutions?
How’s the feeling of working in a transparent environment?
How to overcome cultural roadblocks to innovation?
What do you think about Google Wave?
The more we move on the more skills are needed to get the best out of social software/tools
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Simone Brunozzi is Web Services Evangelist (Europe, Middle East and Africa) for Amazon.com. He is a person that I respect and more than everything he is a dear friend from “il bel paese” that has always a smile on his face. I could easily follow in the trap of writing an extensive post about him due to the great moments spent together at conferences around the world or to our chats about this tech-era but for now I’ll leave you with this video.
This is one of the meanings of the 3 Tags serie, a fast and unusual introduction to some of the bright minds I know in the web industry to let you then connect and discover more about them…
Andrea
@Simone: “Speriamo per na’ maggica pizza-night a prossima volta…”
This is one of the long tail videos I recorded in Paris during LeWeb. It was a pleasure to sit in front of the camera with Philippe. He is an artist and (what I define) a pioneer teacher. Like I do he likes to experiment with new applications to communicate and teach online. This is a video that many of you might find interesting…
Enjoy it!
Andrea
BTW I love to record live… A big hug also to Marc Canter for joining us
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Congrats Neville!
photo credit: (cc) Shashi Bellamkonda Social Media Swami Network Solutions
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I'm the CEO of iTive.net and AndreaVascellari.com is where I live. You might know me also for VMC, my media channel, for my keynotes, or for A-Project Productions, the first company I founded in Italy. You can find more information about me here.
Andrea
