Back in March this year, Gordon Ross wrote this great post reflecting on the role of power in organizations and its impact on social intranets projects. Reading that post left me musing on three topics: power as a relationship and the impact that has on our traditional notion of empowerment: in short, for someone to … Continue reading »
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A book launch and a big data discussion
Back at the end of 2009 I, and other colleagues and teachers from the Porto Business School, were challenged to transform some previous work into chapters for a book about new trends in marketing intelligence. The challenge was accepted, we rolled up our sleeves, and the chapters started taking shape. A few trials and tribulations … Continue reading »
Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2013 in 5 keywords
The magnificent city of Paris received once again the Enterprise 2.0 Summit, one of the most important events on E2.0 and Social Business. A crowd of practitioners, consultants and some vendor-related folks gathered during two days to share experiences and discuss the current state and future of the transformation of business in a connected world. … Continue reading »
Meet the Enterprise 2.0 community in March 2013 in Paris
The date is fast approaching with only one month left till this year’s edition of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris, on the 20th and 21st of March. This will be an excellent opportunity for you to hear great case studies and attend interesting discussion panels on topics such as Social Business, Enterprise 2.0, the … Continue reading »
The gift of attention and the question I love to ask
I’m curious. By nature. I remember being a kid and browsing encyclopedias or other educational books at home: nature, history, geography, the human body, even Webster’s English dictionary. The paper sort, of course, as the Internet was still an infant. I asked a lot of questions, especially to adults. And I loved storytelling! One of … Continue reading »
Looking back on 2012
“Whom had the idea of dividing time into pieces, what we name a year, was a genius. Hope was industrialised, making hope work to the limit of exhaustion. Twelve months are enough for anyone to exhaust themselves and throw in the towel. There enters the miracle of renovation and it all begins again, with a … Continue reading »
Thinking about the Social Web
Photo by Matthew Burpee on Flickr Several articles recently caught my attention and got me thinking about the current state of the Social Web. In the first one, Don Tapscott interviewed one of my favourite authors – Clay Shirky – on the Internet as a Distractor and Disruptor. At some point Shirky says: Five years ago, I was … Continue reading »
High resolution mockups as conversation starters
My event on the use of social tools such as blogs or social networks to foster dialogue and collective action around society and citizenship – Cidadania 2.0 – ended yesterday. It was the 3rd edition and I look at it as my contribution to a better Portugal by showing how citizens, local and national government … Continue reading »
The Future of Work @ Startup Pirates
When my friends at the Startup Pirates project invited me to come and talk about The Future of Work at their September 2012 event in my hometown of Porto, my immediate answer was yes. I’ve been interested for some time now about this topic, especially in what concerns the impact of new technologies and of … Continue reading »
It’s an app world after all
Several of my friends enjoyed the unique experience of maternity this year. In each of the visits to meet & greet the newborns I would invariably find a couple of bewildered and tired adults who now found themselves living the new and challenging roles of mother and father. In one of the visits the newly … Continue reading »
