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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E2.0 Expert Talk: Concretizing the Digital Workplace
This past week I participated in a Google Hangout (actually my first Hangout experience) on the topic of Concretizing the Digital Workplace following the invitation by Bjoern Negelmann. Other participants included Oscar Berg, Claude Super, Stephan Schillerwein and Hans-Juergen Sturm. On the one hour Hangout, and despite facing some connection challenges, we discussed the concept of … 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 »
Why I’m speaking at WordCamp Lisboa 2011
Next Saturday I’ll go up on stage of the WordCamp Lisboa 2011, an event by the Portuguese WordPress community, to give a talk about “The art of life on blog”. I’ll be sharing my very personal experience with blogging platforms and the role that blogs play in my life. Why am I speaking there? Well, … Continue reading »
Video: embrace change, embrace serendipity
The year is progressing with some interesting side projects and moments to remember. One such moment was my participation as a speaker at the Switch Conference, both for the pleasure it gave to prepare & deliver the talk and for the feedback I received about it, both from attendees and from those that only got … Continue reading »
Gratitude
You put your heart and soul into planning something. You deliver it. It goes well, really well. But what comes later really overwhelms you! Because you were not expecting this (thank you so much Ross): “One of the reasons I love Twitter so much is that it provides a rich substrate for serendipitous connections. A majority … Continue reading »
Embrace change, embrace serendipity
This was a labour of love. And the love story began many months ago. When young Ricardo Sousa – organizer of the Switch Conference – invited me to speak there, I almost instantly knew that serendipity would be the topic. Why? Because it’s a concept that brought so many opportunities, challenges and great people into my life … Continue reading »
Why I’m speaking at Switch…
…well, that you’ll have to ask Ricardo Sousa, the mentor and CMO (Chief Master Organizer ) of what promises to be a great event! And looking at the interesting lineup of speakers, with my name popping up somewhere in between, it is no surprise if you ask “who is this Ana person”? With no “WOW!” … Continue reading »
Blogging is not dead…
Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/helico/404640681/ …I just don’t have time to do it. And the reasons are very straightforward: I’m juggling several projects on top of my regular job. Those that know me quite well know that I like to involved in projects that, by their nature and objectives, speak to my heart or that I find challenging … Continue reading »
I = igniting, inspiring (part II)
The idea came from reading Linchpin by Seth Godin a few months ago. Some time after I wrote a post on this blog which would turn out to be the basis for the talk I delivered last week at The Hub in Oporto as part of the Ignite Portugal initiative. From my personal and professional … Continue reading »
