Lucidea’s Lens: Knowledge Management Thought Leaders
Part 111 – Luis Suarez
Stan Garfield
Luis Suarez is a Co-Founder of asynco, an international community of practice to help shape the future of distributed and asynchronous work. He previously spent 18 years at IBM. He has helped organizations make the most of their change management initiatives and digital transformation programs through social digital tools as key enablers.
Luis is a self-described community builder, social business strategist, wirearchist, digital humanist, no-email pioneer, blogger, and flaneur. He specializes in knowledge management, collaboration, learning, online communities of practice, remote and distributed work, and social networking for business. His skills include community building, online social networking, and enterprise social networks.
Here are definitions for five of Luis’s specialties:
- Collaboration: Interacting with peers and colleagues to exchange ideas, share experiences, work together on projects, and solve problems.
- Communities: Groups of people who share an interest, a specialty, a role, a concern, a set of problems, or a passion for a specific topic. Community members deepen their understanding by interacting on an ongoing basis, asking and answering questions, sharing their knowledge, reusing good ideas, and solving problems for one another.
- Distributed Work: Work done at organizations with employees in different physical locations.
- Learning: The act of gaining knowledge from others, from existing information, and by doing. It is one of the five basic activities of knowledge management.
- Social Networks: Collections of people who are acquainted or connected as friends, business contacts, or colleagues and communicate, collaborate, or help one another as needed.
Luis created the following content. I have curated it to represent his contributions to the field.
Community: asynco
Social Networking in the Fediverse
Mastodon
Pixelfed
Community Roles and Adoption Planning
Becoming a Jedi Master: The secret art of cultivating online communities
The Impact of Data Analytics in Digital Transformation Programs
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Stan Garfield
Please enjoy Stan’s blog posts offering advice and insights drawn from many years as a KM practitioner. You may also want to download a free copy of his book, Profiles in Knowledge: 120 Thought Leaders in Knowledge Management from Lucidea Press, and its precursor, Lucidea’s Lens: Special Librarians & Information Specialists; The Five Cs of KM. Learn about Lucidea’s Presto, SydneyDigital, and GeniePlus software with unrivaled KM capabilities that enable successful knowledge curation and sharing.
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