{"id":3865,"date":"2014-03-03T20:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T01:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2014-03-04T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:29:28","slug":"thanks-and-best-wishes-to-el-sua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/thanks-and-best-wishes-to-el-sua\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks and best wishes to El Sua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lsr\/12392158744\/player\/\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On January 30, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsua.net\/\">Luis &#8220;elsua&#8221; Suarez<\/a> visited our UNC School of Information and Library Science senior capstone course on Emerging Issues and Technologies to talk with us about his 6+ years without email while at IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Luis brought a lot of good insight to the class as he did a Google Hangout with us from his home on Gran Canaria. Luis lives in Africa, reports in Europe and works most closely with a team in North America &#8212; without using email. <\/p>\n<p>Near the end of his talk, he told us a little &#8212; very little &#8212; about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsua.net\/2014\/02\/08\/let-the-next-adventure-begin-the-with-whom-caww\/\">his new adventure which was to start only a few days later<\/a>. Luis is a charter member of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.changeagentsworldwide.com\"> Change Agents Worldwide<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Luis, who was extremely generous to spend time with us during his transition, will be moving from being a Change Agent within a very large global and hierarchical organization to advising and assisting organizations of all sizes to work better by learning about Social Business practices. <\/p>\n<p>Luis has been a global presence already as has been noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2012\/01\/luis-suarez\/\">Wired<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/jobs\/29pre.html\">New York Times<\/a>, and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidetheinbox.eu\/\">Outside The Inbox dot EU<\/a> (among others). His experience and personal engagement will definitely be a leader and advisor to call on.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Luis has taught me <em>not to look for the smartest person in the room but to look for the smartest network that has someone in the room with you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to his and CAWW&#8217;s future adventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 30, Luis &#8220;elsua&#8221; Suarez visited our UNC School of Information and Library Science senior capstone course on Emerging Issues and Technologies to talk with us about his 6+ years without email while at IBM. Luis brought a lot of good insight to the class as he did a Google Hangout with us from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}