Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education

Social Media Guidelines – part 3

Leo de Sousa — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:31:56 +0000

This is part three of my Social Media Guideline series and the final post in the series. Social media is becoming a mainstay in how we engage and collaborate with our colleagues, peers and customers. With the introduction of social media tools into our businesses, there is a need to develop some guidelines and polices. [...]

Social Media Guidelines – part 2

Leo de Sousa — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:06:30 +0000

This is part two of my Social Media Guideline series. Social media is becoming a mainstay in how we engage and collaborate with our colleagues, peers and customers. With the introduction of social media tools into our businesses, there is a need to develop some guidelines and polices. I am working on a social media [...]

Social Media Guidelines – part 1

Leo de Sousa — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:40:44 +0000

Social media is becoming a mainstay in how we engage and collaborate with our colleagues, peers and customers. With the introduction of social media tools into our businesses, there is a need to develop some guidelines and polices. I am working on a social media strategy for the HEITBC consortium in British Columbia. Collaboration [...]

Our Students: Products or Customers?

Leo de Sousa — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:11:52 +0000

I was in a great session at SGHE Summit Conference facilitated by my good friend Brian Knotts (@brian_knotts) titled the Future of ERP. The discussion began with a suggestion from me that our higher education institutions need to find ways to become “open, candid and people centred”. I suggested that if we could incorporate the [...]

The Monday Report Builds Understanding and Collaboration

Leo de Sousa — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:45:29 +0000

I have 24 direct reports and always find it hard to get a good sense of what each of them do on a weekly basis. A few weeks ago, I retweeted about a post that might help. Frank Addante (@FrankAddante), founder and CEO of the Rubicon project wrote a post for Inc.com that has really [...]

The Tipping Point to Mobile

Leo de Sousa — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:01:30 +0000

As I read my Twitter feed on my smartphone, I am noticing a slowly growing trend. More and more websites recognize that I am using a mobile device and are serving up there content for a mobile experience. I really appreciate this feature so I can keep up with trending topics and learn whenever I [...]

Saturday Sages on Twitter – who do you learn from?

Leo de Sousa — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:58:28 +0000

The #FollowFriday (#FF) trend on Twitter has been around for years. Here is the first tweet that started it all: https://twitter.com/#!/micah/status/1124262248 by Micah Baldwin @micah on Jan 16, 2009: I am starting Follow Fridays. Every Friday, suggest a person to follow, and everyone follow him/her. Today its @fancyjeffrey & @w1redone. Every week, someone in my Twitter group posts a [...]

Task Switching Costs

Leo de Sousa — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:23:43 +0000

Happy Leap Day 2012! Scott Ambler (@scottwambler) tweeted about task switching costs and resource management. Here are Scott’s tweets: Many “resource managers” will assign someone to several teams to ensure they are fully utilitized. 1/2 When people are assigned to multiple teams it’s difficult to determine if they’re actually putting their time in. 2/2 When [...]

Trust Agents – Book Review

Leo de Sousa — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:37:37 +0000

I finished reading Trust Agents, Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation and Earn Trust, by Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan) and Julien Smith (@Julien) as part of my Masters class Enterprise Social Media @ Syracuse University iSchool. The book is very well written and provides very practical advice for anyone who wants to participate in [...]

Twitter: My Social Media Swiss Army Knife

Leo de Sousa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:14:46 +0000

My twitter account is @leodesousa and I am a huge fan of Twitter. I started tweeting on March 20, 2008 after reading about Twitter on a blog that I was following. In that time, I have tweeted over 8600 times and average about 6 tweets a day. Almost one third of my tweets are part of a conversation with someone [...]