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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:content="&quot;http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/&quot;" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="0.91"><channel><title>mc: www:  Feed</title><link>http://www.metocube.com/mc/list/view/Feed</link><description /><language>en</language><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/lucasrodriguezcervera" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><title>Info: 24 edición de Iniciador sobre búsqueda de financiación en tiempos de crisis</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/NeWjGNCSxvc/345</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;El Miércoles tuvo lugar la edición número 24 de &lt;a href="http://iniciador.com" mce_href="http://iniciador.com"&gt;Iniciador&lt;/a&gt; sobre "&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Conseguir financiación en época de crisis" con Gustavo García de &lt;a href="http://es.buyvip.com/index.jsp"&gt;BuyVip&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;del datetime="2009-03-06T09:16:02+00:00"&gt;&lt;/del&gt;Carlos Sanchez de &lt;a href="http://nvivo.es/"&gt;Nvivo&lt;/a&gt; y Miguel Ángel Díez de &lt;a href="http://www.redkaraoke.es/"&gt;Red Karaoke&lt;/a&gt; como ponentes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fue un Iniciador especial (¡cumpliamos ya dos años!), con record de asistencia (unas 150 personas) y un ambiente todavía más estimulante de lo normal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La verdad es que tanto yo como &lt;a href="http://angelmaria.com" mce_href="http://angelmaria.com"&gt;Ángel María&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://loogic.com" mce_href="http://loogic.com"&gt;Javier&lt;/a&gt; no podemos estar más contentos con la evolución que está teniendo Iniciador, el entusiasmo de los organizadores en otras ciudades (Carlos Rincón, Gregorio Arroyo, Guillermo García, Héctor Pérez, Jordi Bufi, Jordi Catá, Jordi Pérez, Juan Antonio Pozuelos, Juanjo Sánchez, Miguel Ángel Ivars, Miguel Muñoz, Miguel Sánchez de León, Oscar Cumi), a los ponentes que de forma desinteresada comparten con nosotros su experiencia y sobretodo a vosotros: los asistentes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#999999" size="5"&gt;¡Gracias a todos y a por otros muchos años! &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div id="photoImgDiv3351673426" style="width: 502px;" class="photoImgDiv" align="center"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3576/3351673426_359b7a5eb1.jpg?v=0" alt="IMAGE_00107 by you." title="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="375" width="500"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/NeWjGNCSxvc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:54:02.227142</pubDate><guid>5361319de758eee428a748b5a0ccdf40 2009-08-02 17:54:02.227142</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/345</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Audi A4 production process</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/tv0TmaaXXro/349</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;At metoCube we are focused on &lt;a href="https://knol.google.com/k/lucas-rodriguez-cervera/knowledge-process-management" target="_blank" mce_href="https://knol.google.com/k/lucas-rodriguez-cervera/knowledge-process-management"&gt;knowledge processes&lt;/a&gt;, but our &lt;a href="http://metocube.com" mce_href="http://metocube.com"&gt;process modeling software&lt;/a&gt; can also be used to describe industrial processes. The following video shows the Audi A4 production process. As you can see everybody know precisely what to do and how to do it. But.... How did they aquired that knowlege? They probably read some printed procedures and took some training courses (something that can be boosted by having those procedures described in metoCube, with embeded videos showing how to carry out specific actions). And... what happens if a worker identifies a best practice while executing a piece of work? S/He could simply leave a comment on the corresponding metoCube page and the process engineer will receive an alert.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;{renderer='video' type='youtube' height='400' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/YeQ_M2NLI4I&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1'} &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/tv0TmaaXXro" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:56:11.476139</pubDate><guid>552557c8e342afa20e821e4291603646 2009-08-02 17:56:11.476139</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/349</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Blog de Lucas Rodríguez Cervera</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/Qf4WjRbxTCo/241</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;En este blog escribiré sobre asuntos personales con un doble objetivo: publicar todo lo que se me ocurra y probar &lt;a href="http://metocube.com" mce_href="http://metocube.com"&gt;metoCube&lt;/a&gt;  como gestor de contenidos estructurado.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;En este blog hablaré de mis aficiones (emprendizaje, música, gastronomía, teoría económica de la escuela austriaca, etc...) y mantendré otro(s) para hablar de metoCube, procesos de negocio, software empresarial, SaaS, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los contenidos de los dos blogs que he escrito hasta ahora (&lt;a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060709012807/www.nevant.com/blog/index.php" mce_href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060709012807/www.nevant.com/blog/index.php"&gt;Managing Knowledge Processes&lt;/a&gt; desde Marzo del 2005  y más recientemente &lt;a href="http://lucasrodriguezcervera.wordpress.com/" mce_href="http://lucasrodriguezcervera.wordpress.com/"&gt;Otro blog +&lt;/a&gt; ) los ire migrando a los nuevos blogs poco a poco.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/Qf4WjRbxTCo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-03-09 17:21:23.081598</pubDate><guid>06dd2c4b4c15172bd22406c8740c4ee2 2009-03-09 17:21:23.081598</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/241</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Create a process documentation guide</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/o2i5dfahr5U/266</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Level: Introductory Interesting article written by &lt;a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ar-procdoc/#author" mce_href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ar-procdoc/#author"&gt;S. E Slack&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="mailto:sally@sslack.com?subject=Create%20a%20process%20documentation%20guide" mce_href="mailto:sally@sslack.com?subject=Create%20a%20process%20documentation%20guide"&gt;sally@sslack.com&lt;/a&gt;), Author and business transformation communications consultant, Freelance writer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;font color="#808080"&gt;Document your processes by creating a template for your process documentation guide that includes the following items: scope statement, applicability matrix, product lines impacted, process roles involved, process management system procedures, exception management process, and decision matrix.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Although it is based on the traditional narrative procedure documentation approach (as oposed to the &lt;a href="http://nevant.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Structured%20operations%20modeling" mce_href="http://nevant.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Structured operations modeling"&gt;structured process description approach&lt;/a&gt;  we have created for metoCube) it can be useful if your procedure documentation project scope is limited. She highlights specially two very important characteristics of procedure documentation: repeteability and standarized format.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/o2i5dfahr5U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:56:54.885796</pubDate><guid>0a1e93e793cf7323ef97392bd993a1cd 2009-08-02 17:56:54.885796</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/266</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Creative Commons No Comercial  o por qué todo el mundo quiere evitar que otros ganen dinero con una creación suya</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/DTtdFGqUemc/356</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://htmltimes.com/assets/creative-commons-non-commercial.png" alt="http://htmltimes.com/assets/creative-commons-non-commercial.png" height="185" width="185"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="5" color="#808080"&gt;The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes only&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#808080"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cada vez que veo un contenidos licenciados con Creative Commons No Comercial (generalmente blogs) me imagino al creador del contenido en el momento de elegir la licencia. Hay dos checkboxes, uno para permitir uso comercial de los contenidos y otro para no permitirlo. Pues bien, según &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13588" mce_href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13588"&gt;este análisis&lt;/a&gt;, aproximadamente el 75% de la gente no permite usar esos contenidos con fines comerciales. Además, estoy seguro que lo hacen por defecto sin apenas pensarlo. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ahora viene la gran pregunta:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="7" color="#333333"&gt;¿por qué la gente por defecto evita que álguien pueda ganar dinero con su creación?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Personalmente creo que es por esa imagen que tiene la gente del dinero y de quien quiere ganar dinero como algo obsceno. A la gente le pides que se imagine a "una persona que quiere ganar dinero" y le viene a la mente la imágen del capitalista gordo con hocico de cerdo, puro y monóculo. Y cómo van a dejarle a ese usar sus contenidos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Me alegra pensar de forma distinta. A mi, si álguien usa mis contenidos en un proyecto con fines comerciales y consigue ganar dinero con él, me siento orgulloso. En el mercado, una transacción sólo se produce cuando ambas partes estiman que lo que van a recibir tiene más valor para ellos que lo que van a entregar. Después de la transacción las dos partes están mejor que antes (si no no se habría producido la transacción). Si álguien usa un contenido mio en un producto que voluntariamente han comprado 10 personas, no sólo habrá aumentado el bienestar de quien ha vendido el producto, sino también el de los 10 compradores. La economía no es un juego de suma cero donde si se gana dinero es a costa de los demás. Quien gana dinero es el ofrece algo que aumenta el bienestar de los demás. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/DTtdFGqUemc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-09-17 07:54:04.839992</pubDate><guid>e04c4fdcb2d85fb5ac327b13e05157f0 2009-09-17 07:54:04.839992</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/356</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Cucharete y 1929</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/MlXljPqnlVA/247</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;img src="http://www.cucharete.com/wp-content/themes/mistylook-101/img/cucharete_inicio.gif" alt="http://www.cucharete.com/wp-content/themes/mistylook-101/img/cucharete_inicio.gif" mce_src="http://www.cucharete.com/wp-content/themes/mistylook-101/img/cucharete_inicio.gif" border="0"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2009/02/20/chuleton-blogs/" title="Chuletón &amp;amp; Blogs… ¡Con el Chuletón Gratis!" mce_href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2009/02/20/chuleton-blogs/"&gt;Chuletón &amp;amp; Blogs… ¡Con el Chuletón Gratis!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los amigos de cucharete, &lt;a href="http://cucharete.com" mce_href="http://cucharete.com"&gt;la página de restaurantes en Madrid&lt;/a&gt;, (un proyecto que me encanta y &lt;a href="http://lucas.metocube.com/mc/Cucharete.com%20-%20Un%20ejemplo%20de%20proyecto%20en%20Internet%20bien%20ejecutado%20..." target="_blank"&gt;sobre el que ya escribí&lt;/a&gt;)  la han vuelto a liar y van a montar una reunión llamada &lt;a href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2009/02/20/chuleton-blogs/" mce_href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2009/02/20/chuleton-blogs/"&gt;Chuletón&amp;amp;Blogs&lt;/a&gt;  en el &lt;a href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2007/11/29/restaurante-taberna-1929-madrid/" mce_href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2007/11/29/restaurante-taberna-1929-madrid/"&gt;Restaurante Taberna 1929 de Madrid&lt;/a&gt;, al que obviamente estoy deseando asistir.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;¿Qué tal un exquisito chuletón de la mejor calidad? Ah… ¡Que estamos en crisis y no es el momento! ¿Cómo que no? ¿Tienes blog? ¡Pues apúntate al &lt;b&gt;Chuletón &amp;amp; Blogs&lt;/b&gt; que organiza Cucharete! Tú pones el blog… ¡Y nosotros el chuletón! ¡Chin Pon! ¡Totalmente GRATIS! ¡Lo que lees! &lt;b&gt;¡Un chuletón GRATIS!&lt;/b&gt; ¡De los de 40 €/kilo! ¡De los buenos! ¡Y el vino también gratis! ¡Todo gratis!&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;¿Dónde lo hacemos? ¿No estamos en plena crisis? ¡Pues aprovechemos la coyuntura y celebrémoslo en el 29! ¡Eso es, en el 1929! ¡El año de la crisis por excelencia! Vámonos todos al &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2007/11/29/restaurante-taberna-1929-madrid/" mce_href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2007/11/29/restaurante-taberna-1929-madrid/"&gt;Restaurante Taberna 1929 de Madrid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;&lt;b&gt;El primer Chuletón &amp;amp; Blogs de España -y del Mundo- será el próximo &lt;i&gt;Martes 17 de Marzo de 2009 a las 21:00h.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. ¡El “Crack Day” se acerca!  Todavía queda tiempo para que os apuntéis… &lt;b&gt;¡Apúntate ya con tu blog en los comentarios de este post!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Aprovechando &lt;a href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2009/02/02/cenar-barato-economico-madrid/" mce_href="http://www.cucharete.com/index.php/2009/02/02/cenar-barato-economico-madrid/"&gt;una oferta de cucharete ayer fui a cenar a la Carbonera de Carranza&lt;/a&gt;, muy bien y muy barato por cierto, y pude comprobar que en lo que duró la cena entraron cuatro parejas referenciadas por cucharete, lo que demuestra la tracción que han obtenido estos chicos, algo que confirmó el camarero cuando le pregunté. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Como me pide &lt;a href="http://www.marcosgarcia.es/" mce_href="http://www.marcosgarcia.es/"&gt;Marcos &lt;/a&gt;que justifique por qué debería ir yo, esgrimo una serie de motivos que debería ser fulminantes:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Invitándome se contribuye a controlar el calentamiento global (el 1929 está en frente de mi casa y puedo desplazarme hasta ahí a pie, sin necesidad de consumir combustibles fósiles que generan CO2).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prometo enfocar el router wifi de mi casa al 1929 y con un poco de suerte podemos tener conectividad a Internet.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Les pillé in-fraganti preparando el sarao a él y a Quico, el dueño del 1929... &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Actualización:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soy uno de los afortunados para ir al Chuletón &amp;amp; Blogs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="centrado"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cucharete.com/imagenes/asisto_al_chuleton_blogs_150.png" alt="Asisto al Chuletón &amp;amp; Blogs de Cucharete" title="Asisto al Chuletón &amp;amp; Blogs de Cucharete"&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/MlXljPqnlVA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:57:21.275801</pubDate><guid>69cc08a62b599a298edfeae952ff9e14 2009-08-02 17:57:21.275801</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/247</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Designing an application to manage structured knowledge</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/NJXQasypsgI/354</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;by David Ruescas CTO at &lt;a href="http://metocube.com/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://metocube.com"&gt;metoCube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"&gt; (licensed under a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);" target="_blank" mce_href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"&gt;Creative Commons attribution license&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can distinguish between two approaches to capturing an organization's&lt;br&gt;internal knowledge. The first can be referred to as monolothic/document centric.&lt;br&gt;In this approach, the organization generates a collection of documents that are&lt;br&gt;available digitally or are printed into thick reference manuals. These documents&lt;br&gt;are authored with a word processor and consist mainly of text, organized into&lt;br&gt;sections, and typically augmented with charts, diagrams and tables.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The second approach we refer to as structured. In this approach the&lt;br&gt;organization's knowledge is stored in structured form, using a dedicated&lt;br&gt;application. Data is entered into the application using forms that reflect the&lt;br&gt;structure the information will take. For the moment we will consider the exact&lt;br&gt;structure used as a given, implemented by the application.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are many advantages to a structured approach, but we will only briefly&lt;br&gt;consider two. The first advantage is great flexibility in the presentation of&lt;br&gt;information. Whereas monolithic documents cannot be manipulated, a structured&lt;br&gt;and therefore modular organization of data allows arbitrary composition of&lt;br&gt;information displays, at will. Secondly and more importanly, information that is&lt;br&gt;only implicit (or logically entailed) in the data when entered can&lt;br&gt;be automatically extracted by virtue of its structured nature. In a&lt;br&gt;monolithic scenario, this information is either entirely unavailable, or, if&lt;br&gt;available, it is duplicated, potentially resulting in nightmare problems&lt;br&gt;of incoherence, obsolescence and maintenance.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The two virtues discussed for structured approaches are based on the ability to&lt;br&gt;execute queries against the data, either for the purpose of composing arbitrary&lt;br&gt;on demand displays of information, or to extract entailed information from the&lt;br&gt;data present explicitly. It would seem, therefore, that all we need to develop a&lt;br&gt;structured knowledge application is a database.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If we proceeded in the obvious way from this point, we would attempt to&lt;br&gt;determine an appropriate data model for the domain that the application is&lt;br&gt;storing information about. This excercise is a routine and fundamental step in&lt;br&gt;most any software project, and consists of examining the domain in search of the&lt;br&gt;key entities and relationships that are to be modeled; in short, the practice of&lt;br&gt;conceptual modeling. As well as determining the structure of the information to&lt;br&gt;be stored, one needs to establish which transformations of existing information&lt;br&gt;are most interesting, in other words what queries yield insight and what&lt;br&gt;information compositions are most useful. These interesting queries and&lt;br&gt;information compositions are then implemented by specific program code in the&lt;br&gt;application. After having identified and implemented all required queries and&lt;br&gt;visualisations the application would be complete.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now, the strategy described above sounds reasonable and is a tried and true&lt;br&gt;development pattern that many database driven applications have followed.&lt;br&gt;Unfortunately, it just does not work for our case of developing an application&lt;br&gt;to manage knowledge. The main reason it does not work is that the process of&lt;br&gt;analyzing a domain in order to establish structure (again, conceptual modeling)&lt;br&gt;never finishes. It does not finish because there is no unique best structure to&lt;br&gt;use, or the discovery of that structure is an ongoing process without end, or&lt;br&gt;because the need to model new domains of knowledge requires a corresponding new&lt;br&gt;structure. The bottom line is a different approach must be used.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The problem can be solved by constructing the application at a higher level of&lt;br&gt;abstraction than that of the data model in the traditional approach. Rather than&lt;br&gt;implement at the level of the metamodel (where specific knowledge plays the role&lt;br&gt;of the model), the application is 'lifted' to a meta-metamodel level, and thus&lt;br&gt;is not coupled to a specific domain structure. The application can then support&lt;br&gt;any structure that can be expressed in terms of the meta-metamodel chosen. This&lt;br&gt;is the theory. Lifting the application can be done in many ways, and has&lt;br&gt;important consequences besides the aim of solving the problems of the&lt;br&gt;traditional approach.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Firstly, the data model itself must be lifted to the level of meta-metamodel.&lt;br&gt;Without going into the details, an abstraction that can be used is that of a&lt;br&gt;graph (specifically, labeled multidigraph), as defined in mathematics. It may&lt;br&gt;help to think of nodes and links of a graph as entities and relationships (ER&lt;br&gt;modeling), or classes and relationships (OO modeling). Details aside, it&lt;br&gt;turns out that the graph abstraction, with appropriate semantics, is powerful&lt;br&gt;enough to support the modeling of almost any domain of knowledge. Thus the&lt;br&gt;lifted data, instead of speaking natively of instances of classes of things&lt;br&gt;and their properties, will speak natively of classes and relationships&lt;br&gt;themselves, allowing it to capture domain knowledge in a context of ongoing&lt;br&gt;conceptual modeling.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But lifting the application is not just lifting the data model. Although this&lt;br&gt;first step insulates the application from fundamental changes to the data model,&lt;br&gt;it does not insulate it completely as the application is more than its data&lt;br&gt;model. If the process of lifting stopped now, it would still be up to the&lt;br&gt;application implementers to write new code against the abstract data model, as&lt;br&gt;new visualisations, and significant knowledge perspectives and structures&lt;br&gt;were discovered, even if the data model itself remained unchanged throughout.&lt;br&gt;So, even if the fundamental problem were solved, code changes would still be&lt;br&gt;required. This problem is compouned by the fact that in knowledge applications&lt;br&gt;the people with domain specific knowledge and knowledge engineering skills who&lt;br&gt;further conceptual design and discover new visualisations are rarely the same&lt;br&gt;people with the technical skills necessary to implement the associated changes&lt;br&gt;in code. Furthermore, on the specific subject of adding new insightful knowledge&lt;br&gt;transformations and visualisations, it happens that writing the necessary&lt;br&gt;queries is much harder against an abstract data model than it would be using a&lt;br&gt;traditional approach. Writing the "abstract equivalent" of a normal SQL query to&lt;br&gt;extract a given piece of information is more complex. Hence, solving the central&lt;br&gt;technical problem of the traditional approach reveals other problems that must&lt;br&gt;also be solved. This is what lifting the rest of the application is about.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In essence, the central theme of a lifted knowledge application is that of&lt;br&gt;"pushing" responsibilities and tasks that traditionally are carried out by&lt;br&gt;application developers into the hands of application users, knowledge&lt;br&gt;engineers. This objective attempts to solve two problems, discussed above.&lt;br&gt;First, it would allow the application code to be insulated from the ongoing&lt;br&gt;process of conceptual design and related refinements. Second, it would&lt;br&gt;grant those people with domain specific knowlege and skills the ability to&lt;br&gt;materialise their discoveries and insights, without requiring programming&lt;br&gt;or other technical skills. These features, together with an abstract model&lt;br&gt;capable of capturing knowledge from diverse domains, forms the core of a&lt;br&gt;viable application that follows the structured approach to capturing an&lt;br&gt;organization's knowledge, as outlined at the very beginning of this discussion. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At its very basic, the application elements that must be lifted to conform&lt;br&gt;to the abstraction level of the meta-metamodel are: data storage and&lt;br&gt;manipulation, and data extraction, transformation and visualisation. We will&lt;br&gt;consider each of these two aspects in turn.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If the application user, in this case a knowledge engineer, is to define a&lt;br&gt;domain specific data model, he/she will presumably also design forms for&lt;br&gt;creating and editing the data that conform to that data model. The&lt;br&gt;application must therefore allow the generic creation of forms for the&lt;br&gt;creation, storage and editing of data that write to the application's abstract&lt;br&gt;data model. Such form design mechanisms should include user interface elements&lt;br&gt;for specifying relationships as well as the usual range of scalar types, such as&lt;br&gt;numbers, dates etc. Specific forms are thus defined for each of the types the&lt;br&gt;knowledge engineer identifies; model elements of that type are manipulated&lt;br&gt;through its associated forms. We will not delve further into the details of&lt;br&gt;generic type-based form design and generation, but a successful and&lt;br&gt;usable implementation is essential for the objective of pushing&lt;br&gt;responsibilities into the role of the knowledge engineer/domain expert.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just as a user defined data model implies user defined data manipulation&lt;br&gt;interfaces, as we saw above, so too does it requires user defined data&lt;br&gt;extraction, perspectives, and visualisations in order to obtain information that&lt;br&gt;is significant, in the sense of meaningful and insightful. In a traditional&lt;br&gt;setting, the excercise of conceptual modeling goes hand in hand with the&lt;br&gt;analysis that yields what set of queries and visualisations are interesting for&lt;br&gt;the domain at hand. Defining a perspective or view on data is a matter of&lt;br&gt;defining what subset of data to show (query), and how to show it (display code).&lt;br&gt;In our case, these queries and visualisations must defined by the user in a&lt;br&gt;manner that does not require technical skills necessary with typical extraction&lt;br&gt;(SQL) and information presentation (display code) methods. As was noted a few&lt;br&gt;paragraphs back, querying an abstract data model with SQL is even harder than&lt;br&gt;querying a "normal" data model. It is necessary therefore to develop a query&lt;br&gt;language that is specifically designed to target a graph as its data model, with&lt;br&gt;special mechanisms for easy graph traversal and other graph operations that are&lt;br&gt;the abstract equivalent of selecting data. Additionally, flexible mechanisms&lt;br&gt;must exist to define and customize how queried data is to be presented. A&lt;br&gt;pluggable rendering architecture can provide various customizable&lt;br&gt;visualisations, such as trees, lists, tables etc. For maximum flexibility, a&lt;br&gt;graph aware template language (HTML for web applications) can be developed to&lt;br&gt;allow the user to create any information display possible within the medium. A&lt;br&gt;powerful yet simple graph oriented query language, a flexible rendering&lt;br&gt;architecture with builtin renderers and an expressive template language work&lt;br&gt;together harmoniously to allow the creation of arbitrary views, as conceived by&lt;br&gt;the knowledge engineer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Having lifted all of the core elements of the application, the structured&lt;br&gt;approach to knowledge management becomes practical, and the benefits of said&lt;br&gt;approach can be reaped. The key to the finished technology's degree of success&lt;br&gt;is how far its users, with limited technical skills, manage to leverage its&lt;br&gt;generic storage, extraction and display mechanisms operating on the abstract&lt;br&gt;data model to achieve their objectives in capturing and presenting knowledge.&lt;br&gt;Innovations in query languages, template languages, including user friendly tool&lt;br&gt;assists, and in agile data entry and manipulation user interfaces can push the&lt;br&gt;native power of the application into the user's hands.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Engineering&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While engineering considerations have not been made, it is importante to realise&lt;br&gt;that a fundamentally different technical solution has correspondingly fundamental&lt;br&gt;consequences, and without proper engineering the implementation can collapse, however&lt;br&gt;attractive and elegant the theory can be. In particular, lifting the data model&lt;br&gt;to the level of meta-metamodel comes with a significant performance price, as queries&lt;br&gt;become more complex and much harder to optimize. Another example can be found in&lt;br&gt;powerful data visualisation mechanisms, that allow great flexibility but at the same &lt;br&gt;time can create performance problems if abused. The message is simply that engineering&lt;br&gt;(including but not limited to performance considerations), cannot be neglected, even if &lt;br&gt;it was not the main subject of this discussion. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Constructing other information systems&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An application that can be customised to generically store, edit, query and&lt;br&gt;present arbitrary data is close to offering the user power comparable to that of&lt;br&gt;programming in a traditional application. In other words, storing, querying and&lt;br&gt;presenting data is the backbone of any information system, so presumably other&lt;br&gt;information systems can be constructed on top of the generic facilities of the&lt;br&gt;application to serve other needs. We will not go into more detail here, except&lt;br&gt;to say that it seems there is a large potential for development. Some relevant&lt;br&gt;and actually implemented examples of this are messaging systems, alert and&lt;br&gt;notification systems, and data-centric (or object-centric) workflow systems.&lt;br&gt;These examples are especially relevant in an application that manages an&lt;br&gt;organization's knowledege. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What about the semantic web?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have deliberately refrained from mentioning the Semantic Web initiative in&lt;br&gt;order to develop a practical, bottom up understanding of the problems that&lt;br&gt;require solutions before mentioning the solutions themselves. Semantic Web&lt;br&gt;technologies offer solutions that have a direct bearing on the problems&lt;br&gt;described in a traditional database approach to capturing knowledge. For&lt;br&gt;example, RDF, RDFS, SPARQL and OWL technologies directly address the problem of&lt;br&gt;capturing knowledge about diverse domains (knowledge representation) by&lt;br&gt;providing a robust abstract data model with powerful transformation&lt;br&gt;(inferencing) capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/NJXQasypsgI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-22 01:57:29.625136</pubDate><guid>1b74e5afa42b1bedbbef2e775e74f546 2009-08-22 01:57:29.625136</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/354</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Diseño de operaciones para start-ups</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/fAUf7pX_arI/200</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;font color="#808080"&gt;Este artículo propone una forma de diseñar las operaciones de una start-up
para que estén claros sus objetivos y cual es la forma de llegar hasta
ellos. No es ni mucho menos el único método que existe ni el más
adecuado en todas las situaciones, pero si es un método sencillo con un
enfoque práctico para ayudar a un emprendedor a lograr que el trabajo
en su empresa esté alineado con objetivos de la misma.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Una start-up
es un proyecto empresarial que un emprendedor está poniendo en marcha.
Esto quiere decir que para diseñar sus operaciones no se tiene como
referencia aquello se hace en la actualidad, ya que todo se está
haciendo por primera vez. Es una situación similar a la de un pintor
que decide pintar un cuadro y empieza haciendo un boceto.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Diseñar las operaciones de una start-up
consiste en definir cuales son sus objetivos y los indicadores a través
de los cuales se van a medir, definir cómo se va a estructurar la
organización en departamentos, grupos y puestos de trabajo, definir los
procesos que se van a llevar a cabo y los proyectos que habrá que
acometer, y definir las herramientas que nos van a ayudar en nuestro
trabajo. Si el emprendedor ha realizado un plan de negocio, gran parte
de esta información debería estar ya madurada como fruto de las
reflexiones a las que obliga su elaboración. Es recomendable plasmar
toda esta información en un &lt;b&gt;manual de operaciones&lt;/b&gt; y ponerlo a
disposición de todas las personas que deban o deseen conocerlo, como
trabajadores, partners, socios, etc... Puede ser una buena idea crear
guías para cada uno de estos perfiles que les indiquen las partes del
manual que son especialmente relevantes para ellos. El objetivo último
de este manual de operaciones es conseguir que todos ellos comprendan
hacia dónde se dirige la empresa y cómo se quiere llegar allí, de forma
que todos rememos de forma coordinada en la misma dirección para
conseguirlo.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sin duda la información más importante, y la que
tienen que tener presente en todo momento los trabajadores, son los
&lt;b&gt;objetivos&lt;/b&gt; de la empresa. Para definirlos, elabora un árbol en el que la
misión de la organización esté en el nivel más alto, y ve
desagregándolo en objetivos cada vez más tangibles y accionables. Para
medir la consecución de algunos de estos objetivos define los
&lt;b&gt;indicadores&lt;/b&gt; necesarios y los valores que deseas que éstos tengan en el
futuro.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A continuación define los distintos departamentos,
grupos y &lt;b&gt;puestos de trabajo&lt;/b&gt; que van a existir en tu empresa. Defínelos
como una árbol en el que los departamentos se componen desubdepartamentos y grupos y en estos se ubican los distintos puestos de trabajo. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lo
siguiente es identificar y definir los &lt;b&gt;procesos&lt;/b&gt; que se van a llevar a
cabo para conseguir esos objetivos. Como punto de partida puedes tomar
la cadena de valor dePorter (o cualquier otro marco de clasificación de
procesos) e ir desagregando cada proceso en subprocesos hasta llegar a
&lt;b&gt;tareas&lt;/b&gt; que vaya a llevar a cabo una persona o grupo. Describe las
tareas hasta el punto en el queálguien con los conocimientos y
habilidades necesarias pueda llevarla a cabo sin tener que preguntar
nada. No dudes en utilizar imágenes y vídeos que ayuden a entender cómo
llevarlas a cabo. Para cada tarea identifica como mínimoinputs, outputs, puesto de trabajo responsable y herramientas utilizadas. Entre los outputs estarán los productos y servicios que vas a fabricar o proveer. Asegúrate
de describir con precisión sus especificaciones y sus principales
funcionalidades. Deberás identificar también los &lt;b&gt;proyectos &lt;/b&gt;que vayas a
acometer, aunque no es necesario que los describas en detalle (eso es
mejor hacerlo en alguna herramienta de gestión de proyectos). Juntando
los procesos y los proyectos tendrás una imagen completa del trabajo
que se va a llevar a cabo en tu empresa.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Por último, identifica
las &lt;b&gt;herramientas&lt;/b&gt; (informáticas o no) que vayas a utilizar, y escribe o
referencia las guías que expliquen cómo llevar a cabo las acciones más
frecuentes (por ejemplo, "Crear una factura en el sistema de
facturación"). Si mantienes esta información así, y la referencias
desde losprocedimientos, es mucho más fácil de gestionar, reutilizar y actualizar. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Como
habrás visto, gran parte del trabajo consiste en definir estructuras en
forma de árbol. La forma más práctica y flexible de hacerlo es
"dibujar" el árbol sobre una superficie en la que vas pegando post-its con el nombre del elemento correspondiente. Una vez tengas claro el árbol puedes documentarlo.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Intenta
repetir información lo menos posible. Así te será más fácil mantener la
coherencia en el manual cuando introduzcas cambios. Esextremadamente importante que mantengas la consistencia en los nombres de los elementos a lo largo del manual. No puedes llamar a un puesto "Agente de Help Desk" en la descripción del puesto de trabajo y en un procedimiento referirte a él como "Técnico de soporte". &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La
creación de este &lt;b&gt;manual de operaciones&lt;/b&gt; es un proceso iterativo que no
termina nunca. Lo más recomendable es comenzar definiendo laestructrura
básica del &lt;b&gt;manual de operaciones&lt;/b&gt;, algo como su índice o su "esqueleto",
sin preocuparse de los detalles. Una vez está más o menos claro esto,
se puede ir describiendo cada elemento. También se deberá decidir qué
partes se deben definir, hasta qué punto y en qué momento. No tiene
demasiado sentido tener definidos hasta el más mínimo detalle los
procesos de cobro al principio del ciclo de vida de unastart-up que va
a estar dos años desarrollando el producto. Otra buena idea es elaborar
el manual de usuario desde el principio siendo consciente de que va a
ser algo vivo que va a irevolucionando, al igual que tu start-up. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Una start-up
tiene el ambicioso objetivo de cambiar el mundo. El primer paso para
conseguirlo es asegurarse de que todos los que toman parte en ella
saben qué deben hacer, por qué deben hacerlo y cómo deben hacerlo.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/fAUf7pX_arI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-20 09:11:39.102989</pubDate><guid>a087001d6bcd4fca071cd99bfef53e56 2009-08-20 09:11:39.102989</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/200</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: El 77 porciento de los amos de Internet ha pasado por Iniciador</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/tH4x_4w4bs4/355</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20090913elpepspor_2/LCO340/Ies/cronista_digital.jpg" alt="http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20090913elpepspor_2/LCO340/Ies/cronista_digital.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ayer leyendo el artículo de &lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/amos/internet/Espana/elpepusoceps/20090913elpepspor_7/Tes" mce_href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/amos/internet/Espana/elpepusoceps/20090913elpepspor_7/Tes"&gt;los amos de Internet&lt;/a&gt; publicado en El País, entre los que se encuentran muchos conocidos, y me dio por calcular el porcentaje de ellos que han sido ponentes en Iniciador, un encuentro de emprendedores que pusimos en marcha &lt;a href="http://loogic.com" mce_href="http://loogic.com"&gt;Javier&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://angelmaria.com" mce_href="http://angelmaria.com"&gt;Ángel María&lt;/a&gt; y yo hace casi 3 años:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="6" color="#808080"&gt;77% han sido ponentes en Iniciador&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/tH4x_4w4bs4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-09-14 09:49:06.423647</pubDate><guid>19e5ae2cc6a38022dbd03925cac10557 2009-09-14 09:49:06.423647</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/355</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Enterprise Architecture goes lightweight</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/LXXXfSexUcY/353</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_architecture" target="_blank" mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_architecture"&gt;Enterprise Architecture&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Enterprise Architecture is a complete expression of the enterprise; a
master plan which “acts as a collaboration force” between aspects of
business planning such as goals, visions, strategies and governance
principles; aspects of business operations such as business terms,
organization structures, processes and data; aspects of automation such
as information systems and databases; and the enabling technological
infrastructure of the business such as computers, operating systems and
networks&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until recently all frameworks and tools that could be used to create an Enterprise Architecture were very complicated, included lots of artifacts and its implantation usually meant years of hard work... metoCube was something different. Its proposition was very simple: if you want to describe your organization and its operations use our tool instead of MS word and you will enjoy the benefits of the &lt;a href="/mc/element/view-web/Structured-operations-description" target="_blank" mce_href="/mc/element/view-web/Structured-operations-description"&gt;Structured Operations Description&lt;/a&gt; approach... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; But recently things have started to change. Lighter EA frameworks and tools have been developed (see EA lite, archimate, etc...) They are still more rigurous and wider in scope compared to the more agile Structured Operations Description approach, but it will be interesting to see how they evolve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following article describes this new EA trend: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1124112" mce_href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1124112"&gt;Gartner Identifies New Approach for Enterprise Architecture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/LXXXfSexUcY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-09-06 20:58:48.019501</pubDate><guid>ef940c841ce7d29f539ceb9ca73fffd8 2009-09-06 20:58:48.019501</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/353</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Iniciador en Galicia y Granada</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/F_d0TNzbqek/280</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Seguimos con la iniciativa para llevar &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://iniciador.com/"&gt;Iniciador&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; a otras regiones de España. Ya están en marcha &lt;b&gt;Madrid&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Barcelona&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Valencia&lt;/b&gt; y &lt;b&gt;Alicante&lt;/b&gt;, de forma inminente &lt;b&gt;Granada y&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Coruña&lt;/b&gt;, y en proceso &lt;b&gt;Sevilla&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Oviedo&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Castellón&lt;/b&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;En &lt;a href="http://www.iniciador.com/2009/03/27/anunciamos-el-primer-iniciador-en-granada/"&gt;Granada&lt;/a&gt; comenzamos esta misma semana, con la presencia de los creadores de la serie &lt;a href="http://malviviendo.com/"&gt;Malviviendo&lt;/a&gt; y gracias a la iniciativa de los &lt;b&gt;emprendedores&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://nefertec.wordpress.com/"&gt;Raúl Jiménez&lt;/a&gt;,
Francisco Ramón Torres y Jorge Aguilera. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://loogic.com/files/2009/03/iniciador_granada.jpg" alt="iniciador granada" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5980" height="144" width="210"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="post" id="post-315"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iniciador.com/2009/03/27/anunciamos-el-primer-iniciador-en-granada/" rel="bookmark" title="Enlace a Anunciamos el primer Iniciador en Granada"&gt;Iniciador Granada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Y en La Coruña &lt;a href="http://mariaencinar.wordpress.com/"&gt;María Encinar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.davidtaboas.es/"&gt;David Táboas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; y &lt;b&gt;David Pombar&lt;/b&gt; se lanzan a la aventura de organizar &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;el primer encuentro que será realizado a lo largo del mes de &lt;b&gt;abril&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.iniciador.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/coruna.jpg" alt="" title="coruna" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-313" height="147" width="262"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iniciador.com/2009/03/19/iniciador-llega-a-galicia-comenzamos-en-coruna/" rel="bookmark" title="Enlace a Iniciador llega a Galicia, comenzamos en Coruña"&gt;Iniciador Coruña&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://iniciador.metocube.com" mce_href="http://iniciador.metocube.com"&gt;Como sabes también tú puedes organizar Iniciador en tu ciudad&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/F_d0TNzbqek" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:57:35.657529</pubDate><guid>f0445b3470d99cdc8ea3b50de482bfd4 2009-08-02 17:57:35.657529</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/280</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Introducing SOMoF - Simple Operations Modeling Framework</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/4UqG1FjTu1c/325</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Since I began writing procedures about 10 years ago, I noticed that all of them had in someway similar underlying structures. At the most basic level, all of them stated that someone was responsible of working to transform an input into an output. After an enourmous ammounts of time spent in analyzing different procedures, Business Process Management tools, Enterprise Architecture standards, modeling frameworks, etc... we came up with a framework that allows process engineers to describe processes (in fact the scope is wider, including people and technology) applying process documentation best practices and with no additional effort:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999" size="2"&gt;SOMoF (Simple Operations Modeling Framework) is a set of procedure documentation techniques and tools that allows organizations (enterprises, divisions, departments, etc...) to describe their operations in a simple way using a set of interrelated elements (such as processes, tasks, roles, etc...). Procedures documented using SOMoF have a uniform structure and format that makes it easier to consult and understand by workers.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nevant.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/391" class="mceItemAnchor" name="Simple Operations Modeling Framework" title="Simple Operations Modeling Framework" mce_href="http://nevant.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/391"&gt;Simple Operations Modeling Framework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nevant.metocube.com/mc/models/nevant/image/somof.png" alt="http://nevant.metocube.com/mc/models/nevant/image/somof.png" height="323" width="550"&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/4UqG1FjTu1c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:58:04.270337</pubDate><guid>b12aa67aa383a5728c889d9f50b885df 2009-08-02 17:58:04.270337</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/325</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Los emprendedores y el karma</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/m6lk8_yPy8E/327</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Brad Feld (&lt;a href="http://www.feld.com/" title="Home"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;), cofundador the  			&lt;a href="http://www.foundrygroup.com/"&gt;Foundry Group&lt;/a&gt;, resume una &lt;a href="http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/04/great-entrepreneurs-believe-in-karma.html" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/04/great-entrepreneurs-believe-in-karma.html"&gt;idea con la que estoy totalmente de acuerdo&lt;/a&gt;. Si eres emprendedore recibirás ayuda desinteresada de muchos emprendedores y debes dar tu ayuda a otros emprendedores que lo necesiten: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“I believe in karma.&amp;nbsp; When I was starting out as a first time
entrepreneur a bunch of experienced people helped me, gave me advice,
and just spent time with me with no particular expectations on their
part, except to be helpful.&amp;nbsp; I’ve never forgotten that and want to pass
it on.&amp;nbsp; I have no idea what will come of this conversation, but if I’m
helpful to you, you can pay me back by being helpful to another first
time entrepreneur after your become successful.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;De hecho creo que resume perfectamente la &lt;a href="http://iniciador.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Misi%C3%B3n+de+Iniciador" mce_href="http://iniciador.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Misi%C3%B3n+de+Iniciador"&gt;misión de Iniciador&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/m6lk8_yPy8E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:58:36.680676</pubDate><guid>306f77ab12c6a4d226dc975fa199e105 2009-08-02 17:58:36.680676</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/327</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Maletín google para el emprendedor</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/hr9grliLeMw/328</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Hoy he descubierto el &lt;a href="http://www.google.es/intl/es/landing/emprendedores/" mce_href="http://www.google.es/intl/es/landing/emprendedores/"&gt;maletín google para el emprendedor&lt;/a&gt;, que incluye: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="padding-left: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.es/intl/es/landing/emprendedores/solucionespublicitarias/"&gt;Soluciones publicitarias&lt;/a&gt;:
¡Promociona tu proyecto con una publicidad medible y rentable!
Aprovecha la promoción de 50€ para crear tu primera campaña Google
AdWords.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Herramientas para &lt;a href="http://www.google.es/intl/es/landing/emprendedores/incrementatupresencia/"&gt;incrementar tu presencia en la Red&lt;/a&gt;: haz que tus clientes potenciales te encuentren allí donde estén.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Productos para &lt;a href="http://www.google.es/intl/es/landing/emprendedores/mejora/"&gt;mejorar tu página web&lt;/a&gt;: saca el máximo partido a tu escaparate virtual.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Soluciones para &lt;a href="http://www.google.es/intl/es/landing/emprendedores/aumentalaproductividad/"&gt;aumentar la productividad de tu negocio&lt;/a&gt;: céntrate en la gestión de tu negocio y no en las tecnologías online.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es una solución estupenda para emprendedores que, aún sabiendo que google pone a su disposición herramientas muy valiosas gratuítamente (o con un coste muy razonable), no disponen del tiempo de averiguar cómo pueden usarlas de la forma más eficiente posible. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Precisamente en este momento estamos preparando diversas &lt;a href="/mc/element/view-web/Solutions" target="_blank" mce_href="/mc/element/view-web/Solutions"&gt;soluciones&lt;/a&gt; basadas en metoCube para sectores verticales específicos, que estén más cercanas a empresas y profesionales de un ámbito determinado. Se trata de tener una oferta que comunique claramente cómo nuestro producto puede solucionar los problemas específicos de estas empresas o profesionales, más que la orientación típica de "esto es lo que hace mi producto. Mira a ver si te sirve...". En los próximos meses veremos soluciones para el modelado de operaciones en el campo de &lt;a href="/mc/element/view-web/project-management" target="_blank" mce_href="/mc/element/view-web/project-management"&gt;project managers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/mc/element/view-web/it-service-management" target="_blank" mce_href="/mc/element/view-web/it-service-management"&gt;departamentos de TI&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/mc/element/view-web/unified-process" target="_blank" mce_href="/mc/element/view-web/unified-process"&gt;desarrollo de software&lt;/a&gt;, franquicias, start-ups... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/hr9grliLeMw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:58:54.891539</pubDate><guid>7739a1a9a491319d041d2447f1848c28 2009-08-02 17:58:54.891539</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/328</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: MBA or entrepreneurial project?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/l-Dv08xqu7k/288</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Even if I think you learn a lot of things in an MBA, I believe that taking on an entrepreneurial project is a much complete learning experience. After all, there is a lot of high quality educational content out there in the Internet, and you learn things better by putting them into practice. What I miss in an entrepreneurial learning experience is the coherence of learning everything in a logical sequence and in an integrated way, something that MBAs have through structured programs. It could be interesting to try to mix both approaches (MBA + entrepreneurial process) in something like a "Hands-on MBA"...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something similar to this idea is what &lt;a href="http://www.sethgodin.com/" mce_href="http://www.sethgodin.com/"&gt;Seth Goding&lt;/a&gt; is putting into practice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here's the program I'm interested in creating:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;One hour a day of class/dialogue&lt;br&gt;Four hours a day of working on my projects&lt;br&gt;Three hours a day of working on your personal project&lt;br&gt;Five hours a day of living, noticing, doing and connecting&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Participants learn:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;design&lt;br&gt;analytics&lt;br&gt;strategy&lt;br&gt;marketing&lt;br&gt;sales&lt;br&gt;leadership&lt;br&gt;community development and coordination&lt;br&gt;technology (as a user, not a creator)&lt;br&gt;bravery&lt;br&gt;clarity&lt;br&gt;presentation skills &lt;/blockquote&gt;By the way, I agree that connectios is an overrated thing you get from an MBA. If you want contacts all you have to do is &lt;a href="http://iniciador.com" mce_href="http://iniciador.com"&gt;networking&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/l-Dv08xqu7k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:59:09.415051</pubDate><guid>23c8010e261a3042f68c7d8f74261f64 2009-08-02 17:59:09.415051</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/288</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: metoCube Open - Procesos de Iniciador</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/wNexO0OGCJM/268</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Durante estos días estoy terminando de modelar los procesos que hay que seguir para organizar un Iniciador en tu ciudad. Cuando estén dados los últimos retoques lo publicaremos oficialmente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Hemos tratado de concentrar todas las lecciones aprendidas y mejores prácticas identificadas en una serie de procedimientos que faciliten a los promotores locales la formación del equipo local, la organización del primer evento y la continuidad de los mismos. Como verás es bastante fácil y sólo hacen falta ganas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://iniciador.metocube.com" target="_blank" mce_href="http://iniciador.metocube.com"&gt;Y tu ciudad ¿no tiene Iniciador todavía?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;   &lt;a href="http://iniciador.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/complete/Gesti%C3%B3n+de+eventos+locales" target="_blank" mce_href="http://iniciador.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/complete/Gestión+de+eventos+locales"&gt;&lt;img src="http://iniciador.metocube.com/mc/models/iniciador/file/diagram/Gestion_de_eventos_locales.gif" id="ConvertedImage" alt="Gestin de eventos locales" name="RasterImage" usemap="#visImageMap4" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/wNexO0OGCJM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:59:34.356681</pubDate><guid>3199b3bc5e7ed34ad0ea8d97bb34ff08 2009-08-02 17:59:34.356681</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/268</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Mi contenido, mi tesorooo...</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/W3tLZNQ7MCc/281</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/cc_on_flickr_small.png" alt="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/cc_on_flickr_small.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leo en &lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_on_flickr_users_choose_most_restr.php" mce_href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_on_flickr_users_choose_most_restr.php"&gt;Read Write Web&lt;/a&gt; que prácticamente el 75% de las fotos de flickr compartidas bajo licencia Creative Commons no autorizan el uso comercial. Personalmente creo que es una decisión impulsiva fruto de no pensar... por defecto: pues no comercial. ¿Qué más le dará a álguien que no tiene pensado monetizar un contenido que otra persona gane dinero con ello? Al fin y al cabo tu contenido gana en exposición (y tú también, recordemos que están obligados a atribuirte la autoría del contenido). Esto significa que, además de ganar la persona que hace uso de tu contenido, también tiene efectos positivos para ti (promoción, satisfacción, lo que sea). Para mi es una satisfacción si puedo ayudar a álguien a ganar dinero...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No sé. Tal vez todo se deba al complejo absurdo de que el dinero es algo "obsceno"... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Por eso en &lt;a href="http://open.metocube.com/" mce_href="http://open.metocube.com/"&gt;Open metoCube&lt;/a&gt; (nuestro proyecto para crear la wikipedia de los procesos) recomendamos la licencia Creative Commons atribución por defecto.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/W3tLZNQ7MCc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 17:59:53.559877</pubDate><guid>aca6c376a7c0d7c8f4765af55e65e521 2009-08-02 17:59:53.559877</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/281</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: New open process - Prince2 based project management methodology</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/u0krIgmAwLQ/277</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.prince2.com/images/banner_what-is-prince2.jpg" alt="http://www.prince2.com/images/banner_what-is-prince2.jpg" height="103" width="460"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;We are happy to announce that a new Project Management methodology is available in Open metoCube.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;a href="http://open.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Prince2+based+methodology" target="_blank" mce_href="http://open.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Prince2+based+methodology"&gt;Prince2 based methodology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;
  &lt;img src="http://paulchas.metocube.com/mc/models/paulchas/file/diagram/PRINCE2_Processes.gif" id="ConvertedImage" alt="PRINCE2 Processes" name="RasterImage" usemap="#visImageMap0" border="0" height="284" width="439"&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PRINCE2 has a process-based approach to Project Management. The
processes define the management activities to be carried out during the
project (PRINCE2 also describes a number of &lt;i&gt;components &lt;/i&gt;that are applied within the appropriate activities. These component will remain out of scope of this piece of work). &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The
PRINCE2 process model, part of which is shown in the diagram above,
consists of eight management processes, covering all activities from
starting the project off on the right note, right through to
controlling and managing the project's progress, to final completion.
The common &lt;a href="http://paulchas.metocube.com/mc/element/view-embed/235#" onclick="return true;window.open('/mc/element/view-description/234', 'Description', 'width=600,height=400,menubar=no,status=yes,resizable=yes,location=no,toolbar=yes,scrollbars=yes');"&gt;&lt;img src="http://paulchas.metocube.com/mc/img/ui/link.png" alt="link" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://paulchas.metocube.com/mc/element/view-embed/234"&gt;PL PLANNING&lt;/a&gt; process is used by the four other processes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In
reality real world projects) each process should be tempered with the
question "How extensively should this process be applied to this
particular project?"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://paulchas.metocube.com/js/tinymcpuk-0.1/filemanager/frmresourceslist.html" onclick="return true;OpenFile('/mc/models/paulchas/image/metocube_logo.png');return false;" title="Size: 6kb"&gt;&lt;img src="/mc/models/paulchas/image/Paul%20Michael.png" mce_src="/mc/models/paulchas/image/Paul Michael.png" border="0" width="150"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;This
model was created by Paul Michael, a Consultant with over 10 years
experience documenting Financial Workflow and Managing software
implementations within the Financial Services Industry. To provide
feedback on the models created, or for assistance in developing these
models further, please contact me on &lt;a href="mailto:paulchas1@hotmail.com" target="_blank"&gt;paulchas1@hotmail.com&lt;/a&gt; or through my evolving blog  &lt;a href="http://paulcmichael.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;paulmicha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://paulcmichael.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;el.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/u0krIgmAwLQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:00:23.589684</pubDate><guid>e263b7a291c3eb9af96fb7467e77c7f7 2009-08-02 18:00:23.589684</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/277</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: New process in Open metoCube - STP buy side workflow</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/jei8sFI3Cmw/329</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Paul Michaels has created this process describing a general STP workflow model for a Buy Side
Institution:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#808080"&gt;This model describes a general STP workflow model for a Buy Side
Institution (Fund Manager, Mutual Fund, Private Wealth Manager). For
purposes of simplicity it is described for a Buy transaction only. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#808080"&gt;It
is a generic model, and not representative of how all Buy Side firms
operate, but should give a general overview. It is based, loosely on an
equity transaction, but of course would vary to a degree depending on
instrument type, market, etc. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#808080"&gt;For further information on this
model, and how to implement this model in your organisation (including
system selection) please contact paulchas1@hotmail.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://open.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/STP+buy+side+workflow" target="_blank" mce_href="http://open.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/STP+buy+side+workflow"&gt;STP buy side workflow &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/jei8sFI3Cmw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:00:53.768034</pubDate><guid>42bc619cb7830dc168642891b4028041 2009-08-02 18:00:53.768034</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/329</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: UC Santa Cruz Guide to Writing Policy and Procedure Documents</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/_uQTQFJpjqU/199</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;The University of Santa Cruz has published this document describing some best practices in process documentation:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;Preparing a policy or procedure document for UC Santa Cruz’ InfoSlug on-line policy&lt;br&gt;and procedure system is not as mysterious or difficult as you might think. This guide&lt;br&gt;is designed to explain the campus’ policy and procedure framework, to help policy&lt;br&gt;and procedure owners organize their written documentation, and to act as a resource&lt;br&gt;as they navigate the approval process. You will find the information in this “how to”&lt;br&gt;guide helpful if you are responsible for formulating or documenting new or existing&lt;br&gt;policies and procedures.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ucsc.edu/ppmanual/pdf/guide.pdf" mce_href="http://www.ucsc.edu/ppmanual/pdf/guide.pdf"&gt;Guide to Writing Policy and Procedure Documents &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/_uQTQFJpjqU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:01:13.369843</pubDate><guid>4fb545139b7359602ae88fffa542f4a0 2009-08-02 18:01:13.369843</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/199</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Venture Capital Crash Course by Jason Mendelson</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/Gj6iOJ2tdYE/282</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mobiusvc.com/images/photos/jmendelson-tall2.gif" mce_src="http://www.mobiusvc.com/images/photos/jmendelson-tall2.gif" border="0"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Produced by the &lt;a href="http://www.kendallmediagroup.com/" mce_href="http://www.kendallmediagroup.com/"&gt;Kendall Media Group&lt;/a&gt;, here is the &lt;a href="http://kendallmediagroup.com/samples/20090224SiliconFlatironsCrashCourse2.mov" mce_href="http://kendallmediagroup.com/samples/20090224SiliconFlatironsCrashCourse2.mov"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; of Jason Mendelson's &lt;a href="http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/02/crash-course-on-venture-capital.php" mce_href="http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/02/crash-course-on-venture-capital.php"&gt;Venture Capital Crash Course&lt;/a&gt;, a must see for any entrepreneur interested in raising capital. Jason blogs about his experiences in the  venture industry at &lt;a href="http://www.askthevc.com/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.askthevc.com/"&gt;www.askthevc.com&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;I give a 25 minute presentation and then hold an hour town-hall question and answer session.&amp;nbsp; Great questions were asked, so if you are interested in what goes through a VC's head, take a gander.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/Gj6iOJ2tdYE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:01:41.754007</pubDate><guid>017f0bfbb25a2312ec9e1a78727e51ee 2009-08-02 18:01:41.754007</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/282</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Video de la charla en el acuario de Gijon sobre Enterprise 2.0</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/BHFj71cCzRA/278</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Estos son los vídeos de la charla que di en el Acuario de Gijón en Abril de 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999" face="Arial"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial"&gt;
&lt;font face="Arial"&gt;La ponencia que nos trae Lucas Rodriguez se&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;font face="Arial"&gt;
&lt;font face="Arial"&gt;titula 
&lt;b&gt;Enterprise 2.0: Herramientas que ofrecen grandes servicios con costes pequeños&lt;/b&gt; ,
y&amp;nbsp; versará sobre como la utilización de herramientas de la llamada Web 2.0 en el entorno
corporativo puede suponer una ventaja competitiva a las organizaciones que sean pioneras en su
utilización, tanto para facilitar el trabajo de sus empleadas/os a nivel interno como para mejorar
la comunicación con sus clientes y partners, y todo ello mediante unas herramientas que ofrecen un
servicio de elevada calidad a unos costes considerablemente bajos,&lt;/font&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.astursat.net/astursat/export/sites/default/descargas/enterprise_2.0_charla_gijxn.pdf" title="enterprise 2.0 charla gijón" target="_self"&gt;ver pdf&amp;nbsp;ponencia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-6087352342130693885" mce_href="http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-6087352342130693885"&gt;&lt;span class="vli-thumbnail"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2004646382902700946&amp;amp;hl=en" mce_href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2004646382902700946&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.gvt0.com/ThumbnailServer2?app=vss&amp;amp;contentid=cba748ae5969ac3e&amp;amp;offsetms=1055000&amp;amp;itag=w160&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sigh=IHZJRmFEvr6J7b-TB8q2KLOORT8" mce_src="http://2.gvt0.com/ThumbnailServer2?app=vss&amp;amp;contentid=cba748ae5969ac3e&amp;amp;offsetms=1055000&amp;amp;itag=w160&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sigh=IHZJRmFEvr6J7b-TB8q2KLOORT8" title="Enterprise 2.0 (1 de 3)"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="vlim-title"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="vlim-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2004646382902700946&amp;amp;hl=en" mce_href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2004646382902700946&amp;amp;hl=en" title="Enterprise 2.0 (1 de 3)"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-6087352342130693885" mce_href="http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-6087352342130693885"&gt;Vídeo de la charla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/BHFj71cCzRA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:01:59.394571</pubDate><guid>cec34908efc4f3e8721c9ef3b2db9a1b 2009-08-02 18:01:59.394571</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/278</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Video del proceso de innovación</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/uv08gBYgNqM/331</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Interesantísimo vídeo que explica un método de innovación y habla de los perfiles necesarios para ejecutarlo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/3475327" mce_href="http://vimeo.com/3475327" target="_blank"&gt;Innovation as a Learning Process:&amp;nbsp;Embedding Design Thinking&lt;/a&gt; (vídeo)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://epic.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/pub/Home/TrendsAndConceptsII2008/2_InnovationAsLearningProcess.pdf" onclick="return true;javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/epic.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/pub/Home/TrendsAndConceptsII2008/2_InnovationAsLearningProcess.pdf');" target="_blank"&gt;Innovation as a Learning Process:&amp;nbsp;Embedding Design Thinking&lt;/a&gt; (pdf) &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/uv08gBYgNqM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:02:16.318351</pubDate><guid>ba829d96bc4bf934f0da4000d273abc5 2009-08-02 18:02:16.318351</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/331</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: We are back</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/slOptZ1vtQw/269</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Remember "&lt;a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060709012807/www.nevant.com/blog/index.php" target="_blank" mce_href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060709012807/www.nevant.com/blog/index.php"&gt;Managing knowledge processes&lt;/a&gt;"? It was "The blog for anyone interested in methodology and process management in knowledge intensive organizations". I began writing it in March 2005 but discontinued it some time ago... but we are back on the run!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of things have happened since then. We launched the first version of metoCube, had our first sales, developed the second version ... During this time the focus of metoCube has changed from pure procedure documentation to operations modeling. That's what we are going to talk about in this blog: modeling business processes, describing job positions, writing user manuals... anything that allows you to better understand how to describe your organization's operations effectively...The blog will now be called "&lt;a href="/mc/element/_view-web/Blog" mce_href="/mc/element/_view-web/Blog"&gt;Describing operations&lt;/a&gt; ". &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/slOptZ1vtQw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:02:41.222194</pubDate><guid>64f3d3b48d5400c82c32f6817ee7b19c 2009-08-02 18:02:41.222194</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/269</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Info: Wikipedia votes on adopting a Creative Commons license</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~3/VmzzHgc1F5I/333</link><content:encoded /><description>&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia is holding a vote to decide if they move from the &lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"&gt;Gnu Free Documentation License&lt;/a&gt; to the CC BY-SA or &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"&gt;Attribution-ShareAlike&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This will make it easier for contributors to use wikipedia content in their &lt;a href="http://open.metocube.com" target="_blank" mce_href="http://open.metocube.com"&gt;metoCube Open Models&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"When I started Wikipedia, Creative Commons did not exist. The Free
Documentation License was the first license that demonstrated well how
the principles of the free software movement could be applied to other
kinds of works. However, it is designed for a specific category of
works: software documentation. The CC-BY-SA license is a more generic
license that meets the needs of Wikipedia today, and I'm very grateful
that the FSF has allowed this change to happen. Switching to CC-BY-SA
will also allow content from our projects to be freely mixed with
CC-BY-SA content. It's a critically necessary change for the future of
Wikimedia."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lucasrodriguezcervera/~4/VmzzHgc1F5I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>2009-08-02 18:03:08.73542</pubDate><guid>9402bf8a506b64cf8e8bef0479ba3040 2009-08-02 18:03:08.73542</guid><feedburner:origLink>http://www.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/333</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
