Sameer Patel aka @sameerpatel pointed to an interesting article in the Guardian through Twitter. The title was: Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds. Now this is a topic I have covered before – see for example my 2009 post, Is Twitter Like Going Out for a Smoke? Powerful stuff this Twitter. added the following. MORE >>

I haven’t been put in the place of having ultimate responsibility for driving a complete user experience for over a decade, though I’ve been involved in advising on a lot on many such. But I continue my decades long fascination with design, to the extent that it’s a whole category for my posts! And we were a team. design MORE >>

For a keynote speaker having a good showcase video is critical. Potential clients want to get an idea of your style and presence before booking you, and usually a video is the only way to provide that. have just finished producing a new keynote speaker video. This was long overdue as the last one wasn’t nearly as good as it should be. MORE >>

I had an absolute blast presenting "A Decade of SharePoint Adoption Strategies" at SharePoint Saturday Philly this past weekend.  In addition to the usual friendly, motley band of itinerant SharePoint speakers from various ISVs and consultancies, there were several hundred attendees (about 450 overall). . The slides are here: . MORE >>

Last week I did an interview on radio 2SER on Facebook’s IPO and its future. You can listen to a podcast of the interview below. The billions they raise could be used to build a social commerce platform and develop its financial services. Funds from the IPO may help to drive even faster innovation, not least through acquisitions. MORE >>