One of the basic requirements for any form of successful communication is the listener understands what's being said. However we often face the challenge when trying to get our message understood of the " curse of knowledge ". Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has " cursed " us. MORE >>

Sharepoint 2010 is now a credible platform player for collaboration and business social networking. The larger challenge: Changing user perceptions of what the tools are for, and what you can do with them MORE >>

Last weekend I was musing about the elements of success in a connected world. Something clicked, and I was able to pull out of it a visual representation as below. For my keynote tomorrow morning on Building Business in a Connected World I will just run through this diagram together with commentary on how to approach each of the key elements. MORE >>

Tweet When I discussed Emergent Value , some very good comments ensued, from Jon Husband , Gordon Ross , Peg Boyles, Ollie Gardener and Monika Hardy. This image was my first attempt to show how real value creation happens at the edge of organizations and requires different management and communications practices. This is a sea change, in my opinion. MORE >>

A couple of days ago I was speaking with Reuters reporter Connie Loizos, who's been covering the Internet space since the days of the Industry Standard (she worked at the Red Herring). You can find that story here , on PEHub. But that's not the interesting part of our conversation. So let's break it down. First off, what is "the press"? MORE >>