This fall I'll be speaking at a conference in Orlando on the topic of effective organizational communication, specifically to address how the rational and emotional components of our thinking relates to how we perceive and act on messages.

Between Xohm's delayed launch, the FCC quiet period affecting the 700MHz auction winners, and no huge product announcements, CTIA this year was fairly uneventful. The only exception was Richard Branson's keynote, during which he announced Virgle, Virgin and Google's JV to the stars.

Since last year, "Green IT" has tipped over spectacularly in capturing the hearts, minds and maybe even wallets of IT managers and executives everywhere  Therefore, in a true spirit of enquiry, I've started reading "Green to Gold".  This is a 2006 book by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston which some claim is the bible for businesses caught up in the current green craze.

In this article from Network World, we see an interesting example of how when marketing hype meets physics, physics generally wins until someone clever enough comes along to solve the problem.

During his keynote speech last month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona John Chambers spoke of a shift Cisco is seeing from personalized communication to social networking.  As Chambers put it, "it's no longer about you, it's about us.".