Note: Bob Pearson, Chief Technology & Media Officer at WCG, also author of "Pre-Commerce: How Companies and Customers Are Transforming Business Together," joined me in writing the following post.

Verbs have become powerful enough to shape the presidential race. Facebook's latest changes, while not political in nature, are symbolic...

With President Obama and Members of Congress spending the next two and a half months reconnecting with anxious (and opinionated) voters, it's fair to ask why many of our elected representatives have been slow to fully embrace the world's most basic online and social networking sites; platforms, for all intents...

The premise of the centuries-old theoretical principle known as "Occam's Razor" is that all things being equal, the most practical explanation is typically the correct one. Nowhere was this more evident than at the 2010 Milken Global Conference, which wrapped up Wednesday in Los Angeles.

For more than a dozen...

Perhaps one of the most underestimated and misunderstood phenomenons of the digital age, cloud computing -- the movement of data, software and services away from the desktop to remote servers or data centers -- is transforming the way we communicate, research and conduct everyday business and life.

The Internet,...

This was the official question that nearly 200 of the world's foremost health-care experts, physicians and scholars attempted to answer at the 2009 Aspen Health Forum, which wrapped up Monday in Aspen, Colorado, after four days of speeches, panel discussions and idea-sharing sessions.

As Congress prepares to break for...