Over the last decade, organizations like GE, P&G, DARPA and LEGO have pioneered working with crowds to brainstorm. And in recent years, startups like Quirky, Localmotors and Giffgaff have put "crowdstorming" at the core of their strategies to bring better products and services to market.

I will celebrate when the annual "Social Media" parade marches down Fifth Avenue in New York City, and spills over onto the sidewalks with enthusiasm, rivaling the St. Patrick's Day parade.

Social Media Week is a conference in which people with a lot of Twitter followers brag about how many Twitter followers they have to a room full of pe...

It's simple. Talk to me like I'm a human being. I'm more than an inbox, Twitter handle, or opportunity for a Facebook "Like." I'm your audience. And if we connect, there can be a meaningful exchange that's beneficial for both of us.

Increasingly, thinkers become ever more specialized in every field and so we need people who can traverse different fields, or at least translate between them, to find the non-obvious combinations that are ideas and innovation. Collaboration will drive big new solutions.

Championing the architects, inventors, collaborators and all of their ideas and interaction is only the beginning. Encouraging society to take part is the next step.

With mobile ad spending predicted to reach $6.4 billion worldwide in 2012, it's clear the future of advertising is in your hands.

The web is not simply a place to make a declaration, but in fact, a multi-layered medium that intersects with nearly every aspect of our lives. We build alliances, raise awareness and forge momentum for future innovation.

Think about electronics, think about Hong Kong. Think about portable radios, think Hong Kong. It's no wonder that social media has penetrated so much of Hong Kong (and other parts of Asia) so quickly.

At the panel event it was clear that this unassuming 8th grade history teacher from White Plains was using technology her fellow well-groomed panelists hadn't even heard of -- integrating tools such as My Big Campus, Edmodo and Socrative, to revolutionize the classroom dynamic.