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"Uniting the Virtual Workforce offers much-needed guidance on how to navigate the largely unmapped territory of virtual work environments in the global economy. The authors do an outstanding job of presenting how organizations should address the challenges of virtual workforces so as to reap the huge potential benefits of increased growth, productivity, and innovation." -C. Warren Axelrod, PhD, Chief Privacy Officer and Business Information Security Officer, U.S. Trust, and author of Outsourcing Information Security

Amazon is pursuing an open-systems approach that allows quick development of many features, while Apple is taking a slower route, asserting more control over the technology in order to assure security and ease-of-use.

blueKiwi 2009 is an enterprise social software for people-centric organizations to create powerful and secure social networks and collaborative environments with partners, customers and colleagues. Integrating familiar features of Web 2.0 such as wikis, blogs, forums, RSS and tagging, blueKiwi introduces a new and innovative way of getting things done.

Social media is having an increasingly pervasive influence on both personal and professional life. But there is still widespread ignorance about the risks associated with using it. The Snowden revelations gave us the first insight into how our personal data is being "harvested" by both companies and governments, and not all of it for benign purposes. This (preliminary) declaration of digital human rights is something that perhaps we should all give serious consideration to supporting.