I just read An Army of Davids and I recently bought 40 copies of Naked Conversations to distribute to our executives. These are powerful concepts, the two books should be sold as a boxed set in my opinion, and companies are just beginning to understand the implications, it is deliciously ironic that Microsoft would embrace The Cluetrain Manifesto so far ahead of companies that claim to have.

CRN | Microsoft, Open Source| An Army Of Davids Helps Microsoft:

Now, Ozzie shows us how Microsoft has turned to the public – engineers, developers, anyone else who is interested – to help them do in weeks what could have easily taken months or years otherwise. Microsoft has established a public discussion group (not too unlike the Linux developers’ group on Usenet) to help it move forward on Live Clipboard.

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