SaaS is a contraction of "software as a service" and it is one of the technologies under the Web 2.0 umbrella. SaaS is a Web 2.0 technology because it empowers users and creates a platform for collaboration across boundaries. SaaS technology allows software to be delivered over the Internet using a Web portal, on demand to any user at any time. So, you can just log-on to a Web site instead of buying traditional software. With SaaS, you (or your stretched IT department) no longer need to…

For most of my professional life, I have worked with leaders in a leadership position...and certainly anyone who has spent even a modicum of time researching this subject knows that leadership has been explored, dissected, reduced to skill sets, applied to all, restricted to a few, categorized, summarized and, in short, made an object of study and debate. Recent research in quantum physics and an increased understanding of human nature (not to mention a lifetime of experience) have led…

Web 2.0 crept up on me unawares.I think of myself as fairly tech-savvy, but nearly a year went by before I "caught" the Web 2.0 bug. It happened at the second Web 2.0 expo in San Franciso this year. Like most of us, I knew that a lot of technology was being added to Web applications, but I'd never really understood what drove the phenomenal success of Google, or why Facebook was worth over $2Bn! But now I know, I just can't stop talking about it.

The way I see it, Web 2.0 really is…