A book is a reflection of a social network. More than two years ago, while having only worked briefly together when Jeanne worked at Accenture and consulted at Sun Microsystems, we met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado. There we discovered we were both passionate about how people can use technology to connect to one another around the globe and across generations while also getting work done in more innovative ways. Having faith in each other’s reputations, we decided to write a book and then faced a task that seemed at the time almost as daunting as climbing the Flatiron Mountains we could see from the restaurant.

To climb the mountain of information and stories we needed for this book required that we reach to the edges of ...

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