When the Facebook post went up that the big message from the Sage Summit user conference was that Sage executives were going to do what they said they were going to do, a friend posted a response asking why anyone had to go to a conference for that.

When someone develops a theory, there's a tendency to view all facts as having something to do with that theory, and most of us readily believe that the facts support our assumption. And hopefully, I am not doing that with events at Intuit and its upcoming relationship with investment firm, Relational Investors.

There are few topics that experts want to write about more than the use of social networking. Reader interest is high too, although I don't think it nearly matches the enthusiasm with which essays and articles are being dashed off. Viva la hype!