Below is the transcript from yesterday's Constellation Research chat on Twitter where I answered questions about social business. The content below is just my responses, to see the questions and comments from other participants please search Twitter for #crchat. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Q1: How do you define Social Business?
A1: #socbiz involves tools & processes that share info openly (inside and/or outside the company) allowing people to engage.

Welcome to a new series of interviews for 2012 with business leaders making the move from transaction to engagement. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective.  We’ll be taking limited interviews throughout the year for publication as we also try to catch up on the Disruptive Tech Leaders series.

Michael Park, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions

Biography

My friend and associate Vinnie Mirchandani has written his second book, The New Technology Elite: How Great Companies Optimize Both Technology Consumption and Production. There's much to learn from this book. Moreover, there’s a lot to learn in imitating the author’s example.

Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing.  The interviews  provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective.  A full list of interviewees can be found here.

Brad Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intuit

Biography

Thanks to Innovation Excellence for listing me in their Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011 roundup!

I plan to keep the creative juices flowing throughout 2012 and beyond!

As we approach the festive season I thought I’d close out the year with something Valley readers will appreciate. A conversation between Robert Scoble and myself.
Just how far apart are consumer grade apps from the enterprise? This story with Scoble illustrates the topic very well.

Denver, Colorado, United States – November 1st, 2011

8:31 am (GMT – 7:00) Central Time

Constellation Research Inc, a next generation research analyst and advisory firm helping clients achieve business value from emerging and disruptive technologies, announced today that Yvette Cameron has joined as a Vice-President & Principal Analyst for People Processes and People Technology.  Yvette will provide strategy and counsel to four key constellation client types: Chief People Officers, Chief HR Officers, software vendors, and professional services firms.