Meeting Bob Rebholz: So this is what Scoble does?

Last night Katie and I had the pleasure of having dinner with Bob Rebholz of The Working Network. Despite being one of the most social guys in Florida with a lot of connections.. really, world-wide.. I never get to meet cool people. The best I can swing is Joe Rif-Raf the SBS Pimp that sells Action Pack out of this trunk. Last night was a little bit different because I got to hang out with a guy that spent years being in Steven Ballmer's geek squad. Oh the stories that I will have to take to my grave. And he was PM for VoiceCommand. So higher up than usual. We did have an incredible (well, from my side at least) conversation about social networking and where Bob sees it going and benefiting us. Right now, as you look at SharePoint, CRM and other offerings there is a lot of stuff in the way of business intelligence storage, but little in terms of its reputability and relevance in the context of your search. Bob used the example of Google search – you search for something and it spits back the pages that were linked to the most. Fascinating conversation about the whole social networking aspect and definitely something we need to jump into in small business and ITPRO land. Chris and I will try to get Bob on the SBS Show very soon to talk about the many things going on in the social networking world. He is technically family (Katie is a Rebholz and they apparently share a significant gene pool and personality traits) so how can he say no? 🙂