Why did I call my new blog The Talking Shop? Lots of reasons.

1) It’s a place to ‘talk shop’. In my case that means it’s a place to engage in enlightening conversations about the past, present and future of interactive networked media.

2) It’s also a place to celebrate and critique businesses that engage in online conversations, i.e. talking shops. This is important to me because I’m a big advocate of integrating blogging and other social media into business as part of what I call the ‘conversation economy’. I think shops should talk.

3) I’m a communications consultant and this is my shop. I’m selling talk - mine and yours and theirs. This blog is the storefront where I display my wares.

I hope you like it here in my new shop. Though I’ve really just opened. This is the quiet time when the shop owner turns on the lights and opens the blinds, before the hustle and bustle of the business day begins. But I have a hunch this place will soon be busy, bubbling with babble. So stick around and share your thoughts. Talk some shop. Shop some talk at The Talking Shop.