If you are like me, you’ll probably spend some of the downtime during the upcoming holiday week catching up on a pile of reading which you didn’t get a chance to digest over the past few weeks (months?) because of daily distractions such as work, family, survival, etc.

If you have spare time to read more of my perspectives regarding important industry trends which are impacting businesses of all sizes across nearly every industry, here are my recent writings from other online outlets since my last listing of commentaries regarding channel issues related to our Cloud Channel Summit back in November:

• Internet Evolution: Human Capital Management Heads Cloudward, 12/21/11 
• Datamation: Cloud Computing: Show Me the Analytics, 12/12/11 
• E-Commerce Times: Standing Out in the Clouds, 12/09/11 
• Internet Evolution: Big IT Vendors Try Buying Their Way Into Cloud, 12/06/11 
• Internet Evolution: Why Google May Not Win in the Enterprise, 11/22/11 
• Sandhill.com: Market Implications of Salesforce.com’s Acquisition of Model Metrics, 11/16/11  
• Sandhill.com: Building Effective Channels in the Cloud, 11/13/11 
• E-Commerce Times: The Hard Part About Rolling Up Clouds, 11/11/11

In total, I published 43 commentaries outside of this blog. You can find a complete list of these commentaries here or here.

I hope you find my perspectives provocative and worthwhile. I look forwad to sharing more thoughts with you in 2012. In the meantime, have a good holiday week and best wishes for a safe, healthy and prosperous new year!