Des Walsh recently wrote a blog about our book, Communicating the American Way; I appreciate his comments (and I don’t know him) and for his taking the time to write a thoughtful review. He certainly is correct with some of his criticisms and I appreciate him pointing out items that don’t work for him. I don’t agree with his point, however, that when we talk about networking, we should have included Facebook, LinkedIn or other types of social networking – Web 2.0 – sites.

Networking in person still seems to resonate more with people, I think,  maybe because it is a recognized good way of doing business in the Silicon Valley. I didn’t include online networking in the book, as I think that while social networking sites may often come from the US, it is not THE American Way and is popular around the world.

I had his whole review on this blog, but as I learned, it is against blog etiquette to post a whole blog taken from someone. So in the spirit of fairness, I will link to his blog, http://deswalsh.com/2008/01/31/communicating-successfully-in-corporate-america/  and hope that readers will visit his blog, leave a comment and help me make good on the blog etiquette I violated.