My apologies for the weeks of quiet here, and also over on the Innovation Hub, where the network feed has been humming along but the editorial blog has been mostly silent. The short version of what happened is that events conspired to overtake me.

And.the long version is longer than you probably have time to hear,so I'll skip straight to the result: There have been and will continue to be a number of changes in my life. Some are happy -- my youngest daughter graduated form high school last weekend, freeing me from a total of 15 years of parent-bondage to the Arlington (TX) Independent School District and allowing me to remove the high school's attendance office phone number from my cell phone address book!

Other changes are bittersweet -- at the end of this month I will be leaving Decision Analyst after 6 years, putting me in the enviable yet at the same time slightly scary position of figuring out What To Do Next, since for the last several months, this job has been far too all-consuming for me to give any thought to that.

First up on the agenda: Update this blog and the Innovation Hub blog! Then, next week I will be taking part in Corante's Innovative Marketing Conference in New York, co-sponsored by the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School.

After that, I am planning to relocate to Austin, Texas, the fulfillment of a dream I have had for many years. I'm very happy it's finally happening, and excited about what sort of innovative things I might find to get into in Austin. I'll keep you posted!