We’ve received a lot of e-mail request that the Lippis Report newsletter analysis, the part that I write be available as a podcast. So we’ll try it with Lippis Report Issue 78: The Chief Communications Officer and please give us your feedback on the lippis.com site. I wrote this piece because I’m convinced that the there will be a need for a new position within IT executive management to deal with all the changes that are occurring in networks and communications. I’ve been writing about the network as a business platform which means that networking is evolving from a connectivity service to a service of services which is callable from a WebServices based programming language. Also Communications is undergoing a revolutionary change with unified communications and comm.-enablement. All of this change means that IT executive management needs to focus on it to extract the most value for their corporation. Without any future ado, here is Lippis Report Issue 78: The Chief Communications Officer