Pixels and degrees; by any measure the separations between us all are at least fewer if not thinner. I attended a very provocative luncheon session yesterday featuring Mitch Joel, blogger, podcaster, and author of Six Pixels of Separation. As the book’s subtitle says, “Everyone Is Connected.” In the emerging digital age of social media, those connections are broader than ever before and growing exponentially, or is it “fractally?” The presentation, less than half delivery, more than half Q&A conversation with the audience, was lively, focused, witty, both philosophical and practical (“Don’t ask what you should be doing with social media; ask why you would use it for your business.”), and stimulating. While not unusual for VT, before the session even began as we 7 at our table made introductions we discovered almost instantly that 6 of us had at least one connection only one degree of separation apart. Given that in terms of our physical social networks, image how connected we and the other 300 people are in terms of pixels!