Clearly he craves blog link love

When the Black Book of Outsourcing recently named my firm as one of its top boutique advisory firms, someone more cynical than me emailed suggesting they did it knowing I would blog about it and they could bask in the free publicity. 

Boy, must be the same reason Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com has mentioned our blog twice this week - once on his earnings call and then at the TechCrunch conference :)

Seriously, Marc has been good to bloggers. He has encouraged internal bloggers, has provided frequent access to external bloggers and at his conference, Dreamforce, last Fall gave us front row seats - to the annoyance of industy analysts and media who were behind us.