Two quick clicks that are worth lingering over - both under the header "it's all about relationships":

Mark Horoszowski's post Relationships are relationships kicks off with the truism "Whether its online or offline a relationship is still a relationship."

The essence of Brian Solis' must-read post, The Human Network: The Social Economy is Influenced by How We Communicate Online and Offline, can be captured in one line from that post: "Relationships... RELATIONSHIPS…count for everything here."

Or in the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (from Flight to Arras, 1942): Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.