5 reasons why your company should be distributed. ve noticed a new trend in Silicon Valley. More and more startups are beginning life as distributed companies, and investors and partners are starting to accept it as normal. Our company  Automattic is distributed, and I’m ready to sing the praises of running a business in this way. With their gear. MORE >>

Barracuda Labs' annual report contains some interesting analysis of the online space, including Twitter and security issues. few highlights: * Only 21% of Twitter accounts are active i.e. at least 10 followers/ 10 following/ 10 tweets. 66% of users are following more or the same as the their number of followers (i.e. celebrity redcarpet twitter MORE >>

There are many, many signals in the Database of Intentions, as my readers have pointed out, but the one I feel compelled to add to the chart I created Friday is the Commerce signal. expect that to change, and shortly. So here you go, an updated version of the chart, for the record. Conceptual Scoop MORE >>

Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy , or, in other words, digital networks enable multiple connections, so organizational communications are no longer just vertical. Somebody else, outside the hierarchy, is only one click away, and perhaps easier to deal with and a better source of information and knowledge. We are wrong on all three counts. MORE >>

First … no answers here. Only questions and ideas based on past HR experience, observations and some familiarity with interactive and participative dynamics online. Back in January in one of the sections of a post titled “ Exploring the HR Management Framework for Enterprise 2.0 &# I offered up the following: Employee Performance. MORE >>