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 >>

Filenaming Conventions and Knowledge Sharing. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the high flown theory and rhetoric of knowledge sharing, we forget the mundane, almost mechanical ways in which we can enhance it. At a meeting last week MORE >>

I was recently interviewed for a report created by the executive forum Vistage, titled 12 Trends That Will Define Business in the "New Normal". One of the key trends covered in the report in which they drew on my thoughts is reputation management, excerpted below. Trend 7: Reputation Management. There are many free tools to discover this. 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 >>

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 >>