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Comment threads can be added by anyone, anywhere on the canvas, and there is no laborious sequence of creating an account, logging in, and so on. Read more »

How much is the growth of freelancing driven by the desire for autonomy and personal achievement, and how much is escaping the prison of job dissatisfaction? Read more »

The increased speed, complexity, and uncertainty of the business environment today means that businesses are operating in a world that is fundamentally different from that of only ten years ago. Read more »

Will Yahoo built a Tumblr for the enterprise? Or will someone else? Read more »

Frederick Herzberg was a US psychologist, extremely influential in the 20th century. His greatest contribution might have been the Motivator-Hygiene Theory, or the Two Factor Theory of job satisfaction, which he first proposed in 1959. Herzberg’s key insight was to realize that job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction were not two ends of a single spectrum, [...] Read more »

A week ago, Microsoft announced that the dramatically revised version of Sharepoint Online is going to go live on Office 365 in the next few weeks, and apparently is going to be a rolling release. As the Sharepoint team said on the Office 365 Technical Blog, What to expect during upgrade Office 365 customers will be notified approximately four weeks [...] Read more »

The move is partly because people still don't know what it means and partly because other factors are just as large. Read more »

Why did it wait so long? Read more »

Expect to see LinkedIn making a push here, too. Read more »

For example, the Pop Up Agency is made up of six creative students who take up residency at companies or agencies for 48 hours and rapidly develop a new concept or strategy, then get back on the train or plane and head for the next pop-up gig. Read more »