Virtual corporate mail

MoveOn.org is a poster child for virtual companies. Its staff is entirely distributed. It holds no scheduled meetings. And when it decided to gather for a retreat, it did so virtually. In a panel during Software 2007 in Santa Clara, CA, MoveOn co-founder Wes Boyd shared his organization’s approach to operation, including how they held a six-hour virtual corporate retreat on the phone. Boyd and co-founder Joan Blades determined that MoveOn would remain tiny. It started with a couple of employees in the San Francisco area and used outsourcing and volunteers to launch its growing number of political campaigns. The advantage to that approach he said: “We could mount them and tear them down within a few months. ***