How to build social connections on a remote team

How to manage a remote team | Zapier

If you want some ideas on how one team has set up their team to be successful at remote work, then stick around. This chapter is for you. Read more.

The inequities of our remote gathering tools

As we’ve been transitioning our in-person communities to virtual ones, our modes of interaction are now firmly established in tiny…

About Us | Connect Ventures

About Connect Ventures. Who we are, what we do, and how we partner with teams to build and scale durable businesses.

Hiring Remote Employees: How You can Avoid Major Challenges

Hiring remote employees + managing them presents many challenges you may not be ready for. Learn what they are & how you can overcome them

The surprising traits of good remote leaders

Strong in-person leadership skills don’t necessarily translate to being a good virtual leader. Instead, organisation and competency reign supreme.

What the heck is asynchronous communication anyway?

Async is a game-changer even for co-located teams, but it's an absolute must for teams collaborating remotely.

The best way to work remotely: 8 proven strategies for better remote work

After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...

🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities

We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

Peersky Browser (@peersky@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image 💬#PeerSky v1.0.0-beta.23 is here!
 Introducing #PeerChat, a chat that lives on your machine, not a server! - Create rooms for friends or teams with a name, bio, link, and avatar - Direct Messages: start private chats instantly with automatic key sharing - Real-time chat with live updates, emoji reactions, and unlimited file attachments Try it out! 👉 https://peersky.p2plabs.xyz/ Source: https://github.com/p2plabsxyz/peerchat

How to run a small social network site for your friends

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.

The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery

Building a social network is not easy. Social networks have value proportional to their size, so participants aren’t motivated to join new social networks which aren’t already large. It’s a paradox where if people haven’t already joined, people aren’t motivated to join. The trouble is that whi...

Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed

The challenges aren’t just technological. They’re managerial.

A Lament For The LAN Party

Before broadband and the connected world of information, we found different ways to mix our social life and our games. …

Growing the Social Web

I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses…