Seth Godin wrote an interesting post in his blog:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/07/the_mediocre_em.html

It is really about the slow stagnation of a company. This slow, steady decline reminds me of Buzzoodle, but in the opposite way. With Buzzoodle, you get your employees to slowly, steadily start reaching out and building their network more. It is more of a slow emergence. (Fast with those that embrace it quickly.)

People like fast results. But much like the tortoise, you can slowly win the race by creating a workforce of passionate, well connected individuals that understand how to talk about where they work.

Those of you who know me know that I created Buzzoodle to solve my own problem on encouraging people that worked for one of my companies to get out there and talk about us more, even if they were not selling.

Today I met with several professional services firms that all seem very interested in the same thing. An amazing amount of people wish their own staff would just network a little and talk about there job a little.

If everyone in an organization does it a little, it becomes a lot.