Are you a virtual office worker? That's the topic of this week's PdF Network conference call, Thursday from 1-2pm EST. If you're like many people, the odds are that you--or someone you work with--are working from home or from a remote location, away from your employer's central office. According to the Telework Research Network, the number of Americans who worked from home or remotely at least one day per month for their employer rose from approximately 12.4 million in 2006 to 17.2 million in 2008. Five million employees work from home most of the time, another seven million do so at least once a month.

And while we can't prove it with hard data, it's clear that for people who work at the intersection of technology and politics, the percentage who use their laptop or their blackberry as their de facto office is probably much higher than the average population.

More political organizations are opening themselves up to running hybrid shops, with some or even all their staff working from their homes, or from the road. But how do they do it? What tools do they use? How do they deal with information overload, or chain emails from hell? How do they keep morale up and make sure their staff is being productive?

The power of the Connected Age is the friction-free creation of large numbers of people to support a campaign and act in concert to impact an issue, legislation or public awareness of an issue -- and the power to let them go not to create the behemoth nonprofit institutions associated with last century. This is what the

MoveOn is rolling out some cool new tools for political organizing, starting with "VotePoke"--an innovative way to get people registered to vote--and ActivList, an event syndication feed.