What Motivates You and Your Team?
One of the books that’s moving around our offices here at North Point is the new book Drive by Daniel Pink. It’s challenging a lot of our staff and management to really ask the tough questions about how to best motivate employees and team members. Here’s a video that explains some of the book, etc. What is motivating [...]
Continue reading...Scheduling Blog Posts
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
It’s a tough world we live in, isn’t it? Add trying to coordinate a few crazy-busy people to drop blog posts can drive people over the edge…! So how can it be done? What’s our strategy? Very simple: Create a Master Schedule, assign dates, and then commit. It’s that simple really! What we’ve done is assign our team [...]
Continue reading...Social Media Guidelines
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
We believe in our staff and their ability to manage their online presence with thoughtfulness and wisdom. But, not everyone is oftentimes aware of their responsibility in the social media world! So, we created some Social Media Guidelines to help educate our staff about acceptable usage, etc. You can take a look at our policy here.
Continue reading...Of Email Systems and Newsletters…
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Email Newsletters are still all the rage. Sometimes, on a bad day, I just wish they would go away. It’s probably because I’m over email newsletter systems; most of them just don’t work well and cross-browser and email client testing can be such a hassle. But, it’s still a significant part of how we communicate to our [...]
Continue reading...Building Teams by Admitting We’re Dysfunctional!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Let’s admit it. We’re human, and as human beings go we’re not very good at being “perfect.” This obviously complicates everything the moment we get in teams. To think that we even have the capacity to do anything productive without killing each other! But, we do. So, as a result, not only do we need to be [...]
Continue reading...Developing Process
Friday, January 15, 2010
One of our goals for this year is to continue to solidify how we launch web properties and products. Process is what we’re looking for! We’re caught between two worlds though (and you’re probably as familiar as we are with these two); our desire to be fast, agile, and responsive as well as making sure that [...]
Continue reading...GoGlobalX.org Re-Launched with Wordpress
Monday, October 5, 2009
The GoGlobalX.org site re-launched silently this past weekend with a new backend: Wordpress. One of the key considerations for the GlobalX team was the ability to update the site easily without having to ask the IT and Web team every single time. We agreed that this was a pretty good idea, naturally. One of the components that wasn’t [...]
Continue reading...The Best Web Team is One That Trusts
Friday, September 4, 2009
I’ve realized over the years that the best web design/development team is not the one that has the highest combination or aggregate “score” in terms of skill but rather the one that trusts each other the most. In the past few months I have learned to trust my team with tasks and responsibilities that I may [...]
Continue reading...Flesh and Blood Meetings
Monday, July 20, 2009
Even though our team is well-versed in a number of web services that could provide team meetings, data/project management, and the like, there’s just something about meeting with the team on a weekly basis in the real. There’s just something about those weekly meetings that provide much more value than “What are you working on?” moments [...]
Continue reading...New InsideOutStudents.org!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the new InsideOutStudents.org! One of the fantastic things about this new launch is that we’ve moved from an all-flash-based environment to a Wordpress-MU install. Why? Because of the sheer flexibility, dynamic content generation, and management simplicity. This gives our ministry teams the ability to be autonomous with their updates, meaning, they [...]
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