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Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!
How the Buffer team uses iDoneThis to build a truly transparent company.
8 Awesome Tech & Startup Newsletters You Should Be Reading
One way to prevent burnout – the done list.
How to build a collaborative space like Pixar and Google.
Dundee’s Tip of the Week: Find out how to feed what you get done in Trello, Evernote, Github, and Google Calendar to I Done This with Zapier!
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!
Connect your favorite apps to iDoneThis with Zapier.
This is why feedback doesn’t work & how to fix it.
Crash course on how to work in a remote team.
Their productivity is my productivity: a manager’s mantra.
One of the biggest pain points we’ve heard from our customers is that the vital information on what’s getting done in the company is fragmented across different systems. Changes to the code happen in Github, meetings happen in Google Calendar, and tasks are marked as done in Trello. There’s no one place to see, talk about, and get excited about everything that’s happening in the company.
I Done This is meant to be that place, but we’ve heard that one of the biggest pain points is that you have to enter dones again into I Done This, what you might’ve already entered into another system. And that means that I Done This is just more work to do.
That’s why we teamed up with Zapier, an awesome tool that automates tasks between two apps with “zaps”, to make it even easier to record and share what you’re getting done in all the tools you use — without any change to your current behavior, to empower you to use the tools you love. We’re excited to share some of the most popular app integrations with I Done This using Zapier.
Zapier’s zapping magic takes small but accumulating tasks that you do every day off your plate. By automating the recording of dones, now you don’t have to enter duplicate information into I Done This and you can spend more time on the things that matter.
Happy Friday – Double Awesomeness Edition! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs these past 2 weeks:
This dull skill makes for excellent management.
The most engaged employees work at small companies.
Spark happens when we create the conditions for it to do so.
The extreme habits of great remote teams.
Culture prevents people from jumping ship.
Dundee’s Tip of the Week: Keep track of specific kinds of dones by using #hashtags!
Anywhere in the text of your done or comment, type “#” followed by a keyword or topic name, like this: #reimbursements or #win.
The exemplary manager is often shown delivering a rousing speech that inspires her troops to achieve ever greater heights. But the truth is a lot less exciting than that.
To three highly effective and successful managers and executives, a boring, often-overlooked ability is one of the most vital skills you can have as a manager — the ability to write.
As the director of social media at Marquette University, beer expert, running coach, writer, husband and father, Tim Cigelske inhabits many roles, and he’s accordingly found multiple uses for iDoneThis in his personal and professional lives. While he recently started using iDoneThis with his summer interns, Tim has been a member for over a year, with a personal account for his freelance work and a team account with his wife, Jess.
Along with Google Calendar, the couple uses iDoneThis to keep track of their household, their three-year-old daughter and her dance classes, and what’s going on in their lives. “There’s a lot going on outside of work so this helps keep tabs,” Tim says. And for his freelancing, he uses iDoneThis as a handy reminder system, recording published links, and using his iDoneThis emails to prompt him the next day or next week to promote his work on social media.
A recent survey published by Gallup showed that when employee engagement is broken down by company size, the smallest companies have the most engaged employees—and it wasn’t even close.
42% of employees working at small companies of ten and fewer reported that they were engaged at work, a huge increase over the 27% to 30% of engaged people at larger companies.
Unfortunately, only 9% of the U.S. employees work in small companies compared with the 44% of people who work at companies with over 1,000 employees —and that’s why we’ve seen a massive push from even the largest enterprises into organizing in small, self-contained teams.
Here are three fascinating illustrations of why employees in small companies are more engaged at work and what that means for you and your company.
People often hold this ideal about how great work gets done through serendipity, as if brains to stumble upon each other like characters in a romantic comedy. More often, the spark happens when we create the conditions for it to do so. If you really want lightning to strike, you don’t just mosey along empty-handed, you go out there with a lightning rod.
Jon Steinberg, president and COO of Buzzfeed found his lightning rod system, what he calls his “kismet engine.” That fateful engine is Snippets, a surprisingly simple productivity system that originated at Google (known there as Google snippets).
How Snippets works at Buzzfeed is this: employees send Jon a weekly email by the end of the workday on Friday identifying what they’ve been working on and what they need help with. Everyone can also subscribe to each others’ snippets. As for Jon, he reads his compiled snippets over the weekend and then responds with feedback and questions.
Check in with yourself often and figure out what matters.
Uncovering what’s important to you and avoiding vanity traps help light the way forward!
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!
Get your team to do what you want
How iDoneThis helps ScribbleLive make liveblogging happen.
When do apps become rituals?
“Experience is food for the brain.”