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Make Employees feel like Superheroes: The Best of the Internet

September 28, 2012 by I Done This Support

Here’s the weekly round-up of the best of the blog & links we’ve shared on the interwebs! Happy Friday! How Mozilla uses iDoneThis to communicate and create. The key to building an awesome team? Make employees feel like superheroes. Stillpower, not willpower, is the key to flow and getting in the zone. In case you … Read more

Schedules of Seriously Productive People

September 27, 2012 by I Done This Support

The schedules of some pretty productive people.

Lesson: amidst your hard work, don’t forget to eat well, exercise/take walks, and spend time with your peeps.

Also, I like Monsieur Flaubert’s idea of breakfast.

(via idlethink)

How Mozilla Foundation Navigates Across Teams

September 26, 2012 by I Done This Support

The Mozilla Foundation has a super software team working on projects that range from Popcorn (a video remixing application) to Thimble (an easy-to-use web page maker) to Open Badges (a digital badges system that support learning and achievement).

Developer Jon Buckley talked with us about the struggle to align three teams when Mozilla Foundation wanted to integrate Badges into both Popcorn and Thimble. Combining multiple product worlds could very well collide into chaos and confusing communication, but Mozilla Foundationis seeing smooth sailing.

Status update discussion used to fall to a weekly call, which was time-consuming, while a shared mailing list was only used periodically for such purposes. The Mozilla Foundation teams soon turned to iDoneThis to coordinate communication for people spread across time zones and for cutting across teams. “You don’t have to worry about being in the same room at the same time. That asynchronous nature of updating people is very helpful.”

Figure Out Priorities With A Productivity Matrix

September 25, 2012 by I Done This Support

As any incredibly productive person will tell you, it boils down to knowing what your priorities are and systematically attacking your tasks with a focused mind. The one resource in the world that is common to millionaire CEOs and the average Joe is time.

We stumbled across this great tip and illustration of Stephen Covey’s time management matrix from the blog of an iDoneThis user, Eva.

Determining what your priorities are paves the road to getting stuff done in an order that makes sense!

Check out Eva’s Productivity Monday posts for more useful tips.

Find Joy in your Work: The Best of the Internet

September 21, 2012 by I Done This Support

Here’s the weekly round-up of the best of the blog & links we’ve shared on the interwebs!

We have a guest blog post over at Buffer on the science behind what motivates us to work hard.

How we help Reddit get stuff done.

Mike Sun wrote about security and Google/OpenID Integrations.

We wrote about how we need more quiet and slower web to create better, transcend, and find joy in our work.

The struggle to help your employees find larger meaning.

Talent isn’t enough.

How the President gets stuff done.

How Reddit Builds a Progress Record (and the Front Page of the Internet)

September 20, 2012 by I Done This Support

Reddit, the popular social content site and community, hands power to the people to decide what’s important and what’s not. iDoneThis likewise hands the reins to Reddit’s team to use how they see fit.

reddit logo

With the Reddit team scattered, from San Francisco to New York and in between, the challenge may be to get a remote team on the same page. Yet, the main use of iDoneThis for the Reddit team is as a personal record, and then by extension, as a reference for the team.

Reddit’s general manager Erik Martin explains, “We all wear a lot of hats. We’re only about twenty people. All of us do a bunch of different things, so it’s hard for us to jump around. It’s nice to be able to track how that’s going, maybe not what we’re spending time on as much but what we accomplish on any given day.”

Account Association Security Threats for Google Single Sign-On

September 19, 2012 by I Done This Support

I Done This recently added itself to the Google Apps Marketplace and the Google Chrome Web Store, providing OpenID single-sign-on access to I Done This through Google accounts. It’s a great feature to have, but as we found during our implementation, one rife with security concerns. Security advisories from both Google [2] and the OpenID foundation [3] pointed out possible vulnerabilities with various OpenID implementations related to the failure to check for signed AX attributes. But the failed check for signed AX attributes by certain implementations of OpenID is really a peripheral issue. A more fundamental security threat results from the incongruent use of the OpenID protocol for trust when it was meant for identification. This article discusses how our integration of Google OpenID single-sign-on addresses the issues brought forth by the security advisories as well as the more central issue of proper OpenID usage.

Illustration from: http://openidexplained.com

GetWorkDoneMusic: The Productivity Playlist

September 18, 2012 by I Done This Support

GetWorkDoneMusic is a webapp by Ryan Ghods that plays music to help you get your work done … fast, or faster. The mostly electronic music is randomly pulled from SoundCloud playlists, and you can replay tracks you like, or skip to the next one. What’s on your productivity playlist?

Building Company Culture: The Best of the Internet

September 14, 2012 by I Done This Support

How iDoneThis aspires to build a product that fulfills a maker’s schedule while meeting the manager’s needs. However you walk the talk is what builds your company culture. And so are your values. How do you give difficult feedback to a team leader? A team-building scavenger hunt that worked. Our glimpse into how PagerDuty uses … Read more

How PagerDuty Gets Intelligent Messaging Across

September 13, 2012 by I Done This Support

Systems down? Who you gonna call? PagerDuty is on it! The service dispatches alerts collected from system monitoring tools through email, SMS, phone, and mobile and provides no-fuss on-call management.

PagerDuty is all about intelligent messaging, integrating with tools you already have to notify the right person to deal with the problem, based on schedule and situation.

We’re fans of how PagerDuty promotes efficient, effective communication. The company carries over this value to its inner workings as well, implementing iDoneThis in place of its old daily stand-up meetings. “Instead of adding more meetings, I can see what everyone is up to by simply checking my email,” saysPagerDuty co-founder and CTO, Andrew Miklas. ”The iDoneThis digests are the first thing I read every morning. I glance through them on my phone before I even get out of bed.”