![]() ![]() ![]() Kristen also spearheaded a community art project that was distributed all around downtown St. ![]() Krista prepped and helped us all create our own dog toys, for personal use and donation back to shelters. Kristen and Shannon worked with the Friends of Strays “Doggy Day Out” program to “rent” an adoptable dog, creating social media stories in an effort to get Princess adopted within the 24-hour timeline (it worked!). Thomas “smartinized” the pit (our work area) with smart lights, wired speakers, and all kinds of fun commands through our new Alexa and Alexa button. We got some office improvements, including a new bike area to go with our bike-friendly certification (we’re shooting for Gold!), and Rich painted a mural on the back door. Rich painted a hand-lettered mural on our back door Geoff built a little Slack integration that pings random online coworkers to ask them to review a live URL for quick quality assurance when we push new copy or small updates live.Īdriana and Dzuy worked on a library of video tutorials to help our clients learn how to use their new websites, and Maria wrote, designed and built a small website for one of our very favorite client’s new personal brand. Erika and Malaika created a much needed Big Sea dashboard that keeps everyone up to date with our goals and calendars, integrated with all of our tools and platforms. For instance, Krista designed and planned an “introductory” marketing consulting package we can offer to new clients, and both Stephen and Autumn worked on earning various advertising certifications.Ĭory and Alex, with Autumn’s help, created most of a new Capabilities slide deck that we can send to prospects and clients. Veterans of years past were nodding and acknowledging that this was indeed, our best year ever.Ī few of us took this seriously and worked on Big Sea projects – things that we needed internally or wanted to use for clients. This year, the projects absolutely blew our minds. (If you’re interested, you can review another blog post recap from 2015, or check out the videos from 20 – just don’t judge our amateur video skills). 3pm: Everyone presents their project and we vote on a winner, who takes home an incredible prize.2pm: Announcements are made to start wrapping things up and working on presentations (a required part of the awards ceremony!).Those who went home start appearing again. 8am: Our annual cereal bar makes its appearance (along with bagels and donuts of course).4:30am: The last people standing either leave or set up a sleeping area using the blankets and pillows they’ve brought from home.People come and go as necessary to pick up kids or walk dogs. 6pm: We order dinner and push on through the evening.At noon on Day 1: We wrap up our work in the morning and begin with lunch.One day before: Each team submits Shipping Orders for their project, an outline of their project and how it’s going to happen.One week before: Ideas are pitched teams are formed.The projects range from physical to artistic to code-based, and they always make us smile, laugh or gasp. It’s an annual opportunity for the team to focus on unbillable passion projects individually or in teams, or together as a collective. 24 hours (well, 27 if we’re being specific) of designing, building, coding, writing, creating and making something new. Last week, the creatures of Big Sea took on our fifth annual Ship It Day. ![]()
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