It’s our 6-month anniversary! Come join us for a look back over our first half-year of existence, and tell us what you want us to cover in the future.
Six months ago (technically, six months ago yesterday) I published the first Wide Teams blog post. Since then I’ve interviewed dozens of remote workers, made a lot of awesome new friends, and confirmed that a lot of people are interested in the subject of geographically dispersed teams. We’ve even been featured in the Wall Street Journal!
Some stats as of today, for the record:
- 82 posts, and 122 comments.
- 21 episodes of the Wide Teams podcast.
- 119 RSS feed subscribers.
- 227 Â people follow @wideteams on Twitter.
- 37 Facebook fans.
Here are our five most popular posts over the last six months:
- Ironically, the most popular post was Wide Teams are Stagnant Teams, a contrarian take highlighting some of the challenges that face geographically distributed teams.
- Photo Day! suggested that just as office workers keep a photo of their family on their desk, people who work from home should keep a photo of their dispersed team within easy view.
- 5 myths of remote work set out to debunk some of the most popular misconceptions about working in a distributed team.
- In the Wide Teams Bootstrap Guide Part 4, I talked about the importance of having a way to express your “virtual presence” through the course of the work day.
- Landing a Job on a Remote Team is just what it sounds like – a guide to getting noticed and getting hired by a company that is friendly to remote workers.
I hope you’ll help me celebrate this milestone by spreading the word:
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Thanks to you, the Wide Teams readers, for making the first six months a success! The next six months are going to be even better.
Stick around, we’re just getting started!
Congrats!
I’ve found out that you liked our tool on GigaOM and followed to this site.
I subscribed to your rss feed so we could better understand needs and problems of distributed teams and improve our service. BTW, we’re a distributed team ourselves.
Good luck, looking forward for more great articles.
I’m so glad you found the site, Anton! I hope we can learn from each other.