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Passion vs. Responsibility

I recently wrote an article on the Change Blog about how to explore careers without quitting your day job.  A poster named “Contrarian” started an interesting conversation about what it means to follow your passion.  Although we both agree that there is little risk in exploring a new career, we disagree how much risk it […]

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Help Someone Help Themselves

There comes a time in your work life that you will meet someone who you know can’t do his job properly.  He might be in a brand new position.  It might be their first job.  Whatever the story, you may feel the urge to find ways to either circumvent him or do his job for […]

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Prioritizing your Customers

As anyone who has ever owned a business knows, all customers are not created equal.  In the Internet world, it seems like the highest valued customers are those we don’t have.  The logic goes that the Internet connects millions or even billions of us, and we should do as much as we can to reach […]

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Develop a Tough Skin

When you first launch a business, it’s all about the idea –  How great it will be when potential customers see.  How exciting it will be to implement.  How your awesome idea will change the world. Then you launch.  Guess what?  Not everybody thinks what you’re doing is a good idea. This is when you […]

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A Reminder about Email

Today, I had one of those email days with a co-worker.  You know what I’m talking about: I had a problem and sent an email.  He replied with an email.  I replied with an email.  Email, email, email.  The problem wasn’t getting solved, and worse, we were escalating and misunderstanding each other over and over. […]

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Upgrading your Account (and a Place to Talk)

As we announced nearly two weeks ago, Fellowstream will no longer be free to all beta users starting January 16, 2011.  While we still have a free plan, 20% of our entire customer base (and almost all of our active customers) fell under a paid plan. Read the Upgrading and Downgrading your account FAQ here […]

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The Art of Waiting

I am generally an impatient person.  It’s not that I don’t like hard work.  I’m willing to put forth the effort to get what I want.  But when I set my eyes on something, I want it as soon as I can.  And when I have a problem, I want it solved as quickly as […]

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Caring Too Much

There is such a thing as caring too much. If you… Worry about every single detail, Constantly nit-pick at others, Have trouble sleeping due to anxiety, Believe everyone is judging you with every interaction, Refuse to allow mistakes, Won’t take risks, Think about things that can’t change, Haven’t tried to get unstuck for a long […]

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Deleting Projects and Transferring Tickets

If you use Fellowstream, you’ve hopefully seen our announcement that we’re out of beta.  Many users have asked us if there’s a way to delete old projects and move all those tickets into another project so they fall under either the free or basic plan.  Our plucky development team busted through a couple of days […]

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Fellowstream is out of beta!

Huzzah!  It’s been nearly a year since we created Fellowstream, and we’ve spent our time adding tons of features like the Inbox and File Attachments.  With all the feedback we’ve received, we believe Fellowstream is finally ready to hit the marketplace as a fully realized subscription service. Coming out of beta means that some accounts […]

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