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Are you More Intense than a Double Rainbow?

By now, if you have Internet access (and reading this blog, I assume you do), then you’ve heard about the Double Rainbow guy on YouTube.  The guy is obviously high, if not on life, then on various (illegal) substances.  As he captures a vivid double rainbow on camera, he keeps crying about how “intense it […]

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The New Team Status Page

Looking for a quick and easy way to see what everyone is doing (or has recently done) on your team?  Say hello to Fellowstream’s new Team Status page. See what everyone is working on with the new Team Status page

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Tabs in the Next Fellowstream Update

As mentioned in a previous post, we’re working on Fellowstream updates here at Avalon Labs.  One feedback we’ve gotten is that the app doesn’t seem intuitive across different pages.  The Workspace doesn’t flow like the Project page, which doesn’t flow like the Groups tab.  In order to fix that, we’re updating our site to use […]

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Just Do It

In a crazy competitive world where a million people want your job, it may seem that there’s nothing you can do to stand out.  What can be done has already been done by someone else.  There’s always someone better than you.  And, at the extreme, there are a million reasons why you would get overlooked […]

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The Real Advantage of Acting Young

I spent the weekend playing with my 3-year-old nephews.  The thing we often envy about kids is their ability to have so much energy, and it’s so true.  I feel about ninety years old, sitting on the couch writing this blog after spending five days with them.  I can only imagine how my siblings keep […]

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How to Create Smart Processes (and Have your Cake Too)

My sister’s family is in town, partially to visit relatives and partially to celebrate her son’s birthday.  Will has absolutely fallen in love with Pixar’s Cars, so my sister asked if I could order him a Lightning McQueen cake for his birthday.  Two weeks ago, my husband ordered the cake at a local Albertsons, and […]

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5 Ways to Talk about Taboo Topics at Work

I wrote a quick article on speaking up last time I posted.  This is a subject near and dear to my heart, not only because I like to talk (because I’ll admit it, I do), but because I have managed people who just won’t talk. If you let me talk, odds are, I’m going to […]

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Got Something on your Mind?

Got something on your mind?  A great new project idea?  A criticism of the way the team runs? Then just say it. Okay, so don’t just blurt it out in the middle of a team meeting.  And yes, you may want to take a step back and word it properly.  You want to make sure […]

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Making the most of “Pet Ideas”

Unless Independence Day was a documentary, most of the organic beings reading this text are human.  Ergo, we have human emotions.  In a team environment, we’re often asked to put our emotions away in exchange for rational discussion.  By and large, this is a good thing.   Through brainstorming and other collaborative efforts, we can often […]

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New Fellowstream Feature: The Inbox

We’ve been hinting for a while that we’ve got new stuff in the works for Fellowstream.  Well, we’re getting close to having the next big update of Fellowstream pushed to the beta, so I feel it’s time to unveil some new features. One of the biggest complaints we’ve gotten in beta is that the notification […]

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