The ALT Virtual Teams Stack
ALT has worked as a fully distributed organization for almost two years now and I thought it would be useful to share the technology and services we use to support our distributed team, aka ‘The ALT Stack’.
Virtual Teams #OEB19 preview: Leading Change through Open Conversational Digital Practice
How is the way we work and communicate changing as we work in ever-more-distributed ways? In this special #OEB19 post we give you a preview of the work we will share at the conference and the conversation we hope our session will prompt.
My personal how/why/what of Google Apps Script
Recently I had the opportunity to be interviewed as part of a marketing video that is being pulled together by Google to promote Google Apps Script. This post has the notes I prepared for the video shoot
Creating your own scoop.it-esque content curation community in WordPress
Recently I’ve been experimenting with a content curation site for the Google Apps Script community (see Apps Script Pulse – Sharing Google Apps Script community content). In this post I […]
Virtual Teams: Strategy unpacked… how being a virtual team is changing our organisation
Welcome to this month’s post (cross-posted here) in which we, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), openly share our approach to leading a virtual team. This time […]
Repost: Sending bulk email (mail merge) using Gmail and Google Sheets
Simplify the process of producing visually rich mail merges using Gmail and combining it with data from Google Sheets. With this solution you can automatically populate an email template created as a Gmail draft with data from Google Sheets. Merged emails are sent from your Gmail account allowing you to respond to recipient replies.
Apps Script Pulse – Sharing Google Apps Script community content
Apps Script Pulse is a new space to keep up-to-date with the latest contributions from the Google Apps Script community. Pulse is designed to compliment other community spaces – with […]
Google Apps Script Patterns: Celebrating 10 years by revisiting mail merge/bulk emailing
TL;DR A new solution for creating and distribute visually rich bulk emails with Gmail and Google Sheets. On 19 August 2019 Google Apps Script celebrated 10 years of general access. […]
On becoming a Certified Member of ALT #CMALT
After many years of procrastination and several long haul flights was successful in completing my CMALT Accreditation. For those that don’t know the ‘CMALT Accreditation Framework provides pathways to peer-assessed […]
Virtual Teams: The perfect blend? Bringing the skills of distributed teams to face-to-face events (special podcast edition)
Welcome to this month’s post (cross-posted here) in which we, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), openly share our approach to leading a virtual team. This time […]