A few weeks ago we posted about the benefits of using hash tags to help keep track of important pieces of information in your Staction stream. Another little use of the hash tag is to mark the status of your various projects. This can be a godsend for teams that include a project manager. Keep Reading
An API for Staction. It’s a pretty exciting concept to us and one that many Staction users have been asking about for some time. With a public API, all sorts of things are possible – after all, the goal of an API is to give you access to your data from outside of an app. And there certainly is a lot of data in Staction. We’ve been putting in a lot of thought into what an API for Staction might look like. Keep Reading
Most of the time when you assign a task, you assign it to a specific person. This avoids duplicative work, and compartmentalizes accountability. Staction makes it easy; you just add their name as a tag to a todo post.
But did you know you could add more than one person? Keep Reading
Internally, we’ve been talking a lot about managing growth and getting more organized. We’re a small company, super small in the grand scheme. So the fact that both Jumpchart and Staction each grow a little every single day creates a new job description for each of us daily. When we started building web apps, we thought these things would be our job: Keep Reading
Recently we’ve been thinking about how to more effectively use Staction; and, being programmers and designers our minds first turned towards graphical or programmatic methods that we could implement in order to speed up our work flow within the app. But in the end, the most graceful solution turned out to be the simplest one; and typically, the hardest one to see. Keep Reading
The excitement of launching your app has passed, the rush of emails and tweets and blog posts has subsided, and now you find yourself asking, “What do I do now?”. Maintaining the motivation and the desire to keep updating and improving your app can be really difficult. We’re going to share just a few techniques that have worked well for us during the development, launch and update cycles of both our web apps, Jumpchart and Staction. Clearly, these ideas may not suit your app or your workflow, so please read on with a grain of salt. But if one or more of these ideas do work for you, all the better! Keep Reading
Since launching our group communication tool, Staction, in January we’ve been blessed with quite a few nice words and plenty of user suggestions. We love hearing suggestions – it’s always good to hear how our users would change Staction because it gives us great insight into how people are using Staction.
Well, you asked and we listened: Today, we’ve upgraded the user and storage allowances on all Staction plans. Keep Reading
We’re constantly listening to what people are saying about our apps. Whether it’s on Twitter or someone’s personal blog we listen and, when we feel we can help, we try to respond. Besides being a great way to gauge public opinion, these conversations have given us quite a few good ideas for new features and blog topics and, for our users, its a great way to let them know that someone on the other end is listening.
Since releasing Staction in January we’ve been seeing more and more mentions of it on Twitter and, like the proud parents we are, we’d like to share a few with you. It makes us especially happy that a few of the tweets from users sound like they’re having great success at simplifying their workflow with Staction.
This morning, at approximately 11:30 am Eastern Time, both Jumpchart and Staction were unavailable for approximately 25 minutes. This was due to a complete outage of our hosting provider, Media Temple. The issue appears to have been caused by a problem at one of their data centers. According to their network status page, they are looking into the problem in detail and will post more details as they become available. Keep Reading
After living with Staction for quite a while now (We’ve been using it, almost a year internally) some hidden things are emerging. Lots of good things, – a few kinks. Here’s where we’re at:
A sense of place
Most productivity, and organization apps don’t have a sense of place. You log in, and you have the sense that other people are there, but you never see them. You return to a page you just checked, and new content is there, mysteriously left by the person inhabiting the same virtual space as you, unseen, unheard.
We think Staction is an improvement on this. Staction feels like a place to go to. We’re a dispersed team, and we like that it has an atmosphere like an office. You can work quietly, have a private conversation, or yell over the cubicles. Productivity doesn’t have to be so lonely. Keep Reading
