Hermes Technologies

Team members need to be updated with a project’s status frequently. Updates keep everyone motivated knowing things are on track at full speed on your end, and so feel compelled to match your drive, or possibly even beat it. Updates show your team the extend of your work, an important point since often this information is invisible to them, particularly when working in the cloud. Seeing the extent of your work helps them appreciate your input: no one wants to work like a dog and be thought a lazy bum.

At the same time people are busy. Besides your project they may have others they are working on. They may have full time jobs or degrees. They may have, god forbid, real social lives – friends who don’t speak in status updates or tweets; maybe even a love life; or a family. These people actually exist -I’ve even met a few in my travels. They don’t have the time to read lots of detailed emails about your project, so a balance must be found.

I decided on a solution: Inbox Texts – quick emails with the entire message in the subject title. Tiny status updates. Quick to-dos. Readable from IPhone or Blackberry – even if you’re out and about and don’t have time for the cloud.

Take some examples examples from my Bolivian Express project, where I am working with a team of three to set up an English language publication in Bolivian and set up a program whereby people can travel to Bolivia on a short term basis and work with the publication whilst there:

UPDATE: Internet explorer bug fixed (was HUGE)+ Backup system in place + Destroy links “destroyed” + Fixed problem with “edit” page

TO-DO AMARU: Digg our site and walk around the library FORCING people to do it with Facebook connect

UPDATE: Modified site to say program, modified pdf file to say program, cut 10% of basics sheet to fit on one page

Before you say it, no, I shouldn’t have written this entire blog post in the title. This is a blog. Not a project management system. HA.

1. Introducing: The Bolivian Express
   Introducing: The Bolivian Express, a new English language newspaper, set up in association with Express Press in Bolivian my myself, two friends from college(Amaru Villanueva Rance and Xenia Sarina Elsaesser)  and a Bolivian journalist I’ve only talked to over Skype...
2. Automatically update your Twitter account with automatically shortened links to new blog posts
   Internet junkies around the world spend countless hours on Twitter and so it’s important for you to build your blog’s presence in the Twitosphere. If you’re very lucky a post may even go viral on Twitter if it’s picked up...
3. Best e-fit artist ever?
   After the recent murder of a taxi driver in Bolivia police issued an e-fit of the suspect; here is what they came up with: As a population that (according to my close friend and Bolivian native Amaru Villanueva Rance) are...

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