Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space

Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by dwiel on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:52PM (#7065691)

One of the best things weve done to help with the water cooler problem was to have a group im chat (hipchat). we try to avoid private im whenever possible. This means that not only is it easy to see what others are talking about, you can read it over after.the fact if youre busy.

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Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by jasonmccay on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:02PM (#7065748)

Indeed ... Hipchat has proven to be a great way for our teams to communicate. Also, it creates a nice log of conversations for historical reference.

Secondly, Hipchat is a great central posting ground for all your apps, both internal and external services. The same apps that we have created to increase internal transparency on work being done are set to be relatively spammy in Hipchat, which allows the team to receive passive updates on activity with no extra work from individual team members.

Works nicely.

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Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:08PM (#7065786)

Chat can be laborious, but it has the advantage of being recorded and searchable.

Our product (Sococo) has group and P2P chat, but its also a voice/video tool so you have to remember to chat/paste examples etc for posterity.

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Re:Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space by thirdtruck on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:05PM (#7065770)

Seconding you and jasonmccay. Not even two hours ago, I used it to, with ease, scare up some IM'd example data that I neglected to save elsewhere.

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