We enjoyed our first team gathering since late spring. We decide to do a soft launch of our new year as many of our teammates were still out and about. However, Tuesday August 26 we will officially launch the New Year. Yvonne will select some delicious cakes to celebrate some birthdays (mine included this time), so you don’t want to miss it.
There is still so much going on regarding the work of this team. Several of our staff were flown in from around the country to be trained in our new CRS version 2.0 system. Todd sent this message out to some of those involved. I thought you would be encouraged to read it. Todd writes,
Although we had a few small bumps along the way, the CRS training went well. Matt was quick to put out the fires (I’m not sure how he was able to concentrate on the Oracle training classes at the same time).
We got a fair amount of positive comments, especially the look and feel. Thanks Jeff! I think people will have a better sense of the new or improved functionality as they use it on real conferences.
The big news is that our officially announced roll-out date is Wednesday the 20th of August!
Other big news is that Justin Kamiyama is at 95% of raising all his support. Doug and Lori Dawe will be joining our team, and at the end of this month we will be welcoming Trent Murray and Jonathan Beautfort to our team. Both of these guys will be part of Lake Hart STINT.
Twitter is gaining greater use on our team. Tina had a good idea to create a team twitter identity to quickly send out quick tweets for all team members to get. For those of you already setup on Twitter, search on Wearethelab and choose to follow. If you have not set yourself up yet please try it out (go to twitter.com). We are experimenting how this might contribute to greater “teamness”. Everyone that participates gets an iPhone. No, not really, just messing with you.
That is all for now.
P.S. By the way the Twitter movie is working once again. Watch it to learn more about Twitter.