How we work @ earth.org
Currently we have 4 continents, and Australia makes really time zones difficulties. America, Europe and Asia are ok, but Australia! How do you want to organise a groupmeeting if always someone is sleeping:-)
We have such nice virtual contacts, and so nice virtual humour, fun to work like this. Nothing negative - all positive, because we all want this. Just very professional people, each one responsible for his/her section, and positivity seeds positivity. And those who are not made for this, they dropped out.
Out team is made of professional people with good skills who you can rely on. People who are open and who do not mind having unusual working times. People who are interested in future working standards.
Communication tools
There are options. With communications tools like Twitter , Yammer and Skype , the communications gap has really shrunk over the past few year and with the explosion of co-working facilities, you can still get the office gossip if you really get the itch.
Furthermore we structure all documents on Google Docs&Spreadsheets, we use Google Calendar and Trac for tech tasks.
No day is like the other
Really Earth.org has no typical day, we can say: Nearly every day starts differently!
The first is Australia, they wake up and can speak to team members in Amerika - only they have to be careful with the meeting timings, when the Australians are in their Monday Amerika is still deep into the weekend.
Not even the seasons are the same: The Australian summer is the winter of the norther hemisphere. While Teresa in Austria might think about surfing frozen water at minus 15 degrees, Steve in Indonesia might surf liquid warm 26 degrees water.
While Anne has a normal day at her Internet company in Paris and checks every morning and evening mails, David in south Spain works full time. But he is more the night shift guy, he sometimes work till 2 or 3 am. etc. etc. etc
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