When OrgOrg was founded, there were a few core members and a small email list. A little over five years later, and OrgOrg is topping out at over 1,700 members with people from all over the world contributing to discussions on Office Management, HR, and Operations, everyday.
When Tianna and I joined the Resources team, we wanted a way to harness all of the knowledge that has been shared over the years. From office moves, to onboarding, culture, career advancement, dishes – if you can think of it, chances are someone in OrgOrg can help you out. Back in Q4, we gave ourselves the goal of improving the way people find information in OrgOrg’s archives, and decided that rolling out “Tags” in the Google Group was our best, fastest solution.
When Tianna and I joined the Resources team, we wanted a way to harness all of the knowledge that has been shared over the years. From office moves, to onboarding, culture, career advancement, dishes – if you can think of it, chances are someone in OrgOrg can help you out. Back in Q4, we gave ourselves the goal of improving the way people find information in OrgOrg’s archives, and decided that rolling out “Tags” in the Google Group was our best, fastest solution.
What we hacked
Our goal was set into motion on February 4th, when over twenty OrgOrg San Francisco members assembled in the ultra-cool offices of Github to “hack” over five years of OrgOrg archives by assigning tags to the over 8,000 conversations in the archives. It was a lofty goal, but we were not deterred!
First, we made sure everyone had some food from Zesty and a drink of their choice from our fabulous bartenders. Even without nametags (whoops, next time!) everyone was having a great time getting to know other people in their field of work. As many of our attendees gleefully said, one of the greatest feelings at an OrgOrg event is being around people who just get it.
After a bit of mingling and a short presentation, we jumped right into tagging content. Everyone had lively (and sometimes intense!) discussions about past topics that have come up in OrgOrg, and we made great headway towards parsing out the right content into useful resources. When the time came to pack up, we played some final Usher over the speakers and felt uber-accomplished. Everyone left with great swag from our friends at Corporate Couture and Github, and a burning desire to come back for more.
First, we made sure everyone had some food from Zesty and a drink of their choice from our fabulous bartenders. Even without nametags (whoops, next time!) everyone was having a great time getting to know other people in their field of work. As many of our attendees gleefully said, one of the greatest feelings at an OrgOrg event is being around people who just get it.
After a bit of mingling and a short presentation, we jumped right into tagging content. Everyone had lively (and sometimes intense!) discussions about past topics that have come up in OrgOrg, and we made great headway towards parsing out the right content into useful resources. When the time came to pack up, we played some final Usher over the speakers and felt uber-accomplished. Everyone left with great swag from our friends at Corporate Couture and Github, and a burning desire to come back for more.
big changes
If you post a new discussion from the web forum (instead of starting via email), you’ll now notice the ability to add tags to your discussion. Give it a try and let us know what you think! Reminder that starting April 1, you will no longer be able to start new discussions via email. All new discussions will need to start via the web forum, so that you can apply a tag or two (or three or four) to your post. Note that replies will still be able to be sent by email, so you can quickly respond to emails if you like.
thank you!
Let’s give one last round of applause to our generous sponsors for this event. Thanks to GitHub for the space, the drinks, the food, and the giveaways. Thanks to Zesty for the delicious noms. And thanks to Corporate Couture for the sweet Hacker hats and hair ties (and for coming through with a last-minute shipment when FedEx sent our hats to Maryland!
And we have to give an extra special THANK YOU to all of the attendees once again - we couldn’t have done this without you. We’ve already starting talking about Hackathon 2.0 (TBD, sometime in March). If you’d like to get involved as a volunteer on the resources team, email us at [email protected].
And if you have feedback on this event, or on our new plan to roll out Tags for OrgOg, please let us know in the comments!
And we have to give an extra special THANK YOU to all of the attendees once again - we couldn’t have done this without you. We’ve already starting talking about Hackathon 2.0 (TBD, sometime in March). If you’d like to get involved as a volunteer on the resources team, email us at [email protected].
And if you have feedback on this event, or on our new plan to roll out Tags for OrgOg, please let us know in the comments!
this post written by Alexis Croswell, Resources Team
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