Thursday, July 29, 2010

Wes Newbold of Stone Canoe: We are more efficient with Socialwok

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How do you use Socialwok?

I am Wes Newbold and I work at Stone Canoe as the Operations Manager. Stone Canoe is a digital advertising production company that specializes in motion graphics, animation, digital video production and interactive design. Stone Canoe partners with a variety of ad agencies to help them bring their creative idea’s into the digital world. We use Socialwok for managing all our client projects, monitoring our brand on the web and sharing general industry news within the company. We create a feed for every client project that we have.


How has Socialwok saved your day? 
Socialwok is like a 'Facebook' for our business enabling us to be more effective in delivering on our client projects
As the operations manager, I need to be on top of all the projects that are running in Stone Canoe. We have weekly staff meetings to discuss various client projects and we generate a ton of meeting notes. Before Socialwok, we tried to use a wiki to keep track of our meeting notes but found poor adoption of the solution by the company.
With Socialwok, I am now able to post meeting notes very quickly onto Socialwok and people are able to comment on the meeting notes directly with regards to any follow up action items. Adoption has been great for this “Facebook” like way of social messaging for meeting notes. We find Socialwok to be quite intuitive and user friendly. We can find any company shared information quite easily through search.


Has Socialwok helped your organization become more productive? 
I like to explain to my co-workers that Socialwok is like a “Facebook” for our business. Socialwok has enabled us to be more effective in delivering on our client projects. We now post all our ideas, meeting notes, emails and files for our projects into the respective project feeds. For any email or communications regarding a project, we will cc or carbon copy the project feed so that any project member can find all the relevant information on the project in the feed. It’s like a “Facebook page” for a client project that we are running.
Socialwok also provides a concise daily email digest of our company activity. Scot Bryson, our creative director has casually remarked to me that he wakes up to coffee and Socialwok! He has found the email digest to be a great way to find out what’s going on in the company and catch up on project items that he may have missed.

Learn more about Stone Canoe at StoneCanoe.ca

1 comment:

  1. The good thing about the project management is that it can make a list for each of your team members’ tasks accurately. If you’re the project manager, you’ll get to see actual time reports on how your people are performing on the exact tasks that they are assigned to.

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