I love summer, with all the product announcements, events, and general good vibes all around. And we’ve had a great season so far as we rethink the best ways to gather together as Bureau members. Every week I send out our email newsletter with the latest topics we’ve been discussing, and I hope you’ll consider signing up for it. But for your convenience I’ve also collected the best of what we shared in the June newsletters. Take a look at what you might have missed out on.
Business Operations
Growth isn’t always easy for a business, even when the work is plentiful. As you get bigger you inevitably have to make some adjustments to the way you do things. That’s why the folks at Parallax wanted to help with a strategic planning guide to walk you through the steps of achieving your goals as you grow.
More about growth and success:
Run a Reactive Digital Services Firm? Every Employee Plays a Role in Forecasting (Member blog link)
Uncomplicating the Complicated: What Utilization (Really) Is and How to Calculate It (Member Blog Link)
How to Calculate Benchmarks: The Industry Benchmark Calculator (Member blog link)
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies (Article link)
Product/Web Development
People are your most important company asset, but one other resource you can’t neglect is your website. It may be primarily the domain of your marketing team, but there’s also value in talking with other business stakeholders to get a better picture of how the website can support your business needs. ETR shares insights on why these interviews can make a big difference.
Other resources to help you present your company well:
Boost 2.0 (Customize the aesthetic of any webpage)
New Recommendations for Ecommerce Images (Member blog link)
A Healthy Work Environment
Remember all the quiet quitting talk a few months ago? The conversation has evolved as we see more employees deciding to stay where they are even if they’re not especially happy about it. In a slower job market, Business Insider talks us through the new trend of “grumpy staying.”
More on happiness in the work place:
Overcoming the “Suck It Up, Buttercup” Mentality (Mental Health Awareness blog post by Bureau member Karla Santi)
5 Steps To Setting Meaningful Boundaries At Work For Project Managers (Blog post by Bureau member Patrice Embry)
AI and Tools
There’s been so much content generated about (and by!) AI lately that it’s tough to connect all the dots. Bureau member Sciptorium has put together a fantastic guide about where we are and what we can expect to see with AI and the content space.
More tools to make life easier:
First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS (Recap of tech demo)
Apple finally made a TV (Article link)
There’s an AI for That (Searchable database to find new AI tools)
Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion (Article link)
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier (Article link)
That does it for this month. I hope you gained some new insights, and if this has been valuable I think you should sign up for the weekly newsletter. But if not, look forward to more here next time!