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Oct. 12, 2007 at 1:23pm
2007 SiteCrafting Company Retreat
No One's Missing the Trust Falls & Human Pyramids
The SiteCrafting team spent the first weekend in October enjoying the Hood Canal area as part of this year's company retreat. Being as we suffer from a distinct lack of petty office politics and other Dilbert-esque characteristics, "company retreat" is not synonymous with "endless torture" for us here.
The getaway was designed to allow the team to take a break from the office routine and gain capacity to review and offer input on company strategy, successes and our roadmap for sustaining growth. As usual, our collective wit, insight and sarcastic humor made these discussions interesting, informative, motivating and memorable.
The retreat downtime allowed our team to channel their creativity in cool/hillarious ways they don't get the opportunity to do back at the office. Michael launched the next great Web 2.0 idea with Beachipedia.com. It takes web applications to the next level by offering a free waterfront based social editable platform that allows anyone to read, edit, and engage in location based information. (For those not fluent in marketing speak: it's basically about writing on a sandy beach with a stick)
Another great result of retreat downtime is Nick's gear-geous wallpaper that many of us our proudly displaying on our desktops. If you would like to raise the "cool" factor of your desktop by a considerable margin, you can download a zip with the most common resolutions here. And feel free to contact him if you would like a particular resolution not included with the above archive.
There was also Wii gaming, Halo 3 shooting, wireless surfing, sleeping, scenic viewing, wiffle ball home run derbying, Mickey Mouse pancake cooking, guitar strumming, beach walking, nuclear submarine watching, silly certificate awarding, and Texas Hold' em playing. All in all, everything made for a good time and a great chance to get to know everyone we spend so much time with each day at work.
Posted in Getting Out, Odds 'n Ends by Sarah Freitas
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