Back in 2006, after growing Campaign Monitor from a side project to a sustainable business, we moved out of our tiny space at a local incubator into our first “real” office. This was our first time in a truly commercial space where you had to bring your own fit out. We kept it simple: a few desks (which were actually kitchen benches), comfy chairs and our first luxury item — a ping pong table.
Find out how Campaign Monitor’s support team works from locations around the world, learn our favourite tools and see if you are the right person to join the team.
Meet the two newest people to join the Campaign Monitor team. James, in our QA team and Stephen in our customer support team.
Read all about the evolution of our customer support team and the tools we use to help you guys day in, day out.
We’re packing the tour bus, finalizing the set list and dusting off our rhinestone jacket. With less than a month to go until the geek universe converges on Austin, TX for SXSWi, we’re pleased to announce that we’re taking the Campaign Monitor show on the road!
If you had 5 minutes on stage and 20 slides, what would you say? This is the premise behind the countless Ignite talks hosted across the globe each year. Kicked off by the folks at O’Reilly in 2006, this phenomenon has grown into an online and offline hit, culminating in the upcoming Global Ignite Week, spread across 70+ venues worldwide during 1-5 March, 2010.
I was looking outside the window of our 6-person helicopter, trying to rationalize what was going on. Indeed, why was I in a helicopter, skimming the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge? And why was it that earlier in day, I was defending the merits of a favorite pop-philosopher, while incongruously sitting on the warm leatherette of a stretch Hummer limousine? I focused my attention on the harbor beneath, picking boats, a lone cyclist on North Head. Apparently this was the Campaign Monitor end-of-year party, but it could just as well have been a commercial for a men’s fragrance.
Every time we mention our amazing line of Campaign Monitor t-shirts, our community goes completely mad. Is it the flattering cut of the American Apparel cotton tee, the crisp slogans, or simply the fact that they draw the envy and admiration of all?* To get to the bottom of this, we decided to pull Jarrod Taylor, our designer and t-shirt mogul, away from the drawing board to walk us through the the creation of a Campaign Monitor tee.
Imagine a world in which you didn’t have to code and re-code your site to ensure consistency in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Now, imagine something even more outrageous, another dimension in which HTML emails render as they should – reliably and accessibly, across all email clients. It’s not too late to make this a reality, so today we’re wearing our blue with pride and celebrating International Blue Beanie Day, in support of web standards!
What do you get when you throw 15 designers, coders and web-types into an open room, with workspaces, couches, fast Internet access and a good supply of coffee? Jelly.
The notion of casual coworking in a Jelly, or plainly, spending the odd weekday with a like-minded group of people, has gained a lot of momentum amongst designers and web developers. Under the auspices of the Sydney-based design and development house, Agency Rainford, I decided to experience the Jelly phenomenon for myself.