staying organized with basecamp (pt 1)
March 12th, 20082 comments
People are often surprised to find out that the five of us don’t live in the same city, much less the same state (Joe and Russ in MO, Mark and Luke in IL, and Dustin in IA). There are obviously challenges to stay connected and organized when we’re all apart. One of the tools that we’ve found helpful in keeping us organized is a project management web application called Basecamp by 37Signals.
About a year ago we set up a Basecamp account and started with a single project: “winning a grammy” (go big or go home right?). One of our first goals as a band has been to release a new album with our current lineup of musicians that is more true to our live sound. With Basecamp we were able to set up a list of milestones and to-do lists that we would need to accomplish in order to complete that goal.
At this point, we’re almost finished with recording the album and we’re been using Basecamp as a central place to discuss things like an album title and song order. Basecamp has provided the means for all of us to have a joint conversation even though we’re living in different locations and keeping very different schedules. I’ll get more into some of the ways we’ve adapted the tools of Basecamp to work for us in the next post.
I know that it was a fun and yet tough week for you guys. You must have missed your families horribly. But you did the work and my proverbial hat is off to you. Nice. I can’t wait to hear the finished product.
Interesting! Enjoy the blog and I am too looking forward to hearing the finished product. I must say I truly respect the commitment you guys have made to this project! By the way Joe…..I was talking to Charlie Brown at school the other day and he said put him down for an album when it comes out. He has listened to some of your stuff and says you guys are really, really….GOOD!