Category: Workplace Community
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Connection during COVID
Walking freely around the office. Stopping by other employees to chat about projects. Visiting the office to eat lunch and see friends. This was the Digital Corps’ work environment before COVID-19 protocols when students worked 15 to 20 hours a week in the office on campus. We not only prided ourselves on our work ethic, but we…
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Finding Hope During COVID
On one of her first outings as an exchange student at Beacon University in Melbourne, Australia, Digital Corps Video Specialist Hailey Russell travelled with other exchange students on a three-day excursion. While on the bus, students spotted a kangaroo in the distance and huddled around the windows, clamoring for a picture. “I was going to…
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Video as a Medium: A Look Inside One of Today’s Most Complex Creative Platforms
Whether it be scrolling through TikTok, seeing the latest Avengers movie, or watching the evening news, video is incorporated into almost every aspect of our daily lives. It’s hard to believe that video hasn’t been around for very long with the amount of prominence it holds in today’s society. In fact, the first television broadcast…
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TikTok Takeover
From sports teams and popular restaurants to news outlets and freelancers (and even small agencies like us), people everywhere are taking advantage of TikTok’s opportunity for creativity to market themselves or their organization.
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Keeping Up to Date: How the Digital Corps is Utilizing New Technology to Stay Connected
For many individuals, working from home became a “new normal” because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Working from home brought new distractions, feelings of isolation, and a lack of productivity.
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Corps Cribs: A Collection of Remote Workspaces
Whether it’s minimalist or maximalist, Digital Corps students and staff each have a unique remote workspace.
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The Happy Secret to Better Work: A Digital Corps Discussion
Where is the happiness we associate with hard work and success? Do we keep working hard and meeting goals only to have a short burst of happiness, or do we hold the power to rewire our positivity and ultimately change how we view the world and, in conjunction, our work? This exact idea was recently…
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Quarantine Motivation: A Digital Corps-antine Diaries Update
The Digital Corps began shifting towards remote work in early March. As employees adapted to working from home, students of the Corps began to develop project ideas that could be completed remotely. The Digital Corps-antine Diaries, which were developed at the beginning of quarantine, have encouraged Corps employees to pursue creative projects independently throughout this…
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Staying Creative: A Digital Corps-Antine Diaries Update
In an attempt to stave off creative bankruptcy during a time where everyone seems to be stuck inside all summer, students at the Digital Corps are developing personal projects to keep their workloads fresh. The Digital Corps-antine Diaries were started in the latter half of spring 2020 and have transitioned into a unique opportunity for students to…
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Collaboration Among Teams for Office Space Improvement
Communication in the workplace is essential to any form of productivity. With the latest and greatest unified communication tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc., employees and managers alike are able to respond quickly to questions while avoiding information overload in the email inboxes of the entire office. Still, according to Tribal Impact, an internal social…