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Closing Clickety
We are sad to report that Clickety will be closing down. We have stopped new sign ups as of today, and the service will be shut off at the end of September. We are incredibly proud of what we’ve built. We’ll miss using it ourselves. And we’re as convinced as ever that what we were building – a powerful tool to help people whose jobs are built...
Emailing Before Coffee (Responsibly)
I don’t know about you, but there’s a part of the morning where I am capable of reading emails, but I do not have enough brain and/or...
The Power of People Lists
I’m pretty fond of grandiose statements of how big Clickety can and should be. My original goal for Clickety was to have the kind of dramatic...
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What’s new in Clickety
Cultivating Community - Hero Tracking
Community Super Heroes We’re all the heroes of our own stories. Community happens when individual heroes amplify and complement each...
Cultivating Community - Content Contributors
Community There are all sorts of ways to “do” community. Maybe you are employed as a community manager. You might wrangle a meetup in your...
Clickety Makes Community Management Easy as PIE
Community work isn’t predictable, but Clickety helps me understand where, how, and who needs connection.
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Weird Manager Questions- Work Love Languages
Weird Manager Questions Thanks for joining me in another installment of Weird Manager Questions! These are questions for the end of your 1:1s when...
Weird Manager Questions- Day Division
Weird Manager Questions Thanks for joining me in another installment of Weird Manager Questions! These are questions for the end of your 1:1s when...
Weird Manager Questions- BICEPS Battery Pack
Weird Manager Questions Thanks for joining me in another installment of Weird Manager Questions! If this is the first you’ve heard of these, you...
Weird Manager Questions- The Energy/Skills Matrix
Weird Manager Questions: The Energy/Skills Matrix What’s a weird manager question? You know how you can read a management blog/book/podcast and...
Feature Updates
What’s new in Clickety
Reusing Groups and Workflows
We just shipped a feature that allows you to duplicate a Clickety group and I know that a lot of people will be like “well of course,” but...
Why It’s Hard to Remember People (Even the Ones You Like a Lot)
I am very much a people person. Even when my job isn’t working directly with people, what makes it worthwhile is knowing that what I’m...
Getting Advice Without Getting Lost
Clickety is building what looks initially like an address book. But it’s not. Address books are static, meant to store information, not help you...
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What’s new in Clickety
One-on-one 101
We all know we’re supposed to have one-on-one (1:1) meetings with our direct reports. But the value managers and employees get from them...
My Pivot to People-Focus
My Pivot to People-Focus I’m a new “full time” manager, and to be honest, I thought I’d be really good at it. I like spending...
Elegant Delegation With Clickety
Elegant Delegation with Clickety Part of the Mechanics of Leadership series. Everyone knows great leaders delegate. Ok. But how? Micromanagement is a...
The Mechanics of Leadership
The Mechanics of Leadership At Clickety we’ve spent the last year building a product. But our hardest problem has been figuring out how to talk...
Replacing Hallway Serendipity
According to a survey posted on smallbiztrends.com, the thing people miss most about the office is seeing their colleagues. They miss the personal...
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Clickety Mission
Clickety’s mission Our mission is to software-enable leaders and managers. I have always relied on tools. It started with remodeling houses with my...
