Behind the Bubbles: Pop-Up Politics
by Elise Hu
A behind-the-scenes look at how our new stump speech series, Pop-Up Politics, got started here at NPR, why we thought it was worth doing, and a preview of the additional animations to come.
Process
Inside NPR.org posts about Process
Happy Accidents: The Joy Of Serendipity Days
Zach Brand and David Gorsline
Inspired by old-school skunkworks, Google's 20-percent-time policy and, most directly, RSA's animation of a talk by Dan Pink about employee motivation, NPR Digital Media staff members recently jumped into Serendipity Days for the second time.
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'A' Is For 'Antony,' 'B' Is For 'Barney' and 'W' Is For 'Winner'
by Kim Bryant
Think you have the gray matter and geekiness to make it as a member of NPR's Digital Media team? Play this game and find out!
'Argo,' NPR's Blog Network, Sets Sail
by Joel Sucherman
The network of blogs from 12 member stations launched this week. It's designed to strengthen the role public media plays in local journalism.
Testing Our Proposed Story Tools Redesign
by Kate Myers
In the coming weeks we’re planning to adjust our story tools at the top of the story pages, and we'd like your input!
Jira: NPR's version
by Kim Bryant
For those of you gung ho to get your geek on (and I mean that in the nicest possible way), this post is designed to give you the skinny on some of our basic Jira configurations. Not much philosophizing, but chock full of grainy-detailed goodness.
Jira: You Say Godzilla, I Say Gojira
by Kim Bryant
When we looked at what we needed to succeed with our culture and evolving development process, Bugzilla was like Matthew Broderick, CGI-slick, prettied-up, simplified sci-fi. We needed old skool, hard core, eat-the-train-cars-and-stomp-on-the-citi...
Jira: 'Swapping Chaos for a Little Overhead' *
by Kim Bryant
This post is the first in a series explaining the challenges we face in managing work requests, bug tracking and other operational processes. Specifically, I'll cover Jira, the tool that we selected to help with these challenges, as well as the wa...
Redesign Process and Tools
by Zach Brand
As the NPR.org team began the redesign project we discovered we needed to change many of our processes and tools to accomplish the project.
The Redesign And Other Changes
by Zach Brand
NPR.org recently launched a redesigned website and other changes. We'll start by reviewing the goals and will continue onto other technical aspects of the redesign.
NPR Roadshow cont'd
by Zach Brand
As follow up from my post back in November there are a number of events upcoming to hear and meet with folks from NPR Digital Media first hand. Feb. 19-21 - IMA Public Media 09 For those in Public Broadcasting family we hope to see you next...
NPR Community Reaches 50,000 Users
by Andy Carvin
When we first launched the NPR Community on September 28 of last year, we wondered how long it would take for us to reach 50,000 registered users, and a number of us figured it would take at least six months to reach that goal. It turns out we we...
Proposing Questions for an API FAQ
by Zach Brand
It's time for us to brainstorm some questions for an FAQ about the API.
Welcome to Inside NPR.org!
Andy Carvin and Daniel Jacobson
On behalf of the NPR Digital Media team, we'd like to welcome you to Inside NPR.org, a new blog that will serve as our official headquarters for new features and services we're developing for the NPR Web
