I gave this presentation at the Milspo Project's annual Embark conference. Milspo is an organization that empowers military spouse entrepreneurs and they invited me to speak on creating a culture of remote working and learning inside of a startup.

1. The Culture of Remote
Working & Learning
How to put visual stories at the heart of your vision
and connect teams anywhere in the world
Taylor Wallace
@Taywall
Taylor@WeVue.com

2. What’s Your Story?
How do you tell it?

3. WeVue brings culture to life
via a digital water cooler that connects
remote teamsand engages people through
the power of visual storytelling.

4. Where Culture Comes to
What is Culture?
Who
What
Why
Where
How
When

5. Remote cultures are designed around:
Trust
Communication
Technology

6. –Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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7. Synchronous
Communication

8. Helpscout & Automattic:
Remote Requires FaceTime

9. How Do We
Connect?

10. Asynchronous (Async)
Communication

11. gothamCulture:
Remote is about Space & Time

12. What does Google do?

13. Github:
Remote Needs Empathy

14. The Tools of the Remote Trade
PROJECT MGM: What and When
• Async vs. Real Time
CHAT: How
• Video Vs. Text
COLLABORATION: Where > the work happens
• Dependent on the work you do
SOCIAL: Who and Why
• Visual Vs. Text

15. Why Remote?
The global Talent Pool
Work-life Balance
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16. The Open-Source Model
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18. High Degree of Trust
Designed Communication
The Right Technology
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Low Degree of Trust
Precise Communication
The Right Contributors
Time
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Talent
Tasks
Time
Talent
Engaged Teams

19. Great Remote Cultures…
Design Sync and Async Find time for FaceTime
Create a digital water cooler Document Process & Transparency

20. Does technology
change society?
Does societyinvent
the technologyit needs?
TECHNOLOGICAL
DETERMNISIM
SOCIAL
DETERMNISIM

21. Is your culturea product of your technology
or does your technology enhance your culture?
What’s the story of your culture?

22. Resources
• PotatoParcel.com
• WeVue Blog
• Remote - Jason Fried
• WorkingNomads.io
• FlexJobs
• Google Project Aristotle (The Rework Blog)
• zachholman.com
• Zapier - The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work

23. Taylor Wallace
@taywall
taylor@WeVue.com
610.724.5129
Where Culture Comes to Life