One of the organizational activities that I have always loved to be a part of is publishing the company newsletter. In Infospectrum, as part of the newsletter team for five years, we published more than 50 editions of Pulse, as the newsletter was aptly called.
When Infospectrum India was acquired by Persistent Systems in 2011, I was invited to join the newsletter team that publishes Orange Byte: the quarterly newsletter published from Nagpur centre. Of course, I agreed immediately.
We have published five-six editions so far, and have tried to deliver a good quality package. Each edition comes packed with a rich mix of articles, poems, interviews, book reviews, paintings, sketches and drawings. We have also kept pace with the technology and upgraded the backend infrastructure with almost every alternate edition.
One notable thing is that our team handles all the aspects of newsletter end-to-end, right from conceptualization, content collection, graphic design, reviews, as well as server and database setup, deployment, publication and maintenance; without any involvement of IT team or graphic designers. This sometimes means a crashed server due to traffic overload or browser compatibility issues; but the team works on the warfront to fix these issues on the runtime.
In recognition of these efforts, the newsletter team won the Team Award in 2012, for "consistent and quality releases of the newsletter".
We celebrated it with a grand lunch at one of the premier restaurants in Nagpur.
The journey has been exciting so far. The team enjoys freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom from any form of censorship. The way entire team gels together and works hard to put together a collage of contributions is an award in itself!
When Infospectrum India was acquired by Persistent Systems in 2011, I was invited to join the newsletter team that publishes Orange Byte: the quarterly newsletter published from Nagpur centre. Of course, I agreed immediately.
We have published five-six editions so far, and have tried to deliver a good quality package. Each edition comes packed with a rich mix of articles, poems, interviews, book reviews, paintings, sketches and drawings. We have also kept pace with the technology and upgraded the backend infrastructure with almost every alternate edition.
One notable thing is that our team handles all the aspects of newsletter end-to-end, right from conceptualization, content collection, graphic design, reviews, as well as server and database setup, deployment, publication and maintenance; without any involvement of IT team or graphic designers. This sometimes means a crashed server due to traffic overload or browser compatibility issues; but the team works on the warfront to fix these issues on the runtime.
In recognition of these efforts, the newsletter team won the Team Award in 2012, for "consistent and quality releases of the newsletter".
We celebrated it with a grand lunch at one of the premier restaurants in Nagpur.
The journey has been exciting so far. The team enjoys freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom from any form of censorship. The way entire team gels together and works hard to put together a collage of contributions is an award in itself!
