Congratulations to the SmallBox team for making this Factory Week an amazing success! We finished all but one of our projects and that project is more than halfway done. Here is a recap of the projects we finished completely. Thank you all for your support and thanks to everyone who came and visited and gave us food! We love you!

1. Boxer 
2. Packages
3. Videos
4. SEO Guidelines
5. Wrangle landing page/screencast/integration
6. SXSW Planning
7. MFT
8. Video Game
9. Marketing/SEO Reports
10. Factory Week Social/Broadcast
11. Mobile SB Site
12. Pipeline/Savings/401k
13. Tools Review 
14. Project All Together
15. CMS Dashboard planning/design
16. Team Photos 
17. Blog Comments 

Make that 3 of 18 projects finished up! Team photos are all ready to go, with a tip of the hat to Sara and Leigh for doing a fine job of getting the photos all gussied up for profiles on the SmallBox website.

We also took some fun group shots and figured we "might as well jump"!

Well, except Joe. ;)

Happy Friday!

We're in the final day of Factory Week and holy smokes, the time has flown. We are going to be working against the clock to wrap up the rest of our projects.

Just to give a peek into what's going on now:

Lydia is finishing up our brand persona & style guidelines document, all updated to reflect the manifesto we wrote during last Factory Week.

Leigh, Justin Lacey and Jordan are pushing forward with the video game project, finalizing graphics, music and more.

Jeb and Justin Shimp are recording and editing screencast video to demo SmallBox products Boxer CMS and Wrangle content management tool.

We've got photo editing and copywriting galore going on. But the music and coffee is flowing and spirits are high.

In other important news, Emily has been party-planning for our celebratory takeover of Story Inn later tonight - an annual SmallBox tradition. This will be our second year in a row of traversing the winding roads of Brown County during an ice and snowstorm. 

But we will not be deterred - this week, no matter how it ends, calls for a victory dance.

We're going to give away a Factory Week tshirt today. To win, you can comment on this blog or simply @reply via twitter to @factoryweek your answer to this question:

If you did your own Factory Week, what ideas would you pursue?
Whether you answer for you personally, or for your business, think about if you had a week, or even a day, to work on ideas that don't normally fit into your schedule. Would you re-do your website? Get training for a new skill? Something else?

We will choose one winner at 3 p.m. If you can make it to the Speak Easy by 4:30 p.m. you can pick up your bounty here today, giving you the added perk of getting to check out the space. Otherwise, your shirt will be available for pick up in the SmallBox office next week.

So, fire away:

After Lydia and I did some planning and wireframing for our new culture page, we handed it over to Jack to make the magic a reality.

He used the Boxer CMS navigation module to add in the new pages, added a little css, a little php and voilà! Well, ok, it isn't done yet. Being more of a night owl, Jack will be coding into the night. We expect to be loading up fresh content tomorrow!

Justin Shimp normally serves as the SmallBox client success manager, handling all things support and training. Once upon a time he went to school for video stuffs, so he sometimes lends a hand when video editing is required.

During Factory Week, Shimp is working on two screencast projects - one for Wrangle, the content gathering tool, and one for our CMS, Boxer.

Here he patiently waits for some of the Boxer screencast footage to render. Apparently he was listening to some fun Japanese pop to help see him through the long wait.

One of the internal projects I spent time on today was doing a review of all the different tools the team currently uses, i.e. the different softwares that we use to manage both our business and client work. We started by looking at a list of all our monthly expenses and asking questions like:

One fun thing about Factory Week is we sometimes get to step totally outside of our normal roles. Take Emily, our whiz of all things search engine optimization. In the below pic, she is actually creating a character for the video game. A little robot guard, to be exact.

We'll wait for the unveil on that one tomorrow, when we'll be racing aganst the clock to get the video game up and running.

As part of our Culture page reworking for smallboxweb.com, we have had to expand the size of our community cork board.

It seems we're always adding new extracurriculars to our roster. And it's just the way we like it. Getting involved in our community and pursuing new ideas keeps us on our toes when it's time for client work.

Today was the day for our MFT melding of minds! Jon Rogers led the team through a series of changes and new ideas for how to improve musicalfamilytree.com in the coming months. Topics included a new content strategy, discussion of goals, description of writing guidelines for MFT blogs, and brainstorming of new ideas.