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Editorial

Behind the Bubbles: Pop-Up Politics

January 2, 2012 • 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

Happy Accidents: The Joy Of Serendipity Days

October 14, 2011 • 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.

Plumbing

Production Support: Not For Wimps

August 26, 2011 • An inside look at production support at NPR.org.

Process

'A' Is For 'Antony,' 'B' Is For 'Barney' and 'W' Is For 'Winner'

December 29, 2010 • 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!

Editorial

'Argo,' NPR's Blog Network, Sets Sail

September 9, 2010 • The network of blogs from 12 member stations launched this week. It's designed to strengthen the role public media plays in local journalism.

Process

Testing Our Proposed Story Tools Redesign

August 11, 2010 • 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!

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Jira: NPR's version

February 3, 2010 • 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.

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Jira: You Say Godzilla, I Say Gojira

January 5, 2010 • 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...

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Jira: 'Swapping Chaos for a Little Overhead' *

October 8, 2009 • 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...

Process

Redesign Process and Tools

July 31, 2009 • 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.

Process

The Redesign And Other Changes

July 27, 2009 • 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.

Process

NPR Roadshow cont'd

February 13, 2009 • 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...

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NPR Community Reaches 50,000 Users

January 11, 2009 • 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...

API

Proposing Questions for an API FAQ

July 21, 2008 • It's time for us to brainstorm some questions for an FAQ about the API.

Process

Welcome to Inside NPR.org!

July 7, 2008 • 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

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Discussion Guidelines for Inside NPR.org

July 7, 2008 • Here's a quick rundown of the discussion rules for the blog.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Inside NPR.org

July 7, 2008 • Everything you wanted to know about the Inside NPR.org blog but were afraid to ask.