Staff Stories

Meet our Interns

March 16, 2013 By kayemaree Leave a Comment

The Enspiral crew put together an internship experience tailor made for social entrepreneurs to use the tools of business to make a positive social and environmental impact, applying their unique skills & passion to the work that matters. We purposely sought change makers with fires in their belly for social justice, environmental health and economic brilliance. Now half way though, our interns have had the unique ability to co-construct their own learning curriculum where Enspiral helped to ‘provide the ingredients, not the recipe’ for the ultimate internship experience. Please … [Read more...]

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#LeanComms – Communications for the way the world is now

March 6, 2013 By sam 1 Comment

This article is written by Sam Rye As a Marketing & Communications practitioner at Enspiral & Bucky Box, I found myself drowning in the multi-channel, fast-paced industry in 2011 and 2012. Since then I've met many others who admit the same thing. Times are changing fast. As a sector, we've moved from a slow and steady format of channels such as newspapers, magazines, TV and radio which required reasonably long lead times for content publishing, to an explosion of channels and possibilities with the rise of digital technology and social media. Communication … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Comms & Marketing, Staff Stories Tagged With: Agile, Beta, bucky box, Chalkle, Communications, Communications Strategy & Planning, Content Marketing, Content Planning, Lean Comms Canvas, Lean Communications, Lean Startup, LeanComms, Marketing, Media, new technology, social media, Strategy

The dystopic future of Loomio?

November 2, 2012 By joshua 1 Comment

One of the things I love most at Enspiral is the way playfulness and creativity seep into every aspect of our work. We've had a fair bit to decide as a collective recently so I've been putting a fair bit up on Loomio - maybe it was excessive, maybe it wasn't. I'm on the side of the wasn't but everyone's free to their own opinion :P Instead of a 'Hey Josh, ease up on the loomio' Will Lau (one of the Bucky Box founders) chose instead to post this up on Yammer which is some of the most creative feedback I think I've ever received. THE LAST LOOMIOT. I'm thinking about writing a … [Read more...]

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Reflection on my internship at Enspiral

December 12, 2011 By Nicolas Leave a Comment

As part of my studies in computer science, I had the chance to take part in three professional experiences in the past three years. Each experience really helped develop my skills further, as well as gaining self-confidence and finding my technical interests in the IT world. Even then, I was missing something, without which, I felt absolutely uncertain about my future: that was a Purpose. I like making websites mainly for their ability to reach out many people and to give birth to strong communities with comparatively little effort. I see the Web a bit like a big jam session where everybody … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reflections, Staff Stories, Working Life, Work_Life

Developing at Enspiral

December 9, 2011 By rob 2 Comments

“Always be the worst guy in every band you’re in. - so you can learn. The people around you affect your performance. Choose your crowd wisely.” ― Chad Fowler, The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development I came to Enspiral in March this year. When I first met JV I told him that I wanted to come to an environment where I could sharpen up my programming skills and learn from people better than me. It did not take long. Pretty soon Joshua, Allan, Will and I conducted our own kind of ‘Skunk Works’. It went like this: We travelled to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Programming, Staff Stories Tagged With: bucky box, goalpost

Enspiral Engineering

November 30, 2011 By jonathon.avery 3 Comments

During a Kite Boarding holiday on the pacific atoll, Aitutaki (near Rarotonga), I read the book “The Ecology of Commerce” by Paul Hawkens. The sadness it evoked in me for how we have devastated the planet and it's ecosystems soon transformed into a deep passion to do something about it. I spent a few months searching the Internet, reading, networking and imagining how wonderful life here would be if we worked with nature instead of against it. I dreamed of ways in which we could create a restorative or circular economy and learned about concepts such as Cradle to Cradle Design and … [Read more...]

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Double Lives of Enspiralites

October 20, 2011 By sam Leave a Comment

Some of us here at Enspiral have double lives. Some people are working on startups, some people spend time volunteering, some just love to surf. Me? Well I also work with a national organisation which focuses on connecting people to their environment - mainly through volunteering. I love this other job, and it really complements my work on Bucky Box (helping to build tools for a better food system). At the end of last week, I found myself suddenly called on, in this other capacity, in much more urgency than normal. For those of you in New Zealand, you will undoubtedly be familiar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Remote Work, Staff Stories, Working Life, Work_Life

Future Working

October 5, 2011 By sam 1 Comment

Our very own Sam Rye was featured in Unlimited Magazine's latest edition with a story about Future Working. Worth a read! Check out Unlimited Magazine online, or at their Facebook page. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Remote Work, Staff Stories, Working Life Tagged With: future work, magazine, new zealand, press, Unlimited Magazine

In the pursuit of purpose

August 16, 2011 By sam 2 Comments

Sam working as a conservation team leader in NZ

A few weeks back I wrote a blog which was picked up by Nature Coast, about lifestyle working and it’s possibilities for something greater. It posed the quandry “if we’ve got more flexibility & choice over our working lives, what’s our new found motivation directed toward?”. I have been exploring this with my own life for the last 4 years. I sometimes call myself a ‘corporate refugee’, but really my time was only slight compared to many who’ve escaped the realm later in life. I left the UK with the assertion that I was ‘off to work on something which I … [Read more...]

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Learning so much from the other Enspiral Creatives!

March 27, 2011 By jamie Leave a Comment

I have been in the Enspiral Wellington office now for almost 7 weeks and am loving the atmosphere, the learning and the new opportunities arising each day! I thought I would take a minute to share something that I'm sure is going to prevent a few future headaches for me and for clients. Last week Andrew Fyfe Enspiral's senior graphic designer shared a document with me and some valuable advice. "before starting on a new creative project, give this to your client" the document is a short questionnaire asking key questions to the client with the goal of putting both the designer and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Staff Stories