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Anton Vergier posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 8 months agoHi everyone!
I have been assigned today to share some knowledge with all of you, representing the development team (within the technology team).
Here is a technology tip for the day!
Since Colart has removed the org chart from MS Teams and moved it into Splash, I wondered do people know how to use the org chart works in Splash?
I have made a short video to visually demonstrate to you guys how the org chart functions in Splash: https://jwp.io/s/EPJE4HeY
Pour ceux qui ne parlent que en français!
J’ai créé une vidéo juste pour vous: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/faZxUJAf-7vW1MLVK.mp4
I hope you will find this helpful!
Today’s post is a series of Technology tips for once a month so you will hear from me next month 🙂
Please feel free to contact me if you have some requests or ideas for a technology tip for next month.
Kind regards,
Anton
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Stefano Maiorana posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 8 months agoSee below a nice and inspiring message Ann has received from a loyal W&N user. Nice to see how consumers appreciate what we do as company:
“Dear Ann,
After a long and very happy art career of 31 years using your world class Winsor and Newton Artists oils and almost 5000 paintings, you can imagine how much I love what you all do.I have utilized other products from other vendors and there are some aspects of their materials that are actually pretty good, however when the rubber meets the road Winsor and Newton oil paints always remain my favorite. Even when I was using Artisan oils I learned and learnt and learned so much and really had tremendous sales utilizing what a lot of people think is a natural high-quality product.I appreciate your feedback and I’m grateful for every day the opportunity to paint using your materials and I know countless other people artist just like me a are exactly the same as me and love what your company does. I’m very grateful that God led me to your product very early in 1990 and it’s been on my easel ever since.Please share my views and comments with all your colleagues near in fire so that they can realize the magnitude of what they do is world class and life-changing for all concern those painting and those seeing. “Jimmy Springett Wildlife PainterThank you Ann for sharing this!-
Karen Spinner replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Wonderful!…
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Thanks Stefano to share it.It is really motivating to keep pushing our fantastic W&N brand.…
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Stefano, what a positive message to share… this shows that very few people are totally brand loyal but that people notice, and appreciate, quality brands that make the extra effort to create great performing products. Brands worth paying more for.…
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Thank you Lawrence! I’m proud to say that those positive messages are no news for the consumer care team and I’ll make sure to share them more and more with the rest of the business!…
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CAROLE BRIQUET posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 8 months agoI am glad that two new people have registered to improve their level in English.
Thus, from this month, Cyrille (Finances) and Harsa (HR) as well as Estelle (Purchases) and Jane (HR) will be able to converse on different subjects and share their cultures.
Thank you to all 4 for continuing the experience already initiated between French and American colleagues.
Je suis ravie que deux nouvelles personnes se soient inscrites pour améliorer leur pratique en anglais.
Ainsi, dès ce mois-ci, Cyrille (Finances) et Harsa (RH) ainsi qu’Estelle (Achats) et Jane (RH) vont pouvoir converser sur différents sujets et partager leurs cultures.
Merci à tous les 4 de poursuivre l’expérience déjà initiée entre des collègues français et américains.
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Jane Beeston replied 3 years, 8 months ago
ha ha Carole, a cheeky screen shot 🙂
I’m very excited about this initiative and hope we can expand the opportunity to help people build their language skills across the business. Subject to how our “test” works out we will launch the request option for language support on our mentoring page
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CYRILLE AMBERT replied 3 years, 8 months ago
En complément de la possibilité par Colart d’améliorer le niveau d’apprentissage de langue étrangère, pour les Manceaux, un événement a lieu 1 samedi par mois depuis. Cet événement a pour nom “Café des langues” et se déroule aux Quinconces des Jacobins.
https://fr-fr.facebook.com/lemanscdl/In addition to the possibility by Colart to improve the level of foreign language learning, for the Manceaux, an event takes place 1 Saturday per month. This event is called “Coffee of languages” and takes place at the Quinconces des Jacobins.…
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Estelle Wang replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Nice screen shot 🙂 Thanks for organizing this, very interesting and useful !…
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GREGORY MALET replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Thanks HR for this initiative to support language skills growth of our people. …
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Bravo to Cyrille and Estelle for wanting to improve their skills and also to Jane and Harsa for volunteering to support. I think this is a really cool initiative where the business and the individual both benefit. Good luck with your sessions!…
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I totally agree with Jasper, great initiative and very useful!…
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Carlo Monopoli replied 3 years, 7 months ago
After a meeting with the TFAC team this afternoon, Robert Rost told me about this super interesting initiative!
For me, the English language is still a barrier and this sounds like a wonderful opportunity. I would love to hear more about it! …-
CAROLE BRIQUET replied 3 years, 7 months ago
Hi Carlo
I will contact you soon…
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Nadja Andersson posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 8 months agoThe Journey – Au Revoir
We have reached the end of the staycation journey together with Pen Store and Lise Hellström in Sweden. And what a journey it’s been! We have had the pleasure of following Lises journey on her Instagram where she has explored new techniques and materials to create postcards, BuJo pages (bullet journaling) and journals. Its been an inspiring journey, a journey that showed us the versatility of our products, who knew you could create a BuJo page using watercolours !!?
To end the campaign we held a generous giveaway on Lise’s Instagram, where she used Promarkers and Watercolours to create a beautiful Giveaway postcard. Curious of the outcome? Have a look at her inspiring and creative video below!
To end the campaign we wanted to share some kind words from Lise Hellström about her Staycation Journey experience:
‘’It’s been a challenging and incredibly fun collaboration together with Winsor&Newton and Pen Store and its clear to me how much I have learned along the way. Most of the times I have been working way out of my comfort zone, which is scary but also so much damn FUN. Thank you for accompanying me on this journey. You’re the BEST travel companion a girl could possibly ask for’’.
While the journey might have reached its end for Pen Store and Lise, we will continue our journey to Poland next week. Stay tuned for more creativity!
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Jane Beeston replied 3 years, 8 months ago
thank you for these inspiring updates!…
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Nadja Andersson replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Thank you for following Jane! …
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Charlotte Caton replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Lots of great effort by the local marketing team here! It’s been an inspiring journey, thank you for sharing and inviting us all to come along for the ride.…
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Nadja Andersson replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Thank you Charlotte!…
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This is great Nadja as always! And also slightly off topic… bravo for figuring out how to include a video into these posts 😀…
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Nadja Andersson replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Thank you Francheska 😀…
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Astrid Everaard replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Just watching her video gives you a relaxed feeling, let alone creating a BuJo page yourself! I am definitely going to try this myself. Too bad this retail activation has ended, Lise was an excellent host of this trip! …
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Nadja Andersson replied 3 years, 8 months ago
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Ajita Chamberlin posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 8 months agoI came across this article in the news this week, a great example of not making the right sustainablity claims, even the giants can\’t get away with it
https://uk.yahoo.com/style/persil-advert-banned-over-misleading-230100484.html
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Good call out by the ASA. The bottle itself might be made of recycled materials (but to a quite low %), it is still a bottle that will end up in landfill/incineration. One can argue that there are more environmental friendly detergents than a liquid detergent (over here the powder one’s still come in a cardboard box for example).
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Good spot Ajita. Interesting that the ASA call out the lack of full life cycle analysis evidence in their statement. …
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Karen Spinner replied 3 years, 8 months ago
Interesting Ajita, thank you for sharing. Agree with Jasper’s point, it’s a shame that these things can’t simply be part of an ongoing improvement to a product rather than making big claims for something that isn’t really that groundbreaking!…
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Very interesting. Very much agree with Jasper & Karen on the above points. …
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Thank you Anton, learned something new!
Among the things that I learned is that all of the GLT have a profile photo uploaded in Splash, but for the technology team over half of the people (including yourself) have not. Maybe someone can make an video on how to do that and you will be able to do so as well 😉
I was also wondering if there is an opportunity to transcript the video (for the future) for those of us who do not have English as a first language? What do you think?
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Hi Jasper. It’s a “slowly but surely” effort to provide videos in other languages. We are currently constrained by the cost of translations and the technology to embed it. It’s not a quick fix, I’m afraid.…
Thank you Gareth for answering Jasper question! I’m glad you learned something new Jasper, I’ll upload a wonderful profile picture for Splash 🙂 …
Hi Anton I love the idea of top tips and thank you for creating this video! Knowing about your linguistic talents, it would be great if you could re-film in French 🙂
Also please do say in the video that the org structure can be saved as a PDF rather than printing….save the trees 👌
Thank you again and let’s all remember to upload our photos!…
You’re welcome Jane! I’m glad you like the idea of technology tips and yes happy to upload a tutorial video in French 🙂 (I’ll insert a link next to the English video later on this week)
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I love this initiative Anton … I’m a massive user of the the org chart in Splash so can vouch for its effectiveness. Whilst I was initially frustrated when it was taken away from MS Teams, I now see the true value in using the Splash Org Chart as “the source of truth” and importantly, accuracy. It’s an important tool to use and thanks for sharing. Lets connect so we can make this a permanent reference guide in Colart Academy! …
My pleasure Gareth, yes whenever you are free let’s connect to make this a permanent reference guide for Colart Academy 🙂…
Well done Anton, I certainly was not using all the functionality until I saw this…
Thanks Richard! I’m glad that I have given you some helpful information 🙂…
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well done Anton, really helpful…