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ZURB Wired Updates

Keep up with the ZURB Team as they pull off a marketing miracle in 24 hours!

Is This The Most Amazing Moment In ZURBwired Photo Booth History?

Is This The Most Amazing Moment In ZURBwired Photo Booth History?

The ZURBwired 2012 Photo Booth is open for business! ZURBians and Elves are tagging each other into an awesome scene with a lot of props involved. These include, but are not limited to: a purple witch hat, big pair of green sunglasses, a rubber chicken.

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The Team Behind the Messaging

The Team Behind the Messaging

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Afternoon Work Session Photos

Afternoon Work Session Photos

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Halfway Home!

Halfway Home!

It’s official: We’ve reached the halfway point of ZURBwired 2012! Only 12 more hours to go before our 8am launch.

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Breaking For Pizza And Right Back To It

Breaking For Pizza And Right Back To It

Our team took a momentary break from our hard work here for a nice pizza dinner. We had a nice range of pizzas and salads from Campbell’s own Blue Line Pizza.

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Video: Getting Started on the Website

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Video: Our Morning Brainstorm

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Whew! We Met Our Print Deadline

Whew! We Met Our Print Deadline

The first set of visuals are completed and sent to our printer, Print HQ, who graciously gave us a 45-minutes extension. Our team is definitely feeling the pressure of our looming deadlines, but are performing excellently under the extreme conditions.

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Here's The Early Peek At Family Giving Tree's Prototype Scaffold

Here's The Early Peek At Family Giving Tree's Prototype Scaffold

Our design team is hard at work on the Prototype Scaffold for the Family Giving Tree site. Here’s a sneak peek at what it currently looks like:

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Our Volunteers Are Wired In

Our Volunteers Are Wired In

George, one of our Design volunteers, has been hard at work iterating and cleaning up Family Giving Tree's logo.

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Projects In Full Force

Projects In Full Force

We’re only about 8 hours in, and while the conversation has quieted quite a bit, there is no sign of any slowing down. Our design and development teams are hard at work.

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What's a Deadline If You Aren't Racing Against It?

What's a Deadline If You Aren't Racing Against It?

With our design team a little behind schedule we just completed our first review of our print materials. Our marketing intern, Likhita, has been working with our printers to extend our deadline just incase. Regardless our team is pushing forward and looking to reach the 4:00 PM deadline for printed materials.

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Our Print Deadline is Looming!

Our Print Deadline is Looming!

With our print deadline looming our team has moved into production after defining all deliverables and finalizing all ideations and sketches.

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Cheeseburger in Paradise

Jackie, Designer at ZURB, is famous in the office for running our Friday15s, where each Friday at 4:30 PM we get together as a team and due a quick 15 minute team building activity. For ZURBwired, Jackie introduced her team building flare to Family Giving Tree and our onslaught of volunteers.

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No Post-Lunch Lull Here

No Post-Lunch Lull Here

To kick off the afternoon, Chris (Design Lead) led another session with a variety of sketches. The group outlined what the site could look like with the mindset that Family Giving Tree reaches a global audience. After laying out a few quick sketches on the board, the team broke off and started final sketches. They’ll jump right into coding after these finish up!

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Nearing the Quarter Mark

Nearing the Quarter Mark

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We're Broadcasting ZURBwired on YouTube

Check out our first video (of many) to come throughout the day. We have a videographer on site following our every move, which is making us feel like we are on reality television!

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Our Print Team Pushes Forward to Meet Ambitious Deadlines

Our Print Team Pushes Forward to Meet Ambitious Deadlines

Our print team is hard at work trying to meet an ambitious print deadline of 4:00 PM for most of our deliverables such as brochures, event invitations and thank you cards and a 6:00 PM deadline for posters and stickers.

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Photos of  the Team Working Together

Photos of the Team Working Together

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The Teams Consolidate, Ideas In Full Force

The Teams Consolidate, Ideas In Full Force

We’ve consolidated our breakout groups into two bigger ones and started building out our initial ideas into deeper ideas and actions.

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