NPR Digital Services

NPR Digital Services is a Division of NPR. Our expanded mission is to work with public broadcasting stations to grow and engage audiences across platforms by providing world-class content, technology and business support.

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Women's History Month at NPR

Enjoy Women's History Month with a woman influenced Spotify playlist entitled NPR Digital Services - Women's History Month. It highlights a range of powerful women including Darlene Love, Bonnie Raitt, Loretta Lynn and Beyoncé.

The playlist, inspired by NPR's Cabin Fever Playlist and Monika Evstatieva at All Things Considered, is part of a wider celebration here at NPR.

We're also hosting a two-week trivia contest, a book club featuring foundational essays in women's history and a cocktail party featuring food and drinks named for women - think Shirley Temples (ginger ale and a splash of grenadine) and Madeleines (gin, pineapple juice, coconut liqueur, passion fruit liqueur).

In true NPR spirit, we care what our listeners want! If there's something that should be on the list - tell us! Contact the list creator and curator Jessica Soberman.

Happy National Woman's History Month from NPR Digital Services!

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Mayan Timesheets; Best Reminder EVER

On Dec 19, 2012, at 2:36 PM, D***d wrote:

I think it depends what happens Friday night, but it could be best reminder EVER!

-- D***d

On Dec 19, 2012, at 2:36 PM, D**** G*** wrote:

Best timesheet email reminder OF THE YEAR! 

On Dec 19, 2012, at 2:12 PM, J*** M*** wrote:

Hi all, 

I know we just did all this, but if you are intending to disappear soon and not return until after Jan 1, then you might want to consider updating your time sheet before you leave.  

For those of you of Mayan descent/beliefs who believe the world is going to end on Friday, I would appeal to your desire to leave this plane of existence with a clean slate.  Do your timesheet anyway, as this will please the gods.  

For those of you who are aware that the Mayan calendar is cyclical and time is just going to begin all over again and the momentous event that will mark the shift from one era to the next is that Kronos will work properly for you, please note that there will not be separate time sheets for the two eras.  HR will work in conjunction with Finance to assure proper accounting procedures pertaining to the apocalypse are followed.  

Thank you.

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Barbeque!

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More from the war room.

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Our election cake!

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Watching NPR Stations' chartbeat data

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The Battleground Team.

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Election Day at NPR DS in Boston. Streaming radio, keeping up with cable news outlets, and watching various network systems. Editors are working on Battleground http://ds.npr.org/post/live-blog-battleground

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IDea Day presentations are underway here at NPR Digital Services.

First up, local acoustic duo Tall Heights performs for the crew.

We'll hereby dub it the first Tiny Kitchen performance.

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Jackie and Pete brainstorming it up during today's IDea Day at NPR Digital Services...

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I never really did a retrospective post on the night Osama Bin Laden was killed. So now I will, one year later.

Almost all of Sunday, May 1, 2011, was a slow news day. Painfully slow. At the time I was a home page editor at The Washington Post working Sunday night duty.

There were four...

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Eric Athas, now of NPR Digital Services, remembers the night the news broke about Osama bin Laden.

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Deep diving into Argo @nprdigitalsvcs (Taken with Instagram at NPR Digital)

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No finer activity on a rainy Boston day...

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The River of News concept isn’t magical: you get success when you devote some time and energy to your site, and you understand that increasing audience and engagement online increases audience loyalty to your station.

There’s a ton of useful advice in this presentation by Matt Thompson at the Knight Digital Media Center for the Leadership Summit on the Future of Local News and Public Media.

(via Why Does the River of News Grow Audience? | editorial)

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Behold NPR Digital Services' own David Alkire helping to bash bugs during our recent in-house party to identify bugs, quirks and generally unexpected behavior in the alpha version of the new Core Publisher mobile site.

Clearly, Dave is the guy to call if you see a cockroach in the kitchen.

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Yes, we have no bananas - but no, we don't not have bagels!

We're awash in tasty carbs today, thanks to the generosity of our own Kathleen Grant.

Thanks, Kathleen!

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@npr’s @mthomps presenting at @nprdigitalsvcs Knight Leadership Conference (Taken with Instagram at NPR Headquarters)

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Note: no actual knights are involved at this event (unless Paul McCartney shows up).

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As Shakespeare once wrote: The truest expressions of love are printed on beach balls.

I'm paraphrasing.