Now that we are settled into our office here at AgencyWeb our next goal is to help educate our clients on simple things that they can do in their own office to be more environmentally friendly.

Being on the water has more advantages than just a pretty view. Most days we have the front and back doors open for a nice breeze. This helps cut down on air conditioning costs and it’s much nicer to have fresh air all day! We try to keep our lights off during the day, luckily we have great natural light here. We also keep the computers that aren’t in use turned off and turn all of them off at the end of the day which can save up to $70 a year per computer in electricity.

I was also surprised to find out that our office building did not do any type of recycling on their own.  AgencyWeb took the initiative and set up a recycling program for the entire building. Now once a week a company comes by and picks up two large bins – one for paper and cardboard and one for plastics, glass and aluminum. So now everyone in our building can take part, reduce the amount of waste that ends up in a landfill and hopefully it gets them thinking more on this issue. We make sure all of our clients and associates recycle while at our office.

In 2007 Time Magazine had a special on 51 Things you can do to help save the environment. Several of them were office or business related.  If you have any other great ideas that can be done in an office to help out please let us know!

AgencyWeb is a small knit group where learning different skills is not uncommon. At AgencyWeb, many people have to learn different responsibilities, tasks or skills to keep AgencyWeb running. As a team, we had to learn how to function with Huddle. Huddle is a great web base tool that helps us maintain organization within the office by listing office supplies that need to be ordered, scheduling meetings, or creating tasks pertaining to different clients. By using Huddle, allows our clients and our team members to stay organized on specific tasks.

For me, working at AgencyWeb as a graphic designer is not the only responsibility or tasks that I have to uphold or learn. Since I have been working at AgencyWeb, I have learned basic knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), how to run reports on sites, basic editing on websites, and how to blog. These are just to name few tasks that I have learned. Coming to AgencyWeb, I did not know what SEO was or how it effected the outcome of sites. But after working with the SEO specialists who are willing to teach and share their knowledge about SEO I know how beneficial SEO is to any site, and how it can improve a sites ranking.

Another tool that I have learned that is beneficial to a website rank is blogging. For me, I was never really a big blogger, but now, knowing how it promotes sites or information on sites, it has become second nature. Blogging is a great way to comment on stories, events or other materials.

For me, it is important to keep widening my horizon wether it is learning how to blog, making edits on sites, learning what SEO is  or learning about new programs. As technology advances, it is important to stay up-to-date on information and programs and to be as diverse as one can be.