"You never merged together four different companies with four different partners and employees of a company and another company?" asked Brian Clark of the Copyblogger.net. "Oh my God, it was quite stressful."
But, he added, now that the transition is complete, "it is incredible for me, what we can do."
All bloggers, we talked about that we have done research on Blog Wise boasting the virtues of team work - even when the team is your readership, as in the case of the collaborative writing project of solo blogger Leo Babauta, life without effort.
But all stress the importance of clear communications team.
Brian explains that before the merger of his group, "I had all these smart people who have partners, and they were in different companies and they were not allowed to speak to each other, if you want, because there no was no profit motivation."
"I saw that the only way that I was going to go where I saw a vision of the future possible, is to bring together all these smart people so that they all had an interest in the future of others."
Our bloggers point out, however, that a philosophy of collaboration of team must be supported by tools.
Like many, Darren found useful digital collaboration tools. "Each ebook we produce has its own folder in the base camp, and I can tap that and get virtually any document, I want to along the way," he says.
Bloggers as Abby Larson of stylemepretty.com and Heather Armstrong of Dooce, whose spouses are also working on their blogs, use tools like Google Calendar and communication clear and close, to ensure that their husband-partners know what is happening at all time.
When you add shared responsibilities as children to the shared responsibility of a blog, communication is essential. As Abby, "because the site is so dependent on us both... We realize that we have both must commit to our family."
Do you work with other people on your blog? What methods to use to make your team as productive as possible?
Tomorrow: bloggers favorite productivity tools and systems.
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