{"id":9,"date":"2006-12-24T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/24\/growing-pains-but-growing-greater\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:42","slug":"growing-pains-but-growing-greater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/growing-pains-but-growing-greater\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Pains, but Growing Greater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two months, FWD:labs has experienced some long-awaited growing pains. Recently, the focus has turned to gathering feedback, scaling scopes, and switching gears to accommodate the needs of the users.<\/p>\n<p>FWD:labs now collectively includes another director, writer, photographer, designer, cinematographer and a publicist, with several more soon ready to speed ahead with their best work, often for the first time online.<\/p>\n<p>For me, all of this has been &#8212; and still remains &#8212; a passion for me to create, use, and now share with several new members. It&#8217;s been my focus to engage members and simplify, simplify, and further simplify. For example, members will soon receive an e-mail along the lines of &#8220;what you can do in a spare 2 minutes.&#8221; This, by far, has been the largest misstep for engagement; most people seem to expect they need a bit of time, when in fact they do not. This simple improvement should increase initial activity and help show first-timers how FWD:labs is easy and satisfying to use, ready and waiting for that kind of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two months, FWD:labs has experienced some long-awaited growing pains. Recently, the focus has turned to gathering feedback, scaling scopes, and switching gears to accommodate the needs of the users. FWD:labs now collectively includes another director, writer, photographer, designer, cinematographer and a publicist, with several more soon ready to speed ahead with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}