Calendar Heroes: Connor MacDonald, CMO at The Ridge - Q&A on Time Management

1

Supermetrics

Supermetrics powers 90% of our reporting, with automated report building so we can monitor our ad performance.

#Marketing Analytics #Data Integration #ETL 8 social mentions

2

Slack

The team I manage is fully remote and spread across the country --- Oregon, California, Texas, Georgia, Delaware --- so most internal work gets done over video calls or asynchronously with a mix of Loom recordings and Slack chats.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Chat 208 social mentions

3

ReclaimAI

I've moved all scheduled internal meetings to Mondays and Tuesdays, and I use Reclaim to block out 2 and 3 hour work 'Deep Work' blocks on the other days. My biggest pet peeve is having disparate meetings scattered throughout the day, and this helps me avoid that problem while remaining flexible for any external meetings or impromptu internal meetings.

#Project Management #Time Tracking #Slack 136 social mentions

4

monday.com

For team management, I finally got good at monday.com this year. I found it to be an initially unintuitive tool for detailed project management, but after a lot of TLC we've built our workspace out in a way that makes asynchronous collaboration and management a lot easier.

#Project Management #Task Management #Work Management 335 social mentions

5

Loom

Loom has been a game changer as a stand-in for otherwise lengthy Slack messages.

#Screen Recording #Video Maker #Video Annotation 18 social mentions

6

Calendly

Calendly has made coordinating meetings w/ coworkers or agency partners much easier (and I can count on Reclaim to defend my calendar from getting too chaotic).

#Appointments and Scheduling #Appointment Scheduling #Event Scheduling 115 social mentions