John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

Why we use Basecamp: Automatic Check-ins

22 Nov 2017 · 1 min

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John Jonas (speaker) explains and praises Basecamp's automatic check-ins feature for virtual teams. He describes that Basecamp prompts team members daily with the question “What did you do today?”, allows people to answer, and sends notifications so others (including the speaker) can see responses—removing the need to constantly ask teammates for status updates.

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Here's a reason why people with virtual workers should be using Basecamp automatic check ins. This is something Basecamp did recently. I absolutely love it. So every single day, Basecamp asks everybody, what did you do today? And then they get to answer, what did they do today? And I get a notification about it. So here is the list of what people did today and what they responded to this automatic check in. I love that they get asked, and I love that I get told. And I don't have to ask people constantly to say, hey, will you tell me what you did today?