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Author of “Distributed Teams - The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart.” He is a senior technologist, entrepreneur, and frequent international speaker on the benefits and strategies for remote work. John served in the U.S. Digital Service in the Obama White House and has provided workshops and mentorship to distributed teams around the world.


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Edgeryders co-founder. She is an Engineer and User Experience designer, specialising in building platforms for supporting businesses and policymakers operating under challenging economic and political contexts. Nadia has designed programs for the World Bank and European Commission, and has provided workshops and mentorship to distributed teams of entrepreneurs around the world. She has stewarded the development of Edgeryders into a globally distributed organisation.


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Quite a long time between starting this thread and getting the booklet out @nadia and @matthias? :thinking:

Anyway… I’ve got myself the booklet (on paper) and maybe I would be interested to produce a version in Croatian language. How to go about that?

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Ciao Nenad,

That’s really cool that you would like to have it translated, do you know of a publisher who might be interested in distributing it in Croatia?

After we released the booklet three things happened:

  • We got helpful critical feedback from community members and we interest from a publisher who could also do a good job of promoting it, provide a professional editor etc.
  • Community members started asking us to do workshops/help with fixing remote work issues in their organisations. From which we also got new insights on how to help other organisations who are very different from our own to make the transition.
  • And we were put in touch with a publishing house that saw the potential in the book, could provide an editor and also has a wide readership in both French and English - they could do a much better job of promoting it.

So we decided to put in more work and do a new version. Putting together a quality book is a lot more work than I had anticipated.

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I don’t think there is a need for a publisher in Croatia, it’s a small country and market and the book is not that attractive. I can translate it and produce it myself.

With the help of editor the booklet could be turned into a book, I suppose :slightly_smiling_face: If new and improved version is pending I can wait.

Yes, indeed. I was following creation of this book (which I recommend) within Virtual Team Talk online community. It was a lot of work.

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The Legitech-published version you got is the new and improved one already. What took us so long is getting from our first self-published book, as seen in the post at the top of the page, to the new and improved version published by Legitech.

There are always ways for further improvement, obviously!

Thank you, will take a look for inspiration when eventually deciding to do a third edition. Another quality (and free) resource on this topic that I like is “GitLab’s Guide to All-Remote”.

Mmmh, not sure yet. We did not like how our initial self-published English version was doing. Of course, it could be different in Croatia as marketing might need much less effort and no pre-established channels of a publisher. But are you sure about this resp. maybe can tell us about cases that prove your point?

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Oh, so Legitech is a publisher you are referring to @nadia? :thinking:

I’m not a newcomer to remote work (Virtual Teams for Systemic Change) and I’m not a newcomer to publishing industry in Croatia (in “previous life” I worked as marketing director for one of the largest Croatian publishers and I’m a published translator). Legitech-published version is not what I would call a book. It’s a booklet (and an overpriced one, even in European terms).

A product like that would not be of interest for any Croatian publisher. However, what you produced is the right size and content for my consulting and coaching work (in Croatian language). I need a paper artifact like that and, maybe, a digital version, so I’m interested in producing Croatian version. In Croatia I work via non-profit organisation(s) and we produced, for example, this booklet (in Croatian, original in English).

Clarifying question: do you mean that your self-published book is shared on top of the page? If yes, I don’t see it.

yes it’s our publisher for the benelux region

No we pulled it back, its not available anywhere as far as I know.

Ah that’s good to know, thank you.

I see how that makes sense. In the context of a consultancy-related collaboration I think it could be interesting. Let’s have a call to discuss this?

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