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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In today’s episode, we speak with Abby Spyker: Co-Founder and CEO of Northwest Media Collective, an award-winning web and marketing agency based in Vancouver, WA.With a degree in Photography and Digital Media, Abby followed her passion for problem-solving and founded Northwest Media Collective to help others to find simple solutions to their digital needs. With an emphasis on understanding the big picture, Abby and her team develop in-depth scopes of work for their clients; and Airtable has been a big help.Abby shares a few sample bases that truly demonstrate the versatility of Airtable. Not only does she use it for the day-to-day operations of her business, but in her home life as well. She first shares with us her Babysitting Tracker, where her babysitter can submit via an online form her hours spent babysitting, and how many kids she was watching. Abby is then able to easily see how much she owes at the end of each week.Next, Abby shows us her High/Low Estimator, where she has emulated the estimating tools found in some project management systems such as LiquidPlanner. She is able to enter the low and high ends of a time frame for a particular task and calculate the price for each scenario.Last, we check out an example of a project plan Abby created using Airtable’s page designer blocks. She works around the one-page limitation by using one block for each page and ends up with a beautifully laid out scope of work.Learn more about Abby and Northwest Media Collective here. Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In today’s episode, we speak with Jordan Walker; product designer and start-up founder of an exciting new app, YAC Chat. Jordan is a partner at SoFriendly, an entrepreneurial design team in Orlando, and has worked with businesses and startups from large to small to help them create experience-driven products with his designs.After noticing how much time his team at SoFriendly was spending simply trying to schedule a meeting, Jordan was wishing for an easier way to communicate. Thus, YAC Chat was born. In a world where emails and texts have virtually replaced the phone call, YAC Chat is shaking things up again by emphasizing the power of spoken communication. The app conveniently sits on your desktop or smartphone and allows you to quickly record and send a voice snippet to your colleagues.Jordan says the time it has saved their team is invaluable, and other businesses are noticing. You can now request access to try it out at yac.chat with a free or pro plan. Check out the show notes for links.Jordan and his team utilize Airtable for most of their day-to-day operations: investors, user lists, development hours, and more. Today, Jordan shares with us a sample of his development hours tracker, where he can track task assignments and the time spent for each. By using the single-select field for his task names, the base looks beautifully laid out, complete with a splash of color. He also makes use of Airtable’s Form View to capture weekly assessments from his team; allowing him to gauge what tasks are taking the longest and least amounts of time.Learn more about YAC Chat here. Learn more about SoFriendly here. Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Shyman, a web designer and life coach. Although these may seem like two very different jobs, Jonathan shares with us that he uses a similar approach for both types of his clients. He helps people talk through their needs in order to find the best approach or solution to a healthier thought pattern through life-coaching or a better online presence through web design. Later, Jonathan walks us through his prototype Airtable base that tracks the progress his life coaching clients make across their sessions. As we go over the base, Jonathan explains the ins and outs of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a method of counseling which aims to help clients identify and avoid self-defeating thoughts in order to become more confident in their everyday lives. Jonathan designed the base to log clients’ thoughts, summarize previous sessions, and prepare agendas for upcoming client meetings using Airtable’s form views and rollup features.See Jonathan’s web design business here.See Jonathan’s life coaching business here.Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In today’s episode, we speak with Karl Hughes: start-up enthusiast and software engineer. After Karl started speaking at conferences in 2017, he noticed how difficult it was to find a good resource on applying to, and tracking the dates of, the many speaking opportunities that come up each year. Thinking this might be a gap he could fill with his experience in tech, he set off to build CFP Land.CFP stands for Call for Proposal. When an event is scheduled, a Call for Proposal goes out to invite speakers to apply. CFP Land catalogues data from hundreds of events, worldwide, for conference speakers to access in one place.In his own words, Karl has long been an advocate for building digital products with off-the-shelf tools, so Airtable was an obvious choice for the first iteration of CFP Land. In today’s episode, he shows us how he manages the back-end of CFP Land in Airtable, and blends in his own programming skills to create one sleek, smooth-functioning site.Check out Karl’s Blog Here Check out CFP Land Here Catch CFP Land on Twitter @cfp_landSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In today’s episode, I speak with Andrew Poon: tech guru and software engineer. Andrew started his career at Google, working on projects like AdWords and Google Shopping, before becoming VP of Product at Yahoo, and eventually heading out on his own to start his own company. Andrew is now co-founder of Clockworks a company focused on making complex approvals easy to set up and manage.After noticing a trend in software as a service, Andrew put on his thinking cap and set out to create a platform to put the power of software in the hands of the consumer, and Airtable seemed to be the perfect place to start. He recently launched Clockworks Approvals for Airtable; an easy to use plug-in that allows you to configure detailed approval flows for anything from digital or print assets to wholesale products. In conjunction with the release, he also published three bases to the Airtable Universe which demonstrate how powerful Clockworks can be.In today’s episode, Andrew demos Clockworks’ Approval system for us. After the initial set-up, a formulated link is added to your Airtable base. Upon clicking the link, the user can send emails directly from their base to the people who need to approve the items in question. Clockworks tracks all activity in a beautifully simple interface; allowing you to see the history of approvals, denials, and comments.More information on Clockworks here.Universe Bases:Clockworks Asset TrackerClockworks ApprovalsClockworks Approvals for BuyersSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episodeBuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Today, we travel to Germany to chat with Tobi Troendle; a strategy consultant and business developer. Having worked for both international corporations and local startups, Tobi is well equipped toward helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals. After discovering Airtable, Tobi wanted to spread the word across Europe and help others to harness the power that it can provide. So, he set to work and created The Airtable Academy: a comprehensive online course that teaches users the ins and outs of Airtable, and how to use Zapier to automate workflows.In this episode, Tobi shares a creative and easy way to pull excel files out of Airtable, using an app called Parabola. As Tobi demonstrates, Parabola allows you to pull all the data from a table at once, and manipulate your fields so that only the columns you want remain. You can even reorder the columns before exporting. His workflow includes an added bonus for European users: European currency formatting!Get a discount on Tobi’s Udemy course, The Airtable Academy, with our BUILTONAIR VOUCHER here! View Tobi’s website here. Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In this episode, we talk to Jeremy Taylor, a CNC machinist, and programmer. Jeremy has designed and manufactured components for everything from cake decorators to aerospace companies. He recently launched his own company called Defiant CNC, which focuses on providing machine shops with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system customized to meet their needs, using Airtable of course. After Jeremy gave us a run-through of a day-in-the-life-of a machinist, he tells us how Airtable has helped him and his clients with their everyday work tasks. Jeremy walks us through the ERP system he made for his machine shop, which he built using Airtable and Zapier. He and his team were able to use the Airtable-powered system to manage workflows, facilitate requests for quotes (RFQs), to schedule machining jobs, and to track inventory. See Jeremy’s company Defiant hereFollow Jeremy on Social: @defiantcncSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Today, we chat with Kevin S. Lin: Software Developer, AWS Consultant, and Startup Founder. After over 5 years at AWS, Amazon Web Services, Kevin set-off on his own to help others get the most out of their cloud-based systems. His company, Thence, aims to help businesses put scalable systems in place, reduce costs, and make sense of “the cloud”.Kevin has a passion for data, and uses Airtable to sort, track, and organize several aspects of both his work and personal life. He tells us about his latest project: a scalable knowledge base which can be used to organize any amount of information, and find it again in seconds.In today’s episode, Kevin shares with us a demo of his product, BackupTable. BackupTable allows you to backup entire Airtable Bases, every field of every table, for free. Users with a paid account can even backup attachment fields, and set their backups to run on an automated 24-hour schedule.View his BackupTable here: Check out Thence here: Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.On today’s episode of BuiltOnAir, we (digitally) travel overseas to chat with Jonathan Bowen. Jonathan is an Airtable developer and consultant boasting over 20 years of experience in technology, the past 13 of which have been focused on web apps and e-commerce development. His company, DragonDrop (a creative play on words - get it, drag and drop?), helps clients build Airtable bases to manage all sorts of workflows.Jonathan was recently named a Community Leader in the Airtable Community forum, which means he has been recognized by the Airtable Staff for his outstanding contribution toward helping users get the most out of the product.The first base Jonathan shares with us today is a multi-step onboarding process, in which he has combined Airtable, Zapier, and TypeForm to create a simple flow of information between the client and the base. The client receives an email with a list of steps to complete, and each step is linked to a TypeForm form. Jonathan demonstrates the creative way that he ensures the client’s information updates the correct record in Airtable.Next, we dive into a project he recently completed for the Computer Museum of America, where he used the Airtable API to render data from a base onto a webpage, and export it as a PDF. Jonathan is currently working toward gearing this process more toward the general public, and plans to post on the Community Forum soon with step by step instructions.Check out Jonathan on the Airtable Community Forum here!Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episodeBuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In this episode, I speak with Melanie Magdalena: scientist, creator, web-designer, developer, and self-proclaimed unicorn. Melanie works with nonprofits and entrepreneurs to simplify their workflows using no code solutions. After kicking off her career in archaeology, life took her in a different direction and she started using her technological knowledge to build platforms to help her day-to-day work life.Today, she resides in Austin, Texas, and is a co-founder of Deytah, a digital consulting service helping small businesses to solve their data problems. Together with her co-founders, they recently released Automation Academy, where users can sign up to check out their Automation Recipes.In today’s episode, Melanie showcases a base she created to calculate the scores of student assessments; and details an extremely creative way to get the data she needs in the right spots.Find her online at hereConnect with Melanie on all social channels | @m2createsSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Say hello to Ash Forrest, a freelance artist and from St. Louis, MO on BuiltOnAir this week. Ash is a photographer, artist and marketer who has brought together each world into a great blend of creativity and function. She’s a livestreamer and community builder that has adopted Airtable into many personal and professional uses, and shares some of her best creations here. A few years back, Ash started using a service called Twitch to livestream (video streamed real-time online) herself doing art for a live, virtual audience. Building a Twitch channel involves doing a lot of work to build a community, so she has spent a lot of time streaming physical art, digital art, and more. There are multiple interactive elements built into the system that involves interaction between streamer and audience. She’s done a 24 hour livestream to raise money for charity before.She has extensive experience with marketing (especially from her time as a photographer), and it was through a client 2 years ago that she discovered Airtable. She was immediately attracted to the simplicity and visual appeal of organizing her data. She’s always sharing the app with fellow artists as a great option for staying on track without needing to code or even write formulas. Now Ash uses it for meal planning, budgeting, as a bullet journal, bill paying, business accounting, and a place to track physical records. In her own words, “anything that [she] can fit into an Airtable, [she’ll] make it fit into an Airtable.” This also includes keeping a rolodex of clients, content creation, and a library of artwork created (on sale, purchased, in development, etc). “Everything in [her] life can be Airtabled.”The first Airtable base Ash shares is a bullet journal (a journal tracking the different aspects of personal life and habits). It makes great use of an emoji header for each field to represent the various habits she wants to check on each day, including water intake, vitamins, exercise and more. She’s also added a place to capture any ideas she has during the day in a single place, then use a view to see them all in one place. The journal helps her see correlations between variables e.g. how the food she eats affects her energy level, and more. The second base she showcases is a content and marketing system she built to help blogs. With the base she’s able to create a library of content with all assets contained on site. She built in a SEO checklist to help bloggers make sure each aspect of their content is optimization, with checkboxes to ensure the focus keywords are included in each relevant element. Ash included a social media table as a separate place to associate each social platform’s posts with the blog article in the first table. Find Ash on her personal websiteLink to Podcast Management contentLink to Digital Bullet Journal contentSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.On this week’s episode we have Alli Alosa on the podcast. Alli lives in New England where her primary work is with a family-owned truck dealership. Although her training in college was more in the fine arts, she’s been enjoying working with family doing advertising and marketing. Her most recent work with Airtable has helped the business consolidate their policies and practices across the board, and make all their work more streamlined. Her work with Airtable started when her father found the app and suggested she use it to put into place an inventory management system for their company. With eight different locations for selling and servicing 18-wheeler trucks, they needed a way to pull all the operations together into a single place. Their first approaches involved using normal spreadsheets to try to solve the problem, but quickly discovered that their needs were more geared toward a customized database system. Since Alli built their inventory management platform in Airtable, the company has added other systems in the app, including rental car and flight booking tracking, paid time off, and many more. In total they have around 20 fully used bases. Family members were all on board when they adopted Airtable, and Alli has been the main developer during each project. Since then they’ve created multiple internal tutorials for their teams to use it in their responsibilities. Their need for tutorials was less about creating a base (like the Airtable-made tutorials) and more for interacting with the database already created, which is what Alli has been focusing on.For her demonstration, Alli shares their primary inventory database. The base is embedded into their own internal website, and team members need to login to access the content there. Much of the base has been set up to be automatically updated with new inventory, sale details and inventory movement data within 2 hours of occurrence.The base also makes use of the Airtable Blocks feature to make it easy to output a truck details page that auto-populates and looks uniform, allowing sales team members to quickly print and share the information. They have a table to watch the current ad being run (via attachment), then another to keep an up to date database of leads. Automation features have been built into the system via services like Zapier. Visit Alli on her personal website |Find Alli in the Airtable Community | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In this episode, we speak with Sam Davyson, creator of an upcoming app called Airportal. Sam is a developer who has a passion for enabling amazing customer experiences that don’t involve writing code. Airportal is a platform that Sam and his team developed to solve many of the issues that Airtable users are facing today involving advanced permissions levels.Airportal allows you to turn your base into beautifully designed customer portal, customizable with your logo and color scheme. Users can log-in with a username and password, and depending on the permissions you give them, can view, edit, and create new records. You can even limit their permissions down to specific fields in specific tables; a feature that the Airtable community is sure to love.In this episode, Sam takes us through a demo of Airportal, from the initial set-up, to customizing the permissions, and shows us what it will look like from the end user’s point of view. At the time of this recording, Airportal is on track to release in late September.Check out Airportal online Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Say hi to Vix Meldrew from the UK on this episode as she gives a look into her work as an influencer in the social media world. She uses Airtable to streamline her personal publishing schedule, and shares the best templates with her audience to help them organize their own social media and content projects.Vix wasn’t always a blogger and influencer. She started as a school teacher for young children, and didn’t officially go full time in the online world for a while as she got used to the idea of being a public figure. She even tried to keep her blogging work hidden from people for a while after getting into the work. That didn’t last long, as she now has a large following of people and has made a name helping people to turn their personality and personal brand into their full-time business. Her work now involves guiding people through the many facets of publishing content and becoming an influencer online. Airtable has played a large part in her business processes, and more recently she’s been developing a membership site that uses Airtable as a central part of the development. Vix shares a refreshing perspective on being an influencer that leaves a legacy. She asks her audience how they want to be remembered, and encourages them to be authentic in sharing their story. For her it’s not about getting 50k followers or selling out to a sponsored product, and because of that she’s had to be selective in which people she accepts as clients; they need to want to leave a meaningful legacy with their work. She wants to help “light a fire” in her audience so they’re able to accomplish their own definition of success. Vix shares a database template she built to help bloggers and content creators to stay organized and purposeful in their work. Formatted in a simple, intuitive way, the base has a table with instructions on how to use the full thing, then tables for daily tasks to do when producing new content vs when no new content is made that day. After that there are tables to outline weekly tasks and monthly tasks. Each table was designed to give content makers a routine so they’re never stuck or at a loss.Her Blog Management and Organization base includes these main tables:How to use - a “welcome mat” to give a broad picture of what’s involved in the Airtable and processDaily Tasks -New Content Day - what to do or steps to take on days when you’re developing new contentDaily Tasks -No New Content - what to do when you’re not developing new material and can then focus on past content and interactionWeekly Tasks - things to do on a weekly basis to grow your outreachMonthly Tasks - bigger tasks that can often be done in batches to expand your brand on a larger scaleNew Content To-Do List - color coded list of things to do for producing content on each social media platformVix also takes a moment to share an Airtable she’s created to help manage the launch of a membership site. She walks through the different tables based on themes required for a successful site. In each table the tasks are broken down into 2, 5, 10, 30 and 60 minute time slots, to allow work to be done in what’s available in the moment.Find Vix on her website and take the quiz for what kind of blogger you areConnect with Vix on all social channels | @vixmeldrewSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at openside.com

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week we welcome Patrick Ford, a media developer in the maker space at Anderson University in South Carolina. His work there involves designing learning experiences for their students and faculty, and helping them integrate technology into their education. Patrick started out studying as a media developer in college, then got a job building handrails for a company after he graduated. During his time working he learned a variety of design skills and software including CAD and Sketch, which made for a great background of experience for his current work at Anderson University (AU). His work in the CIDL of the university includes both support for their technology needs and educating people on both what to do and what they can do with the tech. Their department has 3d printers, laser cutters, a podcast booth, AR and VR tech, and more. Each item is part of Patricks work in helping the students be on the cutting edge of learning with technology. He loves to show faculty how their inventory can go beyond the normal approach to transferring knowledge and facilitate a more in-depth learning experience. Patrick talks about “modular learning,” an approach to education that allows a student to choose what classes or content they want or need to learn, and focus on the highest priorities for their goals. It also gives students the opportunity to prepare for jobs that may or may not exist at the time they start college. Airtable came into the picture as Patrick was exploring IFTT (“If This, Then That”) and was intrigued by how it was described as a “relational database” at the time. What started as simple experimentation with shopping lists and home organization led to him building multiple databases for use at the maker space of AU.. The base Patrick shares is a Makerspace Manager used at CIDL. It’s designed to collect and track bookings at the maker space, and has tables for users, machines and spaces, and a reservation system for when people want to take time with the resources at CIDL. The database makes great use of forms for making bookings or reserving inventory, and calendars to check availability of rooms and equipment. Patrick also shares an infographic he created using the Blocks feature of Airtable, showing stats from the AU maker space during a given semester, including user growth, demographics, total reservation hours, and more. It’s served as a great way to watch how their work is growing and how they’re helping people learn. Check out the maker space website and learn more about the CIDL | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector on openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Kamille Parks hails from Los Angeles, California as an urban planner at the architecture firm Gruen Associates. Her work involves ideation and planning for historical and transportation projects all throughout the city. Although Kamille works on various projects at a time, and often those projects take years to complete, this episode we get a great look at what an average day looks like for her, and how Airtable plays a role in making it happen.Kamille talks about what got her into the work of urban planning, and how she was elated when she discovered that she could major in the subject and do what she had dreamed of doing all growing up. Even though much of her work needs to be kept under wraps for years, she finds great satisfaction knowing she’s doing work to benefit the community.She teaches a boot camp-style classes at USC to teach tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketchup, and other programs that planners would use on an average day. She works on the weekends to teach these additional skills to students. Airtable plays a role in scheduling what she’s planning to teach, how much each class is worth, and making sure she’s in compliance with the school’s insurance. She also uses the base to set up and keep a record of training sessions with fellow students.Airtable first entered the scene for Kamille’s work as the firm was looking for a database that could store the whole library of past projects. She transitioned to using databases more than spreadsheets in her life. The base Kamille shares is a meal planner she designed to help her be prepared and enter the “working professional” life. In it she showcases how she used formulas to make the recipe’s ingredients to show in a visually appealing way. She shares how the database is structured to allow for easy filtering based on criteria (vegetarian, made in an Instant Pot, breakfast, etc). The base generates a shopping list based on meal planning for the week, and allows excluding the ingredients she already has in the pantry. The shopping list can also be filtered by where ingredients are likely to be found in a grocery store.Kamille also walks through what her Integromat + Cognito Forms + Airtable does for her database. Because she uses a paid Airtable account she is able to use an Airtable block with a Cognito Form integrated to easily input both the general ingredients and the unique qualifiers for how the ingredient is interacted with (e.g. chopped, minced, sliced). Her Integromat setup is what pulls the Cognito Forms data into her Airtable database, and she walks through how the two are able to communicate pulling the form entries into fields.As a wrap up, Kamille talks about how her recipe database has made preserving family recipes possible beyond a written record. Airtable has made it possible to help her family preserve her grandmother’s legacy in recipes. She’s potentially going to share the database in Airtable Universe in the future, so keep your eyes open for that when it happens!See more of Kamille’s design portfolio on her website | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode |BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector on openside.com

This episode we get to hear from Lanie Lamarre, an upbeat data specialist who excels at helping overwhelmed entrepreneurs get organized. Lanie has made a name online as “Miss GSD,” and specializes in helping online creatives make data, systems and operations fun in their work. She’s worked extensively with entrepreneurs, graphic designers, web professionals, and others who are “packaging their brilliant ways of thinking” to make the processes behind their brilliance support their frontend.Lanie makes it a point to always be in a constant cycle of learning new tools and ways to get things done. She talks about learning to “speak a person’s language” so that she can understand what people are saying and show them ways to do it that they might not have seen before. Her skillset has been a match for many professionals who didn’t understand what they were missing but could finally get it by her seeing what they needed to see and explaining it to them.She shares more of her story in adapting and accumulating the skill of seeing the big picture and the details simultaneously, then how Airtable is the perfect platform for doing that for anyone. Airtable combines visual qualities with data arrangement to match the way that people think. Lanie also shares how Airtable creates a place to store data, but can easily be arranged to show only the data you need to see at the moment.Lanie’s process to help online creatives involves looking at the overall process their daily work takes, then analyzing what is honestly working and is most enjoyed. This allows the creatives to really take a look at what’s happening and outsource, organize or hone in on the things that really matter to their measure of success. One of the biggest things she helps people with is organizing their content creation. This includes everything from social posts, videos, and audio, to blog posts. Lanie discusses one of her top pet peeves: buzzword lingo. She talks about how words like “productivity, content, hacks, channels” and more are overused, and how things could be improved by simplifying and saying exactly what is intended in your content.She talks about the common first users experience with Airtable, and how she gained her own experience with it. She began to teach what she learned, and that has now been packaged as a backbone for what she does with her clients. Now she’s consistently helping people to start using Airtable confidently from the start.During the showcase portion of the episode, Lanie shares a base she built for content creation and scheduling. In it she shares her philosophy and process for creating a brand voice. The base features several linked fields that serve as “accountability” for making sure that any piece of content matches your core brand messages. These fields also make sure that people can’t lose sight of their big vision.The base features tables for messaging, offers, content creation, content library, and “as featured in.” Each table is brilliantly designed to relate to the next in keeping the messaging succinct and on-target during the whole process of developing and publishing content.Learn more about Lanie and her work on her website | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week we welcome on the show Nat Eliason, founder of Growth Machine. Nat was a blogger, app developer and digital nomad for years before creating his current company. Now he uses Airtable internally to help businesses master their content strategy and development on any subject or market segment.Growth Machine is currently a 7 person team of people working together with the common goal of enabling businesses to tell a content story with their message. Things have been going so well that Nat’s recent time has been taken by hiring more people to double their team size. He talks about the pros and cons of transferring to being a founder that runs the company instead of doing the majority of his work “in the trenches.”Nat lists the top tools used in the company including Zapier, Asana and (obviously) Airtable. The company is using Airtable particularly to help streamline a “writer matchmaking” service that allows them to find good writers quickly for each project or subject matter. As part of the development process, Growth Machine opened the door to writers on every subject to figuratively raise their hand and become a part of their database of writers, so that when the company has a need for a particular subject they can connect their clients to the work quickly via their writers database.The Airtable walkthrough Nat shares is a personal CRM he built to keep track of contacts in his circle. The base allows for categorizing contacts based on their primary work industry, interests and location. Filtering contacts based on these things then becomes an easy task, and Nat actually used the feature to find people in his circles that do sales as he was looking for a new team member in that field.His base also tracks the company each contact works with, and “how they met” in order to provide a quick memory jogger and give easy icebreakers when re-connecting. He also takes random notes on relevant details of the relationship with each person he includes in his CRM. The brilliance of Nat’s personal CRM he built within Airtable is that he made it to match his way of working, and kept the whole thing very simple (and free). Visit the Growth Machine website for blog articles and resources | Learn more about Nat on his personal blog | Connect with Nat on twitter | @nateliasonSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode we welcome Anton Preisinger, founder and director of Northwest Hospitality, a non-profit focused on simple needs outreach for the homeless. Based in Washington state, he focuses on decentralized service and bringing real help to people wherever they are.The majority of Northwest Hospitality’s backend is done with Airtable. He has one primary management database that covers several aspects of the work. During his showcase of this base, Anton talks about various challenges and issues he came across while developing the base, then what he did to find solutions to each one categorically. The base helps the non-profit to do things differently than is traditionally done by allowing various metrics to be tracked and updated without a large hassle, including gift cards and supplies inventory distributed to homeless people in the community. Anton shows how some of these metrics are interacted with within the Airtable framework, and how efforts from volunteers are organized.Airtable Blocks has played a big part in expanding the possibilities with the base also, and Anton goes more in depth on the various functions and uses for each block added to the base.Anton is currently developing a base to distribute haircut vouchers to homeless people that is simple and streamlined, without a lot of paperwork or other churn that normally accompanies the process of getting needs met in an organized way. He describes his enthusiasm for Airtable by saying that “each time you make a new base it’s like Christmas!”Learn more about Northwest Hospitality and contribute or volunteer on their website | Find Anton and his other bases in Airtable Universe | UPDATE Jan 2020: Anton informed us that an additional resource to help the homeless has been added to their website that overlays a slick UI on an Airtable backend. You can see it here! Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! | View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week we welcome Robert DeLanghe, a workflow consultant from Brooklyn, NY. Robert is a polymath whose experiences and interests have spanned the gambit from the arts to data, design, manufacturing, coding, and more. His academic background is in Architecture and Sculpture. When he moved to New York City in 2013, he immersed himself in the maker scene and specialized in digital fabrication collaborations with artists and designers. Then he worked in production management at Roll & Hill, a luxury lighting design and fabrication studio. This drew him into the world of reporting and data analysis, which he continues to explore in his current pursuits. In his own words, he works better in a state of “constant frustration”.Onscreen, Robert gives us a peek under the hood of his awesome Rock Paper Scissors game that he built in Airtable. His creation is the winner of Airtable’s recent Formula Contest, and Robert illustrates how he leverages Airtable’s forms, formulas, and Page Designer block – plus his own analytical skill and creativity – to construct this delightful diversion. He also gives us a sneak peek into his next game-building project in Airtable: a base that allows you and your friends to play blackjack!Play Rock Paper Scissors! | View Robert’s bases on Airtable Universe | Check out more of Robert’s work on his website | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week we welcome Remy Margerum from Santa Barbara, CA. Remy is CFO of Nomad Goods, who describe themselves – appropriately – as “the Patagonia of iPhone accessories”. Nomad sells their sleek cases, cables, and other gear on their own e-commerce website as well as via wholesale channels, so their product and order management system needs to be able to handle inputs and calculations for a myriad of scenarios.Although Remy’s official title deals with Finances, his systems and data science background allows to lend a lot to the evolution of Nomad’s internal operations. He has created an astounding base in Airtable that functions as an enterprise resource planning solution for Nomad.Remy leads us through a thorough deep-dive into the Nomad Goods Backend base. He walks us through the general structure of adding products and placing a wholesale order. We take a look at some of the advanced functions he’s built into the base and how they use Page Designer to generate shipping documents. Remy also discusses their approach to keeping their data secure in Airtable, while allowing their team the flexibility to use data however they need.Visit the Nomad Goods store | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode, we welcome Vincent Tang from Orlando, Florida. Vincent is an e-commerce product manager and workflow specialist. He works for a company that builds and designs restaurants, and he has helped hundreds of restaurants grow from concept to successful franchise.Vincent built out his company’s product database and purchase-order system through Airtable. During his free time, he loves to explore new tools and writes popular blogs on them. He even writes his own software – some of which is used by hundreds of Airtable users! He speaks at technical developer conferences and has won multiple hackathons.During his demo, Vincents shows us two Airtable tools he’s created: one that allow non-Airtable users to collaborate on data from Airtable in Google Sheet, and another that allows you to download and rename images stored in Airtable. He also gives us a tour of an Airtable CRM he built for a nonprofit that helps rehabilitate homeless back into society. Vincent gives us a three part demo:• A tool he’s created to quickly collaborate with non-Airtable users via Google Sheets• A tool he’s created to bulk download and rename images uploaded to Airtable• A CRM base he built for a nonprofit organization that helps rehabilitate homeless back into societyVisit Vincent’s website and blog | Demo slides | Bulk image downloader |Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week, we welcome Mack McGowen from Garden Valley, Texas. Mack is Solutions Development Manager at MercyShips, a non-profit whose fully-equipped floating hospital ship provides free surgeries and medical care to patients in Africa and other places around the globe where healthcare may otherwise be unavailable. Additionally, they also provide training to local doctors and nurses in their host nation.Mack is super passionate about working for an organization that makes such an impact on the quality of life for others. As Solutions Development Manager, Mack’s job is to scope out ideas and projects to improve the structure and systems that make MercyShips run. Although his duties do occasionally include putting out fires (hopefully not literally), Mack spends a lot of time building for the future, instead of being reactionary.To help facilitate internal meetings more smoothly, Mack built an Airtable base that integrates with Table2Site, an app that allows you to build no-code websites using Airtable as a CMS. His website acts a collaboration tool that people can use on their phone or laptops during meetings to identify their “pains, gains, and goals”. This more concrete approach to brainstorming has allowed their meetings to become more potent and ensure everyone’s voice is heard equally.Visit builtonair.com to sign up for the BuiltOnAir mailing list, where you can get weekly updates on new podcast episodes and other fun Airtable things.Watch more about MercyShips | Get involved with MercyShips |Read Mac’s post on his Airtable brainstorming tool | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Sherman Sanders is a founding member of the Gryphon Games and Comics Cooperative in Fort Collins, CO. Now in its thirteenth year, Gryphon has evolved beyond a store into a popular play space. They host programs most days of the week for Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, and more. Most recently, Gryphon is working on transitioning to a co-op to further their connection with the local gaming community they’ve cultivated over the years.Sherman has found that Airtable is the perfect tool to manage game nights at Gryphon. His base Gryphon Guild Ventures tracks event dates, player attendance, and even rewards for frequent participants. His shop employees are trained to keep the base updated during their shifts via forms so Sherman can enjoy his evenings off and know exactly how game night went.Sherman also shares another base, Forbidden Lands, which is a slick RPG campaign organizer he built for his personal games. He makes great use of the Kanban View to share info with his Players that he can update live as the campaign unfolds. Check out Sherman’s base on Airtable Universe | Explore Gryphon’s products and events | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at https://openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Will Christensen lives in Athens, GA and is the co-founder, innovation at DataAutomation, a systems integration and automation company that helps businesses become more efficient. Data Automation services all kinds of clients, but their particular niche is in the close-knit community of e-commerce.Before rebuilding their clients’ systems, Will and his team do an automation audit of a company’s existing process, and speak to as many employees as possible to learn what is working and what isn’t at a micro level. Reception to new, automated systems can necessitate a huge culture shift in a company, and Will is conscious of how to facilitate that shift.At Data Automation, Will mainly uses Airtable as part of an app stack whenever they need user to be able to easily and quickly view or edit data, and it’s also helpful for mapping and lookup tables.During his demo, Will shows us an awesome website he built called Seller Software, a “handy-dandy software directory for Amazon Sellers”. It’s an aggregation of several hundred hours of research and curation on almost every Amazon Seller app out there.The Airtable magic happens behind the scenes, as he had built out an Airtable base with all this app data in it that he wanted to use as a content management system for the website. Naturally, being a fan of DIY integrated solutions, Will built his own custom plugin to connect his base to the back end of his site, allowing him to combine the flexibility and power of Wordpress themes with the database capabilities and easy editing of Airtable. So as he continues to update the software directory in Airtable, changes are seamlessly pushed to the Seller Software website.Email Will if you’re interested in learning more about the Wordpress + Airtable integration shown in his demo | [email protected] Automation’s site | Round Sphere tech incubator | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode |BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Openside's newest product, On2Air Forms, is the Airtable forms solution you've been looking for. For a limited time, get On2Air Forms FREE when you purchase the On2Air Actions Zapier connector at Openside.com.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Jon Gann is an Events & Organizational Strategist from Washington, DC. Jon is probably best known for his contributions in the film festival world, and he’s done a lot to catalyze the sharing of institutional knowledge in what can be a fairly opaque industry. After attending many fests as a filmmaker himself, Jon started the DC SHORTS film festival and is a founding Board Member of the Film Festival Alliance, the first professional organization for film festivals.Jon has since turned to consulting to help film festivals and other organizations improve almost any facet of their event planning and process. Since finding Airtable, he uses it often as tool to help improve data organization and sharing amongst event teams.He gives us a super-potent demo of a version of his Airtable base name “Fest Runner”, which does an elegant job of capturing the thousands of data points needed to plan and execute a film festival – from films submissions, to scheduling, to filmmaker airport pickups, and beyond.Check out more of Jon’s work and services | Get his FestRunner base on Airtable Universe | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com/subscribeView the video demo from this episode | https://youtu.be/y5fwKI7_N5k BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode features Sam Coster, co-founder of Butterscotch Shenanigans, an independent video game studio based in St. Louis, Missouri. Butterscotch’s origin story is unique – it was created by three brothers (Sam, Seth, and Adam) who all had a wealth of unrelated formal education but minimal industry experience. Sam talks about their evolution as a studio, how they’re learning to run a better business, and how their creative process flows.Sam shows us the Airtable base he built to develop the structure and flow of their newest game, Levelhead, down to the music tracks for each level.And as a quick bonus, Sam shows us a personal base build called “The WhereHouse”, where he used his phone to easily photograph and catalog all the random items in his basement, so he’d never double-buy super glue again.Butterscotch’s latest release, Levelhead, is available in April 2019. Levelhead is a level-building platformer where players become designers, and can share what they’ve built with the world.Get Levelhead on Steam View all things Butterscotch Shenanigans Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Natasha Vorompiova is a “capacity architect” from Belgium and founder of SystemsRock. At SystemsRock, she helps her clients break through their “capacity ceiling” when they have reached the limits of their own homegrown systems. We talk about how she helps business navigate through growth and organizational bottlenecks by simplifying their tech stack, optimizing workflows, and focusing on metrics. This empowers her clients to make informed business decisions using data instead of just hunches.Naturally, one of Natasha’s chosen tools to incorporate into workflows and automations is Airtable. The demo base she shows us is an example of a metrics dashboard for membership site owners, which can be appropriated for any subscription-based business. Her base allows a team to track and glean insights from their members’ activity, testimonials, feedback, and more.Connect with Natasha and check out her work at systemsrock.com/connectSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter!View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode, we welcome Sai Warang, a Shopify software developer living in Ottawa, Canada. Sai originally heard about Airtable from some of his fellow coworkers. The app piqued his curiosity as a possible solution for some of his ongoing, long-procrastinated personal projects – primarily, his girlfriend's request to find an app where they could easily log and track their household expenses. Sai walks us through three bases he built to organize life:• Household Expenses Tracker• Houseplant Watering Tracker• Goodreads Database for Research PapersView Sai’s creations on Airtable Universe Tweet Sai | @cyprusadSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode we welcome Khe Hy from Los Angeles, California. Khe is creator of the blog and newsletter Rad Reads and contributing editor at Quartz. His current ventures in writing are a sharp left turn from his previous career on Wall Street. Tired of staring at spreadsheets all day, Khe decided to quit his job in finance to pursue his entrepreneurial itch. In the ensuing months, he began blogging about the hurdles he was facing, including his own self-doubt. Writing actually helped him find his calling: creating thoughtful content about facing uncertainty and living with intention. We discuss how Khe grows his audience, and how apps like Airtable help him manage RadReads.Khe gives us a demo of his blog editorial calendar in Airtable, where he schedules posts and corrals all his ideas for new writing projects.RadReads | https://radreads.co/Find Khe on Instagram @radreadsco or Twitter @khemaridhSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode, we welcome Jason Montoya from Atlanta, Georgia. Jason is a consultant, freelancer, and self-described “small business firefighter”. He works with companies as a virtual Chief Growth Officer to help them streamline their internal processes, improve their marketing, and increase their revenue. Jason is also a huge proponent of the freelance lifestyle, and he has written extensively on the subject in his blog and in his book, Path of the Freelancer: An Actionable Guide to Flourishing In Freelancing. http://bit.ly/pathofthefreelancerJason uses Airtable as hub for his own client and project management. He gives us a demo of his “Freelancing Dashboard” base, which allows him to approach each workday with intention by easily tracking his projects, hours, and finances. He also shows us how he uses Airtable to collaboratively manage projects and tasks across an entire team of freelancers.View Jason’s work on Airtable Universe | Visit his website and blog | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! |View the video demo from this episode | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Alex Bass is founder + CEO of CyberBytes and host of Analysis Paralysis, a podcast focused on business process design. In this episode of BuiltOnAir and on his own show as well, Alex discusses what it’s like to be a business owner in this rapidly evolving, semi-enigmatic niche of workflow design. Alex has pivoted a lot throughout his journey in the tech world, and he does a great job of explaining his steps and thought process along the way.Alex’s company CyberBytes specializes in working with Copper CRM for G.Suite. They often augment Copper’s functionality by building automations and integrating other software, like Airtable. Alex describes how he often uses Airtable as a staging area to store and manipulate raw data as it flows from one app to the next. In the screen share demo, we take a look at a simplified example of an Airtable base created for a client to seamlessly clean and format responses from a website contact form before pushing them to Copper.Check out Alex’s podcast, Analysis Paralysis |Alex's company, CyberBytes | Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter here! |View the video demo from this episode here | BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode, we welcome Melissa Hanson from New York City. Melissa is Director of Marketing and Research at a commercial real estate company by day and a self-proclaimed “film nerd” by night. She is co-founder of the movie website Reel News Daily, which features interviews, film reviews, and other industry tidbits.Melissa has combined her love for film with her knowledge of Airtable to create an awesome selection of TV and movie related bases on Airtable Universe. Many of these are the results of her own cataloging and research, including the one she demos for us today – a base detailing the actor crossovers between the Marvel and DC Comics film universes.Check out Melissa’s work on Airtable UniverseReel News Daily | http://reelnewsdaily.com/Or tweet her @dialmformelissaSign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! View the video demo from this episode.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.In this episode, we welcome Alex Wolfe, an all-around Airtable enthusiast from Irvine, California. Alex has managed to find uses for Airtable in almost every facet of his life, from tracking field notes and project details during his job as an environmental noise analyst, to organizing his hobbies and personal to-do list.Alex often combines his love for Airtable and video games in the sample bases he publishes on Airtable Universe. The one he demos in this episode is a recap of the first-ever Kinda Funny Games Showcase, an event that was live-streamed on Twitch in December 2018 and highlighted over sixty new game releases. Alex used Airtable to assemble all the games featured in the show into an aesthetically pleasing catalog (complete with YouTube video timestamps!).View the Alex’s Kinda Funny Games Showcase base and a recording of the show at http://bit.ly/alexwolf-kfgshowcase or reach out to Alex on Twitter @alxwlfe.Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode | XXXXXXXBuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode features Alex Hillman, an educator and serial entrepreneur who wears many hats. He discusses two of his ventures: Indy Hall (his coworking space in Philadelphia) and Stacking the Bricks, where Alex and Amy Hoy create content and courses that enable developers and creatives to start their own successful businesses.Airtable is highlighted in STB’s recent article, “2019 Tech Stack for Bootstappers”.We talk about Alex and Amy’s philosophy for choosing apps (and also why, as a tech-oriented community, they have avoided talking about their tools of choice until recently).Alex shows us the Airtable CRM he built that enables STB to keep track of the qualitative and quantitative measures of their students’ successes, both large and small.Find more of Alex’s work at https://stackingthebricks.com or stalk him on Twitter @alexhillman.Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode here.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode features our first international guest – Chinara James, a web developer and Wordpress specialist from Trinidad and Tobago.We talk about what it’s like to teach yourself how to code when you’re on a tiny island in the Caribbean where the developer community is not as vast it is in the United States.Chinara gets into the nitty gritty of her half-work, half-play side project she’s using as motivation to better learn Node.js and delve into Airtable’s API documentation. She built an Airtable base for her advertising agency to track talent data, and she is creating a web portal that will allow actors and singers to easily update and view their information on file. Chinara has some great posts on her exploration of the Airtable API on her blog at https://chinarajames.com/home/Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode | https://youtu.be/reDBxb1swH4BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week on the show, we talk to Sarah Henry, a freelance user researcher, designer, and strategist based in Brooklyn, NY. Sarah talks to us about her passion for social-driven projects and her unique ability to create spaces where people can having meaningful social interactions about data.Airtable is one of the tools she uses to organize and extract inferences from her data sets. She shares one of her first Airtable projects, a base called ‘Lean Design Research for Emotional Data’, which demonstrates how user researchers can champion data-informed design practice while also maintaining the humanity of user feedback.See this base on the Airtable Universe | https://bit.ly/airtable-leandesignReach Sarah at | http://www.sarahbhenry.com/Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode | https://youtu.be/yhiqX0efOHU BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week on the show, we talk to Sydney Thomas, Investment Associate & Head of Operations at Precursor Ventures, an investment firm based in San Francisco, CA.Sydney describes how and why she chose Airtable as the must-have system for Precursor’s tiny but mighty team of two. She gives us a tour of the base she built to manage their portfolio. Her template for this has become quite popular on Airtable Universe. | http://bit.ly/airtableu_sydneythomasSydney also shows us a base compiling a list of black women in the venture capital community, which she’s shared with the world on Medium. | http://bit.ly/blackwomeninvcYou can reach Sydney on Twitter at @sydneypaige10 and her on website, https://sydneypaigethomas.com/Check out more Airtable goodness | https://builtonair.com. Find the accompanying video for this episode here | https://youtu.be/PRefItolVOMBuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside, a premium provider of products and services supporting Airtable customers. | https://openside.com

Welcome to another episode of BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This week’s guest is Gareth Pronovost, founder and owner of GAP Consulting. Gareth is a financial analyst turned Airtable consultant based just outside of Denver, CO. He helps businesses optimize their Airtable setup to become organized and automated. Gareth discusses his path into this area of expertise and walks us through GAP Consulting’s Airtable-powered CRM he uses to manage his business.You can reach Gareth via GAP Consulting’s website, and also check out his Airtable Training YouTube channel.Check out more Airtable goodness at builtonair.com. Find the accompanying video to Gareth’s Airtable demo here.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside, a premium provider of products and services supporting Airtable customers. // https://openside.com

Welcome to another episode of BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.This episode’s guest is Ryan Jaccard, a freelancer who specializes in systems design using Airtable and Zapier. We talk with Ryan about his recent client work, and he gives us a demo of one of his personal Airtable projects, a base that runs an Academy Awards betting pool for increased Oscar night entertainment.You can reach Ryan via UpWork and LinkedIn.Check out more Airtable goodness at builtonair.com. Find the accompanying video to Ryan’s Airtable demo here.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside, a premium provider of products and services supporting Airtable customers. // openside.com

Welcome to the first episode of BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.Our first guest is Dan Fellars, founder of Openside, a premium provide of products and services supporting Airtable customers. Openside is also the founding sponsor for BuiltOnAir. Dan talks about the history of Openside and we take a peek at the Airtable Universe. Check out more Airtable goodness at builtonair.com. You can find the accompanying video to Dan’s Airtable Universe demo here.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. // openside.com