#taskant

[kamydrawstuffs]

🌸Cherry Summer's Promise: Impossible Tasks of The Heart High school AU of Taskmaster and Black Ant. Uh...I can explain. No I can't. Sorry. XDDDD This is a collection of some screenshot redrawings in order to fit my High School AU that I have stuck in my head.

[kamysketchstuff]

Why can't we ever have nice things?

Even if a Taskmaster/Black Ant mini-series might not appeal Marvel executives…what about we add Deadpool in the mix? Will it work then? 👉👉✨✨✨

[spiritsglade]

maybe i WILL actually finish of all the things to fear... maybe i will... gotta reread that one spiderman arc so i can continue my taskant bullshit but then.... smile. i need to make the entire story less soldier-centric i think i do Naught care about that guy enough to justify writing like a 15k word long story about him. sorry. my beautiful midnight mission post-vengeance of the moon knight taskant casefic i am thinking of you always.

[tonyarcher97]

Auditing the technology of FSU’s Creative Services

Regardless of whether you work in a university department, college, school, center, institute, or office, “an internal [technology] audit offers you crucial insights into your computing system’s overall functionality, potential security risks and various possible solutions available” (Dunkelberger, 2016). These insights are increasingly important to administrative units that rely heavily on technology.  

Welcome to Creative Services

Creative Services (part of the Office of University Communications) was established in 2012 to serve the graphic design, web design, and photography needs of Florida State University. Creative Services produces a wide variety of products annually including recruitment materials, websites, alumni publications, annual reports, and event photographs. Based on the nature of the work produced by Creative Services, the office depends almost exclusively on technology to complete daily tasks.  

Current Technology

A thorough technology audit was conducted on the graphic design branch of Creative Services the week of July 17, 2017. A copy of the results of that audit can be found online.  

The technology audit was completed with the assistance of Marc Thomas, assistant director of Creative Services, and multimedia design specialists Amanda Hartsfield and Benjamin Moten.

The audit reveals that the design branch of Creative Services has the essential tools necessary to do the day-to-day work of the office, but many opportunities exist to streamline operations. Also, while most of the technology is relatively new (purchased within the last two or three years), color calibrating monitors and the printer should be considered since school color accuracy is so vital to colleges and universities.

Designing in the Cloud

Without question, the biggest use of technology in Creative Services’ graphic design area is the Adobe Creative Cloud. This suite of software programs allows each employee to perform their primary job function: creating designs.

The Adobe Creative Cloud—commonly considered the industry standard—has many strengths. One such strength is the software’s subscription-based structure that routinely updates and ensures that employees always have access to the latest version of each software program.

Because of the popularity of Adobe Creative Cloud within the design community, many training opportunities exist for the various programs including hundreds of free online courses offered to FSU through Lynda.com.

Adobe Creative Cloud is also incredibly customizable, allowing employees to manipulate software settings for a tailored workflow based on individual needs.

As powerful as the software is, the audit revealed improvements Creative Services can make to more fully exploit the software’s capabilities. For example, customizing settings (as mentioned above) could create shortcuts and increase an employee’s efficiency.

Creative Services can also use Adobe Creative Cloud to more effectively down-sample images to preserve storage space. Storage space at Creative Services is always at a premium since they work with multi-gigabyte files.

Creative Services can also explore additional Creative Cloud programs (i.e. Adobe Bridge) that could assist with font, image, and file management.

Being the primary software tool for Creative Services, most attention is paid to supporting Adobe Creative Cloud. Still, it became apparent during this audit that there are other technologies that could also benefit this unit.

Improving Workflow with Technology

As stated earlier, the mission of Creative Services is to create designs for the university and the primary tool for accomplishing that objective is Adobe Creative Cloud. However, Adobe Creative Cloud does not encapsulate the entire graphic design process. The four key segments of this process include:

Job Requests & Kickoff: How teams process incoming project requests and assign resources and priorities

Project Management: How teams monitor the status of projects and deadlines

Review & Approval Process: How teams manage the routing of proofs for review and maintain version control

Metrics & Reporting: How teams track key performance metrics to improve productivity. (Munz, 2016)

Creative Services currently uses a hodgepodge of tools to address each of these segments. For example, incoming projects are submitted through various sources (email, web forms, hallway conversations, texts, etc.). Munz (2016) recommends “develop[ing] a formal request process and adhere[ing] to it” (para. 5). An on-campus resource worth exploring is SharePoint Online, a product of Microsoft Office 365 and available through FSU’s Information Technology Services (“Service Catalog,” 2017). This product could allow for a centralized location to capture job requests.

Project management is extremely important at Creative Services and there has always been a project management system in place to track the hundreds of assignments that come through this office. Originally, TaskAnt was used, then Go, then Asana, and currently the team uses MeisterTask. This program works well for sharing information and balancing work assignments, yet does not require a large time commitment to be effective. It is recommended that the Creative Services team continues to use MeisterTask for project management.

The review and approval process at Creative Services consists mainly of generating PDFs from one of the Adobe Creative Cloud programs and emailing (if file size is small) or sending through the FSU Dropbox (if file size it large). After that, there is no formal structure in place for how clients review and approve designs. Tools like LayerVault, DesignSignoff, or Pixelapse could be used “to collaborate with your design team, present design options and the ideas behind your work, and handle version control” (Hodge, 2015).

Finally, Creative Services does not currently have any metrics or reporting mechanisms established to improve productivity, but time tracking data could be captured and analyzed to assist with those efforts. Common tracking applications worth exploring include Harvest, Toggl, and Everhour (Cowan, 2016).  

Going Social

Finding time for traditional engagement on social media through platforms like Facebook or Twitter have proven difficult given Creative Services’ typically heavy workload. However, Creative Services does create content for the university and finding an appropriate platform to share that content (and encourage engagement with the content) could benefit the university. Therefore, it is recommended that the university create an institutional issuu account where these publications can be hosted and shared with the world.  

Conclusion

Looking holistically at the entire workflow system in Creative Services highlights many opportunities for technological upgrades. Many of the recommendations in this report (streamlining operations, finding shortcuts) are in service of building capacity and allowing Creative Services to service more clients. In addition, promoting the work produced by the office through social engagement can have benefits as well.

References

Cowan, K. (2016, June 23). 10 of the best time tracking tools for freelancers [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.creativeboom.com/resources/10-of-the-best-time-tracking-tools-for-freelancers

Dunkelberger, D. (2016, April 12). Top 5 benefits of an internal audit for your company [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.ispartnersllc.com/blog/top-5-benefits-internal-audit-company

Hodge, S. (2015, February 24). 55 time-saving, productive workflow tips for designers [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/55-time-saving-productive-workflow-tips-for-designers--cms-23401

Munz, R. (2016, March 16). Implementing best practices for creative workflow management [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://gdusa.com/career/implementing-best-practices-for-creative-workflow-management

Service Catalog. (2017). Florida State University. Retrieved from https://its.fsu.edu/service-catalog

[skynetsolutions]

TaskAnt Review

Any company needing to assign various tasks to several different employees knows that using email as a primary way of task management may not be very efficient. For Skynet Solutions, Inc. our email client didn't support conversations, and after a few replies, it was easy for a task to get lost, or be categorized incorrectly. To help remedy this situation, Skynet decided to use a newer technology called TaskAnt, which is an online task managing application. We have used TaskAnt for a few weeks now, and here are some comments on the software.

After registering, we all had a few issues with logging in. The administrators set it up so we have our own virtual directory. This is nice since we can link to this directory compared to having other employees and some of our clients log in from the main Task Ant website.

Anybody can create a task, assign it to a person, set a due date and priority, and add comments. We realized the best way to handle “completed” tasks was to assign it back to the original creator for them to check. We simply add a few comments with what we did, or what other information we may need. Being relatively new, I still found a few bugs. Often when clicking through links, the program grays out and stops working. Because you don't get very deep on the site, simply refreshing isn't a huge downfall. Also, it claims only admins can create tasks, however a user account can create them as well, which has proven helpful, but not exactly how they advertised it. There are a few suggestions we at Skynet Solutions, Inc. would love to implement. However, at the same time TaskAnt aims to make this a simple “to-do repository,” and it does a wonderful job at that. So that being said, we could try and make extensions to our browsers but it would be difficult to implement across all employees and the few select clients who are allowed to assign tasks directly.

All-in-all, we are satisfied with TaskAnt and the benefits it offers. It is a much more efficient way to organize and assign jobs. It helps keep our personnel on the same page even though they may work from different locations. Lastly, it is easy to use.

(Source: Skynet Solutions)

By Blaine Schmeisser

[shutdown-like-a-boss]

TaskAnt: [sparanoid] Account will be closed.

Dear Tunghsiao Liu,

We are sorry to notify you that your account will be closed in less than a week as we're shutting down TaskAnt.

Once your account is closed, none of your team members will be able to access your account. So we recommend you export your account's data as soon as possible using the following link:

https://taskant.com/sparanoid/#/settings/account

If you encounter any problem, please contact support@taskant.com.

Thanks!

Sincerely, TaskAnt Team

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[kamydrawstuffs]

Taskmaster and Black Ant have a Summer Beach Day Mission. ✨They will probably do their best on it. ✨

[kamydrawstuffs]

Previously on…🌸Cherry Summer's Promise: Impossible Tasks of The Heart

Uh-Oh! It seems that Tasky-chan's outburst from kicking Spidey's butt from the last episode caused a little recognition from the wrong crowd!

Moon Knight has NO CHILL against Taskmaster in EVERY UNIVERSE I GUESS!

[kamydrawstuffs]

🌸Cherry Summer's Promise: Impossible Tasks of The Heart

A really silly highschool AU featuring Taskmaster (Tasky-chan) and Eric. This is how they met! I'm just playing with this multiverse idea Marvel set up, okay? So, technically, this is canon somewhere. XD

[kamydrawstuffs]

(Comic) Taskmaster- "Back From Hell" Taskmaster is back after getting lost in Hell with Deadpool. Only problem is that he was supposed to be somewhere with a certain someone. A little Follow-Up from the last short

[kamydrawstuffs]

It was 2 AM here when I drew these two…being really good roommates. You can tell which one had my full attention.

Finally, Spider-Man does something right this time. 😂

[kamydrawstuffs]

For any Taskmaster enjoyer out there. :3

This is a fanscript, which I wanted to test it out!

[kamysketchstuff]

Okay, but this is the LAST preview I'll show of this until it's done. I'll just have to restrain from showing any more.🤣 Can someone please fact-check me if there has been Black Ant animation before this? I don't want to be the first one... [image or embed]— KamyDraws / OPEN FOR WORK (@kamydraws.bsky.social) September 13, 2024 at 3:10 PM

[spiritsglade]

only 9 taskant fics on ao3........ much to contemplate...

[kamydrawstuffs]

And now...the flashback arc. Tasky-chan can't get over her feeling over the new student at her school. Childhood friend Deadpool gives her some love advice.

🌸Cherry Summer's Promise: Impossible Tasks of The Heart High school AU of Taskmaster and Black Ant. Uh...I can explain. No I can't. Sorry. XDDDD This is a collection of some screenshot redrawings in order to fit my High School AU that I have stuck in my head.