‘Meet the Team’

February 15, 2010 at 11:08 am · Filed under Webby and what-not and tagged: Cheese, Cringe, Dragons Den, Meet the Team

I’ve spent the past 3 weeks, off and on of course, trying to think of innovate ways to display a ‘meet the team,’ area within a website and I have to say I’m stumped. I keep hitting the same brick wall over and over again and I’m starting to wonder if the reason why I’m finding such a simple task harder than the Winter Olympics comes from the fact I don’t actually see much value in this area of a website… at all!

Is this just me?? I have to say I rarely visit a meet the team page, if there is one available, and when I have done, for what-ever reason (before the likes of FB it was more often than not to be shown a picture of a friends latest Beau than for anything of actual benefit – go on admit it, we’ve all done this before!) I find they do little more than make me cringe! (Especially when some companies go as far to post photos of work Christmas do’s and ‘Team building’ exercises). Perhaps it is just me though. I fully admit, and have been told repeatedly, that I suffer from an over-active ‘cringe’ gland, I quite often find myself curled into a tight ball on the couch, squealing with pain during episodes of ‘Dragons Den’ and the like, so much so my housemates have actually banned me from watching it (why, WHY do they not take the financial information with them??!! Of course the questions are going to be asked!!).

Although, despite the earlier moan, in my recent travels I have come across some pretty funky meet the team ideas that remove the cheesy, cringy, tacky (and other negative) elements and replace them with ones that create interest and make me ‘like’ the people within the company already. Trouble is this means the limited solutions to my dilemma have all gone, and without wanting to plagiarize I truly am left with an idea that has the distinct smell of cheese… or me, reduced to a tightly wound ball on the floor every time I look at it. So what’s the solution? Is there really such a thing as a beneficial ‘Meet the Team’ page? Should we bother? Or is something, no matter how awful, better than nothing at all? 

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