We launched Pomegranite in the year that I turned 28. Which means that Pomegranite’s 12th birthday is also my 40th – just three days apart, if you’re counting.There’s nothing like a milestone birthday to make you think about the ways in which you
For almost as long as Pomegranite has been in existence, the annual Kingsmead Book Fair has been one of the highlights on our work calendar – a website we love furnishing with each new theme and author lineup; a social media calendar we delight in crafting; an event we
Display Purposes is, as they describe it, an “advanced Instagram tool to unleash your Instagram potential and get more eyes on your profile”.
On 25 September it will have been five years since Melissa’s first day at Pomegranite. Five whole years of her Monica Gellar-level efficiency, dead-pan humour, expert spreadsheet-ing, kind support, and “safe” hands. Could we be any luckier?
Pomegranite has been building school websites for more than 10 years, and they remain some of our favourite sites to create. When we approach a project like this, we do so very intentionally, starting with the question: How can we capture this school’s unique magic
The title of my most recent skills share was:Poetry. (Again, I know. Sorry. Sort of.)As you can see, it’s not the first time the team has been treated to a jaunt down this lane. My reasoning is not just that I love poetry. It’s that it’s
I had a conversation a few weeks ago that - not to be too dramatic - shifted the axis of my life a bit.It was with my friend Meg, and it was about self-care.Wait wait - I usually glaze over at the use of that
Last week, our Operations Manager, Melissa, sent a link to our “show-and-tell” Slack channel about Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023 - a term for “something we’re thinking about, writing about, aspiring to, and judging more than ever”.Forget the newest development in Taylor Swift’s
Twice in the last month, members of my team have said to me, some version of, “I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed - can we talk about it, please?”Why am I writing a blog about this? Because I think it’s amazing. Not that people feel overwhelmed
1 July 2023 marked 10 years since we started Pomegranite. It’s surreal.When Liz and I sat down a decade ago to write our business plan, we decided to pepper it with ways we would celebrate big milestones. For our 10th birthday, we thought, we’d have
Sometimes it really does feel like the right people cross paths with you at the perfect time.With Melissa’s promotion to Operations Manager at Pomegranite (the best thing to happen since Taylor Swift rerecorded her music for herself), we needed more project management capacity within the
It’s been so interesting seeing the different evolutions of Pomegranite over the years, as the business has grown, as the team has expanded, and as our lives have changed along with it all.This year has felt, more than any before, like a new era for