Is it June already? Well, time flies when you’re having fun – and we had a lot of fun at our Shopify Tech Partners Meetup at the end of May. We had our friends in the UK tech scene down to our offices in Old Street for talks, tipples, and tech, plenty of networking, and only a tiny bit of gossip.

Culture vulture

This month we heard from Noel Andrews of Jobrack.eu. Noel is a master connector whose passion for bringing people together extends beyond his professional life. When he isn’t helping business owners find and hire team members from Eastern Europe, he’s throwing gatherings, parties, dinners, and events.

In his talk, ‘5 Ways to Build a Remote Team Culture’, he told us the secret to building a tight-knit squad of employees – even when they’re miles apart. From spending a lot of time together virtually to celebrating individual accomplishments as a team, there are small but meaningful actions any business owner can take to boost their company culture.

As Tony Hsieh, the former CEO of Zappos, says, ‘If you get the culture right, most of the other stuff will just take care of itself.’