Purpose | At the start of this year, Culture Foundry started a trial run at a 4-day workweek. The rationale can be found in our original post on the topic. The parameters of the trial: Move toward a 32-hour week, not “four 10s”Do the trial at a “50% level,” i.e. 4-day workweeks … | Continue reading
Purpose | In 2022, Culture Foundry is going to make a run at the 4-day workweek. We leaked this news in promoting a recent job posting, and it’s sparked a lot of questions: How did we arrive at this decision? How are we planning to implement it? And why are we “making a run at it … | Continue reading
Technology | What type of Content Management System (CMS) do you need for your organization’s website? Determining what kind of website you want to create and who will | Continue reading
Technology | Starting a new project? Here are a couple of criteria that can help you choose technologies that won't feel like a burden to future you. For any task that | Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw once said; “the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” From this quote, come the following tips & tricks to help with client communication as a remote project manager | Continue reading
Purpose | How our small business wrestled excellent care from the jaws of the astonishingly absurd health care system. Part 2: The battle for better health care. | Continue reading
Technology | Every field has their own language that takes time and effort to master. The tech world is no exception. | Continue reading
Digital Agency Life | Asking questions is a virtue, or at least it should be. When I was a young preteen, I asked one of the smartest older boys that I knew what made him so | Continue reading
In the digital agency world, strategy is a powerful concept that consumes so many of our conversations around process, design, and technology choices. | Continue reading
One language feature I love in Swift, and in Objective-C before it, is how its function signatures include the name of the function and its arguments. In Swift, | Continue reading
One of the final steps of any job interview with Culture Foundry is "The Talk". (We don't call it "The Talk" internally, it's just how I think of it.) "The Talk | Continue reading
Last year, a cool new feature was introduced called Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) which can be used to snapshot your EBS disks. This was previously possib | Continue reading
It’s never fun nor easy to say goodbye to a client, but it is still an opportunity to shine. | Continue reading
Sometimes you just want to get all the records for all the domains you have hosted at Route 53. You might want to look through them for some setting or anomaly. | Continue reading
“A website is a living thing” is an oft-cited aphorism around the Culture Foundry #water-cooler, a concept that extends handily to one of the least glamorous but most essential maintenance tasks in the digital world: regular platform updates. | Continue reading
We are heavy users of Trello. We are heavy automators of Trello. Previously, we had custom software which did automation of Trello tasks. Things like sorting an | Continue reading
Code review is a key part of our development process. All code changes should go through code review before they are released. Sometimes it feels hard to justif | Continue reading
Slack might be a source of constant distraction and even frustration for you or your co-workers, but by implementing some general guidelines and thinking in different ways about how we “slack”, can make it a valuable resource for knowledge sharing and team organization. | Continue reading
We use a variety of tools, but more important than the tools are the rituals. Some of these are company wide meetings and some are one on one meetings. But a very important meeting is | Continue reading
Culture Foundry creates beautiful technology that connects people with transformative experiences: web, mobile, and social. Our clients include Bonnie Raitt, the Kentucky Derby, Home Power Magazine, Jackson Browne, and the Esalen Institute. Our offices are located in Austin, Boul … | Continue reading
Our Core Purpose: Connect the World with Beautiful Technology | Continue reading
Our Core Purpose: Connect the World with Beautiful Technology | Continue reading
Weeding Your Website: The Unglamorous but Essential Task of Regular Platform Updates | Continue reading
Culture Foundry creates beautiful technology that connects people with transformative experiences: web, mobile, and social. Our clients include Bonnie Raitt, the Kentucky Derby, Home Power Magazine, Jackson Browne, and the Esalen Institute. Our offices are located in Austin, Boul … | Continue reading
The Brief History of SEO and Why It Matters to Your Site.. or Does It? | Continue reading
Culture Foundry creates beautiful technology that connects people with transformative experiences: web, mobile, and social. Our clients include Bonnie Raitt, the Kentucky Derby, Home Power Magazine, Jackson Browne, and the Esalen Institute. Our offices are located in Austin, Boul … | Continue reading
Culture Foundry creates beautiful technology that connects people with transformative experiences: web, mobile, and social. Our clients include Bonnie Raitt, the Kentucky Derby, Home Power Magazine, Jackson Browne, and the Esalen Institute. Our offices are located in Austin, Boul … | Continue reading