Reclaiming the Promise and Power of Tech Why do we use it? “Vibes” have been a cultural through line of late, and let’s face it, in the last year or so, the vibes in tech have been…not great. The early promise of tech solutions has given way…
5 Solutions to Ensure Your Large Website Project Succeeds I recently sat down for a podcast interview with Sanchit Thakur, CEO of Illuminz and host of the Illuminz Insights podcast, on the topic of large website and software projects, the ways in which they’re always trying to fail, and…
The Future of Tech: Report from the National Center for Women & Information Technology 2024 Summit As members of the National Center for Women & Information Technology’s (NCWIT) Workforce Alliance, Culture Foundry gets the opportunity to attend NCWIT’s invaluable annual Summit. We’re also proud to call NCWIT a client (since 2019), and while Zoom meetings get…
We Love(d) Our Don Add up a few years and bad things will happen, but this one hits close to home. Don Wrege was a Culture Foundry original, there at the very start of the company along with me, Trevor and Colin. It wasn’t…
Web3: The Good, the Bad and the Now What? Web3 has captured a mighty amount of buzz of late, both good and bad. As you plan your future digital strategy and roadmap, you may be wondering whether Web3 should be a factor in your plans. The answer for the…
We Made a Trial Run at a 4-Day Workweek. Here’s What Happened. 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…
Culture Foundry Is Making a Run at the 4-Day Workweek 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…
Election Day Is a Holiday at Culture Foundry Earlier this year, as part of a set of actions inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, we made Election Day a company holiday at Culture Foundry. Specifically, the U.S. General Election Day each November will be a paid day…
Proclamation to Destination: Our Road from #BlackLivesMatter to Action When, sparked by George Floyd’s murder, the Black Lives Matter movement went powerfully mainstream, #BlackLivesMatter proclamations flew fast and furious, along with heartfelt pledges of action. Here’s one from June 14, 2020: “What we say here as a company is…
A Website Is Not a Campaign I go to the website of what I know to be a great, integral company and find a sad, hollowed-out experience that couldn’t be farther from the mark. I’d ask “what happened here?” but I know what happened here because…