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Author: Vince Cabansag
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Why websites are still relevant in the age of AI
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), some have begun to question whether company websites are still necessary. As AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini influence how people find and interact with brands, are traditional websites losing their place in the marketing mix? In this conversation, Vincent Cabansag and Melanie Shirley, our heads…
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CrowdStrike: A lesson in IT process and incident response
CrowdStrike, a company we trust to keep our digital world safe, accidentally broke 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide. All at once. Just one incident. Let that sink in for a second. Airlines couldn’t fly. Banks couldn’t move money. Hospitals couldn’t treat patients. It’s like someone flipped a giant “off” switch for a quarter of the…
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Why workshops are the perfect way to start a project
We’re all familiar with the Goldilocks story, right? As she walked through the house she came upon in the forest, she kept trying things out. There was always a version that was too much/big/hot and a version that was too little/small/cold. And then there was her perfect fit, right in the middle. Workshops are like…
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Nancy Lyons appointed to Minnesota Governor’s Blue Ribbon Council on Information Technology
On Wednesday, March 6th, Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan announced their appointments to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Council on Information Technology. Clockwork CEO Nancy Lyons is included on the list of six people alongside Minnesota leaders from major corporations like Land O’ Lakes, TCF Bank, and Delta. The advisory group, made up of experts…
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Creating inclusive naming conventions in technology
In software development, we joke about the three hardest things being naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. But for the first one, it’s no joke. We’ve been naming things wrong. Naming conventions are steeped in racism and patriarchy. Master, slave, blacklist, whitelist — these aren’t just words. They’re relics of a mindset we need…
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Changing how we think about cybersecurity: Creating the attacker’s dilemma
I was at a conference recently at which Tim Crothers delivered the keynote. Tim has worked as a breach investigator for the better part of his career. He joined Target after their 2013 breach and currently leads their cyber security team. I got to hear him flip an information security paradigm on its head. “The defender’s…
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Introducing Vince Cabansag, our new Director of Technology
Clockwork recently hired Vince Cabansag, formerly of Chicago healthcare startup incubator MATTER, as Director of Technology. In his role, Vince will oversee Clockwork’s technology practice from operations to client innovation and delivery. Now that he’s been on the job for a few weeks, I asked him about the role, the industry, and – of course…
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Clockwork wins Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces award
For the second year in a row, Clockwork won Inc.’s national Best Workplaces award. With over 1,800 companies submitting surveys, we are proud to be among the 300 organizations that made the cut. What Makes Us (and the Other 299 Companies) So Great? As Inc. describes in their recap, “The survey covers topics such as…
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Well, Hello Further!
Further’s member portal is how their thousands of members access, interact, and engage with Further’s offerings: health finance products. This is an intimate and critical part of the members’ daily lives. We recognize that and were thoughtful about how we created a front-end framework that improved the members’ experiences and strengthened Further’s technical foundation. The…
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Level Up: A Leadership MVP
In January, Meghan McInerny, our COO, presented at the Deliver Conference in Manchester, England. The talk covered the complementary roles of managers and leaders, and why you may be a future leader (whether you know it yet, or not). Part how-to and part rallying cry, she talked about how to level up in the job you’ve…