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Category: Clockwork culture
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A day in my life as a software engineer at Clockwork
One question I always struggle to answer is “What does Clockwork do?” It’s not because I don’t know. It’s because we don’t do just one thing, or even just four things. We could say, “we build websites” or “we build mobile applications” or “we help you figure out how to best use technology.” Yes, we…
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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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Why we’re closed on Election Day
Because voting is so important, Clockwork is doing something we’ve never done before: we are going to close on election day. For me as a citizen, mother, and business owner, it’s important that as many people vote as possible. I don’t expect my colleagues — or the rest of the world — to share my politics, but…
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Minnesota Marketing Summit: 3 things I learned
The Minnesota Marketing Summit is a day long, panel-focused event that happened last week in downtown Minneapolis. It was a great opportunity to meet other marketing professionals, both from the client and brand side, as well as local agencies and vendors. It was a day full of great discussions about the marketing industry, with participants…
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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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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…
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The three stickiest lessons I learned at the Digital Summit MPLS
I attended the Digital Summit Minneapolis (#DSmpls) last month and now I want to share the three stickiest things I learned over the two-day conference. Use Purpose as an Inspiration for Content Mack Fogelson’s talk “Evolve to Survive: How Purpose and Authenticity is the Future of Brands,” was a real pick-me-up. I went in already believing that a purposeful…
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Businesses, it’s our turn to make a difference
This isn’t political. Really. I know that, at this moment in time, it’s hard for people on both sides of the aisle to set aside blame and emotions and frustration. But commerce, in one form or another, is universal — we all need it, we all want it, and we all participate in it. The…
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The unintended lesson in communication that I learned from getting t-boned
I was t-boned in the middle of a mild snowstorm after a driver failed to take a right turn accurately. He plowed into me, and my car was in need of significant repairs. I contacted my dealership and got a recommendation for a reputable shop that did high-end work because I wanted the fixes to…