The Battle for Better Health Care
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 "The Battle for Better Health Care"
Author Archives: Hans Bjordahl
Bottom Align an Element with Flexbox
Pushing elements to the bottom of a container. This used to be a bit of a hassle before flexbox came along. You had to position the element absolutely, use negative placement, extra padding, and even after all that it all…
Health Care Despairia
How our small business wrestled excellent care from the jaws of the astonishingly absurd US health care system. Part 1: The descent. Continue reading "Health Care Despairia"
Core Values In Action: Delivery Showcase
What is a Delivery Showcase and why does it matter? One of our core values is delivery. From that post: We are scored on delivery. No excuses. No politics. No points for perfect problems. Clients care about business value delivered,…
The Culture Foundry Prove-It Contract
At Culture Foundry, we're trying a new hiring approach to create a "bridge opportunity" between an internship and a first paid coding job. We've come across a number of promising candidates who are right at that stage: Coding school /…
A Guide to the Google Ad Tech Universe
When Google rolled out a massive reorganization of its ad tech units (DoubleClick, AdWords and Analytics among them) into a single framework called Google Marketing Platform in July 2018, ad tech types were quick to talk about “GMP” like your…
Weeding Your Website: The Unglamorous but Essential Task of Regular Platform Updates
If you think of your website as a garden, outdated versions of your CMS (whether WordPress, Drupal, MODX or Craft) — and their associated outdated plugins or modules — are essentially the weeds. Thanks to the constant evolution of these…
Our Core Values: Why They Matter. How We Apply Them.
On the heels of establishing Culture Foundry’s core purpose as a company, articulating our core values was the next logical step. While arriving at a core purpose was surprisingly challenging, our list of core values came together surprisingly easily. This…
Aspects of a great “State of [insert company name here]” presentation
Every six months or so, the Culture Foundry management shares a "State of the Culture Foundry". Much like a "State of the Union" speech, this presentation covers a wide range of topics and pulls from all areas of the company.…
Meeting-Free Wednesdays
The maker and manager schedules are often at odds. In an agency like Culture Foundry, we keep Wednesday free of meetings. This allows everyone to be heads down and doing deep work for at least one day a week. I…
