Posts Tagged ‘community’

When baseball coaches Martin Luther Mathews and the late Hubert “Dickey” Ballentine shook hands in 1960, they embarked on a shared dream that their teams would have a place to play that was just as safe and respectable as others in the St. Louis region. The two men founded Mathews-Dickey Boys’ & Girls’ Club, and […]

On his lunch break, Javed Ahamed often plays chess with a couple co-workers. One day he noticed other colleagues taking interest, and he got to thinking: “I have a bunch of board games at home, and I’ve always wanted people to play them with.” So, he launched a “game night” and invited the entire office […]

All this week I’m at Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce conference.  Salesforce has come a long way with their platform and they’ve recently introduced Community Cloud.  Community Cloud is an evolution of their portal product and includes many features that we see in other enterprise-class, horizontal portals. We are seeing a lot of interest in portals from […]

On Wednesday, Perficient announced our partnership with the St. Louis Rams: Perficient will receive marketing and corporate engagement opportunities, while the Rams will leverage Perficient’s deep technology solutions and application development expertise to improve football operations. Core to the relationship is a joint commitment to several important community-oriented initiatives. We began our partnership by working […]

Hack4Colorado is part of a series of events located all over the country that encourages technical professionals to pool their talents to create much-needed digital tools for nonprofit organizations.  During the last weekend of May Perficient’s Tom Marrs and Xiao Liang donated their time and joined developers of all ages to create a Sports Buddies App […]

Blog contribution from business consultant Max Milhan of Perficient’s Denver office. Lots of companies are trying to figure out what makes millenials tick. Why are the strategies for recruiting and retaining this demographic different? Recent studies shed some light on what millenials expect from a job, and one of the top items was a focus on […]

Liz Kennedy, a Lead Business Consultant in Denver, shares how a great work/life balance has provided her some rewarding opportunities. You know how there never seem to be enough hours in the day to finish everything you’d like to accomplish?  Fortunately for me, I’ve found a way to “kill two birds with one stone” by […]

Eric Walk, a Senior Technical Consultant with Perficient has served as a mentor with Minds of Boston for the past three years. The organization helps passionate and driven high school students from low income households gather the tools and guidance they need to help them continue their path to college. Eric was inspired to join the organization […]

Mark Polly, Sales Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog on Oracle Eloqua Topliners, an excellent tool for building communities. Marketing automation is a hot topic today, but can be very confusing.  There have been a lot of entrants to the market in the last few years, with lots of features coming online daily.  In […]

Marketing automation is a hot topic today, but can be very confusing.  There have been a lot of entrants to the market in the last few years, with lots of features coming online daily.  In addition, marketing tools rarely stand alone and need to be integrated into your website, your portal, your social communities and […]

“Where were you when…” is a familiar start to discussing major recent historic events. In the wake of the news about Osama bin Laden’s death, “Where were you when you heard the news of his death?” is now being asked and discussed in many forum. I realized that for me the most apt answer is […]

I recently met with a group of physicians to discuss connecting to communities and use of social media (SM). There was agreement for the need and indeed a desire to communicate and interact more frequently with patients. There was agreement on the need to use tools that many in the community are using to interact […]