Perficient colleagues are actively involved in supporting the communities in which they live and work. The team in the San Francisco office, for instance, often joins together to back philanthropic initiatives that are near and dear to each other, and in just the past couple months, they have volunteered at two notable organizations in their region. […]
Posts Tagged ‘community’
3 Perficient Consultants Talk About the Perks of Travel
“In the security line now. Hopefully I’ll be through by 11,” Zachary Fischer emailed me on a recent morning. We were scheduled to chat, and he was working in our phone conversation while waiting to catch a flight to his next project, a month-long stint in New Orleans. As a senior IBM technical consultant, Zachary […]
Hometown Huddle with St. Louis Rams Scores Big Points at Boys & Girls Club
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 […]
Perficient Co-Workers Bond Over Board Games
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 […]
Dreamforce: Community Cloud for Healthcare
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 […]
Building Better Futures with the St. Louis Rams
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 […]
Big Brothers Big Sisters App Wins 2nd Place at Hack4Colorado
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 […]
Perficient Invests in Team Members and Communities
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 […]
Perficient Team Bonds and Helps Others through Service Projects
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 […]
Perficient Employee Helps Mentor the Young Minds of Boston
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 […]
Eloqua Topliners : Doing Community Right
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 […]
Community done right: Eloqua Topliners for marketing
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 […]