Technology
Senior Software Engineer – a great job in Socially Relevant Software.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Posted on behalf of a great colleague:
Senior Software Engineer – Backend Web Development
Front Seat (www.frontseat.org) is a two-year-old software company created to exploit the power of technology to positively impact civic life. Front Seat is a rare opportunity to work with a world-class software team where social benefit is the top priority. We’re looking for […]
Advantive Tracks Carbon Emissions with World Resources Institute
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008(Washington DC) World Resources Institute is one of America’s leading environmental think tanks. WRI partnered with Advantive to improve the usability of their complex and lengthy Mobile Emissions Toolkit. This Excel package is the global “gold standard” by which organizations to quantify and track their global carbon emissions from vehicle and transportation. Advantive recommended a ton of user experience improvements to […]
Tech companies wake up to traffic nightmare
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Traffic across Lake Washington is a daily nightmare. This is why Advantive embraces alternative commute strategies like public transport, carpooling, and telecommuting. IT workers do work with their minds, and the capital they use in the form of servers, networks, and software, is portable to anywhere in the world. I have been saying for years, if […]
To go green in jet fuel, Boeing looks at algae
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Once reluctant to believe that alternative energy made any sense in jet airplanes, Boeing now ponders how to take the biofuels revolution off the ground.
The world’s largest airplane maker is working with fuel developers from around the world to find the holy grail of alternative fuels: one that will shrink jet flight’s substantial environmental footprint […]
The Future of the Workplace: No Office, Headquarters in Cyberspace
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007The Future of the Workplace: No Office, Headquarters in Cyberspace
Some Companies Don’t Care Where Workers Are as Long as They Get the Job Done
By BETSY STARK
ABC NEWS Business Correspondent
Aug. 27, 2007 —
Imagine a work world with no commute, no corporate headquarters and perhaps not even an office in the physical world at all.
For Bob Flavin, […]
Highrise - Web 2.0 CRM
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Advantive has been doing a trial adoption of a hosted CRM technology called Highrise (http://www.highrisehq.com), from the makers of BaseCamp. It’s a web 2.0 contact management system, with the capability to tag people with your own categories, set follow up reminders that are emailed or texted to your mobile phone, and email correspondence directly into your contact […]