Our “A”-list of Favorite Companies
We are always so inspired by the commitment to growth, inclusivity, and healthy work practices that Salesforce exemplifies every day via their amazing Salesforce Trailhead learning platform offerings. It’s a totally free and welcoming home base for so much high quality learning. Dig in and study up, around both the areas of great soft skills and hard skill growth too. Even if you’re not focused on a Salesforce centric career path - Salesforce Trailhead has so much learning and growth to offer as a take away for application to any and all modern career endeavors!
Pinterest is a fantastic source of inspiration for us. It enlightens in areas such as: trending color palette combinations, visual aesthetics, styling for marketing, and so much more. Pinterest shows us pretty things too, and things akin to what we already like.
The Trade Desk is an amazing advertising market innovator, and a disrupter of Google in oh such a good way. The Trade Desk is a demand-side (DSP), real-time, programmatic marketing, ad space buying platform - where you can buy advertisement publishing spots to show ads for your business or products.
SnagIT provides screenshot and video capture, in an app that’s a fan favorite to many - for Windows or Mac. SnagIT even makes easy work of motion GIF creations too. We also often use it to capture and document any website bugs or malfunctions we may encounter during official QA testing or beyond.
Monday.com is an all around, no-code, templated - build to order - cloud app framework - platform. Surprise yourself with what you can make it do for you! Are you using “Kanban” boards as often as you could be? Maybe you’ll also find new ways to do project management even better too.
Harvest is one of the nicest service-tracking and invoicing options in the cloud. Use Harvest to track time spent working on tasks! Project management Time tracking, Reports and analysis, Invoicing and payments - Harvest.
Mouseflow is a wonderful example of a super duper suite of website visitor Behavior Analytics tools. Website stake-holders can capture and play back customer website visitor sessions, showing website user browsing interactions, mouse activity, time spent, and other funneling factors. Mouseflow also offers you intuitions around optimizing website forms and really the entire user experience.
UserTesting is another top notch go-to for good quality user-experience (UX) deep dives. It’s great as an investigation tool - with real customer experience replays - for your own website and user interface designs.
Deque Systems provides industry leading A11Y (accessibility) education and training opportunities and Deque also offers a full array of website and app accessibility testing services. Go Deque!
Greater Good Magazine offers a wealth of fortifying and inspiring tips and guidance. Greater Good can be a great source for when you need a quick idea on uplifting directions you can take, or for when something inspirational feels right. You’ll find lots of mood-booster topics that may be of benefit. Take some time more often, and look for happiness.