The What A hackathon is a design sprint-like event in which participants work together over a short period of time to create real functioning software. The Goal Solve a known Verblio business/user problem using technology. Demo the solution at the end of the week. Be judged. Not-so-secret-other-goal: Nurture the spirit of innovation across our company….
Read MoreWe’re word people, and the global pandemic has spawned a lot of new words and phrases. For example, what do you call the process of giving your pets professional titles? Are those pawmotions? There was an SNL sketch in the 80s about “sniglets” – words that ought to be words but aren’t. (Sniglet is itself…
Read MoreBut first, poetry from a ten year old As a child, I was exceptionally good at rhyming and making up fake song lyrics. I had no idea this would one day serve me as copywriter for a company called Verblio. Now I get to send business emails with subject lines like this: I can explain. And…
Read MoreWe are more alike than we are different 36% of our team attended INBOUND and 21% of our team attended Burning Man this year. We were going to make a Venn diagram comparing the two, but then we realized it would look more like a solar eclipse than a Venn diagram. Sure, corporate branded t-shirts…
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