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May 13, 2012 | Rob Burke: Behind The Scenes – Timelapse Product Shoot

As part of the Doosan shoot in Tucson (yeah, it’s fun to say) we shot two product timelapse’s of Doosan’s excavator and dump truck. With perfect weather and perfect stars, the desert was a perfect place to pull it off

May 09, 2012 | Alyssa Dahl: Listening then acting in Real Time

The importance of Social Media Listening is nothing new. However, it’s important not to forget how to listen and turn what you’re listening to into action. For the basics of social media listening, please refer to this post.  In this blog today, I want to talk about how to use that information you gain from listening.

March 27, 2012 | Alyssa Dahl: Importance to Engage in Real Time

Towards the end of February, Sundog held an event at the Plains Art Museum called Social.Mobile.Cloud. Sponsored by Sanford Health, Sundog partnered with Salesforce and Google who brought representatives to speak at the afternoon gathering.

March 26, 2012 | Danielle Naboulsi: Live Blog: Best Company To Work For, Part 2

Sundog was just named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work for the second year in a row! Follow along as I live blog the day’s events.

March 26, 2012 | Brent Teiken: Getting Culture Right

Hundreds of books and thousands of articles are written about corporate culture – from how to define it, design it and improve it, to how to survive it, change it and lead it. Culture is a tricky thing, and when it starts to go bad in the eyes of the employee(s), something like this can happen.

But other companies like Google, Facebook and Zappos continually redefine the idea of office, work and career. They’re getting culture right. In fact, Zappos is so dedicated to its culture and core purpose of “Delivering Happiness” that the company has a bus tour and website to promote it.

March 21, 2012 | Alyssa Dahl: What Social Media can do for a Business

After analyzing, demoing and listening to reps for multiple social listening tools, Radian6 has been our choice for social listening and engaging for the past year and a half. I have worked in the tool for multiple clients and using it more towards its full potential each day.

February 23, 2012 | Danielle Naboulsi: Live Blog: The Social Mobile Cloud Event

Get a play-by-play of the 2012 Social Mobile Cloud Event with presentations from Sundog, Salesforce and Google representatives.

December 28, 2011 | Craig Isakson: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part Three of the SS Sundog Journey

Now that I had a fully functioning, and maybe the first of its kind, weather balloon tracking/photo-taking app, I was ready to send it off. I figured I better clear it with my boss to make sure it was all right to send my phone off into space. I am not sure if he quite believed what I was going to do but he was on board saying something along the lines of “You break it, you bought it.” With that green light, I ordered a 300-gram weather balloon off eBay and a 24” nylon parachute from Amazon.com. I used a piece of left over 1-1/2” Styrofoam insulation, some Plexiglas and zip-ties to build a box to house the phone. I sandwiched the phone in between two pieces of the insulation and cut out a hole for the camera to be able to take pictures.

December 27, 2011 | Craig Isakson: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part Two of the SS Sundog Journey

Having already built a number of Android applications, the process was familiar to me. But I did need to research using the GPS, camera, sending SMS messages, and creating a background service to run everything. The biggest obstacles were determining the best way to create and handle the loops that had to occur and getting the camera to work inside a service.

December 22, 2011 | Craig Isakson: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part One of the SS Sundog Journey

As technology continues to expand, we are rewarded with affordable and sophisticated pieces of hardware that would have made any tech geek beyond excited just a few short years ago. This series of blog posts will chronicle my experience with some standard pieces of technology (by today’s standards) and how I used my imagination to push the limits of these devices to achieve a goal I dreamed about as a kid.

September 19, 2011 | Damie Berkey: New Team Member At 29 Stories

29 Stories would like to welcome Lynlee Espeseth to the team!  Lynlee comes to us with a background in publishing and will be our Content Assistant working to help ensure that our content, and yours, is in tip-top shape!

September 07, 2011 | David Held: Happiness as an Indicator of Project Success

As a business analyst it is my goal to detail the business processes that are impacted when implementing new technologies.  Through the use of persona development, we often identify the key users of the new processes and how they will act and react when engaging in a new website or CRM solution. It is these personas that our creative and development teams use when they are creating the wire-frames and technology recommendations to ensure the goals of the project are consistent with the traits of each user. These personas look at the end customer.  There is a tone of accomplishment when developing these personas in that any solution we recommend should create a positive experience for each identified persona.

I read an article over the weekend about the aspect of employee happiness as a key contributor to productivity. It details how a happy employee is more productive, creative and generally more motivated. In the research from the article, I find it compelling that by adding the lens of happiness as it relates to employees that are impacted by our technology recommendations, we can drive success not only in the specific project we are working on, but throughout the organization.