The Weekly Sett: The future IT department, GDPR, banking, and Dr. AI
This week we’ve been reading about the future of tech jobs, GDPR (sorry, sorry), and sharing some hilarious tweets. Enjoy.
Why Red Badger is promoting web accessibility and why we need your help.
Accessibility is a subject close to our hearts and we think we can’t shout enough about this so often ignored topic. So last Thursday, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we concentrated all our forces on raising awareness for this important subject.
Find out why we believe it’s important, what we did and why we think businesses are missing out on a huge opportunity.
Red Badger - eight years and maturing nicely
It is crazy that three years have already passed since I was writing a similar blog post to this, celebrating Red Badger turning 5. In that previous post I started by mentioning how time goes so quickly and that still rings true. I cannot believe it has been 8 years since Stu, Dave and I started this company.
Have you stretched your mind this week?
Everyone knows how good you feel after a workout. The positive effect movement has on mental health is well proven. Yoga specifically is being offered as a complementary treatment to psychotherapy. To me, yoga has had great impact on both my mental and physical health.
The Weekly Sett: Mental Health, Accessibility, Netflix, Royal Coding and Sunburns
This week has been a busy week one for the news agenda. It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Thursday marked Global Accessibility Awareness Day and on Saturday it’s the Royal Wedding. We’ve been sifting through the news to pick out some of the stories which caught our eye this week.
Let’s talk about mental health
Mental health is a topic close to many badger’s hearts and last year we collectively nominated Mind as our company charity. Since then, we’ve been working to become a mentally healthy workforce; reducing the stigma associated with mental health and normalising discussions about mental health and wellbeing.
The Weekly Sett: Google, tech diversity and DevOps
Despite the glorious weather, we somehow managed to read some great articles this week, check them out below.
The Weekly Sett: TSB, IT skills and some dodgy photoshopping
Read the latest round-up of the news that caught our attention in the last week.
The Weekly Sett: Digital Transformation, Flexible Working, and Vegemite
We’ve been scouring the web for all the best stories from culture and opinions, to tech and business news. Here’s what we found interesting this week.
Moving mountains for communities in Kenya
It's been three years since Red Badger launched the Haller app for the Haller Foundation. Read what we we've been up to so far.
A day out with Red Badger’s UXD team
A big hammer, talcum powder, salad, a cat, kite flying and a brewery tour. Find out what we got up to on our 2018 UXD away day.
The Weekly Sett - Accessibility, Badgers and Business Transformation
We’ve decided to launch a weekly blog with some articles that interest us, and hopefully you. From culture and opinions to tech and business news, we’re going to share five articles that have interested us in the last week.
Agile culture: Empowering teams for success
Old-fashioned command-and-control ways of operating simply do not cut it anymore. These days, it’s all about creating an agile culture and adaptive management to get the most out of your team.
London React Meetup - March 2018
This month's meetup was once again held at the Facebook office. With the pizza and drinks arriving in good time everyone tucked in and got chatting.
A fireside chat with Viktor Charypar and Paul Frazee
Last week we invited Paul Frazee, co-founder of Beaker Browser to speak at our very first We love meet up about peer to peer. Our Tech Lead Viktor 'e-met' Paul via twitter when his blog 'The end of the cloud: A truly serverless web' went viral. We asked them to pick up their conversation about peer-to-peer and the end of the cloud in our Badger HQ so we could share their thoughts and opinions with you.
Stop Press: We're the 181st fastest growing company in Europe as featured in FT1000
The Financial Times and Statista teamed up to identify 1000 European companies with the strongest sales growth between the years 2013 and 2016. We’re excited to announce that we've been included and are in 181st place.
Plastic is not fantastic
In January 2018, on a holiday in Thailand, my husband and I saw the terrible effect plastic waste is having on our oceans and beaches. We decided to give up disposable plastic for lent; from eating, to shopping, to cleaning and everything in between, we tried to cut out all plastic waste from our lives. Here’s how we got on.
There’s no (P) I in Team. But there is a me.
Ever thought about using a psychometric test to help with a team building day? We used Predictive Index to help the Brand, Sales and Marketing team at Red Badger get to know each other better and discover the over arching strengths and weaknesses of the team as a whole.
We love peer to peer web
Last Wednesday, we hosted the first meetup under our new tech community brand welovetech.london. The idea is to host regular meetups, each with a different theme. The theme might be a particular framework or language or it could be something broader like “music and tech”.