Last weekend, the Singlebrook team gathered to host an Open Source Volunteer Day. - We invited Drupal and Rails developers from the Ithaca area, and a few good people showed up to join us for a fun, productive Saturday of coding (and...
I recently returned from the B Corp Champion’s Retreat. About 300 leaders from all over the world gathered in Boulder, CO to reflect on how business can be a force for good. Companies such as Etsy, Patagonia, Klean Kanteen,...
The SXSW panel picker just went live. Please vote for our B Corp panel and help spread the word. Our panel will feature: Randy Paynter from Care2, Charlotte Rademaekers from Call2Action and Dirk Sampselle from B Revolution. Elisa Miller-Out from...
I recently had the opportunity to run a Lean Startup workshop for the Kessler Program at the Cornell School of Engineering. It was my first time running a workshop on Lean methods, so it was a bit of an experiment for me and I...
Several members of our team recently participated in the annual Rails Rumble, a programming competition in which teams made up of 1-4 people have 48 hours to build a Ruby on Rails-based web application. After a weekend of...
The saying "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" still resonates with me, trite as it may be. I read about the literary origins of the phrase on Wikipedia and was also amused by computer scientist, John McCarthy's...
This week in Singlebrook Lab, we continued to explore whether there's a need for a new product that would improve the requirements gathering process for Agile web and mobile development projects. After several conversations...
We spent our last Lab session pitching away. The first half was spent doing a pitch for one of the pivots that came out of our requirements gathering product idea. It's a tool that's designed to help manage the Lean process. (I...
In our most recent Lab session, we worked on a product idea that revolves around the process of gathering requirements for a software project. The two other product ideas we had been exploring have been purged from Lab. We did some mini-pitches to...
Singlebrook launched the first product to come out of our product incubator program, Singlebrook Lab, in April at the Non-profit Technology Conference (NTC). WhatCanI.Do is currently in free public beta! WhatCanI.Do, is a mobile web app that allows non-profit organizations to quickly and easily set up a custom-branded, mobile-optimized donation site. We are utilizing the “Lean” methodology throughout the development process for WhatCanI.Do, and taking a crowdsourced approach to gathering data about what features to include in the app.
During NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), April 3-5 in San Francisco, Singlebrook will be launching the beta version of our mobile web product, WhatCanI.Do. WhatCanI.Do allows nonprofit organizations to build a mobile donation site in seconds! To coincide with the beta launch, we will be doing a Live Build at NTC! The Live Build involves asking nonprofit representatives to try out the WhatCanI.Do user experience and provide their feedback, including requests for additional features. We’re taking a crowdsourced approach to developing the next phase of WhatCanI.Do, and the Live Build is a key step in this process! The Live Build will take place throughout the conference and at booth #61 at the Science Fair. We hope to see you there! Visit WhatCanI.Do to learn more and/or sign up for a free trial!