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How We Connect Our Engineers Directly To Buffer Customers with Customer Engineering Days

Buffer Social

It was an awesome bonding experience and a great way to bring everyone across the company–from the People Team, to Engineers, Designers, and Finance–closer to customers. Each team member had at least one Customer Quality Time session scheduled during the year, but our Design, Engineering, and Product Teams had three to four.

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A marketer’s guide to natural language processing (NLP)

Sprout Social

Natural language processing (NLP) is an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that helps a computer understand and interpret naturally evolved languages (no, Klingon doesn’t count) as opposed to artificial computer languages like Java or Python. What is natural language processing? It analyzes and generates both audio and text data.

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Vulnerability in the workplace: A career differentiator for women in software engineering

Sprout Social

But when I entered the professional engineering world, I was surprised at how difficult it was to be open, authentic and vulnerable, and the sweeping difference that culture and representation could make. Starting my career as a woman in software engineering. Sprout Social’s engineering culture.

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How to Become a LinkedIn Top Voice or Community Top Voice

Buffer Social

This is especially true of its newly minted Top Community Voices tier — a badge a whole lot easier to nab and just as impressive. Now, however, there are two different ‘tiers’ of Top Voice badges: Top Voice (1) and Community Top Voice (2). LinkedIn, however, has gone the other way.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

But, at the end of the day, they need to generate “leads” that get fed into some kind of offline sales process—just like most b2b [and many b2c] companies do. And links are a critical part of rising in the search engine rankings. But, HubSpot generates a good portion of our traffic from search engines now.

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The Creator’s Toolkit: 27+ Content Creation Tools for Every Stage of the Process

Buffer Social

These tools encompass everything from the social platforms you choose to build your presence on to the community-building app where you engage with your audience. Just type in a keyword and get a plethora of autocomplete data from major search engines like Google.

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Automating dependency updates with Dependabot

Sprout Social

As part of our Android app, we maintain over 35 dependencies managed by the open source community that provide useful building blocks for our application. One of our values on Sprout’s engineering team is to act with purpose and focus. Before Dependabot, we had a manual dependency management process.

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