Dojo4 Playbook
Dojo4 Playbook of best technical and operations practices. How to run a small custom tech agency, open-sourced for all to use (and build on).
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If You're Reading This, You Are The Best
Surviving is the new thriving.
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Valuation in 8 Categories: A Broader Picture of Your Company’s Capital
Turns out that financial capital is just one form of wealth worth measuring. Permaculture offers us some classifications for appreciating and evaluating several other forms of capital.
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Land Acknowledgment Matters
We’re making our land acknowledgment more meaningful by donating to The First Nations Development Institute, which is headquartered just a few miles North of our office.
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Colorado Avalanche Information Center: Data Modeling & Saving Lives
Avalanches kill more people in Colorado each year than any other natural hazard. The Colorado Avalance Information Center (CAIC) analyzes complex, overlapping dataset to issue life-saving avalanche forecasts, and Dojo4 has been one of their core technology partners since 2018.
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Getting Out The Vote with Help From Custom Software
Every year New Era engages directly with tens of thousands of young people to get out the vote, but back in the day helping those young ‘uns update their voter registration through the Secretary of State’s (SoS) behemoth of a website was proving to be a significant barrier to participation. Enter Dojo4…
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Bringing Our Community's Most Insightful Data Online
Dojo4 worked with TCF and Code for Boulder to create the first interactive version of The Boulder County TRENDS Report, hosted on its own static, responsive website.
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Data Visualization to Assist with Pandemic Recovery
Dojo4 partnered with CSPH to create an interactive website where anyone can pair our state’s Covid-19 datasets with county-level data on socioeconomic, demographic, mental & physical health risks, immunization rates, and other attributes.
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A Mobile App & Website Redesign to Fight Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)
Dojo4 helped Active for Good and UNICEF’s Kid Power by redesigning their website and corresponding mobile app, and serving as the “central organizing force” between the Active For Good’s various teams in Pakistan, China, Cambodia, and right here in Boulder.
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Mobile Web Apps, Big Data & Static Websites for Stand Up To Cancer
Cancer is hard enough—fundraising to fight it should at least be free from technical difficulties. Dojo4 has built mobile web applications, data crunching solutions that span social media platforms, and multiple static, responsive websites for SU2C to ensure that their live, televised, fundraising campaigns continue to raise millions of dollars without a glitch.
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Android App to Support Remote Zola's Off-Grid Solar Installations
Working in remote areas of Tanzania presented numerous technical challenges for Zola’s field agents, so they teamed up with Dojo4 to write an Android application that enabled them to upgrade systems and diagnose issues on-site.
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Problem Solving for Big Data and Multilingual Functions in Greenpeace's Chrome Extension
We partnered with Greenpeace as they were preparing to launch the Click Clean Chrome browser extension, helping to consolidate a well-designed, robust database on the back-end of their extension, and solve some gnarly and complex issues related to its functioning globally and multilingually.
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Dojo4 is Exploring the Antidote to Tech
To combat feelings of isolation and emptiness that can arise in our industry, we are introducing an Antidote to Tech.
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¡Viva la B Corp Certification!
Dojo4 just recertified as a B Corp. Again. And we'll keep doing it, for lots of reasons. It's been almost 6 years since we first certified as a company that is committed to changing the world for the better, by how and why we do business.
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Sharing Is Caring
Here at Dojo4, we have been (and continue to be) committed open-source contributors. For example, there's a tasty pantry full of contributions to be found by any of the Dojo4 members.
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DOJO4 is Best for Colorado
Each year the Alliance Center awards Colorado businesses dedicated to making a positive impact with Best for Colorado Awards in several categories. This year (2020) Dojo4 is honored to be awarded as being Best for Colorado in the Workers category.
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4 Critical Tools for Creating Social Benefit Through Your Business
Despite that purely mercenary consumerist capitalism still rules the roost of business, the ideas of using business as a force for good and conscious capitalism seem now to have fully entered the popular mindstream.
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Generosity Is An Advantage
Looking for a strategic advantage for your organization this year? A way to set your company aside, to differentiate it from the rest? Consider further cultivating generosity as a core component of your business.
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for a smoother ride, let culture drive & put operations in shotgun
It’s a misconception that culture is born out of operations, that the personality of a business (what we usually call culture) could is shaped by its operations. While this may, in some cases, be partially true, more often than not, it’s the other way around and it is useful and prudent to let culture dictate operations. Let nature (culture) set the ground for nurture (operations) and both will thrive.
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