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Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by Senior Engineer and Team Lead Bec White who has some thoughts regarding deployment, and why it's so important to do so early and often not only for your internal process but also to help bring a site to life for your clients. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi, and welcome to the Secret Sauce, brought to you by Palantir.net. This is our short podcast wit...

Running a 30-person team is no small feat, and is absolutely a group effort to ensure everyone is happy and healthy. Sometimes those helping hands come in the form of a service rather than a person however. Our Director of Operations Colleen Carroll talks about one such tool, and the positive impact it's had on our company and culture, in this week's Secret Sauce podcast. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley...

Welcome to the Secret Sauce, our short podcast that is typically around 10 minutes long and offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run better. Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by our peer Jason Pamental, the Director of Design and Technical Strategy at Isovera in Massachusetts. Jason shares his thoughts about typography on the web, and how he got into it in...

Account Manager and Podcaster extraordinaire chatted with dozens of folks at DrupalCon in New Orleans last week to get a sense of what made the show special for them. This week's Secret Sauce is a collection of those highlights. Some shared specifics on something they learned at a session they attended, otherwise talked about the community or trends in the Drupal marketplace, and much more. With D...

CEO and Founder George DeMet shares a continuation of ideas presented at DrupalCon Barcelona with his new talk on the benefits of running a company according to a set of clearly defined principles, which he's presenting next week at DrupalCon New Orleans. It's called  Finding Your Purpose as a Drupal Agency . Want to learn more?  We have built Palantir over the last 20 years with you in mind, and...

How do you build a variety well-rounded content for your site? And is it all working toward a common goal? If it seems disparate, maybe it's time to look at your content development, writing, and publishing as an ecosystem where all parts – big and small alike – have their place and are working together to support that ecosystem. But how does it work? Marketing and Communications Lead Shawn Smith...

If you've ever worked on a web project at any scale, you may have participated or lead daily scrums. These mini meetings provide regular touch points for projects, and help keep it humming.  However, those not familiar scrums may have heard the term, but don't exactly understand what they're all about. So why do we have scrums? Are they valuable? If so, what’s the best format them? And what’s the...

DrupalCon is just a few weeks away in New Orleans, so this time around our Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by our CEO and Founder George DeMet, Drupal veteran and PHP guru Larry "Crell" Garfield, and Senior Front-End Developer Lauren Byrwa. They share thoughts about the conference generally, what they're excited about specifically, and what they're expected from the Driesnote, among other...

Account Manager Allison Manley is joined today by... well, herself! She shares valuable insights on building effective Strategy Reports –  the document we generate at the end of the discovery and strategy phase of any project that includes the summary of our work, methodology, KPIs, competitive analysis, personas, usability test results, and much more – for your project. In short, they're very imp...

Today Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by Alex Brandt our Sales and Operations Coordinator who walks you through the top four most important things you should consider before starting up a conversation with your next strategic vendor partner. Considering these things first will set you up for a higher rate of success in finding the best vendor fit for your project. Transcript AM: Hello and...

AM: Hello and welcome to The Secret Sauce, brought to you by Palantir.net. This is a super short podcast, just a few minutes every week, that offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run better.  I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager here at Palantir, and today’s advice comes from one of our Web Strategists Joe Allen Black, who has some ideas on how to measure Key P...

AM: Hi again everyone, and welcome to The Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net, that offers a quick piece of advice to help your business run smoother.  I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager here at Palantir, and today’s advice comes from one of the Founders of Palantir, George DeMet, who is going to address the need for having a code of conduct at your organization or event. GD: Hi, my...

Larry "Crell" Garfield speaks at conferences a lot. And with all of these speaking engagements comes a vast amount of knowledge on what works and what doesn't. He shares his top tips and tricks to get the most out of delivering your presentations at conferences and camps – and to ensure your audience is completely engaged and sings your praises during and after. Transcript AM: Hi and welcome back...

In this episode, On the Air With Palantir host and Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by one of our magnificent engineers Joe Purcell. He gives a thorough yet entirely accessible definition of performance, why it matters, and what you can do to increase it. This episode is valuable for anyone in the midst of a web project, about to start a new project, and, of course, developers working on t...

Welcome to this week’s Secret Sauce, a short podcast by Palantir.net that offers a quick tip on some small thing you can do to help your business run a little bit better. Today’s advice comes from one of our colleagues at Pantheon. Steve Persch is an Agency and Community Engineer at Pantheon and former Palantir team member, and he’s sharing his thoughts on using the Panels module in Drupal. Transc...

Today’s Secret Sauce comes from one of our talented web designers Ashley Cyborski, who is a champion of designing in the browser. Not only is the method a major part of the design process here at Palantir.net, a deeper understanding of code and how it relates to design can allow web designers to push the limits of what their designs can – and probably should – do. We'll be back next Tuesday with a...

Our Director of Professional Services Ken Rickard joins the Secret Sauce podcast today to tell us a little more about our consulting services. While we take on epic, end-to-end projects often, we also find that some clients don't need the long-term services. Instead, they need strategic help with a specific challenge, or perhaps require staff augmentation – in particular with Drupal projects – for...

This time we're joined by Palantir.net Engineer  Kelsey Betham  who tells us all about exporting features in drupal, including why and when you should, and how doing so could be a huge benefit should something go horribly wrong with your site. The full transcript of the episode is below. We'll be back next week with another episode of the Secret Sauce hosted by Account Manager  Allison Manley , bu...

Giving feedback on how someone works isn't always easy, especially when it comes to your colleagues. Nor is it easy to receive it. But this act is very important for a number of reasons when done tactfully and constructively. Our Director of Operations  Colleen Carroll  talks about what works and what doesn't when both giving and receiving such feedback – not to mention the filters to consider whe...

Wouldn't it be nice to have a butler on hand to help streamline things? Well, in this case we're not talking about a person who comes and waits on you, but rather an impressive and integral front-end development tool developed internally at Palantir.net to help automate some of our work. Butler does a lot of things and has plenty of features, which our Front-End Developer Lauren Byrwa talks about...

Account Manager Allison Manley lets Senior Designer Carl Martens take the lead this week, as he explains the importance of thinking about Web sites in terms of design systems rather than pages, and goes on to talk about the benefits produced by taking this approach.  We've seen design system thinking make a huge impact for our clients time and again because it creates a truly modular, extensible s...

In this installment of the Secret Sauce, Project Manager  Tom Jones  discusses the helpful exercise known as Like, Wish, Wonder. It can help your team overcome groupthink and stay engaged during a project kickoff. So grab a post-it note and marker, and start answering some important questions: what do you like about your current site, product, workflow, etc? What do you wish it could do? And then...

This is the first in our weekly bonus podcast that deals with shorter tips and resources that will help you with some straightforward facet of your web project. It's a compliment to our monthly, long-form podcast On the Air With Palantir. That's why we call it the Secret Sauce. Some episodes will focus on strategy, design, metrics, or other such topics, while others will be more technical in natur...

We're very excited to kick-off our new podcast called On the Air with Palantir, and welcome you to listen to our first episode with Andy Gradel and Christine Fagan from Main Line Health System (new site not yet launched). In this episode, our resident podcast veteran Allison Manley discusses the project, the importance of analytics data and developing a sound strategy, user-tested decisions, desig...