ONE OF 8 BILLION

By TEN7

This is ONE OF 8 BILLION, a podcast about all of us.

We all have a story, don’t we? We’ve all had successes and failures, joy and disappointment, love and sadness. And yet, we’ve all made it to here…... more

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The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.

ONE OF 8 BILLION episodes:

April 15, 2020Privacy Implications of Google Analytics and Things You Can Do To Protect Yourself
SUMMARY
Do you know about the privacy implications of using Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and reCAPTCHA? Have you ever thought about what they might be for yourself or for your clients? Our DevOps Engineer Tess Flynn schools us on the problems with these services and discusses some interesting options.
GUEST
Tess Flynn, TEN7 DevOps Engineer
HIGHLIGHTS
Ye olde site counter
The dawn (and ubiquity) of Google Analytics
Matomo, an excellent candidate to replace Google Analytics
Problems with reCAPTCHA
LINKS
Simple Analytics
ProtonMail
Matomo
TEN7 Podcast with Dan Antonson on Google Tag Manager
...more
34min
April 01, 2020(Almost) Everything You Need to Know about Working From Home
SUMMARY
GM and Ford are contributing their manufacturing facilities to make much-needed ventilators for coronavirus victims. We asked ourselves what we as a small company could contribute, and decided we could share our experience transitioning to a fully distributed company. In this podcast, Ivan and TEN7 team members Chris Dart, Dani Adelman, Tess Flynn share tips that have helped them become successful and happy remote workers.
GUESTS
TEN7 team members Chris Dart, Back End Developer, Dani Adelman, Director of Operations and Tess Flynn, DevOps Engineer.
HIGHLIGHTS
How do you work at home when you don’t have a home office?
Headspace management
Working from home is personal growth work
No commute means less stress
Ergonomics are crucial; essential equipment
Yoga keeps it loose
LINKS
VariDesk® Pro Plus 36 Convertible Standing Desk
Anker Ergonomic Optical USB Wired Vertical Mouse
Yoga with Adriene (free videos on YouTube)
Blog post with all these tips!
...more
51min
March 19, 2020Nancy Lyons: It’s Not About the Work, It’s About the People
SUMMARY
Our guest is Nancy Lyons, founder and CEO of Minneapolis-based digital agency Clockwork, and tireless advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion. Because of her focus on “life balance,” Clockwork is consistently ranked as a “best place to work.” Nancy and Ivan discuss the ways they both strive to make life better for the humans in their companies.
GUEST
Nancy Lyons, founder and CEO of Clockwork

HIGHLIGHTS
Starting Clockwork after the tech boom and bust
It’s about the people, not the work
Gen-Xers’ expectations about work
Cultural contribution, not cultural fit
LINKS
Clockwork (often rated one of the best places to work)
Nancy’s Personal Website
...more
40min
March 14, 2020Jeff Robbins: Remote Work During a Pandemic
SUMMARY
TEN7 is a distributed company. Jeff Robbins of Yonder has been setting up remote and distributed companies for 15 years, and has a podcast about it. Now that the coronavirus is forcing the concept of remote work into the forefront, Ivan and Jeff decided to do a podcast with some high-quality information about transitioning to remote work during a pandemic, from folks who’ve been through it, and now believe it’s a better way to work.
GUEST
Jeff Robbins of Yonder

HIGHLIGHTS
Companies need communication policies to define expectations, set clear direction and give feedback
Managers have to learn to trust employees, even when they can’t see them
Working from home is living at work
Be respectful of remote workers, allow them to define and self-manage how they work best
LINKS
Yonder podcast
Lullabot
Bureau of Digital
Seven Tips for Productively Working from Home
jjeff.com
...more
1h 1min
March 04, 2020James Renken: The Goal is Secure Website Traffic, Everywhere
SUMMARY
Ivan and guest James Renken, Site Reliability Engineer for Let’s Encrypt and attorney, discuss everything you ever wanted to know about certificate authorities but were afraid to ask. Let’s Encrypt, a nonprofit certificate authority, has issued over a billion FREE SSL certificates and has a modest goal: secure website traffic everywhere.
GUEST
James Renken, Site Reliability Engineer at Let’s Encrypt and attorney
HIGHLIGHTS
Google Street View privacy concerns
What is a certificate authority (CA)?
How ACME protocol allows owners more control over certificate issuance
How DNSSEC makes domains harder to hack
LINKS
Let’s Encrypt, free SSL certificates
How to blur your home on Google Street View
ACME protocol
DNSSEC
...more
41min
February 20, 2020Mike Gifford of OpenConcept Consulting: Accessibility is a Journey
SUMMARY
Mike Gifford’s mission is to build better and more inclusive software. He’s a Drupal 8 Core Accessibility Maintainer, founder of OpenConcept, an accessibility consulting firm, and all-around gem of the Drupal community. Mike’s been spearheading website accessibility improvements for over a decade, and we’re thrilled to have him on our podcast. You’ll learn a lot from this episode!
GUEST
Mike Gifford of OpenConcept Consulting

HIGHLIGHTS
What is accessibility?
The four pillars of accessibility: POUR
Designing for 80%
Drupal’s Accessibility Maintainers
The future of accessibility is personalization
LINKS
World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative
Inclusive Design Toolkit
WCAG Levels
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
...more
43min
February 05, 2020Tim Dearlove of DigitalOcean: Empowering Customers Through Simplicity, Transparency and Love
SUMMARY
When we decided to host our client sites on Kubernetes, we needed a strong hosting partner whose values aligned with our own, and who was as interested in empowering small companies as we were. We chose DigitalOcean, and their Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Tim Dearlove, is our guest in this podcast. Tim and Ivan discuss DigitalOcean’s values, practices, future plans, and their very special Shark Week.
GUEST
Tim Dearlove, Senior Growth Marketing Manager at DigitalOcean
HIGHLIGHTS
Digital Ocean Solutions Partner Program
Empowering DO’s partners
Digital Ocean’s stance on security and privacy
DO’s core offering: Droplets (virtual machines)
LINKS
Digital Ocean Solutions Partner Program
Hacktoberfest
...more
37min
January 22, 2020Dan Antonson: The Power of Google Tag Manager
SUMMARY
Our data analytics consultant Dan Antonson of Blueprint Metrics takes us on a deep dive into the world of Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and how we’re using them to empower Solhem Companies with information to better target prospective tenants.
GUEST
Dan Antonson of Blueprint Metrics
HIGHLIGHTS
Google Tag Manager is a content management system for marketing technology infrastructure (and made for marketers)
How Google’s look-alike audiences can connect Solhem to new prospects
What? Google actually respects look-alike audiences’ privacy (in a way)
How not to be creepy in showing new prospects your ads
LINKS
Episode 76, Megan Glover of Solhem Companies
Entrata, Solhem’s property management software
Siteimprove
...more
37min
January 08, 2020Best of The TEN7 Podcast 2019
SUMMARY
2019 comes to a close, and with it, another year of fascinating podcast guests that taught and inspired us. We’ve selected some of our favorite clips from this year’s guests for you to enjoy. Listen to the full podcasts if you like what you hear.
GUEST CLIPS
Episode 50: Dries Buytaert, Founder of Drupal, on his evolving role in the Drupal community
Episode 74: Rob Harr, VP at Sparkbox, on how Sparkbox alums are still part of their story
Episode 56: Lynn Winter of Manage Digital on burnout
Episode 66: Jeff Archibald of Paper Leaf on the “false hustle”
Episode 67: Alison Paris of Parisleaf on G-RICE, their five values
Episode 63: Carl Smith of Bureau of Digital on scaling intimacy
Episode 53: Heather Schrock of Bonneville Environmental Foundation on their water stewardship business engagements
Episode 64: Hans Bjordahl of Culture Foundry on Conscious Capitalism
Episode 77: Jeff Geerling, Software Developer and Creator of the Pi Dramble on writing books on LeanPub
Episode 78: Gareth van Onselen, South African Journalist, Political Analyst, Author on the similar narratives of Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump
...more
47min
December 18, 2019Gareth van Onselen: South African Journalist, Political Analyst, Author
Summary
This podcast is a little different. Ivan talks politics with guest Gareth van Onselen, South African political analyst, journalist and author, and they discuss parallels between South African politics and what's happening in the U.S.

Guest
Gareth van Onselen, South African journalist, political analyst and author

Highlights
South Africa’s road to democracy
Jacob Zuma, fascinating character, demagogue, and parallel for you know who in the U.S.
Scandals unravel a demagogic presidency (and how Gareth thinks we’re making it happen faster in the U.S.)
The myth of the moderate majority (both in South Africa and the U.S.)
Links
Gareth’s BusinessLIVE column
Gareth's Huffington Post column
Clever Blacks, Jesus and Nkandla: The Real Jacob Zuma in His Own Words by Gareth van Onselen
...more
46min

FAQs about ONE OF 8 BILLION:

How many episodes does ONE OF 8 BILLION have?

The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.