There was a recent article in the New York Times by Louis Hyman of the Cornell ILR School talking about how much of the economy has shifted to outsourcing and temp work. “The rise of the gig economy represents liberation from the stifled world…
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We are in the midst of some infrastructure improvements. This is split among a variety of improvements – performance, security, maintainability, availability, and staying on the most current technology. We did a set of improvements in our caching and server connections that…
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We captured some of our favorite presentations from the RunSignup Symposium on video and will be gradually sharing them with all our customers and friends. We posted about RaceDay Scoring earlier today, but up first in our set of sessions led by…
Read MoreFor reference, we have published the slides from several of the presentations from the 2018 RunSignup Symposium. We’ll add to this resource as we get more – thanks to all our fabulous presenters! RunSignup Keynote, Bob Bickel (RunSignup) Branding and Creative Event…
Read MoreRunSignup Awards 2018 Community Grant RunSignup, the leading technology provider for races, has announced the awardees of the 2018 RunSignup Community Grant Program. The Community Grant program is a giving program began in 2016 to provide a financial contribution to endurance-related nonprofit…
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We do a quarterly update on how things are going with RunSignup (2016, Q1/17, Q2/17, Q3/17, 2017, and Q1/18). The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. And we keep putting out great technology our customers seem to…
Read MoreWarren Buffet and Jamie Dimon wrote an Op-Ed this week about too much focus on “Short Termism”, and how it harms businesses and the economy. They argue for doing away with public quarterly reports and emphasize “Clear communication of a company’s strategic goals—along…
Read MoreSome of our team was out presenting to a prospective customer yesterday. During the demo, the customer requested a feature – forcing participants to scroll thru the entire waiver form before allowing them to confirm. One of our team members sent a…
Read MoreWe have two development interns who joined us this summer, Heena Surve and Ben Faria. We have had great success with our intern program in the past, with over a half dozen people learning and growing their technical skills at RunSignup in our advanced…
Read MoreAs part of our coming support for easier and more powerful Multi-Race bundles, we are in the process of refactoring (re-writing) a lot of our core registration code. We will begin releasing some of that this coming week, and June should see…
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