Anyone who has spent any time trying to get their important email receipts, notifications, or password resets to their users’ inboxes knows how daunting it can be to navigate the ISP landscape. What is the best way to authenticate your email for Gmail users? Does Yahoo! care more about IP reputation or domain reputation? Can I expect a different click and open rate for different ISPs? Join SendGrid email experts Ryan Harris and Amy Mustoe on February 13th at 1:00PM EST as they offer advice on how to comply with ISP expectations and identify trends they are seeing among today’s…
READ MORE »On January 16th, Sound City, Digital Advisors and ACME/Liverpool Vision, teamed up to host a Futureproof Routes to Market session: Broaden Your Horizons–a motivational event for the burgeoning local creative sector in Liverpool. Details The workshop’s mission was to: “Look at life outside games, how the skills of game developers and digital companies are applicable to sectors in areas such as music, brands, social media, gamification and meta games and how other sectors and industries are looking to games and services as the new way to engage customers. [And to] examine how digital companies can increase their commercial opportunities by…
READ MORE »Elmer Thomas, a Developer Evangelist here at SendGrid, recently had the opportunity to work with the StackMob Team—Sid Maestre, Developer Evangelist and Steve Gershik, VP of Marketing—to co-present the webcast: Creating Compelling User Experiences with Your Mobile App. If you missed the live webcast, you can still join the on-demand version to learn how to: Uncover the 7 secrets to a remarkable mobile app user experience Get your app to market faster than your competition Gain actionable insight from your in-app transactional email At the end of the session, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to create outstanding user experiences with…
READ MORE »This weekend in San Francisco, there will be a special kind of hackathon welcoming first time hackers. SendGrid is helping to sponsor and support this event. We’ll be giving away Sphero robotic balls plus 6 months of the SendGrid Silver plan to the winning team plus we’re hosting a workshop tonight, How To Rock Your First Hackathon, via Girl Develop IT where Adria, our Developer Evangelist in SF will help first time hackers prepare. Details Everyone Hacks January 18th through 20th, 2013 NextSpace, 1 Hallidie Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94102 Register on Eventbrite Prizes The list of prizes include: The…
READ MORE »We’re heading to Las Vegas to take part in CES, also known as the Consumer Electronics Show. The Developer Relations team will be there talking with startups and companies that have released interesting hardware solutions that sport SDK, allowing developers to build additional functionality on top. You’ll find them on the show floor, visiting in the new Eurka Park and the upcoming CES hackathon on January 9th. Reach out to connect by tweeting at SendGrid (@sendgrid), Tim Falls (@timfalls) or Adria Richards (@adriarichards) this week.
READ MORE »Adria Richards, a Developer Evangelist here at SendGrid, had the opportunity to work with Jacob Lehrbaum, Engine Yard’s host, to craft and present this webcast If Your Product Emails Your Users, Good Luck!, focused on what developers want – increased free time and fewer hassles with technology. If you missed the live webcast, you can still join Adria as she takes attendees through the three important aspects of email delivery: Reputation, Relevance, and Infrastructure and covers Best Practices To Increase Deliverability With Your Own Email Server Some additional resources new customers will find helpful: Warming up your IP with Sendgrid…
READ MORE »SendGrid wanted to explore the burgeoning startup tech scene in Las Vegas which culminated in a full day of events to welcome our community there and talk tech, code, startups and email. We also wanted to recruit from the local pool of talent for our many job openings here at SendGrid. We began with a special tour of Zappos where our group included SendGrid’s Isaac Saldana, Co-founder and President, and Mike Rowan, VP of R&D. We got to see some of the inner workings of the Zappos offices and the crazy interior they built as a visual presence of their…
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