May 2012
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Yodle Donates to City Harvest's Skip Lunch, Fight...
Yodle participated in Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger again this year to benefit City Harvest. This campaign uses donated lunch money from around the country to help feed thousands of children in New York City. All of Yodle’s 5 offices participated in the cause. Yodle bought pizza and salad for employees so that they can donate their lunch money to City Harvest. Last year we ended up as one of the...
Cinco De Mayo @ Yodle
Last week Yodle’s IDEA committee hosted a company-wide Cinco de Mayo party complete with drinks, pinatas, a chili competition, games, music, and an overall great time. To keep the theme cohesive throughout the company, we purchased a pinata in each office. Check out a few photos from the event below!
IDEA is committed to building morale across departments and locations through social events...
April 2012
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Building an Effective Employment Brand
Deni Stott, our VP of Human Resources, just wrote a blog on building an effective employment brand. Deni reviews the evolution and growth of an employment brand, why it’s so important for a company to know who they are and what they stand for, and how she helped to build a strong employment brand at Yodle. Go to the Yodle Company Blog to see the full post. It provides some great insight into Yodle...
February 2012
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Carol commits herself to greatness
Carol, Yodle’s recruiting lead in Scottsdale, commits herself to greatness. We recently learned of some incredible work that our teammate Carol is doing out West with the Homeward Bound organization. Homeward Bound’s mission is to assist homeless and domestic violence families with children achieve economic independence, secure long-term, safe, decent, affordable housing and break...
January 2012
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Yodle's IDEA Committee Brings Smiles & Warmth to...
IDEA (Inter-departmental Events and Activities) is committed to building morale across departments and locations through social events and community outreach at Yodle.
Our goal in December was to help those less fortunate in our community during the cold holiday season. New York and Boston partnered with New York Cares and Boston Cares to collect coats and toys. Our Austin office sponsored two...
December 2011
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The Yodle year in review : twenty eleven, eleven,...
In January 2011, Yodle CEO, Court Cunningham, kicked off the year and emphasized that in order for us to reach our goals and continue to be a leader in the local online marketing space, we have to remain agile, embrace change and continue to move quickly. 2011 brought change and excitement galore. Here are some highlights:·
Yodle acquires Profitfuel to create largest independent local...
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Brown bag lunch ....and lets talk tech
At our most recent tech talk, Andrew led a presentation on backbone.js (http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/). Backbone.js is a framework that has been quickly gaining attention in the software development world, helping to add structure and legibility to JavaScript UI code.
I asked Andrew why he chose the topic. He explained that he feels encouraged to explore new technology that will...
November 2011
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Yodle Spotlight: Butch
Sitting on the blue couches at Yodle Headquarters in New York, Butch recalls his very first day at ProfitFuel** almost 3 years ago. He started as a Sales Representative and immediately became a top producer for the Austin office. Because of his success and the confidence they had in his abilities, management allowed Butch to work remotely for about a year. In that year, he found the key to the...
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C4 - Developer Challenge
Dennis, our Historian and Tech Lead, posed a new challenge to our developers recently. Developer Challenges are a fun way to solve algorithm puzzles that are non work related and allow you to use languages that you may not use on a daily basis. He built a C4 web app in javascript (http://yoc4.no.de/) and asked developers to produce an Artificial Intelligence solution in the language of their...
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Yodle Field Day
Each of our cities participated in Yodle’s first annual Field Day. Employees spent a day outside of the office at local parks and played kickball, ate loads of BBQ, competed in tug of war, ziplined, ran relay races and enjoyed a couple cold beverages. A great time was had by all. Cant wait for next year!
October 2011
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Our Values
When Yodle employees walk in on their first day, they’ll find a bunch of Yodle SWAG on their desks : Yodle t-shirt, mug, water bottle, squishy ball…..
Nested in the middle of all that SWAG is a card that lists our Yodle Values.
We get chills reading through them. Do you?
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Yodle Spotlight: Huanlei
Coming up on his 3 year Yodle-versary, Huanlei, Director of Product Management, sat down to tell us his Yodle story.“We are all putting our best forward, to do what we can to put the company forward… to make Yodle a better place.” Because of his determination and strong work ethic, Huanlei has had the chance to do just that.
When he first joined in October of 2008, he was a team lead...
September 2011
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The Anatomy of a Yodle Employee
We take hiring seriously at Yodle. Two years ago we had 250 employees, and today we have 700+. So far in 2011, we have interviewed 2000+ candidates and we hire 1-2 people every business day!
Sure, our products are best in class, but that’s because of the people behind them. If you were to meet our employees, you’d most likely agree that there’s just “something” that they’ve all got. But...
August 2011
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Why Would Someone in Finance Want to Work for...
“We get to wear Sperry’s and open-toed shoes instead of pumps.”
— Jodi, Financial Business Analyst, Yodle