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Silverline Spotlight: Women in Leadership
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Did you know that on August 26th, Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the United States? Today we commemorate the 1920 adoption of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of...
A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life: Brad Killam
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Job Title: Co-GM and Managing Director, Healthcare Start Date: December 2015 Tell us a fun fact or something interesting about yourself? I live in Stow, MA with my wife, Andrea, and our seven-year-old Bullmastiff, Grizzly. I am an avid outdoorsman and an obsessed woodworker. I spend the spring months fly fishing the rivers throughout New...
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How the Fresh Air Self Care Challenge Energized Our International Team
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Sequels are all the rage, so when we saw big success with our Fresh Air Self Care challenge last year, we decided to bring it back for another round of outdoor and wellness activities. Fresh Air Self Care 2: The Freshening was another exciting opportunity for Silverliners from across the world to learn more about...
Media & Entertainment
Recognizing and Correcting Gender Bias in the Media Industry
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Back in March, we celebrated this year’s International Women’s Day with a theme of #BreakTheBias. As a leader in the Silverline Media & Entertainment division, I think it’s important to keep crucial conversations like this one going. One of my top priorities is to extend equal opportunity and equal grace to all members of the...
Life at Silverline
Silverline Celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month
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On the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969 — only 53 years ago — members of the LGBTQ+ community took to the streets after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. They protested for their right to live freely in a city that criminalized their existence, and the...
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Silverline Recognizes Juneteenth as Company Holiday
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On June 19, 1865, General Order No. 3 brought news of the Emancipation Proclamation to the enslaved people of Texas, the last state in the Confederacy with institutional slavery. The day marked the end of an abominable era, and Juneteenth celebrates the freedom that was unjustly denied to Black Americans for centuries. Last year, President...
Life at Silverline
Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month at Silverline
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The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community represents a stunning array of diversity, from the sheer number of countries it includes to the origin stories of how and when people from these countries arrived in America. For AAPI Heritage Month, we wanted to highlight this diversity through the stories of some of our colleagues....
A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life: Aaron Uttley
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Job Title: Senior Salesforce Consultant and Analyst Team Lead, Media and Entertainment Start Date: October 2015 (right after Thanksgiving!) Tell us a fun fact or something interesting about yourself: I’m a huge live music fan. The best part of living in Toronto (aside from the food!) is all the small venues hosting live shows — there’s...
Salesforce
Uncovering the Future of Salesforce DevOps Technology
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If you think DevOps is only a concern for developers, you’re not seeing the full picture. Yes, DevOps tools and practices do help improve code quality and eliminate production bugs for developers, but they also help managers make more regular, reliable releases and give admins the ability to quickly compare Salesforce orgs and make changes....
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International Women’s Day 2022: How Silverliners #BreakTheBias
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This year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) theme is #BreakTheBias. Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias can make it difficult for women to move ahead. I virtually ‘sat down’ with some of my colleagues from Canada, India, and the US to discuss how they combat bias in the workplace. For me, International Women’s Day is inspiring because...