Coding: What do You Know About the High-Tech Language?

Coding: What Do You Know About the High-Tech Language?

There are a lot of things that people don’t know about coding, myself included.  However, since I’ve worked at INTEGRIS I have learned a lot more about it than I ever thought I would.  And believe it or not, it’s actually pretty interesting!  It’s easy to look at a line of code and think “This is dumb, it’s just mumbled words, letters, and numbers that have no meaning”.  That’s exactly what I thought about it before I started dabbling in it a little bit, but I eventually realized that it does serve a purpose and a pretty important one at that.  Now, believe me, I’m nowhere close to being a coding expert…more like a rookie novice who is still trying to earn a seat on the team bench.  So that being said, this blog post won’t tell you how to code (remember, I’m a rookie), but it will highlight some of the areas of why coding is important not only in web and tech development but also where the future of coding is headed.

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2015 Discover Manufacturing Expo

INTEGRIS was graciously asked to be a return participant at the 2015 Discover Manufacturing Expo held at the Woodruff Technical Center in Peoria, IL. This annual 2-Day event allows high schoolers to engage manufacturing related companies about the various careers that they offer in the area. There were schools from Peoria, Pekin, Washington, Metamora and on, overall there were probably several hundred participants. The expo included hands on type demonstrations from companies like Caterpillar and Excel Foundry, as well as learning opportunities from the University of Illinois and other local universities. The students were allowed to freely visit the different displays by participating companies and ask as many questions or hear about what skill-sets are of value when it comes to manufacturing.

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5 Marketing Tips to Revamp Your LinkedIn Profile

5 Marketing Tips to Revamp Your LinkedIn Profile

Growing and maintaining a presence for your business on LinkedIn is no easy feat to overcome, especially when there is no room in the budget to boost and promote your posts and updates.  INTEGRIS has been faced with the challenge of establishing a solid LinkedIn profile to gain followers and grow our presence to help our marketing efforts, and with no budget to do so.  I have definitely had my work cut out for me!  So, I’ve got to start off by saying that this is a slow-moving process, but a possible goal to achieve.  As I mentioned, there is no room in our current marketing budget to spend on any social media advertising, meaning that all of our followers, interactions, page views, etc. have been 100% organic (free).  INTEGRIS has had a LinkedIn Page for well over a year now, but it wasn’t until May of 2015 that I started the implementation of INTEGRIS’ Social Media Marketing Plan.

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INTEGRIS Marketing Working For You

INTEGRIS Marketing Working For You

By now, our blog readers have figured out that INTEGRIS Group is an Illinois based, engineer owned, product engineering company.  We make a difference by helping our clients develop game-changing products.  We have created new companies and, partnered with startups and existing companies to help commercialize new products and new technologies.  We have actually done some really, really cool stuff in the tech, medical, manufacturing, and electrical engineering fields! We have a very talented team that covers a large spectrum of industries and talents.

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INTEGRIS Group: Who Are We? What Do We Do?

INTEGRIS Group: Who Are We? What Do We Do?

In recent blog posts, there has been a lot of discussion about the things we do here at INTEGRIS.  As a beginning stage of adding content to our blog, we wanted to provide our readers with a solid background of who INTEGRIS is and why we do what we do. We care about our readers and our customers and we want to share our knowledge and success stories with everyone.  To prevent from going on and on and on (trust me, I could talk all day), I will leave you with the infographic below.  This will sum up all things INTEGRIS and who we are.  Enjoy!

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INTEGRIST Becomes a Certified Scrum Master

INTEGRIST Becomes a Certified Scrum Master

Via Nikkie Shaw:

I am a Certified Scrum Master! I recently attended a 2-day Scrum Alliance workshop at Heartland Community College in Normal, IL that was conducted by Tom Mellor, Certified Scrum Trainer, to receive my Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certificate.   The workshop was very interactive with a diverse group of students from various backgrounds and stages of their careers. I enjoyed the learning activities, and the opportunity to network with other Certified Scrum Masters.

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INTEGRIS Invited to Congresswoman Bustos Manufacturing Roundtable

INTEGRIS Invited to Congresswoman Bustos Manufacturing Roundtable

On May 28, 2015 INTEGRIS principal, Andy Berberich & and business manager, Eric Myers were invited to attend Congresswoman Cheri Bustos roundtable on manufacturing in Central Illinois. A common goal is to convene industry leaders from the Peoria region to explore challenges, as well as opportunities, to forge meaningful public-private collaborations at the intersection of health care and manufacturing. Invited guests consisted of various parties including economic development, government, education, research, non profits and industry representatives.  Bustos’s two hour

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