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BizStream Goes Solar

By Michelle Lentz on August 11, 2021

Going solar has been a goal of BizStream's for a while now. As a tech company, we love the idea of leaning into this new(ish) technology. But, beyond the techy, fun stuff, we had many other reasons for harnessing solar power.

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4 Ransomware Myths for 2021

By Blair Compston on August 09, 2021

Ransomware is in the news again in a big way. Pipelines shutting down, healthcare hit jobs, and yet another state or county government being crippled. Ransomware is a specific type of malware that is designed to spread across your network, targeting your servers, databases, and workstations while employing encryption to hold your information...

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Allendale Tech Company Now Running on Solar Power

By Michelle Lentz on August 09, 2021

BizStream, a tech company located just outside Grand Rapids, Mich., recently added solar panels to its commercial rooftop. The web-based solutions company selected Altenergy Solar, a national solar contractor with an office in Comstock Park, Mich., to custom design and install the solar array. Altenergy installed 224 solar modules to BizStream...

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Enhancing Page Builder Widgets With Custom Web Components in Kentico Xperience

By Mike Webb on July 21, 2021

One of the many great features of Kentico is being able to create custom widgets for use in page builder, and there are several ways to implement custom behavior in those widgets. One way that we at BizStream have found to enhance widget behavior on the client-side is through custom Web Components.

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How to Onboard New Team Members in a Virtual Workplace

By Mike Kren on July 20, 2021

While the last 15 months introduced many unique challenges to the workforce, we recently had to address how to onboard multiple new staff members. Before the pandemic, Bizstream had a hybrid work schedule that offered employees the option to be in the office three days a week and work from home the other two. We had never been in a situation...

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The Scoop on WCAG 3.0

By Michelle Lentz on May 25, 2021

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first public draft of the W3C Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3 earlier this year. While the new guidelines are in the process of being tweaked based on public feedback, the overall goal is to provide easy-to-understand guidelines that strengthen support for broader needs, including...

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What We're Reading, Vol. 1

By Michelle Lentz on May 19, 2021

During quarantine, many of us filled our spare time by finally picking up those books we've been meaning to read. From professional growth publications to novels we wanted to get lost in, here are some of our recent reads!

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BizStream Recognized as One of West Michigan’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For

By Michelle Lentz on May 10, 2021

National Association for Business Resources (NABR) has acknowledged BizStream as one of West Michigan’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. This marks the sixth consecutive year BizStream has received this honor.

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The Mental Health Day: You Owe It to Yourself

By Josh Rubino on April 26, 2021

Wednesday, March 3rd. The proverbial “breaking point” for me. Let’s talk about the metaphorical mental cocktail that I’d been perfecting for some time. Take one shot of 14-month isolation, mix vigorously with equal parts government mandates, and fancy bar graphs depicting deaths per million. Add one teaspoon of a vitriol...

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Kentico Xperience Page Builder: Complex Sections & Widgets

By Ian TeGrootenhuis on April 21, 2021

Page Builder by Kentico Xperience is a very powerful tool for developers and content administrators. Giving this much power to content admins can be a little worrisome when you’re used to more structured content, but giving your content admins the freedom to customize their pages without calling you for redesigns will keep them happy. I...

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Team BizStream celebrating Inc. 5000 award

We're a team of passionate people that love what we do. We're here to help customers improve their life by developing more efficient ways to do business.

We've worked with a number of organizations (great and small) to make their teams more productive. We design to meet the needs of real-world clients, we don't load you down with features that you won't ever use or need.

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