by jim@xforms.co | Jul 9, 2023 | Use Cases
COVID changed things… At the beginning of the pandemic, in the Spring of 2020, I received an email from a prospective customer, a specialty egg distribution company. The email mentioned the following: We have a business of selling specialty eggs. During this...
by jim@xforms.co | Aug 30, 2022 | Use Cases
Background Thank you thank you thank you New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB) for helping fund XForms in its early days. We owe you a big debt of gratitude for trusting and giving us this opportunity. Some background: The NMLB currently uses a tech stack that includes a...
by jim@xforms.co | Aug 27, 2022 | Use Cases
Brand audits are a real thing From the Break Free from Plastics (BFFP) website, a brand audit is defined as follows: … a citizen science initiative that involves recording data on plastic waste to help identify the companies responsible for plastic pollution and...
by jim@xforms.co | Aug 24, 2022 | Use Cases
Lots of field work => lots of field forms Brownfields redevelopment projects require a lot of environmental field work. A lot. In some cases, a project may require weekly visits during the entire construction timeline. Sometimes daily visits. And when a...
by jim@xforms.co | Aug 4, 2022 | Use Cases
Sometimes, less is more. Do you need all the features in Microsoft Word, when all you want to do is write a letter? Similarly, do you need to commit to a large, comprehensive end-to-end property inspection tool if you aren’t going to use 2/3 of the modules like...
by jim@xforms.co | Jul 4, 2022 | Use Cases
Authors note: The following article is based on my experience trying to persuade environmental scientists, field technicians, and managers to adopt software technologies in the environmental consulting industry, an industry generally averse to software adoption due to...
