S5 Ep 05 – How we got into email and how to keep it diverse with Jay Oram of ActionRocket
Email's Not Dead from Sinch MailgunShow Notes
If you’re a part of the email community, you know for a fact that it's a very diverse group of people. That’s why on this episode we wanted to sit down and ask everyone to share a bit of their backgrounds and how we all landed in email. Chances are you literally fell into this career and now you love it. Join our friends Jay Oram, Head of Dev at ActionRocket with our own Megan Boshuyzen, Sr. Email Developer from Sinch Email on Acid, and listen to this tell all episode of how we ended up in email, why we want everyone to have a seat at the table, and how you can get involved in the email industry.
Email’s Not Dead is a podcast about how we communicate with each other and the broader world through modern technologies. Email isn’t dead, but it could be if we don’t change how we think about it. Hosts Jonathan Torres and Eric Trinidad dive into the email underworld and come back out with a distinctive look at the way developers and marketers send email.
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