Here, hold these brackets and pretend to be a line of code!

I spent the last two days at Microsoft’s product fair, an employee-only event where all the different product groups got to show off their various stuffs. My team (Staffing Marketing, our unofficial motto being: It’s cool to work at The Soft!) was there giving away shwag and and talking to folks about all our various projects like View<myWorld> and Jobsblog and Microspotting.

I took a few photos of people pretending to be the code by standing in a pair of brackets. If you spot yourself in any of these pictures, get in touch! I’ll get you a Microspotting tee. :)
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Dana Badeen IS the empire

Like anyone who works in marketing, I have a lot of crappy swag tshirts. These shirts are almost all poorly fitting (too big!), poorly designed (massive logo!), and of poor quality.

So when it came time to make some Microspotting tshirts, I was insistent: I would only make swag if it was something I would actually wear. Swag that fit, swag that felt good, swag that looked good, and bonus points for making me laugh.

Enter the Microspotting tshirts.
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